Portions Quotes - Page 27

• I didn't become a good writer until I learned how to rewrite. And I don't just mean fixing spelling and adding a comma. I rewrite each of my books five or six times, and each time I change huge portions of the story.

  Louis Sachar

  Book, Mean, Stories

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• Spiritual beings do not sweat life's small stuff. They also know that most of what drives us crazy in life is small stuff. The only thing that isn't small stuff is the reason you're on earth in the first place: to find that portion of the world's lost heart that only you can ransom with your love and authentic gifts and then return it, so that all of us can experience Wholeness.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Spiritual, Crazy, Heart

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• A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most important rights of the subject, and in a republic ought to stand foremost in the estimation of the law...That portion of the sovereignty, to which each individual is entitled, can never be too highly prized. It is that for which we have fought and bled.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Rights, Law, Voting

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• Imagine you had a bank that each morning credited your account with $1,440 - with one condition: whatever part of the $1,440 you failed to use during the day would be erased from your account, and no balance would be carried over. What would you do? You'd draw out every cent every day and use it to your best advantage. Well, you do have such a bank, and its name is time. Every morning, this bank credits you with 1,440 minutes. And it writes off as forever lost whatever portion you have failed to invest to good purpose.

  Ann Landers

  Morning, Writing, Names

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• What I observed in western Azerbaijan, among the small portion of the nearly one million Azerbaijanis who were displaced by the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh two decades ago, are a people who are aching to return to their homes.

  Ed Kashi

  Home, Azerbaijan, Two

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• Where is the reward of virtue? and what recompense has nature provided for such important sacrifices as those of life and fortune, which we must often make to it? O sons of earth! Are ye ignorant of the value of this celestial mistress? And do ye meanly inquire for her portion, when ye observe her genuine beauty?

  David Hume

  Son, Sacrifice, Ignorant

  David Hume, Stephen Copley, Andrew Edgar (2008). “Selected Essays”, p.90, Oxford University Press

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• Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Death, Dust, Burning

  'Adonais' (1821) st. 38

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• Civilization, stretching up to recognize that every child is a portion of State wealth, may presently make some movement to recognize maternity as a business or office needing time and strength, not as a mere passing detail thrown in among mountains of other slavery.

  Miles Franklin

  Children, Civilization, Office

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• There is a deeper portion of our being that we rarely allow others to see. Call it a soul maybe, this is the place that holds the most value. All else can drift but this. When this dies our body has no meaning.

  Jon Foreman

  Soul, Body, Deeper

  Source: www.timothywillard.com

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• The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Groups, Privilege, Intention

  "Moral Man and Immoral Society". Book by Reinhold Niebuhr, pp.6-7, 1932.

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• When a man, a woman, see their little daily tasks as integral portions of the one great work, they are no longer drudges but co-workers with God.

  Annie Besant

  Work, Men, Daily Tasks

  Annie Besant (1912). “Theosophy”, London [etc.] T. C. & E. C. Jack; New York, Dodge publishing Company [1912]

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• But the paradox is here: when cultivated people do stay away from a certain portion of the population, when all social advantages are persistently withheld, it may be for years, the result itself is pointed to as a reason and is used as an argument for the continued withholding.

  Jane Addams

  Years, People, Population

  Jane Addams (2016). “Twenty Years at Hull House”, p.224, Open Road Media

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• Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.

  Criss Jami

  Leadership, Liars, Lying

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.45, Criss Jami

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• In the industrial age and in analog clocks, a minute is some portion of an hour which is some portion of a day. You know, in the digital age, a minute is just a number. It's just 3:23. It's almost this absolute duration that doesn't have a connection to where the sun is or where our day is.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Numbers, Age, Connections

  "In A World That's Always On, We Are Trapped In The 'Present'". Interview with Audie Cornish, www.kuow.org. March 27, 2013.

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• He felt as if he were paying for the privilege of music with portions of his life and body. But it was well worth it.

  Mark Helprin

  Body, Privilege, Wells

  Mark Helprin (2017). “Ellis Island and Other Stories”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• That portion of reality that can be composed within a frame can be understood.

  Robert Breault

  Photography, Reality, Understood

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• On the one hand, there is no reason that a black person needs to live a portion of his or her life being concerned about the people of color around him. On the other hand, if you don't you're crazy.

  Henry Hampton

  Crazy, Hands, Color

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• What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.

  Richard Mentor Johnson

  Religious, Rights, Government

  "Discovering the American Past: A Look at the Evidence, Volume I: To 1877". Book by William Bruce Wheeler, Volume 2, p. 149, January 1, 2011.

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• I don't think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate effort - again, referring to Fox Broadcasting - to inject the race issue into it. They have actually called Obama a racist on television.

  Jimmy Carter

  Party, Thinking, Race

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• Wit is like caviar - it should be served in small portions and not spread about like marmalade.

  Noel Coward

  Caviar, Should, Marmalade

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.

  Peter Ustinov

  Wise, Gentle, Reasonable

  "Still More of Who Said That?". Book by Renie Gee, 1981.

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• A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.

  James Boswell

  Cake, Soup, May

  'Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides' (ed. F. A. Pottle, 1936) 13 September 1773

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• Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.

  Sitting Bull

  Father, Wish, Propositions

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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• I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American.

  Jimmy Carter

  Men, Thinking, African American

  "Carter Cites 'Racism Inclination' in Animosity Toward Obama". Interview with Brian Williams, voices.washingtonpost.com. September 16, 2009.

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• In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts.

  Herman Cain

  Birthday, Senior, Retirement

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