Portions Quotes - Page 4

• If God allows you to be stripped of the exterior portions of your life, He means for you to cultivate the interior

  Oswald Chambers

  Mean, Interiors, Exterior

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• We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on.

  Chief Seattle

  Brother, Moving, Night

  Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

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• In reviewing the history of the times through which we have passed, no portion of it gives greater satisfaction or reflection, than that which represents the efforts of the friends of religious freedom and the success with which they are crowned.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Reflection, Giving

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States (1904). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• New York, it was an adult portion. It was an adult dose. So it took a couple of trips to get into it. You just go in the first time and you get your ass kicked and you take off. As soon as it heals up, you come back and you try it again. Eventually, you fall right in love with it.

  Levon Helm

  New York, Couple, Fall

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• To be without health insurance in this country means to be without access to medical care. But health is not a luxury, nor should it be the sole possession of a privileged few. We are all created b'tzelem elohim - in the image of God - and this makes each human life as precious as the next. By 'pricing out' a portion of this country's population from health care coverage, we mock the image of God and destroy the vessels of God's work.

  Alexander Schindler

  Country, Mean, Luxury

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• 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. And the new world produced by this praxis included two kinds of inhabitants, those who were given the "punishment" and those who administered it.

  Emil Fackenheim

  Punishment, Two, Holocaust

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• 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 bodies

  Josephus

  Spiritual, Forever, Soul

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• 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 look round, And at folly or vice let it fly

  Jacques Barzun

  Fashion, Eye, Vices

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• The laws of a nation form the most instructive portion of its history

  Edward Gibbon

  Law, Form, Nations

  Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.235

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• The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England

  John Stuart Mill

  Struggle, Rome, Liberty

  John Stuart Mill “Annotated On Liberty with English Grammar Exercises: by John Stuart Mill (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• The banking business is no favorite of ours. When assets are twenty times equity - a common ratio in this industry - mistakes that involve only a small portion of assets can destroy a major portion of equity. And mistakes have been the rule rather than the exception at many major banks.

  Warren Buffett

  Mistake, Twenties, Banking

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• Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature.

  Napoleon Hill

  Gratitude, Adversity, Animal

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.166, Penguin

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• 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 take a portion out of the common stock.

  Solon

  Gratitude, Home, Men

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• 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 the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Animal, Garden, Ponds

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• Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank.

  John Ramsay McCulloch

  Minutes, Etiquette, Polite

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• The stomach, when we lie down to rest, should have its work done, that it may enjoy rest, as well as other portions of the body. The work of digestion should not be carried on through any period of the sleeping hours.

  Ellen G. White

  Lying, Sleep, Should Have

  Ellen G. White (1994). “Healthful Living”, p.162, TEACH Services, Inc.

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• 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 the southwestern part of the country. The River Journey exhibit transports visitors from the Appalachian highlands through ponds, rivers and swamps, all the way to the seacoast. The recently added Ocean Journey exhibit allows visitors to sample a variety of saltwater environments.

  John Grant

  Country, Ocean, Unique

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• If food was no longer obliged to make intercontinental journeys, but stayed part of a system in which it can be consumed over short distances, we would save a lot of energy and carbon dioxide emissions. And just think of what we would save in ecological terms without long-distance transportation, refrigeration, and packaging--which ends up on the garbage dump anyway--and storage, which steals time, space, and vast portions of nature and beauty.

  Carlo Petrini

  Distance, Thinking, Journey

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• 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 deride the apprehensions of those who foresee, that licentiousness will prove, as it ever has proved, fatal to liberty.

  Fisher Ames

  Believe, Evil, Liberty

  Fisher Ames, John Thornton Kirkland (1854). “Works of Fisher Ames: With a selection from his speeches and correspondence”, p.346, Burt Franklin

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• Thy lot or portion of life is seeking after thee; therefore be at rest from seeking after it.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Destiny, Life Is, Thee

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• 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 than the sexual organs. . . . Where ordinary intercourse unites sex organs with sex organs, angelic cultivation unites spirit with spirit, mind with mind, and every cell of one body with every cell of the other body.

  Laozi

  Sex, Cells, Mind

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• The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Throughout the history of mankind, if any motive power has been more potent than another in the lives of all great men and women, it is that of faith in themselves.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Men, Evil

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.10, editionNEXT.com

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• Legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Mean, Law

  Thomas Jefferson's letter to James Madison, founders.archives.gov. October 28, 1785.

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• I'll tell you what I'd do if it were up to me: I would establish a strictly controlled distribution network through which I would make most drugs, excluding the most dangerous ones like crack, legally available. Initially I would keep the prices low enough to destroy the drug trade. Once that objective was attained I would keep raising the prices, very much like the excise duty on cigarettes, but I would make an exception for registered addicts in order to discourage crime. I would use a portion of the income for prevention and treatment. And I would foster social opprobrium of drug use.

  George Soros

  Drug Use, Order, Cracks

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• Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Art, Business

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