Quotes with half-heard

Quotes 261 till 280 of 535.

  • 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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  • Algernon H. Blackwood It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?
    Algernon H. Blackwood
    English broadcasting narrator, journalist and writer (1869 - 1951)
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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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  • Bill James It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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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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  • Charles F. Kettering Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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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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  • Bret Harte Last night, above the whistling wind, I heard the welcome rain, — A fusillade upon the roof, A tattoo on the pane: The keyhole piped; the chimney-top A warlike trumpet blew.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • James J. Corbett Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and 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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