Quotes 241 till 260 of 523.
-
It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.
-
It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.
-
It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
-
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.
-
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.
-
It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.
-
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
-
It takes me about a week and a half to really analyze a game - play by play.
-
It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.
-
It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
-
It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
-
It would probably take me an hour to two to write it down, get the feel of it, and that's with quite a few changes. It's not really a hard thing for me to do.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
-
Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.
-
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ''This was their finest hour.''
-
Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
-
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.
All half-hour famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 13)
