Quotes with half-century

Quotes 461 till 480 of 546.

  • Arthur Erickson There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Barbara Ward There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done.
    Barbara Ward
    British economist
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  • David Lloyd George There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.
    David Lloyd George
    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922 (1863 - 1945)
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  • Robert Half There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
    Robert Half
    American businessman, founder of Robert Half HR consulting firm
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Mark Twain There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Norman Mailer There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Bjork There's something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can't help getting in sync.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Karl Kraus This is something that I cannot get over - that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Cass Sunstein This part of the 21st century is preoccupied with risk, and there's a lot that law can do to make lives longer and healthier.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Abdul Kalam Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Robert Half Time spent on hiring is time well spent.
    Robert Half
    American businessman, founder of Robert Half HR consulting firm
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  • Bill Engvall To be honest with you, I still eat whatever I want. It's all about portion control. I still love pizza, but instead of eating half, I eat a slice.
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Miguel de Cervantes To be prepared is half the victory.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Albert Camus To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman To ensure that no one gained an advantage over anyone else, commercial law [in the 14th century] prohibited innovation in tools or techniques, underselling below a fixed price, working late by artificial light, employing extra apprentices or wife and underage children, and advertising of wares or praising them to the detriment of others.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • G. Woodberry To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.
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  • George Edward Woodberry To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.
    George Edward Woodberry
    American poet and literary critic (1855 - 1930)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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