Quotes with half-right

Quotes 1001 till 1020 of 1583.

  • A. W. Tozer Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our ''accepting'' and ''willing'' are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • George Bernard Shaw Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Alexander Herzen Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Anne Lamott Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away.
    Anne Lamott
    American novelist and non-fiction writer (1954 - )
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  • Herbert Marcuse Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be.
    Herbert Marcuse
    German political philosopher (1898 - 1979)
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  • Eileen Caddy Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is to good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.
    Eileen Caddy
    Scottisch spiritual teacher (1917 - 2006)
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  • Greg Norman Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too low nor too high.
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  • Peter Ustinov Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.
    Peter Ustinov
    British actor, writer, director (1921 - 2004)
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  • Elizabeth Bishop Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today? Is it right to be watching strangers in a play in this strangest of theatres?
    Elizabeth Bishop
    American poet and short-story writer (1911 - 1979)
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  • Bo Bennett Show interest in all people, not just those from whom you want something. Making people feel important and good about themselves is just the right thing to do.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Phyllis Mcginley Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but passé. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • Bill Kristol Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing, too! Conservatives have been right more often than not - and more often than liberals - about most of the important issues of the day.
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Samuel Johnson So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Carmen Busquets So I'm half deaf - and dyslexic. How about that? Nobody's perfect, and I'm proud of my defects.
    Carmen Busquets
    Venezuelan entrepreneur, philanthropist and investor (1965 - )
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  • Antonin Artaud So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Lord George Byron So much alarmed that she is quite alarming, All Giggle, Blush, half Pertness, and half Pout.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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