Quotes with half-an-hour

Quotes 221 till 240 of 523.

  • Blake Farenthold In an urban area, you're not going to be an hour away from another post office.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Bill Dedman In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45,000, plus as much as $10,000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler In the documentary 'Facing Ali,' nearly half the fighters involved required subtitles despite speaking English, their speech slurred by the physical toll of their ring lives. This was their reward for testing their furthermost physical and mental boundaries.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • John F. Kennedy In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Art Linkletter In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques.
    Art Linkletter
    Canadian-born American radio and television personality (1912 - 2010)
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  • Bao Dai In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
    Bao Dai
    Vietnamese emperor
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  • Alexandre Dumas père Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Paul Auster It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.
    Oracle Night (2009) 35
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Alva Myrdal It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Lillian Hellman It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
    Lillian Hellman
    American playwright (1905 - 1984)
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  • Albert J. Beveridge It is a noble land that God has given us: a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines would enclose half the countries of Europe; a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe.
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  • Helen Rowland It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Samuel Johnson It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Carl Rowan It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
    Carl Rowan
    American government official, journalist and author (1925 - 2000)
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  • William James It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • George Gurdjieff It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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