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It is good to have organizations but not to exaggerate their importance out of due proportion.

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

The relation of color and the relation of proportion are both based on the relation of position.

A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.

There are some people in this world who always turn and twist the spoken word out of proportion.

The scripts that I've been getting are of epic proportion. People want me to lead the big armies.

To indicate the ideal proportion and reveal sculptural mass and the dominating spirit is my goal.

The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.

I am the guilty gift-giver, which means that I am a gift-giver who lacks all sense of proportion.

Many will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished.

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

When the fruit of your service is out of all proportion to the gifts you possess, THAT is Blessing!

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

I'm in a business that invites narcissism, self-involvement, and egos being blown out of proportion.

The value of a relationship is in direct proportion to the time that you invest in the relationship.

Everybody has a camcorder now, and they exploit these incidents and blow them all out of proportion.

The ability to hurt someone is usually in direct proportion to how much that person cares about you.

Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.

In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.

Our success in influencing or elevating others is in proportion to their belief in our belief in them.

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing.

Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.

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

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

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

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

Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.

I think the Covid-19 crisis has been blown out of proportion and has created an unnecessary fear psychosis.

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.

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

A person's creative ability decreases in direct proportion to the degree to which he takes himself seriously.

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

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

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

I sincerely believe that no problem is bigger than man, and problems are blown out of proportion by man himself.

The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.

So the freshness lives on in a lemon, in the sweet-smelling house of the rind, the proportions, arcane and acerb.

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

There is usually an inverse proportion between how much something is on your mind and how much it´s getting done!

Your problems are out there. But they're small. They only grow out of proportion when they climb inside your head.

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

One wrong move by a star kid and it immediately comes under the spotlight - even blown out of proportion, at times.

A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.

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