#portion

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

— James Boswell

#considerable #diffused #into #journal #like

Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike. ↗

— Pat Brown

#good #homicides #kill #look #many

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#die #fling #proportion #us #words

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#always #apparent #difficulty #ease #fine

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast. ↗

— Peter Cooper

#acts #boast #events #far #history

One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population. ↗

— Wendy Craig

#being #children #classroom #every #four

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

#always #any #blood #earned #followers

A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill. ↗

— Martin H. Fischer

#cannot #doctor #his #inversely #man

Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take. ↗

— Barney Frank

#based #broader #compensation #country #decisions

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. ↗

— Bill Frist

#daily #daily lives #devote #duty #ensuring