Words matter. These are the best Proportional Quotes from famous people such as William Hague, Francois Truff, James G. Stavridis, Liz Vassey, Ezra Pound, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has.
If we discover through a thorough and unbiased investigation that Russia has indeed attacked our electoral process directly with the intent to influencing the process, our response needs to be robust, rapid, and proportional. This will shape our relationship with Russia profoundly.
Notice the small things. The rewards are inversely proportional.
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
My number-one theory in life is that style is proportional to your lack of resources – the less you have, the more stylish you’re likely to be.
I am proportional, and I’m very lucky for that.
Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together.
There is no proportional representation requirement in the Equal Protection Clause.
A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill.
I’ve advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way.
The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.
Israel’s system of proportional representation rarely produces stable government.
In an ideal world, the amount of money we spend on medical research to prevent or cure a disease would be proportional to its seriousness and the number of people who suffer from it.
The amount of time you invest in a film is not directly proportional to its success.
Like Donald Trump, Trudeau is in high office because of how the system groups and allocates votes. No wonder the Liberals broke their 2015 promise to reform the system and bring in proportional representation.
We have a Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales, both elected by fairer votes – involving proportional representation.
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
A radiometer is a device for measuring the intensity of radiation. A microwave radiometer consists of a filter to select a desired band of frequencies followed by a detector which produces an output voltage proportional to its input power.
The hilarity or brilliance of a forwarded link is inversely proportional to the number of people it’s sent to.
The choice of films I make is directly proportional to the kind of cinema I have grew up watching.
I used to be a fan of proportional representation, but I am not at all now I have seen it in action.
Last year, Congress passed a law that directs the Federal Reserve to set limits on debit card swipe fees that are reasonable and proportional to the cost of processing those transactions. Like most Americans, I had no idea that swipe fees charged to American businesses are the highest in the world.
When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.
Rewards are directly proportional to the suspect and his peers’ status in society: $100,000 was offered in the Moxley case. It meant nothing to millionaires.
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
If a third of Americans’ time is being spent online, why is only a quarter of ad dollars spent there? It’s not proportional.
I changed my thinking on the whole subject of what it is to be attractive. It’s fine, but I know that ultimately what I am and who I am is not cheekbones and a jawline, if you catch my drift. I ultimately know that who I am is not directly proportional to abs or straight teeth.
The rate of growth of the management skills of any country is inversely proportional to the number of MBAs. Germany produces no MBAs, but America used to produce MBAs by the millions, and you saw the German economy, until at least the ’90s, was certainly more efficient than the American economy.
Time is a resource whose supply is inversely proportional to its demand.
