Disproportionate Quotes

#1. For the most part, congressional Republicans represent people who are whiter, older and richer than most Americans, and our creaky old political system gives those Americans disproportionate influence over public policy.

Alex Pareene

#2. Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.

Daniel Kahneman

#3. It is unfair for our hospitals to bear a hugely disproportionate burden for mandated emergency health treatment for illegal aliens.

Jon Kyl

#4. What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.

Emile Zola

#5. When everyone had backups of themselves scattered around the galaxy, it required a
vastly disproportionate effort to inconvenience someone, let alone kill them.

Greg Egan

#6. How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters.

Carol Vorderman

#7. There are certain zip codes that generate a disproportionate share of patents, of startups, of wealth, of jobs. And it's really important if other parts of the country are going to want to create these tech centers.

Juan Enriquez

#8. I am able more and more to make use of that long patience you have taught me by your tenacious example; that patience which, disproportionate to ordinary life which seems to bid us haste, puts us in touch with all that surpasses us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#9. I spent a disproportionate amount of my time in a car in L.A. I'm 35 years old. If you add up the hours spent in cars, it would be years.

Travis Kalanick

#10. I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.

Salman Rushdie

#11. The job of the press is to speak truth to power. And yet, for doing our job, we are persecuted. I say that these aggressive and illegal tactics to silence us - inventing arbitrary legal interpretations, over-zealous charges and disproportionate sentences - must not be permitted to succeed.

Sara Harrison

#12. God has designed us to depend on His Word to lead his people in ways that are utterly disproportionate to who we are.

David Platt

#13. It (land value taxation) guarantees that no one dispossess fellow citizens by obtaining a disproportionate share of what nature provides for humanity.

William Vickrey

#14. The extent of neural growth and learning during sensitive periods results in early experience having a disproportionate impact on the shaping of our brains.

Louis Cozolino

#15. There is another way in which the general opinion, that women are inferior to men, is manifested ... I allude to the disproportionate value set on the time and labor of men and women.

Sarah Moore Grimke

#16. Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.

Van Jones

#17. We felt trapped in two seemingly unwinnable wars, in which a disproportionate share of the fighters came from our neighborhood, and in an economy that failed to deliver the most basic promise of the American Dream - a steady wage.

J.D. Vance

#18. I have been an 'Official' all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.

William Allingham

#19. A Killer Brand exists when an entity derives a disproportionate amount of success in its category because of a compelling and differentiated expectation that comes to be associated with its name.

Frank Lane

#20. Those who take action have a disproportionate impact. The power of one is to move many.

Elizabeth May

#21. The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq.

Marty Meehan

#22. ...the true test of the perversity of a pleasure is that it occupies a disproportionate amount of the attention.

Aleister Crowley

#23. As a city, we have to face the reality that New York's minority communities experience a disproportionate share of violent crime.

Raymond Kelly

#24. The entire issue is that women bear a disproportionate share of the hard work. Birthing, carrying, the whole thing - it's hard work.

Pete Sessions

#25. As what we call genius arises out of the disproportionate power and size of a certain faculty, so the great difficulty lies in harmonizing with it the rest of the character.

Anna Brownell Jameson

#26. I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.

Daniel Dae Kim

#27. I was overcome by a wave of wonder at how much good was going on, and how you heard about the bad things that happened so much that you overlooked the immensely disproportionate majority of other acts done to the real benefit of self and others without which none of this would be here at all.

Ken MacLeod

#28. I think there is a potential civic culture in Arab countries that can lead to democratic institutions and I think Iraq is probably the best place to put that proposition to the test Well, you're going to find a disproportionate number of Jews in any sort of intellectual undertaking.

Richard Perle

#29. Money in doses disproportionate to our needs enslaves.

Gerry Spence

#30. Avoid the ecstatic adjectives that occupy such disproportionate space in every critic's quiver - words like "enthralling" and "luminous."

William Zinsser

#31. 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.

William Hague

#32. Lord, let me make a difference for You that is utterly disproportionate to who I am.

John Piper

#33. Our post-denominational age should be the perfect time for a Mormon to become president, or at least the Republican nominee. Mormons share nearly all the conservative commitments so beloved of the evangelicals who wield disproportionate influence in primary elections.

Noah Feldman

#34. I prefer to record all traumas and save them for later, playing them over and over so they can haunt me for a disproportionate number of weeks to come. It's very healthy.

Sloane Crosley

#35. I want to thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and abilities.

Tina Fey

#36. Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.

Barney Frank

#37. One bulls-eye and you're rich and famous. The rich get more famous and the famous get rich. You're the talk of the town ... The sense of so much depending on success is very hard to ignore, perhaps impossible. It leads to disproportionate anxiety and disproportionate relief or disappointment.

Tom Stoppard

#38. If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.

Gary W. Keller

#39. Ingratitude is often disproportionate to the benefaction received.

Karl Kraus

#40. Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.

Chris Cleave

#41. Although I'm sure there are plenty of tall, gorgeous, life-of-the-party guys who are also true to their wives, I happen to believe that a disproportionate number of them are cheaters.

Emily Giffin

#42. We give disproportionate weight to whether yogurt is said to be five percent fat or 95 percent fat free. People seem to think that yogurt that is 95 percent fat free is a more healthful product than yogurt that has five percent fat.

Barry Schwartz

#43. To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in which slaves are a majority, and not one in which the slaveholders are not a very disproportionate minority.

William H. Seward

#44. Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends.

Paul Fussell

#45. The reaction is disproportionate to the objective danger because some intrapsychic conflict is involved. Thus the reaction is never disproportionate to the subjective threat.

Rollo May

#46. Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle.

Lee Scott

#47. Sin is a disproportionate seriousness.

Fulton J. Sheen

#48. I've had a disproportionate share of interaction with jerks.

Mona Sutphen

#49. Of a terrible, the incomprehensible way one's most banal, incidental, even comical choices archive the most disproportionate result.

Philip Roth

#50. Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.

Mortimer Zuckerman

#51. I hate that she's hurt. I hate that she's been hurt, by me and by others, throughout the entire arc of her life. I barely remember pain, but when I see it in her I feel it in myself, in disproportionate measure. it creeps into my eyes, stinging, burning.

Isaac Marion

#52. But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

Leo Tolstoy

#53. In narration he affects a disproportionate pomp of diction and a wearisome train of circumlocution, and tells the incident imperfectly in many words, which might have been more plainly delivered in few.

Samuel Johnson

#54. The South has more of a disproportionate amount of irony on T-shirts than any other region in the country.

David Cross

#55. He thought it disproportionate in its violence considering the fragility of us.

David Jones

#56. The fear we throw about danger is always as disproportionate as a paternal shirt on an infant.

Austin O'Malley

#57. I have a disproportionate amount of faith in the goodness of the world and that everything will actually work out okay.

Sloane Crosley

#58. Disproportionate.

James Patterson

#59. There was often a great deal of grown-up fuss that seemed disproportionate to causes.

John Wyndham

#60. I am fairly certain that my abortion position hurt me, because in a Democratic primary, where turnout is relatively low, liberal voters turn out in disproportionately large numbers and thus exercise a disproportionate influence on the outcome.

Robert Casey

#61. Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.

Joseph Butler

#62. It is in the nature of love to be disproportionate with both rewards and retributions.

Manu Joseph

#63. Everything is disproportionate in the middle of the night.

Louise Doughty

#64. The great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#65. In common with librarians the world over, the two women were used to dealing with a disproportionate quota of odd people acting strangely.

Jose Latour

#66. There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.

Robert Breault

#67. For the disproportionate fear that the statistically and historically minimal group of women who were both angry and had hairy legs have inculcated both in their detractors and in their wannabe-successors, we should salute them as often as possible

Nina Power

#68. The gardener had a dread of small women; he'd always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.

John Irving

#69. We are concerned here only with the imposition of capital punishment for the crime of murder, and when a life has been taken deliberately by the offender, we cannot say that the punishment is invariably disproportionate to the crime. It is an extreme sanction suitable to the most extreme of crimes.

Potter Stewart

#70. If Judas Iscariot were alive, and a woman, and attending formal functions, wearing this dress would still represent a disproportionate punishment for his sins." "Her

Daniel O'Malley

#71. You don't have to feed the lie if you don't want it to. If you make it credible it will become that, but only in your mind and only as disproportionate as you've decided it is. Truth has a way of being more persistent and if the two ever meet, truth will win.

Howard L. Salter

#72. In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I find - and I hear from other people that they agree - that getting rid of clutter gives a disproportionate boost to happiness.

Gretchen Rubin

#73. Passing my motorcycle theory test gave me a disproportionate feeling of greatness.

James McAvoy

#74. When abused children under court protection were studied in California and Massachusetts, it turned out that a disproportionate number of them were unattractive ... abused kids had head and face proportions that made them look less infantile and cute.

Nancy Etcoff

#75. Pakistan is riddled with problems that are rooted in the disproportionate power of the state. Aid has only boosted that power.

Iqbal Quadir

#76. To be Biblically balanced is to let our theology and preaching be proportioned by the Bible's radically disproportionate focus on God's saving love for sinners seen and accomplished in the crucified and risen Christ.

Tullian Tchividjian

#77. All calls for justice require that victims feel avenged, and revenge is never just if it's disproportionate.

Thane Rosenbaum

#78. We have to be able to reject disproportionate and unjustified responses in the cyber domain just as we do in the physical domain.

Edward Snowden

#79. The tech industry used to be home to a disproportionate number of misfits and weirdos. Geeks. Nerds. People who needed to know how machines worked: needed to take them apart, make them better, and put them back together again.

Jon Evans

#80. Society cannot but depend to a disproportionate degree on its capable few to develop and flourish.

Swami Kriyananda

#81. Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets.

Donald Trump

#82. I think great artists have no time to waste with having disproportionate egos and irrational requests. They're too focused on their work to actually lose themselves in hysterical spirals where they become monsters or tyrants.

Xavier Dolan