The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.
My father was this big, tough guy, almost heroic in proportion to me as a child. It was only later that I saw how fearful he was.
Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets out of proportion and you lose touch completely with reality.
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.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes.
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
The apparent pointlessness of fashion may be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do not know why a certain proportion feels dated or why another one feels exciting at a given moment. I leave that to the cultural historians and theorists.
A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans - well over 90 percent, thoroughly evangelical, thoroughly biblical - will probably vote Democratic.
We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.
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.
And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad.
In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food.
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.
Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.
There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.
Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous.
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
We don't know what proportion of public funds is regularly lost to collusion and corruption. Is it 25 per cent? 30 per cent? We do know that a portion of these public funds are feeding organized crime.
The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.
Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.
I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.
I've generally got a good eye for design and proportion.
The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.
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.
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.
Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control.
A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.