Quotes with half-truths

Quotes 141 till 160 of 425.

  • Horace He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Karl Kraus He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Matthew Prior He's half absolved who has confessed.
    Matthew Prior
    British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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  • Robert Frost Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Lou Holtz How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
    Lou Holtz
    American football coach (1937 - 1980)
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  • C. S. Lewis Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Albert J. Nock I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Adam Faith I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where I'd give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks.
    Adam Faith
    English teen idol, singer, actor and financial journalist (1940 - 2003)
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  • Jimi Celeste I have a great dog. She's half Labrador, half pit bull. It's a good combination. Sure, she might bite off my leg, but she'll bring it back to me.
    Jimi Celeste
    American photographer and humorist
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  • Marcel Marceau I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
    Marcel Marceau
    French artist (1923 - 2007)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.
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  • Alice Hoffman I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay.
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  • Beatrix Potter I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense...
    Journal entry
    Beatrix Potter
    English writer, illustrator and conservationist (1866 - 1943)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Zig Ziglar I was in that part of the class that made the top half possible.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Emily Brontë I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
    Wuthering Heights (1847) Ch. XII)
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Samuel Johnson I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bette Davis I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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