#portion

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#proportion #realised #sense

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

#ass #audience #backward #cast #dance

Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along. ↗

— Marc Maron

#agree #along #because #business #businesses

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

#around #being #black #color #concerned

When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#directly #directly proportional #disagreeable #feel #himself

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#another #cemetery #colony #earliest #founders

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#exact #fear #increase #increases #proportion

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#equal #hesitation #increases #proportion #relation

Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#first #globe #international #international law #just

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong. ↗

— Horace

#doing #mankind #many #more #portion