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Tag Name "Proportional" (75)

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Appealingness is inversely proportional to attainability.
John Updike
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Two magnitudes whether commensurable or incommensurable, balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes.
Archimedes
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We are the measure of all things. And the beauty of our creation, of our art is proportional to the beauty of ourselves of our souls.
Jonas Mekas
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Your compensation is directly proportional to how many lives you touch.
Bob Burg
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Human ambitions are like Japanese carp they grow proportional to the size of their environment. Our achievements grow according to the size of our dreams and the degree to which we are in touch with our mission.
Keith Ferrazzi
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There is no proportional representation requirement in the Equal Protection Clause
Cass Sunstein
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Few Christians understand the concept of eternal rewards, even thought the Lord dedicated a great deal of His precious time on earth to teaching about them. The one certainty is that our position in the Lord's kingdom will be inversely proportional to how we indulge ourselves in this lifetime.
Larry Burkett
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The badness of a movie is directly proportional to the number of helicopters in it.
Dave Barry
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Notice the small things. The rewards are inversely proportional.
Liz Vassey
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[Proportional representation is a] device for defeating democracy, the principle of which was that the majority should rule, and for bringing faddists of all kinds into Parliament, and establishing groups and disintegrating parties.
David Lloyd George
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Mr Hughes's current claim of bisexuality has the whiff of artful centrist positioning about it: bi- is the proportional representation of sexuality in a world where most of us - straight or gay - operate a first-past-the-post system.
Mark Steyn
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The power of a theory is exactly proportional to the diversity of situations it can explain.
Elinor Ostrom
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Power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms.
Michel Foucault
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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.
Francois Truffaut
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The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.
Oriana Fallaci
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The time it takes to feel better about a breakup is directly proportional to the time it takes to feel better about yourself.
Greg Behrendt
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A player's ability to rebound is inversely proportional to the distance between where he was born and the nearest railroad tracks. The greater distance you live from the poor side of the railroad tracks, the less likely that you will be a good rebounder.
Pete Carril
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I sometimes think that the size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house.
Gregory David Roberts
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In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front.
Philip Caputo
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It was one lesson he never forgot.You don't sit back when you or a loved one is being assaulted.And you don't act like the goverment with their proportional responses and all that nonsense.If someone hurts you,mercy and pity must be put aside,You eliminate the enemy.You scorch the earth.
Harlan Coben
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An idea's worth is directly proportional to the opposition created.
Robert Townsend
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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
Hermann Ebbinghaus
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Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.
Isaac Newton
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The powers of a man's mind are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drank.
James Mackintosh
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