#portion

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Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.


Giraldus Cambrensis


#ancient times #been #consideration #divided #division

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.


Howard Carter


#dawned #doorway #evidence #gradually #guardian

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.


Alberto Giacometti


#art #artist #every #form #formal

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.


Douglas Horton


#changes #direct #direct proportion #dissatisfaction #never

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.


Denis Waitley


#apply #direct #direct proportion #effort #proportion

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


#bend #change #each #events #few

Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.


Michael Korda


#degree #desire #directly #directly proportional #face

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.


Pete Townshend


#around #blanket #comes #i #me

Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his body and his short legs. His chest was broad and indicated great strength of lungs.


Henry Villard


#body #broad #chest #disproportion #douglas

This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo.


Derek Walcott


#became #been #before #citizen #city