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There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.
A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.
Sometimes arguments get publicized so much that it gets blown all the hell out of proportion.
To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion.
A man's enjoyment of all good things is in exact proportion to the pains he has undergone to gain them.
The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.
Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.
At American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom.
One wrong move by a star kid and it immediately comes under the spotlight - even blown out of proportion, at times.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
I'm in a business that invites narcissism, self-involvement, and egos being blown out of proportion.
Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.
I have my mantra about silhouette, proportion, and fit. I believe that when they are in harmony and balance, you'll look great in anything.
I have my mantra about silhouette, proportion, and fit. I believe that when they are in harmony and balance, you’ll look great in anything.
There are some people in this world who always turn and twist the spoken word out of proportion.
Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.
Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided.
An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself.
The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses.
The scripts that I've been getting are of epic proportion. People want me to lead the big armies.
The ability to hurt someone is usually in direct proportion to how much that person cares about you.
Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.
Whatever you accomplish in a lifetime will be in direct proportion to the intensity and persistence of your faith
Jesus is returning for a bride whose body is in equal proportion to her head.
Our wealth is rewarded directly in proportion to the number of people with whom we are willing to share.
The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.
A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.
Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.
A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow.
The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.
Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life.
In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary.
Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
When diving to attack always leave a proportion of your formation above to act as top guard.
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.
The colors and creativity of our painters attracted me, but I remember that I was shocked by the lack of proportion.
My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made.
A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.
The dolphins and whales have a brain that is actually bigger in proportion to their size than we do. They are very complex. They are thinkers.
There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years.
True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.
If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.
Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.
A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.
Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness.
Optimism can be prescribed and applied as a medicine, and is a remedy in proportion to its purity and the wisdom displayed in its use.
I sounded like Bob Dylan for about five minutes, and it was blown out of all proportion.
It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.
Everybody has a camcorder now, and they exploit these incidents and blow them all out of proportion.
The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.
Social movements rarely succeed if they violate our gut sense of decency and moral proportion.
In 2009, the proportion of American women who were married dropped below 50 percent.
In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.
