Portion Quotes

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Yes, I`ve had six great years of being in a position where I can pick and choose a bit, but it`s not like I suddenly feel so calm and relaxed about that. Having spent a large portion of my life with a constant struggle and trying to find ways to make it work, that`s what sticks with me.

- Naomi Watts

Donate a portion to reputable children`s and animal charities, donate a portion to churches and homeless organizations. (On what he would do if he had to spend a million dollars on someone other than himself)

- Anthony Michael Hall

They just neglected a large portion of the front row.

- Gary Cooper

I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it`s still a fantastic, amazing place.

- Gwyneth Paltrow

Almost every portion of Dallas and the suburbs around us have a strong and vibrant neighborhood association presence. We didn`t have a voice at City Hall, either with University Park or Dallas. But now we can.

- David Wright

After being rejected by the Vietnam draft the first time, because he failed the `intelligence` portion, Casius said, "I never said I was the smartest, I said I was the greatest".

- Muhammad Ali

Paul`s the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that`s just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn`t matter. So I don`t know, maybe I`m being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things.

- Art Garfunkel

(On how she can still be in good shape while being a chef) I have to say that this is by far the question I am most frequently asked, and my answer is always the same: genetics, portion control and fresh ingredients. If you`ve ever seen my mother either on the show or in photographs, you`ll notice that she is quite petite, trim. So I have her to thank for getting me off to a good start. In addition, I`ve never been one to sit down to a meal with a large plate of food and eat every morsel until I was uncomfortably full. Rather, I graze - eating small portions of food all day long. And the ingredients are clean and fresh. Yes, I absolutely love chocolate, and I do eat it, but just a bite.

- Giada De Laurentiis

We also constructed a large portion of the road job in Celebration near Disney World, created Celebration`s golf course and built the infrastructure and bridges, lakes and waterfalls for the World Golf Village in St. Augustine.

- Jimmy Walker

If we get the donations, I think we`re going to raise a significant amount of money; some will be used for some administered costs, but the public portion of that will go directly into grants.

- Montel Williams

We can no longer let the threat of an early frost send a chill of fear throughout a large portion of our workforce. Diversification is the only answer.

- Alan Autry

No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.

- Walter Lang

It`s an interactive program where we teach students about networking, something they will do over and over again in their jobs. It`s not really about what fork to use with what portion of the meal, but about presenting yourself as a young professional rather than as a laid-back college student.

- Tara King

(On Stage mistakes) "During Saturday Night Fever at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can`t do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.."

- Adam Garcia

I mean, there was a portion, of course, that I think, when I look back now, that there was a portion of what attracted me must have been the awe of him being a powerful man in this environment, not to take away from who he is as a real person.

- Monica Lewinsky

Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ`s vineyard.

- Pope John Paul II

Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.

- Homer

Substantially fewer films will be produced over the next year or two. And a significant portion of the production costs of the reduced slate will be borne by hedge funds and other investment groups.

- Peter Bart

When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!

- William Blake

At that rate, it would take 65 years to obtain all of the franchise we need in order to complete the initial build portion (of their IPTV rollout). It is time to remove those barriers to investment and competition.

- Robert Quinn

They`re a very small portion, at best a couple of percent, in a global market of millions of handsets, which would indicate that the demand isn`t there either ... People seem to be happy to communicate with voice and SMS,

- Andy Brown

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

- Robert Kennedy

DNR has stressed that those concerns are not specific to the portion requested for release, ... This bond release does not diminish the previous operator`s responsibilities on that previously affected acreage, but neither does it apply to this decision.

- David Phillips

If the City Council does not radically alter the trend in housing, then Davis in 2020 will become a much more exclusive community and ... a larger percentage of its workforce than today will be living elsewhere. ... And that, in particular, if we do not require a good portion of the new houses to be permanently affordable, then while we may have smaller homes, they will be very expensive homes.

- David Thompson

In my mind, the way I look at it, I would hate to see us put on half of a fair, ... You take out a livestock portion, it takes a big part of your fair away. I can`t tell you what`s going to happen, but I would hate to see us do a fair without full effect.

- Don Thompson

(SEDCO Chairman Nat McClure introduced SEDCO`s portion of the meeting and said,) 2004-2005 was the biggest year for SEDCO since it was created 10 years ago, ... the year has been fantastically exciting.

- John Boswell

They seem to be, so far, committed to preserving a portion of the parcel for the benefit of the neighborhood.

- Jim Fox

In the grand scheme of things, on a national level, Chicago and Illinois have a leg up in comparison to a good portion of the rest of the country.

- Patrick Kelly

Our responsibility is to go through the applications and narrow the search down. (This) week we`re going to interview a portion of the candidates and decide the ones we think are right for the job.

- David King

The schedule is something we wanted to address. We think with the addition of Miami (Fla.) and some other changes we made to our mid-week opponents, we have taken steps in the right direction. We will always try and play the best teams in the nation during the non-conference portion of our schedule to better prepare us for Big Ten play and beyond.

- Tracy Smith

I examined the gate and saw droplets of blood on the lower portion ... that was about 7:15 that morning (June 13).

- Donald Thompson

We are 90 percent sold for 2001, and a substantial portion is sold for 2002.

- Tom Williams

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

- Sitting Bull

It`s certainly a time period of higher hazard when we`re going through one of those tremor and slip sequences, because we`re adding more stress to the locked portion of the fault.

- John Cassidy

The best portion of a good man`s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

- William Wordsworth

That best portion of a good man`s life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

- William Wordsworth

He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision.

- Adam Clymer

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.

- Akinobu Okada

September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose. And I think we all have a duty to devote at least a small portion of our daily lives to ensuring that neither America nor the world ever forgets September 11.

- Al Siebert

It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.

- Alan Curry

Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his.

- Alejandro Freire

Even with strong demand for air travel, we have been able to pass only a very small portion of that increase on to our customers.

- Alex Ramsey

Towards sunset we had cleared down to the level of the 12th step, which was sufficient to expose a large part of the upper portion of a plastered and sealed doorway.

- Alexandre Vinet

With such evidence, as well as the sealed doorway between the two guardian statues of the King, the mystery gradually dawned upon us. We were but in the anterior portion of a tomb.

- Alexandre Vinet

After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside.

- Alison Morano

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

- Alvina Tan

The Temple of Diana is in the vicinity of the fountain, which has given rise to the conjecture that it originally constituted a portion of the ancient baths.

- Alysia Waters

A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state`s collecting lease money because all of a sudden ``worthless`` land now has an airport on it.

- Ami Brophy

By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.

- Amy Panikowski

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.

- Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador