Quotes with half-there

Quotes 2181 till 2200 of 5709.

  • Epictetus No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • W. H. Auden No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • George Bernard Shaw No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Kahlil Gibran No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Anthony Trollope No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Mignon McLaughlin No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.
    The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bon Scott No matter how long you play rock and roll, songs might change just as long as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us
    Interview with Record Review, 1979
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  • Abraham Lincoln No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Sir Laurence Olivier No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.
    Sir Laurence Olivier
    English actor and stage director (1907 - 1989)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Billy Dee Williams No matter where I go, in this country or outside of this country, there are young people, and I'm always surprised that young people know about me and Colt 45.
    Billy Dee Williams
    American actor, voice actor, and artist (1937 - )
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  • Robert A. Heinlein No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Robert Half No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.
    Robert Half
    American businessman, founder of Robert Half HR consulting firm
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  • Candice Swanepoel No one knows anything about the fashion industry in Brazil. They don't care what you do. They just want the beach and the sun and the fun. I feel the freest and the happiest there.
    Candice Swanepoel
    South African model and philanthropist (1988 - )
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  • George Sand No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
    George Sand
    French writer (1804 - 1876)
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  • Henry Giles No principal is so noble, as there is none more holy, than that of a true obedience.
    Henry Giles
    British Unitarian minister and writer (1809 - 1882)
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  • Booker T. Washington No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Algernon Sydney No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Samuel Johnson No two men 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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