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The inaccuracy issue. Going back to college having a 56-percent completion percentage. Obviously, it's not great. But I think that it's a little blown out of proportion.
Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.
Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to do.
Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.
The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.
Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
A country becomes more prosperous in proportion to the rise in the invested capital unit per unit of its population.
People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.
Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same time, physicists need to be inventive, to have ideas, to have some fantasy.
I like to eat in proportion, eat healthy, home-cooked food with lots of salad.
There are almost too many possibilities. Photography is in direct proportion with our time: multiple, faster, instant. Because it is so easy, it will be more difficult.
Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.
There is no city in the country with nil incidence of crime. We have to look into the crime rate in proportion to the population figures.
The same arguments which go to show that knowledge is power, that the condition of a people is improved in proportion as the masses are educated, have their application with equal weight to the deaf.
In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one man and another.
A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.
The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray
We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
To me, the money is - it's certainly a wonderful thing. But it is in direct proportion to how you're able to bless yourself and bless others with it.
Your success will be in direct proportion to how you spend your ‘free’ time.
I love television. I think we're in a renaissance of epic proportion in television now.
Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes.
In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.
There is a sense in which the danger of our lives increases in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ.
The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.
Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offender
For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion, and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.
The anti-Darwin movement has racked up one astounding achievement. It has made a significant proportion of American parents care about what their children are taught in school.
The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its degree of perfection.
In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to characterize the species.
Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.
When I became involved with Chris Timothy, it became a truly huge national scandal. It was out of all proportion and went on for months.
But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.
We see an enlightened teacher to gain a sense of humor, to learn balance and proportion and of course to learn wisdom.
As always, work with your figure; draping, pleats, and proportion can work miracles when it comes to hiding flaws and enhancing assets.
Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.
The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.
All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.
Knowledge increases in proportion to its use; that is, the more we teach the more we learn.
One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy.
The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order.
One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.
The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.
The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage.
The value of a relationship is in direct proportion to the time that you invest in the relationship.
Your rewards in life are in direct proportion to your service
I sincerely believe that no problem is bigger than man, and problems are blown out of proportion by man himself.
We get real results only in proportion to the real values we give.
True happiness is found in unselfish Love, A love which increases in proportion as it is shared.
I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.
Many will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished.
The Attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of nonviolence for each
