#proportion

A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#draws #himself #hindered #man #outward

The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself. ↗

— John F. Kerry

#crime #itself #out #proportion #should

There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry. ↗

— Mark Rydell

#direct #direct proportion #evidence #industrialization #industry

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue. ↗

— Saint Francis de Sales

#rarely #reputation #virtue

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

— L'Wren Scott

#how #i #i am #obsessed #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

The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population. ↗

— Ernst Engel

#best #equal #family #food #greater

I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#humor #proportion #united-states #usa #humor

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