Proportion Quotes

There has been a long-term decline with the proportion of adults and children registered with a dentist falling for the best part of 15 years. We are getting a lot of feedback from dentists saying that the new contract is the last straw and that they are thinking of closing their doors to NHS patients.

Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.

I have not only Arms but a large proportion of Armourers to make.

One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.

Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion.

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.

I think you've got to have your feet planted firmly on the ground, especially in this business, and you must not believe things that are said or written about you, because everything gets out of proportion one way or the other.

I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for.

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.

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.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

There has always been a certain proportion of people who leave the Church on issues of authority and sex. That hasn't changed since we started doing research on it back in the early 1960s.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

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

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

Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.