One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
Max Weber

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

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.
Eli Whitney

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.
Chester Irving Barnard

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
Charles Caleb Colton

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.
John Anderson

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.
Robyn Hitchcock

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
William Blake

Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole.
Marcus V. Pollio

Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes.
Robert A. Dahl

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.
John Carmack

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
Arthur Conan Doyle

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.
Sam Mendes

The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.
George H. Mead

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
Marcel Proust

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

The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.
John F. Kerry