Portions Quotes

• The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teacher, Appreciation, Teaching

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• Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Friendship, Confidence, Humble

  Dwight D. Eisenhower, Alfred Dupont Chandler, Louis Galambos (1978). “The papers: The chief of staff”

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• When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Investing Money, Forever

  Lawrence A. Cunningham, Warren E. Buffett (2013). “The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)”, p.63, Carolina Academic Press

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• The portions of a woman which appeal to man's depravity
  Are constructed with considerable care.

  A. P. Herbert

  Men, Care, Depravity

  "Lines on a Book Borrowed from the Ship's Doctor". "A. P. H.: His Life and Times". Book by A. P. Herbert, 1970.

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

  William Osler

  Broken Heart, Broken Promises, Unattainable

  William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.5, Ravenio Books

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

  Walt Whitman

  Umpires, Justice, Judging

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.385, NYU Press

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• 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

  Hugo Black

  Government, Criticism, Sanctuary

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

  Woody Allen

  Food, Terrible

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• 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.

  Henry L. Stimson

  Russia, Europe, Land

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• The threat of terrorism is great and with today's porous borders, someone could bring a biological weapon into our country or sneak a dirty bomb across unmanned portions of our borders.

  Bobby Jindal

  Country, Dirty, Naughty

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• I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel, and hear them. Then what I do is, not write about that kid or about his world, but start to think of a book that would have pleased him.

  Daniel Pinkwater

  Children, Book, Writing

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• He showed in the last interview, as on the later portions of the chart, a genuine fondness for the rabbit.

  Mary Cover Jones

  Rabbits, Lasts, Interviews

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• We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.

  Michelle Obama

  Health, Kids, Commitment

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

  Gene Tierney

  Years, Meat, Salad

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• There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.

  Woody Allen

  Loneliness, Boys, Elderly

  Annie Hall, www.imdb.com. 1977.

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• The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.

  Ida B. Wells

  Cutting, Lynching, Ears

  "Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought". Book by everly Guy-Sheftall, p. 73, 1995.

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• 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 is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time

  Rick Warren

  Giving, Purpose Driven Life, Get Back

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• Capoeira is a game, it is dance, it is fight, it is of war and it is of peace, it is of culture, of music, it is a portion of things.

  Reinaldo Ramos Suassuna

  Art, War, Fighting

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• What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it

  Angelina Grimke

  Crush, Men, Race

  Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.159, Penguin

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• When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.

  Marquis de Lafayette

  Rights, Government, People

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• In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their portion, always thinking it was very small and unimportant, and look where we have ended up today.

  Paulo Coelho

  Thinking, Looks, World

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• Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

  Francis Bacon

  Witty, Integrity, Judging

  "Essays: Or Counsels, Civil and Moral".

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• The sun sliced through the windshield, sealing me in light. I closed my eyes and felt the warmth on my eyelids. Sunlight traveled a long distance to reach this planet; an infinitesimal portion of that sunlight was enough to warm my eyelids. I was moved. That something as insignificant as an eyelid had its place in the workings on the universe, that the cosmic order did not overlook this momentary fact.

  Haruki Murakami

  Distance, Eye, Light

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• For 40 years, my formula has been to love yourself, move your body and to watch portion size. But the No. 1 thing is to love and value yourself, no matter what you've been through.

  Richard Simmons

  Moving, Love You, Years

  "Pharaohs of fitness". Interview with Julie Deardorff, articles.chicagotribune.com. April 18, 2012.

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• ...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart.

  Louise Bogan

  Heart, Giving, Despair

  Louise Bogan (1970). “A Poet's Alphabet: Reflections on the Literary Art and Vocation”, New York : McGraw-Hill

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