Allotment Quotes

#1. According to the yoga tradition, each person is allotted a certain number of breaths, and after you exceed this number, your time on earth is finished. People who breathe hurriedly and shallowly use up their allotment of breaths quickly, but if you breathe slowly and consciously,

Larry Payne

#2. Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

Herman Melville

#3. Many practitioners think there is some giant balance scale, where someone is keeping track, like Santa Claus, and that will determine your allotment of presents. That's a very exoteric understanding of reincarnation.

Frederick Lenz

#4. Remember: Matter. How tiny your share of it. Time. How brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate. How small a role you play in it.

Marcus Aurelius

#5. However, although you might think this is the time of year to take some time off, you must never transgress one of the allotment rules: 'Thou shan't go on holiday in summer!

Mitchell Beazley

#6. Rules are to be initiated for the allotment of scarce raw materials etc; and their use and processing for other than war, or otherwise absolutely vital, goods is prohibited.

Hjalmar Schacht

#7. Yet the small house, probably more than anything else that man has done, has made the face of Australia and to an extent the faces of Australians. Australia is the small house. Ownership of one in a fenced allotment is as inevitable and unquestionable a goal of the average Australian as marriage.

Robin Boyd

#8. And in reading, I discovered that the burden of living is the uneven and unlimited allotment of pain. Tragedy is conferred randomly and unfairly. Any promise of easy times to come is a false one.

Nina Sankovitch

#9. We have a funny concept of time in this culture. We revere it as we revere money, yet we rarely spend any of it on ourselves. We complain that we can't make what time we have go around, yet day after day we spend our allotment doing things we don't really want to be doing.

Jan Phillips

#10. Be thankful for your allotment in an imperfect world. Though better circumstances can be imagined, far worse are nearer misses than you probably care to realize.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#11. Sex was like Disneyland to him: an allotment of organized wonders and legal mischief." Martin Amis

Young

#12. Sex was like Disneyland to her: an allotment of organized wonders and legal mischief.

Martin Amis

#13. My perfect day is to work incredibly well in the morning and write something wonderful, then take the dog for a walk and go for a swim in the ladies' ponds on Hampstead Heath or work in my allotment. Then I get tarted up in the evening and go out in London to dinner or the cinema.

Deborah Moggach

#14. Why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.

Erik Larson

#15. I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden.

Deborah Moggach

#16. Let's say you had to report back to heaven at the end of your time on earth, tell them what your personal allotment of experience had been: wouldn't it sound like Poppy's speech? The smell of radiator dust on a winter morning, the taste of hot maple syrup ...

Anne Tyler

#17. I believe that our ability to grow as an industry is directly proportional to our ability to understand our past; if we cannot understand it because we cannot play it, our evolution may well be stunted.

Richard Rouse

#18. Home-grown pears are best eaten in the bath - they're so juicy, it's the easiest way to stay clean!

Mitchell Beazley

#19. I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way.

James Taylor

#20. I like the fact that a modern television and modern drama on cable has characters that are really intricate and deep and have multiple layers.

Matthew Lillard

#21. The army of the emboldened and gleefully ill-informed is growing.

Andrew Breitbart

#22. Up in my business Always burning Oracles Romans gonna hate

Rick Riordan

#23. When I was a kid out here in L.A., I was homeless, I didn't have any money and I was living in my car. I wasn't averse to going down to Santa Monica Boulevard and letting a guy buy me a sandwich. Know what I mean?

Thomas Jane

#24. Read o'er this And after, this, and then to breakfast with What appetite you have.

William Shakespeare

#25. I'll seek a four leaved shamrock in all thy fairy dells, And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how I'll weave my spells!

Samuel Lover