The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

And it sends an important message to me because I am sick to death to hear my opponent saying Republicans don't trust me. They do trust me in landslide proportions and they're proving it tonight. We're going to bury that for good.

One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.

Truth be told ginormous portions have become a pet peeve of mine.

I write early in the morning usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful amusing a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world so far justice is always in jeopardy.

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.

I hate to say it but the older you get you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions.

Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball.

I think people are more savvy about cooking food and dining. I notice they are looking for more value for their money - not in larger portions but more in terms of healthier fresh farm-to-table dishes with a nice presentation.

The food here is terrible and the portions are too small.

The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable believing an attack of major proportions will happen.

There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

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

The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education jobs emotional health physical health and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government.

I followed the same diet for 20 years eliminating starches living on salads lean meat and small portions.

The primary factor is proportions.

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

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.