Quotes 201 till 220 of 523.
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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
Wuthering Heights (1847) Ch. XII) -
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
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I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.
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I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump all the time.
Babe Ruth: his life and time by Paul Adomites, p. 172 -
I'm kind of a nervous guy. I know on television I look like I'm half asleep, but inside I'm going about 100 miles an hour.
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I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.
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I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.
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I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.
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I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
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If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.
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If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965) -
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
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If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.
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If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
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If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today.
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In '38, this time I did a job for Mr. Stryker. I went on his payroll at about half the salary I was getting before, to cover what he called Harvest in Ohio.
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