Portion Quotes

474 quotes by 389 authors

Matt's brother and the blond cook spent a good portion of last season tangling the sheets. Historically, said cook tangled many other sheets with dexterity… — Nora Roberts
A bronze plaque read: GAIUS PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS Dan made a face. "Get a load of the guy with the funny name." "I think that's… — Gordon Korman
Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch… — Epictetus
â€¦and Emma felt another small portion of her soul fall away. — David Nicholls
Is it just a coincidence that as the portion of our income spent on food has declined, spending on health care has soared? In 1960… — Michael Pollan
When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back.Your time is your life. That… — Rick Warren
Be brief on the logic and reason portion of your presentation. There are probably about a thousand facts about an automobile, but you don't need… — Jim Rohn
Make it a part of every day's business to read and meditate on some portion of God's Word. Private means of grace are just as… — J C Ryle
We deny the right of any portion of the species to decide for another portion what is and what is not their 'proper sphere.' The… — Harriet Taylor Mill
Are you never afraid of God's judgement in denying him? Most certainly not. I also deny Zeus and Jupiter and Odin and Brahma, but this… — Bertrand Russell
Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they… — Bertrand Russell
Maybe [artistry] doesn't have to be quite so full of anguish if you never happened to believe, in the first place, that the most extraordinary… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Human life is so full of pain, that once past the youthful delusion that a sad countenance is interesting, and an incurable woe the most… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
The masses of Negroes...particularly in the South, still breed carelessly and disasterously, with the result that the increase among Negroes, even more than among whites,… — Margaret Sanger
To be a writer is to sit down at one's desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not waiting for the… — John Hersey
The air, the water and the ground are free gifts to man and no one has the power to portion them out in parcels. Man… — James F. Cooper
It is of immense importance for the understanding of the word of God, to read it in course, so that we may read every day… — George Muller
It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to… — Saint Ambrose
Human beings are social animals; we devote a significant portion of our brain just to dealing with interactions with other humans. — Jamais Cascio
Football is entertainment in which the audience is expected to delight in gladiatorial action that a growing portion of the audience knows may cause the… — George Will

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