Portions Quotes - Page 25

• What matters is not the allocation of portions out of a fund presented to man by nature. The problem is rather to further those social institutions which enable people to continue and to enlarge the production of all those things which they need.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, What Matters, People

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.81, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• 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

  Art, Example, Were Meant To Be

  Donald Judd (1987). “Complete Writings, 1975-1986”

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• 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 ..... Our possessionis important not only for itself ... through this we increase our power,and every increase in power facilitates getting hold of the country in itsentirety. Establishing a [small] state .... will serve as a very potent lever inour historical effort to redeem the whole country.

  David

  Country, Israel, Land

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• 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

  Earth, Soil, Landlord

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• Life, individual or collective, personal or historic, is the one entity in the universe whose substance is compact of danger, of adventure. It is, in the strict sense of the word, drama. The primary, radical meaning of life appears when it is employed in the sense not of biology, but of biography. For the very strong reason that the whole of biology is quite definitely only a chapter in certain biographies, it is what biologists do in the portion of their lives open to biography.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Strong, Drama, Adventure

  "The Revolt of the Masses". Book by José Ortega y Gasset. Chapter IX: "The Primitive and the Technical", 1929.

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• I am convinced with Plato , with St. Paul, with St. Augustine, with Calvin , and with Leibnitz, that this universe, and every smallest portion of it, exactly fulfils the purpose for which Almighty God designed it.

  James Anthony Froude

  Plato, Purpose, Augustine

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.8

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• Many who read their Bibles make the great mistake of confining all their reading to certain portions of the Bible which they enjoy. In this way they get no knowledge of the Bible as a whole. They miss altogether many of the most important phases of Bible truth.

  R. A. Torrey

  Mistake, Reading, Missing

  R. A. Torrey, Edward D. Andrews (2016). “CHRISTIAN LIVING: How to Succeed in the Christian Life [Updated and Expanded]”, p.156, Christian Publishing House

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• Even the lifelong traveler knows but an infinitesimal portion of the Earth's surface. Those who have written best about the land and its wild inhabitants...have often been stay-at-home naturalists...concentrating their attention and affection on a relatively small area.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Nature, Home, Land

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• Only a portion of my intestinal tract was working.

  Mary Ann Mobley

  "Mary Ann Mobley: going public about a private disease". Saturday Evening Post Interview with Cory SerVaas, January 1, 1994.

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• When you look at the world, everyone in the world who cares about his or her family wants to have a major portion of their assets in the United States because we are the growth country and the freedom loving country.

  Arthur Laffer

  Country, Growth, Who Cares

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• 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 impress scattered Ethiopia, especially that portion within their civilization, with the idea that Africa is a despised place, inhabited by savages, and cannibals, where no civilized human being should go, especially black civilized human beings. This propaganda is promulgated for the cause that is being realized today. That cause is COLONIAL EXPANSION for the white nations of the world.

  Marcus Garvey

  Years, Civilization, Ideas

  Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey (1923). “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans”, p.54, The Majority Press

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• First, then, I say, that the mind, which we often call the intellect, in which is placed the conduct and government of life, is not less an integral part of man himself, than the hand, and foot, and eyes, are portions of the whole animal.

  Lucretius

  Eye, Men, Animal

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1851). “On the Nature of Things”, p.103

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• What portion in the world can the artist have, Who has awakened from the common dream, But dissipation and despair?

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Artist, Despair

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.135, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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 their jobs. Then, after they leave the work force, they become imprisoned by retirement.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Retirement, Jobs, People

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• For those that have said I seemed dickish to some of the nuttier guests on Joe Rogan Questions Everything - guilty as charged. As the season wore on I lost my patience with some of those folks unfortunately. I think I overdosed on ridiculous/likely fake stories. I certainly learned a lot about the kind of people that invest a large portion of their life on fringe subjects - they're all white. I think there's something interesting about the subjects, (UFOS, etc) but the study of them has often been overrun by silly thinking.

  Joe Rogan

  Silly, Thinking, White

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• 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

  Humility, Meditation, Infinite

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• All will be redeemed in God's fullness of time, all, not just the small portion of the population who have been given the grace to know and accept Christ . All the strayed and stolen sheep. All the little lost ones.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Lost Ones, Sheep, Grace

  Madeleine L'Engle (1986). “A Stone for a Pillow”, Shaw

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• Death is a doorway. It is a very small, thin doorway and only a portion of our being can walk through.

  Frederick Lenz

  Death, Doorways, Walks

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• He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Giving, Opponents, Talent

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.159

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• So you have the ownership of the Phoenix Suns, the Los Suns, and whoever - "We don't want to offend the portion of our fan base. We want to appear to be politically correct. We want to appear to be all-inclusive" and so forth. Well, fine and dandy, but what happens when that contributes to the overall deterioration of the culture of this society?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Phoenix, Deterioration, Want

  "Professional Sports Should Man Up". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. May 5, 2010.

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• A portion of the multitude must ever be coerced.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Multitudes

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• The price of corn will naturally rise with the difficulty of producing the last portions of it.

  David Ricardo

  Corn, Lasts, Difficulty

  David Ricardo (1821). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.490

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• Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.

  James Anthony Froude

  Happiness, Complaining, World

  James Anthony Froude (1969). “Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life 1795-1835”

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• I want to get back to education. When I was in college I paid attention to child psychology portions of our psychology classes. I watch other people work with babies. And I saw the baby as developing like a computer and it intrigued me in my life. I wanted to do that.

  Steve Wozniak

  Baby, Children, College

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity.

  Charles Eliot Norton

  Religious, Loss, Maturity

  Charles Eliot Norton (1913). “Letters of Charles Eliot Norton”

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