The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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
Proportion your expenses to what you have, not what you expect.
English Proverb
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Sir Francis Bacon
These do not represent a big proportion of revenues, but quite small changes to the top line filter through into the bottom line.
Patrick Mcdonald
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Henry David Thoreau
The poet, whether in prose or verse, the creator, can only stamp his images forcibly on the page, in proportion, as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.
Rod Sterling
In India there are a large proportion of people who have not seen significant change in their lifetime.
Chetan Ahya
When one considers the fact that 2.7 million tickets have been sold and that around 15 million fans applied for tickets on the Internet, the proportion of those prepared to give up their tickets is only in the region of 2 percent.
Horst Schmidt
The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.
Charles Edward Montague
I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed: and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I fail and keep trying.
Tom Hopkins
The percentage of African-Americans at (SDSU) in proportion to the population isn't equal.
David Hillery
If your goals are blown out of proportion, you won't even want to get started.
Delma Smith
It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
Orlando Gibbons
Our engine and drive train manufacturing needs to grow in proportion with new assembly plants.
Steve Sturm
The consequences of declines in physical activity over time are now evident by the large proportion of society with poor fitness levels.
Mercedes R. Carnethon
Unless a company locks in a negotiated rate with 'last room availability,' prices will rise in proportion to occupancy levels in a given city.
Matthew Davis
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their committment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Vince Lombardi
There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.
Thomas C. Haliburton
A large proportion of the global population is in this region, and beyond that there is a diversity of animals that are thought to be important in the generation of these pandemic viruses.
Malik Peiris
If I would compare it to other forms of malicious calls - heavy breathing, joke calls from children - it's very, very small as a proportion but I would imagine that it could grow.
Kelly Moore
The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes are an extreme example).
Bryan Miller
The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.
Bryan Miller
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
Margaret Fuller
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population the intelligent ones or the fool.
Henrik Ibsen
It has been blown out of proportion.
Sarah Friedman
I think it's reasonable to expect that the proportion of money going offshore will increase, but that's not necessarily a bad thing for the economy because it diversifies our assets, gives the industry more alpha and provides a buffer against all of these current account deficits.
Richard Gilbert
The publication of caricatures, deemed offensive by Muslims, has added ammunition for radical groups to exploit the situation and make the reaction become out of proportion and damaging.
Hassan Wirajuda
Some people are too severely deaf to benefit from conventional hearing aids; a cochlear implant may be a suitable alternative but only for a proportion of them.
Angela King
The certainty with which a religious belief is held is usually in direct proportion to its absurdity.
Donald Morgan
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
James Boswell
We love characters in proportion as they are impulsive and spontaneous.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everywhere, African-Americans were stopped far out of their proportion in any of the communities policed, ... So were Hispanics, but at somewhat reduced levels.
Mary Frances Berry
The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.
Friedrich List
No, not at all, ... I just didn't feel good after them, and just sat out some games. I'm not worried about it at all. I think a lot [of] it gets blown out of proportion more than what it really is. ... There are guys in the NFL who have had way more concussions than me, so I'm not worried about it.
Dan Morgan
The greatest proportion, about three-quarters of that number, will be in Africa.
Martin Parry
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
Marie Henri Beyle (stendhal)
It's the hands-off time we were having a problem with. We need to maximize the proportion of time we're doing chest compressions.
Robert O'connor
There just may be a lot of people who are still down in those deep waters, and some of the waters were 10, 12, 15 feet deep. My biggest fear is that we will find something down there that is way out of proportion. Hopefully, it doesn't happen, but we worry.
Frank Minyard
A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.
Thomas Sprat
A lot of people are surprised that the Irish are involved in this issue, but we actually have a very significant undocumented population in proportion to the legal Irish-born population.
Niall O'dowd
Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.
John Carmack
They are all very relieved and feel that justice has been served. This was all just one big misunderstanding that got blown way out of proportion.
Victor Padilla
As a human being, you are certainly entitled to your own opinion. It's just that you're blown out of proportion in the media sometimes. Even if I weren't an actor, I'd still be active in things that are important to me.
Toni Collette
Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.
Paul J. Meyer
The cartoons have hurt the Islamic community, so it has added to ammunition for (global) radical groups to exploit the situation and the whole thing has got out of proportion.
Hassan Wirajuda
The red tops tend to blow things out of proportion but they will end up red in the face.
Vladimir Romanov
I just think (this) has been blown out of proportion.
Dianne Cox
GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a strength proportion to the quantity of matter they contain -- the quantity of matter they contain being ascertained by the strength of their tendency to approach one another. This is a lovely and edifying illustration of how science, having made A the proof of B, makes B the proof of A.
Ambrose Bierce
We know a lot more about the ice sheets than we did before. We know change is happening and that it is rapid. What we don't know is why or what is causing it -- what proportion is anthropomorphic.
Anthony Payne
We believe it's being blown out of proportion. We weren't trying to buy votes.
George Stone
One of the US's Healthy People 2010 goal is to decrease the proportion of black women who are not up-to-date on their screening from 17 percent to 10 percent.
Dr. Geetanjali Datta
However we have 2.3 million estimated to be in need, that 500,000 represents a very small proportion.
Michael Jones
These projects have demonstrated they are practical and exciting and will add to the proportion of the UK's energy that comes from renewable sources.
Malcolm Wicks
With my experience of the press I am aware that these things get built up and blown out of proportion.
Tim Henman
We're talking about a fairly substantial proportion of boys. One in five boys is worse than [most] girls.
David Skuse
While it's encouraging that the proportion of women in organized breast cancer screening programs has increased over time, in 2003 participation was only 34 per cent nationally.
Heather Logan
The Spirit must and will be poured out on the church, that she may be purified and filled with God - and just in proportion as the Spirit of God works, so will he - when our Lord anoints men with power, so will he.
Margaret Macdonald
Unless you are prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
Orison Swett Marden
The sale of these mature assets aligns with our strategy to increase the proportion of long-life and operated assets within our portfolio.
Peter Kallos
I'm proud of the way he's kept his spirits up and continued to work hard. In college, what he did goes on all the time and it never gets blown out of proportion.
Jabari Levey
Even so, the danger of acting hastily is that you may end up accidentally throwing out the family silver in the bin liner. Even if you're in a closed with-profits fund with a low proportion invested in shares and very poor bonus rates, that does not necessarily mean you should get out of it.
Ned Cazalet
The chances of being elected pope decreases in proportion to the number of times he is described papabile in the press.
George Weigel
I'm not worried about it at all. A lot of times it gets blown out of proportion.
Dan Morgan
Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
Marcus Aurelius
Everybody knows Jen went about it the wrong way. But really, all of it was blown out of proportion by the media.
Shauna Rohbock
You're talking about an ecological disaster of unprecedented proportion.
James Dalessandro
I think it was a media-generated phenomenon. You guys blew that out of proportion.
Bob Littlefield
In the U.S., the markets that are most risky are those where there is a higher proportion of buyers using adjustable loans and interest-only loans.
Thomas Skinner
I think they're blown out of proportion. It's not about what he did or didn't do, it's about politics. As long as he gets the job done, what do I care?
Joy Chandler
Smoking, obesity, and alcohol abuse are leading contributors to preventable death in the United States. By early adulthood, a large proportion of Americans smoke, are overweight, and drink alcohol to excess.
Duane Alexander
While we diminish the stimulant of fear, we must increase to prisoners the incitements of hope, in proportion as we extinguish the terrors of the law, we should awaken and strengthen the control of the conscience.
Dorothea Dix
Thus I have maintained by English history, that in proportion as the press has been free, English government has been secure.
Thomas Erskine
David has always been one of those quietly influential staffers that has an impact all of out proportion to their public profile. He knows how to get things done, and when he talks, people listen because they know he has the authority of the vice president behind him.
Bradford A. Berenson
We have a public health problem of overweight and obesity, but it's been blown out of proportion, ... We focus on obesity and not on other health habits and other risk factors.
Steven Blair
The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses.
Lowell Thomas
Some people might want to blow it out of proportion. To me, it's everyday life, making proper decisions based on due diligence.
Keith Young
They were off-the-cuff remarks that have been blown out of all proportion. The crowd was on my back in that game and giving me stick. That was all. There's no need for England fans to take it the wrong way. They've been fantastic.
Charlie Hodgson
We are very concerned in Hawaii about the fact we are the western doorway to the United States. We see a large number of visitors ... and a good proportion of them are from the Far East where we know a good number of emerging diseases are originating.
Chiyome Fukino
One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.
Wendy Craig
The amount of crime is not out of proportion to the people living there.
Tom Martin
The highest proportion of consumers in two decades anticipate a falling unemployment rate in 2004.
Richard Curtin
I don't know why this is going on. I can only speculate. But it is something that should be a very reasonable and controlled process -- an examination into regulatory compliance. Suddenly, we're looking at something that's just out of all proportion.
James Ryan
Even though there are probably a lot of nonvoters among the people who are undecided, this proportion of uncertain voters indicates continuing movement even shortly before the election.
Manfred Guellner
It is unfortunate it has happened, it has probably again been blown out of all proportion and, thankfully, it passed off without incident.
David Sullivan
And the proportion will increase to 10 per cent by 2020.
Zhang Guobao
There are deserters with guns and this concerns us. I don't want to blow this out of proportion.
Dan Halutz
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
John Stuart Mill
Ignorance about its scale and impact is almost universal and international engagement remains completely out of proportion to humanitarian need.
Richard Brennan
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
Christian Nevell Bovee
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
Marcel Proust
It was really blown out of proportion. It was just something to show us how not retaliate if something like that ever happened on the field or at school. Our job would be to ignore it, to act like men, but to ignore it and get back to playing football. It was a lesson, an act. It was about tolerance.
Rasoul Wilson
We're not growing our reserves in proportion to our company. That's what drives (rate increases).
Mark Stinneford
There are still some barriers to some particular jobs that are more high paying jobs like high-level executives, CEOs of companies that women just aren't in the proportion that men are in.
Dr. Pat Hedberg
A very high proportion of that job growth is occurring in high-paying professions. This is a demand-driven market and demand vastly exceeds supply.
Mark Vitner
Age at first use is an important predictor of the potential for serious substance abuse problems later in life. The increase in the proportion of admissions for drug use before age 13 should be a wake-up call to parents to speak with their children early and often about the dangers of drug use.
Charles Curie
I want to stay with the club. It's been blown out of proportion, the whole fact that I want to leave.
Craig Gower
It's time to get over it. I think it's being blown out of proportion by coaches. As coaches, we need to get on with it and get this thing over with. I'm not going to let it overshadow the kids' performance.
Mike Hansen
However, by retaining a sizeable shareholding and a share in the management of the company, they are able to hold on to a good proportion of the company's profitability into the future.
David Land
Adrienne's talent and creative sense of proportion and elegance sets her apart from others. She did it once in fashion and now she's doing it in home design.
Michael Saunders
Our staff has not grown in proportion to the number of increases in the student population.
Carol Lang
Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The sending off was a turning point to a certain extent. For me it is not even a sending off, it was a minor incident that was blown out of proportion and overshadows what was potentially a great game of football.
Eidur Gudjohnsen
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