#proportion

I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived. ↗

Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle. ↗

— Lee Scott

#disproportionate #error #going #harm #made

While most Americans have access to the best oral health care in the world, low-income children suffer disproportionately from oral disease. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#best #care #children #disease #disproportionately

I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy. ↗

— Peter Singer

#anywhere #calling #democracy #dominated #elections

In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#constituted #course #crime #great #like

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun. ↗

— Robert Burton

#devil #farthest #feed #fullest #general

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small. ↗

— Corrie Ten Boom

#perspective #proportion #inspirational

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#just #least #observed #proportion #sense

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. ↗

— David Hume

#evidence #his #man #proportions #wise

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing. ↗