Portion Quotes

474 quotes by 389 authors

She did not believe that things could remain the same in different places, and since the portion of her life that lay behind her had… — Gustave Flaubert
World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion A tangerine and spit the pips and feel The… — Louis MacNeice
It is true that the subliminal in man is the largest part of his nature and has in it the secret of the unseeen dynamisms… — Sri Aurobindo
My Lord, I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offense against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fir… — David Eddings
Drizzt Do'Urden had followed a line of precepts based upon discipline and ultimate optimism. He fought for a better world because he believed that a… — R A Salvatore
Whoever reaches into a rosebush may seize a handful of flowers; but no matter how many one holds, it's only a small portion of the… — Lou Andreas-SalomÃ©
Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it is amazing how… — Bill Bryson
If you are not learning while youâ€™re earning, you are cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation. — Napoleon Hill
Mr Beach was too well bred to be inquisitive, but his eyebrows here not. 'Ah!' he said. '?', cried the eyebrows. '? ? ?' Ashe… — P.G. Wodehouse
So far Kat has been through all the Wa's she could think of, but Hale hadn't admitted to being Walter or Ward or Washington. He'd… — Ally Carter
Think of the universal substance, of which thou has a very small portion; and of universal time, of which a short and indivisible interval has… — Marcus Aurelius
Creation is thus God's presence in creatures. The Greek Orthodox theologian Philip Sherrard has written that "Creation is nothing less than the manifestation of God's… — Wendell Berry
Magic is really only the utilization of the entire spectrum of the senses. Humans have cut themselves off from their senses. Now they see only… — Michael Scott
To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent of a far… — Milan Kundera
How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish… — Andrew Sean Greer
My tendency to make up stories and lie compulsively for the sake of my own amusement takes up a good portion of my day and… — Chelsea Handler
My stomach lurched, an appetizer before the full portion of heartache I had a feeling was going to be served at some point soon. — Gayle Forman
The finest people, as people go, cannot help but betray a fair portion of fear and insecurity, even full-blown panic. — Thomas Ligotti
And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a pillow strewed with thorns and… — Jane Austen
And when love is over when the diner of love seems closed from the outside you want all those hours back along with anything you… — Daniel Handler

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