Quotes with half-hour

Quotes 441 till 460 of 523.

  • George Edward Woodberry To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.
    George Edward Woodberry
    American poet and literary critic (1855 - 1930)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson To fill the hour - that is happiness.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Walt Whitman To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Walt Whitman To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Carol Moseley Braun To me, that means getting back to the point where our Constitution means that you don't tap people's phones and poke into their e-mail and you don't arrest people and keep them hidden for a year and a half without charging them.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Will Durant To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • William Blake To see a World in a Grain of Sand
    And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
    Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
    And Eternity in an hour.
    Auguries of Innocence
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • William Blake To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Henry James To treat a ''big'' subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Bill Pascrell Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.
    Bill Pascrell
    American politician (1937 - )
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  • Edmond de Goncourt Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Billy Beane Trying to build a team over the course of the winter to put on the field is really just half the job. Because if your best players go down, it's not so much him going down as who you replace him with, which ultimately might have the biggest impact on how you end up finishing. So you want to have both a belt and suspenders for support.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • Gaston Bachelard Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
    Gaston Bachelard
    French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Henry James Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Bobby Scott Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Edward Dahlberg Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Gioacchino Antonio Rossini Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
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