Quotes with half-there

Quotes 4501 till 4520 of 5709.

  • Benjamin Franklin There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Robert Frost There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains. The most universal quality is diversity.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Susan B. Anthony There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
    Susan B. Anthony
    American women's rights activist (1820 - 1906)
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  • Sir Walter Scott There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Auberon Herbert There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Edward Hoagland There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Ezra Pound There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, ''It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.''
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Bliss Carman There paused to shut the door
    A fellow called the Wind,
    With mystery before,
    And reticence behind.
    At the Granite Gate
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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  • Aaron Sorkin There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Lydia Davis There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish.
    Lydia Davis
    American writer (1947 - )
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  • Louis Kronenberger There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.
    Louis Kronenberger
    American literary critic and novelist (1904 - 1980)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich There seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocuous HUGS, NOT DRUGS bumper sticker soon leads to wild talk of shooting dealers and making urine tests a condition for employment - anywhere.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Warren Buffett There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • Henry Thomas Buckle There should be a certain ratio between those who are most inclined to think, and those who are most inclined to act.
    History of civilization
    Henry Thomas Buckle
    English historian (1821 - 1862)
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  • William E. Gladstone There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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  • Mother Teresa There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Will Rogers There should be one day when there is open season on senators.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Benjamin Watson There shouldn't be any looting or anything like that. But we're seeing a lot of frustration, and nobody knows the answer. All of us are saying we need an answer, and what I'm saying is we need, all of us, a heart change so, as America, we can move forward.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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