Quotes with half-there

Quotes 2401 till 2420 of 5709.

  • Olive Schreiner Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.
    Olive Schreiner
    South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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  • William Cobbett Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
    William Cobbett
    British journalist (1763 - 1835)
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  • Campbell Brown Perhaps there is no greater evidence that the teachers' union has swung too far out of the mainstream that they both have been a target of near-constant criticism from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • W. H. Auden Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Brad Feld Periodically, at the end of a conversation, someone will ask me, 'Is there something I can do for you?' I used to answer with 'Do something that is helpful to something or someone in my world.'
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Samuel Beckett Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Personally, I do not know whether humankind is alone in this vast universe. But I do know that we should cherish our existence on this precious speck of matter... the greatest gift that could be bestowed upon us. For all practical purposes, there is only one planet Earth.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Carl Sagan Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Cassidy Gifford Philippians 4:13 has never rung so true... You were an unparalleled Giant in all sense of the word, Dad. So keep doin' you up there, because no one does it better, and no one ever will.
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  • George Bernard Shaw Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Billy Eckstine Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you.
    Billy Eckstine
    American jazz and pop singer and a bandleader (1914 - 1993)
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  • Bill McKibben Pity the poor senator or representative trying to stay alive in the political jungle. At every turn, there's a danger: a constituent who actually wants something done. Or worse, a campaign donor who might be offended by that something.
    Bill McKibben
    American environmentalist, author, and journalist (1960 - )
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  • Butch Trucks Playing live is really the art form. You're a lot freer, a lot looser. You've got people there that can give you feedback, and then you can play off of that. There's so much more energy.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Basil Bunting Poetry? It's a hobby.
    I run model trains.
    Mr Shaw there breeds pigeons.
    It's not work. You don't sweat.
    Nobody pays for it.
    You could advertise soap.
    Odes What The Chairman Told Tom, II:6
    Basil Bunting
    British poet (1900 - 1985)
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  • Bobby Jindal Police officials routinely execute search warrants on private homes and offices, and Congressional offices should not be treated any differently. There cannot be one set of rules for elected officials and another set of rules for everyone else.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Nikita Khrushchev Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build A bridge even where there is no river.
    Nikita Khrushchev
    Soviet statesman (1894 - 1971)
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  • Arthur Koestler Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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  • Ronald Reagan Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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