Quotes with half-point

Quotes 381 till 400 of 790.

  • Ben Elliot 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.
    Ben Elliot
    British politician (1975 - )
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  • Carmen Kass It's not really like you have a thing like a supermodel anymore. It's more of a word than a real existence. I think, also, looking at it from a designer's point of view, at one point maybe they felt the stars took too much attention away from the clothes.
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  • Bob Thaves It's not that Good doesn't triumph over Evil, it's that the point spread is too small.
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  • André Agassi It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point.
    André Agassi
    American tennis player (1970 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. If they reach the point, they either crush it, or lean all round, more on the false than on the true.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of view of construction, to regard the hero as the leading figure.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Gene Wolfe Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
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  • William Frederick Book Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.
    William Frederick Book
    American psychologist and professor of psychology
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  • Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.
    Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
    French poet (1792 - 1870)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Douglas Adams 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.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Matthew Arnold Light half-believers of our casual creeds, who never deeply felt, nor clearly will d, whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, whose vague resolves never have been fulfilled.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Dean William R. Inge Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • Antonio Tabucchi Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • William Shakespeare Love is not love when it is mingled with regards that stand aloof from the entire point.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Victor Hugo Loving is half of believing.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Charles De Montesquieu Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
    Charles De Montesquieu
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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