#proportion

Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind. ↗

— Paul Bert

#leave #march #modern #morality #proportion

A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles. ↗

— Thomas Sprat

#great #life #married #married life #negligence

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#disproportion #great #madness #means #proof

Time is a resource whose supply is inversely proportional to its demand. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#inversely #proportional #resource #supply #time

And it sends an important message to me, because I am sick to death to hear my opponent saying Republicans don't trust me. They do trust me, in landslide proportions, and they're proving it tonight. We're going to bury that for good. ↗

— Ben Nighthorse Campbell

#because #bury #death #going #good

When France resolved, along with England, to lend assistance in the legitimate defense of Poland, the realization burst on us that a conflict of awesome proportions was inevitable. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#assistance #awesome #burst #conflict #defense

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#die #fling #proportion #us #words

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#always #apparent #difficulty #ease #fine

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast. ↗

— Peter Cooper

#acts #boast #events #far #history

One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population. ↗

— Wendy Craig

#being #children #classroom #every #four