Quotes with half-truths

Quotes 61 till 80 of 425.

  • Raymond Chandler At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • C. J. Cherryh Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction.
    Invader (1995)
    C. J. Cherryh
    American writer (1942 - )
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  • Yogi Berra Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half if physical
    Yogi Berra
    American baseball player (1925 - 2015)
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  • Andy Warhol Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Bernie Sanders Before Social Security existed, about half of America's senior citizens lived in poverty.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Decimus Magnus Ausonius Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
    Decimus Magnus Ausonius
    Roman poet (310 - 395)
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  • Dinah Mulock Craik Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
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  • Publilius Syrus Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Thomas B. Aldrich Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.
    Thomas B. Aldrich
    American writer, editor (1836 - 1907)
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  • Bertrand Russell Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bertrand Russell Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
    The Conquest of Happiness (1930)
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Born down in a dead man's town;
    The first kick I took was when I hit the ground.
    You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
    'Til you spend half your life just covering up.
    Born In The U.S.A. (1984) Born in the USA
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Omar Bradley Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss But in our opinion truths of this kind should be drawn from notions rather than from notations.
    About the proof of Wilsons theorem. Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (1801)
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • Edward Young By night an atheist half believes in God.
    Edward Young
    British poet (1683 - 1765)
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  • Edward Young By night an atheist half-believes a God.
    Edward Young
    British poet (1683 - 1765)
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  • Bette Midler Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, ''I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?''
    Bette Midler
    American singer, songwriter, actress and comedian (1945 - )
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  • William Cowper Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Abbott Eliot Kittredge Christianity claims that the supernatural is as reasonable as the natural, that man himself is supernatural as truly as he is natural, and that the Bible is so clearly the word of God by proofs that are unanswerable, that it is unreasonable to disbelieve its divine truths.
    Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
    Abbott Eliot Kittredge
    American minister (1834 - 1912)
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  • Bobby Jones Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.
    Bobby Jones
    American golfer (1902 - 1971)
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