Quotes with half-point

Quotes 241 till 260 of 790.

  • Horace He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Horace He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Karl Kraus He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Theodor Reik He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.
    Theodor Reik
    Austrian-American psychoanalyst (1888 - 1969)
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  • Matthew Prior He's half absolved who has confessed.
    Matthew Prior
    British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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  • Robert Frost Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Carroll Quigley Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Barbara Olson Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans.
    Barbara Olson
    American lawyer (1955 - 2001)
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  • Lou Holtz How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
    Lou Holtz
    American football coach (1937 - 1980)
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  • Bill Gross Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • James Thurber Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Bruce Springsteen I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Albert J. Nock I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • William S. Gilbert I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.
    William S. Gilbert
    English dramatist, poet and illustrator (1836 - 1911)
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  • Alfred Day Hershey I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.
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  • Bruce Springsteen I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Anne Tyler I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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