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Quotes 421 till 440 of 441.

  • Buffalo Bill Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Bum Phillips Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.
    Bum Phillips
    American football coach (1923 - )
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  • Josh Billings Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Otto Von Bismarck With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
    Otto Von Bismarck
    German statesman and prime minister (1815 - 1898)
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  • Barry Cornwall Within the midnight of her hair, Half-hidden in its deepest deeps.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise the children. They hold families together and increasingly drive economies. They are natural leaders. We need their full engagement... in government, business and civil society.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Joan Didion Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.
    Source:  (2006)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • William Blake You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Yogi Berra You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what is left.
    Yogi Berra
    American baseball player (1925 - 2015)
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  • Barbara Bush You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Henry David Thoreau You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Ben Horowitz You read these management books that say, 'These are the hard things about running a company.' But those aren't really the hard things. The hard things are when you have to layoff half your company, or you have to fire your best friend. Or you have to figure out a way not to go bankrupt.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Bill Nelson You would have thought that after 9/11 the president would have finished the job in Afghanistan, and kept the focus on capturing Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda deputies, but he and his team gave top priority to their original plan to invade Iraq.
    Bill Nelson
    American attorney and politician (1942 - )
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  • Italo Calvino A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Thomas Fuller A man surprised is half beaten.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • George Macdonald But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.
    George Macdonald
    Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
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  • Antonia Fraser I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Adele In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.
    Adele
    English singer-songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Bill Walton No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster for 14 years, and I missed more than nine-and-a-half full seasons.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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