Quotes with half-hour

Quotes 421 till 440 of 523.

  • Washington Irving There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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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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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Walt Whitman There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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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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  • Henry Louis Mencken There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Vince Lombardi There is only one way to succeed in anything and that is to give everything. I do and I demand that my players do. Any man's finest hour is when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle... victorious.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Robert Half There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
    Robert Half
    American businessman, founder of Robert Half HR consulting firm
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Norman Mailer There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Bjork There's something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can't help getting in sync.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Karl Kraus This is something that I cannot get over - that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Abdul Kalam Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Robert Half Time spent on hiring is time well spent.
    Robert Half
    American businessman, founder of Robert Half HR consulting firm
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  • Henry David Thoreau To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bill Engvall To be honest with you, I still eat whatever I want. It's all about portion control. I still love pizza, but instead of eating half, I eat a slice.
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Miguel de Cervantes To be prepared is half the victory.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Albert Camus To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • G. Woodberry To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.
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