Quotes with half-asleep

Quotes 301 till 320 of 392.

  • Wilson Mizner The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.
    Wilson Mizner
    American Author (1876 - 1933)
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  • John F. Kennedy The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Friedrich Melchior Grimm The greatest men have not always the best heads; many indiscretions may be pardoned to a brilliant and ardent imagination. The prudence and discretion of a cold heart are not worth half so much as the follies of an ardent mind.
    Friedrich Melchior Grimm
    German-born French-language journalist, art critic and diplomat
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  • Samuel Johnson The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Cass Sunstein The habit I've developed is to write in any free half hour I might find.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Hesiod The half is greater than the whole.
    Hesiod
    Greek poet
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  • Bob Schieffer The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Benjamin Whichcote The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
    Benjamin Whichcote
    British philosopher (1609 - 1683)
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  • Eva Figes The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices - against half the human race - that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.
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  • Ben Shapiro The Muslim world just doesn't believe that skin color is all that important. Obama may be half-black, but he's still all-Western, according to them. It doesn't matter whether you're black, white or green - if you're not a devotee of Muhammad, you don't matter.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Leigh Hunt The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
    Leigh Hunt
    British poet, essaywriter (1784 - 1859)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Robert Half The search for someone to blame is always successful.
    Robert Half
    American businessman, founder of Robert Half HR consulting firm
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  • Bruce Cockburn The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • C.E.M. Joad The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you.
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  • Anne Rice The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Og Mandino The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Aneurin Bevan The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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