Quotes with half-right

Quotes 1061 till 1080 of 1583.

  • William Blake That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • B. J. Daniels That whole rivalry with the fans is not something that I can pay attention to right now. This is my new home, and whatever I can do to help out Seattle is what I need to do.
    B. J. Daniels
     
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  • Butch Trucks That whole Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame thing - at least half the people in there don't have a place in any kind of hall of fame anywhere, in my opinion.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Captain Beefheart That's right, The Mascara Snake. Fast and bulbous! Also, a tin teardrop!
    Source: Trout Mask Replica (1969)
    Captain Beefheart
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1941 - 2010)
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  • Anthony Holden Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Candace Bushnell The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
    Candace Bushnell
    American author and journalist (1958 - )
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  • Andy Rooney The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Barry Diller The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Stephen R. Covey The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Samuel Butler The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Sir Francis Drake The advantage of time and place in all practical actions is half a victory; which being lost is irrecoverable.
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  • Pierre Charron The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.
    Pierre Charron
    French philosopher (1541 - 1603)
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  • Raymond Chandler The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Barbara Mikulski The American system of democracy is founded on the concept that every citizen has the right to vote, to know that their vote is counted, and that the vote is counted accurately.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Gerda Lerner The appeal of the New Right is simply that it seems to promise that nothing will change in the domestic realm. People are terrified of change there, because it's the last humanizing force left in society, and they think, correctly, that it must be retained.
    Gerda Lerner
     
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  • Calvin Coolidge The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we are to have a billion dollars of navy, half a billion of farm relief, etc. the people will have to furnish more revenue by paying more taxes. It is for them, through their Congress, to decide how far they wish to go.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Carroll Quigley The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie The art of the three-minute song is more like journalism than writing a big 400-page book. You want to be brief, you want to make sense right yen and there. And sometimes that takes a bit of work.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Bob Barr The average American returning from a trip abroad likely - and understandably - assumes the contents of his or her electronic device does not come close to meeting the threshold of 'criminal' activity, such as would give a government agent the right to seize and peruse their iPad just because they are returning from a vacation.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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