(16 quotes found)
“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
“You stars that reigned at my nativity, / Whose influence hath allotted death and hell, / Now draw up Faustus, like a foggy mist, / Into the entrails of yon labouring cloud.”
Christopher Marlowe
“He who is not satisfied with a little is not satisfied with allot.”
Greek proverb
“There were 500 tickets allotted to each school for advance sales. Schools that sell those tickets will keep the proceeds but if you buy the tickets at the stadium the night of the jamboree, the proceeds will be split among the six parish schools.”
Zeb Simon
“I'm always cautious to downplay range fires, because if it's your ranch building or grazing allotment that got burned up it's pretty important. But timber fires require a lot more people, equipment, time and money to put out, and so far even when we've had lightning ignition, we didn't get the large fire initiation.”
Tom Wordell
“If there's not an allotment [in the plan] to make sure the rivers flow, we're not going to have rivers, or they'll be disgusting and you won't want to get in them,”
San Antonio
“Nature, to each allots his proper Sphere, But, that forsaken, we like Comets err: Toss'd thro' the Void, by some rude Shock we're broke, And all our boasted Fire is lost in Smoke”
William Congreve
“It varies by allotment but that's about a 40 to 65 percent reduction.”
Mike Brown
“I'm probably already in the red on the budgeting allotment for utilities.”
Roger Knight
“Since there are no changes in the allotment of residences, I think it bodes well for the residents.”
Mike Francis
