Portion Quotes

474 quotes by 389 authors

Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows… — Marc Maron
In the first place a philosophical proposition must be general. It must not deal specially with things on the surface of the earth, or within… — Bertrand Russell
As mass production has to be accompanied by mass consumption, mass consumption, in turn, implies a distribution of wealth ... to provide men with buying… — Marriner Stoddard Eccles
To say that everything in the bible is to be believed , simply because it is found in that volume, is equally absurd and pernicious...… — William Lloyd Garrison
Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements. — Theodor Herzl
Because every portion of the body, mind, and spirit yearns for the integration of yin and yang, angelic intercourse is led by the spirit rather… — Laozi
Thy lot or portion of life is seeking after thee; therefore be at rest from seeking after it. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
The Auschwitz praxis was based on a new principle: for one portion of mankind, existence itself is a crime, punishable by humiliation, torture, and death.… — Emil Fackenheim
All of us have mortal bodies, composed of perishable matter, but the soul lives forever: it is a portion of the Deity housed in our… — Josephus
Take a portion of wit, And fashion it fit, Like a needle, with point and with eye: A point that can wound, An eye to… — Jacques Barzun
The laws of a nation form the most instructive portion of its history — Edward Gibbon
The banking business is no favorite of ours. When assets are twenty times equity - a common ratio in this industry - mistakes that involve… — Warren Buffett
Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature. — Napoleon Hill
If all men were to bring their miseries together in one place, most would be glad to take each his own home again rather than… — Solon
Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of… — Gottfried Leibniz
Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank. — John Ramsay McCulloch
I separated the joints, the arm joints, the leg joints, and had to do two boilings. I think I used four boxes of Soilex for… — Jeffrey Dahmer
This is a unique aquarium in that a large portion of its collection features freshwater species, and it specializes in fish, amphibians and reptiles from… — John Grant
A large portion of our citizens, who will not believe, even on the evidence of facts, that any public evils exist, or are impending. They… — Fisher Ames
I regard large inherited wealth as a misfortune, which merely serves to dull men's faculties. A man who possesses great wealth should, therefore, allow only… — Alfred Nobel

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