Quotes with half-heard

Quotes 101 till 120 of 535.

  • Plautus Courage in danger is half the battle.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • Winston Churchill Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Robert Half Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.
    Robert Half
    American businessman, founder of Robert Half HR consulting firm
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  • Og Mandino Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • E. B. White Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch Do awards change careers? Well, I haven't heard of many stories where that's the case. It's a fun excuse to meet colleagues and celebrate people who've done well that year in certain people's eyes, and it's nothing more than that.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Buddha Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the goo
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • François Fénelon Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
    François Fénelon
    French writer and archbishop (1651 - 1715)
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  • Brooks Atkinson Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Henry Rollins Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.
    Henry Rollins
    American musician, actor and writer (1961 - )
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  • Beeban Kidron Each January, nearly half a million people visit the small town of Saundatti for ajatre or festival, to be blessed by Yellamma, the Hindu goddess of fertility.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Barbara Jordan Earlier today we heard the beginning of the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States. 'We the people.' It is a very eloquent beginning. But, when that document was completed on the 17th of September in 1787, I was not included in that 'We, the people.' I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But, through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, t
    Source: Statement before House Judiciary Committee considering impeachment of Richard Nixon, 25 July 1974
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon Economy is half the battle of life. It is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Edward Blishen Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half an emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.
    Edward Blishen
    English author and broadcaster (1920 - 1996)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Either sex alone is half itself.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Bill Bryson England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Calvin Trillin Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Anne Tyler Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Billy Gibbons Ever since I was a little kid and first heard Jimmy Reed's 'Honey, Don't Let Me Go,' the blues has been in my blood.
    Billy Gibbons
    American musician, record producer, and actor (1949 - )
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