Portion Quotes - page 12

Of course, the genesis of a good portion of the gridlock in Congress does not reside in Congress itself. Ultimate reform will require each of us, as voters and Americans, to take a long look in the mirror, because in many ways, our representatives in Washington reflect the people who have sent them there. (Evan Bayh)
With the counseling of my family doctor, my mother ended up turning to Weight Watchers and their children's program. I went to weekly meetings, got counseling and would exercise with my peers who were my size. It was the first time I saw a proper children's portion size, and it wasn't two burgers, it was one. View quote
Ginnifer Goodwin
We deny the right of any portion of the species to decide for another portion what is and what is not their ‘proper sphere'. The proper sphere for all human beings is the largest and highest which they are able to attain to. View quote
Harriet Taylor Mill
I think that most of the people running companies today are motivated and pay is a small portion of the motivation. View quote
James Sinegal
American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world. View quote
Jim DeMint
People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they're not all growing in their faith, they're not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior. View quote
Joel Osteen
President Obama has outsourced a major portion of the U.S. space program to the Russians. That's national policy. Taxpayer money. So let's stop playing games with this outsourcing distortion and talk about the fact that when we need is a president that knows how to manage big enterprise and create jobs. View quote
John H. Sununu
As a matter of record, New York City spends a higher portion of its budget on instruction and associated costs within the schools themselves than any of the other 100 largest districts in the nation. View quote
Jonathan Kozol
The 3-hour Diet is absolutely safe - in fact it's not a diet, it's a lifestyle! Once you reach your goal weight, you just adjust the portion sizes slightly to maintain that optimal weight. View quote
Jorge Cruise
One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination to name a portion of the earth's surface after my father. View quote
Lincoln Ellsworth
There's nowhere like home for me, but there has been something so interesting about most of the places I've visited. One that sticks out in my mind is traveling around South America. It's a huge continent, and I only got to see a small portion of it, but I've always liked going there. (Brittany Bowe)
You grow up loving movies, and your first instinct is you want to be an actor, because those are the people you see in the movies. But when you actually become an actor, you're like, 'Oh, wait, this is actually only a small portion of the storytelling. If I want to really tell a story, I'd want to be a director.' View quote
Emily Meade
Social Security should have a self-sustaining portion that was funded by contributions from both employers and employees. That's what we know and have known for 70 successful years. View quote
James Roosevelt
Only a portion of my intestinal tract was working. View quote
Mary Ann Mobley
Often, I think, displaced people imagine themselves leading double lives. So a portion of my identity has always been privately siphoned into what would have been if I had stayed in Wisconsin. View quote
Mona Simpson
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. View quote
Montel Williams
When I take on a design project, I have to jet from the bookstore to the hardware shop to the lamp store and back again just to collect a small portion of the many items I need to fill a home. But, when you hit the flea market, they're all right there. From booth to booth, you have the bases covered. View quote
Nate Berkus
You have a dramatic portion of your television program and you treat it dramatically, and then you have a comedic portion of your program, and you treat it differently. Why do you change who are between the two pieces? You're the same person. Just go. View quote
Nathan Fillion
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. View quote
Neil Abercrombie
My feeling is that if you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society. View quote
Peter Diamandis
Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike. (Pat Brown)
We don't know what proportion of public funds is regularly lost to collusion and corruption. Is it 25 per cent? 30 per cent? We do know that a portion of these public funds are feeding organized crime. View quote
Pauline Marois
I certainly was performing before my writing was published, because I was performing when I was very young. And the thing is I'm very comfortable on stage, so a large portion of my act did come from ad-libs. View quote
Ricky Jay
We should remember the campaign advertising will be only a smaller portion of the President's total exposure. View quote
Robert Teeter
One thing that God revealed to me is that we as Christians are going to have to get a portion of the media so that we can present the good news on a major basis the way that they're presenting the bad news on a major basis. View quote
Reggie White