Quotes with half-there

Quotes 5081 till 5100 of 5709.

  • Henry David Thoreau We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Carl Sagan We are made of star-stuff. Our bodies are made of star-stuff. There are pieces of star within us all.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Ben Carson We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Antonia Fraser We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Baruch Spinoza We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that we regard such things more or less highly than is just. This is the source of the superstitions by which men everywhere are troubled. For the rest, I don't think it worth the trouble to set out in detail here the vacillations of mind that stem from hope and fear - since it follows simply from the definition of these affects that there is no hope without fear
    Ethics, part 2
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Amy Tan We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.
    Amy Tan
    American author (1952 - )
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  • Ann Macbeth We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Ban Ki-moon We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Charles Baudelaire We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Desmond Morris We are, to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of the century. Our only consolation will have to be that, as a species, we have had an exciting term of office.
    Desmond Morris
    British zoologist, ethologist and surrealist painter (1928 - )
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  • Bart Stupak We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there's a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per month, every enrollee, to pay for a fund for reproductive rights which include abortion. And that's totally against federal law. So we are saying take that out.
    Bart Stupak
    American politician (1952 - )
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  • Billy Al Bengston We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine arts program when I was a kid.
    Billy Al Bengston
    American artist and sculptor (1934 - )
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  • Alan Turing We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
    Alan Turing
    English mathematician and computer scientist (1912 - 1954)
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  • Barbara Jordan We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • James Boswell We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.
    James Boswell
    Scottish biographer and diarist (1740 - 1795)
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  • Abraham Robinson We conclude that, simultaneously with the organization of the colleges, there should be at Santa Cruz an organization by disciplines, whose units would have a voice in appointments and promotions, in course of programs, and in the allocation of funds for research.
    Abraham Robinson
    Polish mathematician (1918 - 1974)
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  • Berthold Auerbach We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • Bill Irwin We constantly run lines together before every show too, and then there's a long, traditionally long, story to tell the audience every show. Today, we're doing it twice.
    Bill Irwin
    American actor, clown and comedian (1950 - )
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  • Alexander Herzen We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern skepticism, there was still so much left in our souls to destroy.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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