Quotes with half-believes

Quotes 221 till 240 of 466.

  • Austin O'Malley It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.
    Austin O'Malley
    American writer, ophthalmologist and a professor of English literatur (1858 - 1932)
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  • Augustus Hare It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Alexander Pope It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • Ben Bernanke It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Bart Starr It takes me about a week and a half to really analyze a game - play by play.
    Bart Starr
    American football quarterback and coach (1934 - )
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  • Bill Vaughan It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Joseph Conrad It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Ben Elliot It's not marriage that I crave. Many of my friends who have married are pretty miserable. Within a year and a half, most of them are either unhappy or divorced.
    Ben Elliot
    British politician (1975 - )
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  • Barack Obama John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.
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    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Gene Wolfe Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
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  • Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.
    Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
    French poet (1792 - 1870)
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  • Douglas Adams Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Matthew Arnold Light half-believers of our casual creeds, who never deeply felt, nor clearly will d, whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, whose vague resolves never have been fulfilled.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Dean William R. Inge Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Thomas à Kempis Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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