Quotes with half-right

Quotes 101 till 120 of 1583.

  • George Foreman A hero is someone right who doesn't change.
    George Foreman
    American professional boxer (1949 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Billy Collins A lasting marriage, they say, is one where the two reach for different sections of the Sunday paper. Me, I go right for the obituaries, just like those very elderly characters in Muriel Spark's spooky novel, 'Memento Mori.'
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Gregory Nunn A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon.
    Gregory Nunn
    American golf player (1955 - )
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Boy George A lot of people felt I was getting work because I was Boy George. My response at the time was that there's a lot of DJs making records, they're not all making good records, but they have the right to do that.
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
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  • Ben Savage A lot of people say the sitcom is dead. I think they're right to some extent, in that the shows they're putting out are all the same.
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  • Butch Trucks A lot of the cities where we have a strong following, we don't even get to every year anymore. But Stony Brook was a place that, from the very first time we went, the chemistry was right. They loved us, and we loved them, and we just kept going back and going back.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Bill Viola A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Ezra Pound A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Phillips Brooks A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • William Faulkner A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Carl Rowan A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
    Carl Rowan
    American government official, journalist and author (1925 - 2000)
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  • Carl Rowan A minority group has arrived only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
    Carl Rowan
    American government official, journalist and author (1925 - 2000)
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  • Henrik Ibsen A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Charles Brower A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Emily Brontë A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
    Source: Wuthering Heights (1847)
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Thomas Carlyle A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Mark Twain A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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