Quotes of Segment - somelinesforyou

“ Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands — and then eat just one of the pieces. ”

- Judith Viorst

“ Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost... perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that little precious fragment as well. ”

- Philip K. Dick

“ It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. ”

- Mark Twain

“ No man is an Island, entire of it self; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee. ”

- John Donne

“ These aren't just pets. These are a part of the family. You miss them when you're away. You worry about them. They really are important parts of your life. ”

- Linda Lingle

“ It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency. ”

- Simone De Beauvoir

“ It's extraordinary to look into a baby's face and see a piece of your flesh and your spirit. It makes you realize you are a part of the human race. ”

- Liam Neeson

“ Ibrahim tells his story without a grain of complaint, and this was true for all of the band members. This is very much part of the Cuban spirit and soul. ”

- Wim Wenders

“ There are no shortcuts in evolution. ”

- Louis Brandeis

“ I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity. ”

- Brian Aldiss

“ There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world. ”

- Oscar Hammerstein

“ And that might have been a mistake on my part. ”

- Joe Paterno

“ So now it is time to disassemble the parts of the jigsaw puzzle or to piece another one together, for I find that, having come to the end of my story, my life is just beginning. ”

- Conrad Veidt

“ Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society. ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts. ”

- Bo Bennett

“ I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in, and not just casually observe. Whatever my part in it, just as an audience member, I find that exciting. ”

- Jennifer Jason Leigh

“ It is much the best way... to lay the emphasis on the first part of the bar in triple time, and on the first and third parts of the bar in common time. ”

- William Billings

“ It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces. ”

- Helen Fielding

“ For the most part our grassroots members are serious, nice, tolerant people. ”

- Francis Maude

“ My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there. ”

- Brian Eno

“ He was driven by the idea that when Milosevic grabs a part of Bosnia, Croatia should get a piece of it, too. ”

- Stjepan Mesic

“ He's not going to still run things... but he's clearly a member of Congress, and he's a very important part of the team. ”

- Tom Delay

“ For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. ”

- Joseph Butler

“ You know, you've got serious pieces, you've got light pieces, you've got cooking segments, you've got health-related topics, so it's not as if they've had a unique personality from the get-go. ”

- Katie Couric

“ There is a raucous energy about each piece. The viewer may find their way through the pieces easier if they are all gathered in one place and shown together. ”

- John Collins

“ For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake. ”

- Alfred Hitchcock

“ There's a whole segment of the population with a mentality that bases good times on where they can go and what they can buy. ”

- Jeff Foxworthy

“ A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality. ”

- Milan Kundera

“ Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence. ”

- George Steiner

“ No longer will we be an object of fascination for others, who would consider us a strange and an estranged segment of humanity. ”

- Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
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