#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

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

Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor. ↗

— Larry Elder

#benefit #better #connected #disproportionately #elite

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

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#first #importance #must #out #proportion

Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes. ↗

— Robert A. Dahl

#electoral #popular #proportion #require #votes

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#changes #direct #direct proportion #dissatisfaction #never

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#comforting #disproportion #only #reflect #seems

Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out. ↗

— Michael Korda

#degree #desire #directly #directly proportional #face