Portion Quotes

474 quotes by 389 authors

I explain to you, exactly and truly, how we are circumstanced. A greater portion of our means is unavailable, consisting of a house in S.… — Mary Todd Lincoln
On the one hand, there is no reason that a black person needs to live a portion of his or her life being concerned about… — Henry Hampton
What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government… — Richard Mentor Johnson
It is only after a fair portion of one's life that one really knows what are the things that matter, the things that will remain… — Esther Meynell
That portion of reality that can be composed within a frame can be understood. — Robert Breault
Many people strive for personal freedom throughout their adult lives, and never attain it. First, they become imprisoned a good portion of their lives by… — Ernie J Zelinski
To meditate with humility, consider existence. It is infinite. You are finite. You are a finite portion of infinite existence. Let this be your meditation. — Frederick Lenz
Death is a doorway. It is a very small, thin doorway and only a portion of our being can walk through. — Frederick Lenz
The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with money-hating wolves like Lenin, Stalin,… — Eric Hoffer
It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought… — William James
Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence. — Thomas More
Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be. — Donald Judd
Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers of the soil — David Ricardo
A portion of the multitude must ever be coerced. — Napoleon Bonaparte
This propaganda of dis-associating Western Negroes from Africa is not a new one. For many years white propagandists have been printing tons of literature to… — Marcus Garvey
No Zionist can forgo the smallest portion of the Land Of Israel. [A] Jewishstate in part [of Palestine] is not an end, but a beginning… — David
I have seen oaks of many species in many kinds of exposure and soil, but those of Kentucky excel in grandeur all I had ever… — John Muir
...a pie so delicate, so luscious, that I hope to be propped up on my dying bed and fed a generous portion. Then I think… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me… — John James Audubon
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure. — Baron de Montesquieu

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