Quotes with half-right

Quotes 1221 till 1240 of 1583.

  • Anne Rice The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Norman Schwarzkopf The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
    Norman Schwarzkopf
    American general (1934 - 2012)
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  • Frederick Frieseke The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.
    Frederick Frieseke
    American-born French painter (1874 - 1939)
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  • Cass Sunstein The U.S. is an optimistic nation. No candidate has ever won the American presidency by speaking primarily to people's deepest fears and by manufacturing a sense of apocalypse - that our leaders 'can't do anything right,' that things are utterly falling apart.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Emma Goldman The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Benazir Bhutto The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Og Mandino The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Alexander Hamilton The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Blair Underwood The voice over is a hat you put on right now as opposed to worrying about going through wardrobe, and having to look a certain way. You just got to let your voice do the talking for you.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Bob Woodward The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson II The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or smal - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Carol Gilligan The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness.
    Carol Gilligan
    American feminist, ethicist and psychologist (1936 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Billy Sunday The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Billy Dee Williams The world moves fast, but change isn't always a good thing when you got it right the first time around.
    Billy Dee Williams
    American actor, voice actor, and artist (1937 - )
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  • Aneurin Bevan The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Robert Browning The year's at the spring; And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven, All's right with the world!
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Beck The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Agnes De Mille Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.
    Agnes De Mille
    American dancer and choreographer (1905 - 1993)
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