Quotes with half-an-hour

Quotes 301 till 320 of 523.

  • Bess Truman Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of them as I am at having to meet the live nuts I have to see every day.
    Bess Truman
    American first lady (1885 - 1982)
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  • Barbara Walters Now here I was, half Jane Wyman, half Shirley Temple, and people began to stop me in the street and say, 'Don't worry, Barbara, it's all right, you won't lose your job.' It was really very touching.
    Chris Chase, A Talk With the Unsinkable Barbara Walters, New York Magazine (March 25, 1974)
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Robert Browning O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Helen Hunt Jackson O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather.
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  • Bob Beauprez Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems. The inescapable conclusion, however, is that the primary driver of the short-term deficit is not tax cuts but the lack of any meaningful economic growth over the last half decade.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Charles Sawyer Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope. Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work.
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  • Arsene Wenger Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them.
    Arsene Wenger
    French football manager and former player (1949 - )
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  • Franz Grillparzer Oh that wisdom was half as zealous for converts as ridicule.
    Franz Grillparzer
    Austrian play writer (1791 - 1872)
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  • Horace Walpole Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Anna H. Shaw On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life.
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  • Art Rooney Once I had a steel job for half of a day. I never went back to collect my pay.
    Art Rooney
    American football team owner (1901 - )
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  • Bethany Hamilton One arm might handicap me a little in competition, but I just work with what changes I know I have to make, and I'm pretty used to it now. It mainly depends on the wave conditions... I only get half the waves everyone else rides, so mine have to be good!
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • Jane Austen One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Sir Walter Scott One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Aphra Behn One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
    Aphra Behn
    English playwright, poet and translator (1640 - 1689)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • B. C. Forbes One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is better than 50 half-finished tasks
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Bo Bennett One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.
    Year to Success
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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