Quotes with half-heard

Quotes 421 till 440 of 535.

  • 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.
    C.E.M. Joad
     
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  • Alan Parsons The Sicilian Defense album was never released and never will be if I have anything to do with it. I have not heard it since it was finished. I hope the tapes no longer exist.
    Alan Parsons
    English audio engineer, songwriter, musician (1948 - )
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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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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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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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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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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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  • Jean Paul The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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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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  • Beck The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Winston Churchill There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Aleister Crowley There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: ''More money for more work.''
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Jim Rohn There are only about a half dozen things that make 80% of the difference in any area of our lives.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • 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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