#proportion

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#bureaucracy #cold #cold war #elephant #grown

I have been an "Official" all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity. ↗

— William Allingham

#attain #been #could #disproportionate #gravity

People forget that a huge proportion of our jobs still depend on agricultural production in Australia so of course there are exports. That's easily overlooked. ↗

— John Anderson

#australia #course #depend #easily #exports

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes. ↗

— William Blake

#beautiful #eyes #filled #grapes #guinea

There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#difference #disaster #failure #fiasco #mythic

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#complex #find #first #first things #get

One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#american men #developing #epidemic #every #hiv

Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

#ancient times #been #consideration #divided #division

I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing. ↗

— Dorothy Fields

#far #field #great #i #i do

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#apply #direct #direct proportion #effort #proportion