Top 146 Disproportionate Quotes & Sayings

Working class communities, like the one I grew up in, have long felt the disproportionate and cumulative impacts of pollution.

How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters.

Those who take action have a disproportionate impact. The power of one is to move many.

I have a disproportionate amount of faith in the goodness of the world and that everything will actually work out okay.

Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets.

One bulls-eye and you're rich and famous. The rich get more famous and the famous get rich. You're the talk of the town....The sense of so much depending on success is very hard to ignore, perhaps impossible. It leads to disproportionate anxiety and disproportionate relief or disappointment.

The gardener had a dread of small women; he'd always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.

Lord, let me make a difference for you that is utterly disproportionate to who I am.

I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.

Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.

Although our rules and laws are now officially colorblind, they operate to discriminate in a grossly disproportionate fashion.

Regulatory mandates have a disproportionate effect on small businesses.

Illinois is home to a disproportionate share of Dreamers and would suffer a significant economic blow should they be compelled to leave.

Although I'm sure there are plenty of tall, gorgeous, life-of-the-party guys who are also true to their wives, I happen to believe that a disproportionate number of them are cheaters.

I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.

Companies know that children have disproportionate influence over their parents' purse strings.

Since the pandemic began, COVID-19 has posed significant and often disproportionate risks to Central Virginia seniors and their families.

The cartoonist’s task is not so much to be balanced as to give balance, particularly in situations of disproportionate power relationships such as we see in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The extremely wealthy have disproportionate influence on policies that impact us all. This corrupts our politics and leads to poorer people being denied the economic opportunity to flourish in life.

The fear we throw about danger is always as disproportionate as a paternal shirt on an infant.

You need to invest in areas where you can be the market leader because then you get a disproportionate share of the economics when you are.

The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq.

I'm an actor; I have an ego that is sometimes disproportionate to the reality of the situation.

Ingratitude is often disproportionate to the benefaction received.

Money in doses disproportionate to our needs enslaves.

I don't understand the fashion industry and the appeal of it. I understand that there are some people who think it's important to them, and they're designers, they're artists, but there seems to be a disproportionate amount of our culture that's caught up in that and the red carpet stuff. It seems like there's a disproportionate amount of attention placed on that.

Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hispanics and students.

There was often a great deal of grown-up fuss that seemed disproportionate to causes.

Society cannot but depend to a disproportionate degree on its capable few to develop and flourish.

To be Biblically balanced is to let our theology and preaching be proportioned by the Bible's radically disproportionate focus on God's saving love for sinners seen and accomplished in the crucified and risen Christ.

There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.

All calls for justice require that victims feel avenged, and revenge is never just if it’s disproportionate.

The COVID-19 crisis has presented disproportionate risks to Central Virginia's seniors, and it has created extremely stressful situations for their families.

Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle.

Police officers' disproportionate use of force against people of color is a stain on our nation.

the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love.

As a city, we have to face the reality that New York's minority communities experience a disproportionate share of violent crime.

Avoid the ecstatic adjectives that occupy such disproportionate space in every critic's quiver - words like "enthralling" and "luminous."

A Killer Brand exists when an entity derives a disproportionate amount of success in its category because of a compelling and differentiated expectation that comes to be associated with its name.

It is unfair for our hospitals to bear a hugely disproportionate burden for mandated emergency health treatment for illegal aliens.

One of my greatest extravagances is smelly candles. I'm embarrassed to say, but I spend a disproportionate amount of money on candles. It adds up.

While some wars are planned, others result from each side retaliating in ways it views as proportionate but viewed by the other side as disproportionate.

For a small open economy such as Cyprus, the euro adoption provides protection against international financial turmoil, which often has a disproportionate effect on smaller economies.

Sin is a disproportionate seriousness.

I've had a disproportionate share of interaction with jerks.

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time.

As what we call genius arises out of the disproportionate power and size of a certain faculty, so the great difficulty lies in harmonizing with it the rest of the character.

Stand Your Ground laws make all of us more vulnerable to the threat of gun violence, but they also have a disproportionate impact on communities of color.

Passing my motorcycle theory test gave me a disproportionate feeling of greatness.

Despite broad public support, raising the minimum wage is always difficult owing to the disproportionate influence that wealthy firms and donors have in Congress.

It (land value taxation) guarantees that no one dispossess fellow citizens by obtaining a disproportionate share of what nature provides for humanity.

The South has more of a disproportionate amount of irony on T-shirts than any other region in the country.

I don't know the statistics, but I wouldn't be surprised to find out that a disproportionate number of comics come from broken homes.

We have to be able to reject disproportionate and unjustified responses in the cyber domain just as we do in the physical domain.

If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.

Stop and search is an integral cog in a racially disproportionate criminal justice system.

Pakistan is riddled with problems that are rooted in the disproportionate power of the state. Aid has only boosted that power.

I want to thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and abilities.

What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.