Quotes with half-truths

Quotes 161 till 180 of 425.

  • Babe Ruth I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump all the time.
    Source: Babe Ruth: his life and time by Paul Adomites, p. 172
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Bill Medley I'm kind of a nervous guy. I know on television I look like I'm half asleep, but inside I'm going about 100 miles an hour.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Arthur Godfrey I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • Oscar Wilde I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Agatha Christie I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Benjamin Franklin If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Thomas Wolfe If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Harriet Martineau If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
    Harriet Martineau
    British writer, social criticus (1802 - 1876)
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  • Auberon Herbert If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.
    Source: The World of Mathematics (1956)
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • Gloria Steinem If we're by ourselves we come to feel crazy and alone. We need to make alternate families of small groups of women who support each other, talk to each other regularly, can speak their truths and their experiences and find they're not alone in them, that other women have them, too ... It makes such a huge difference.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Katharine Hepburn If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • Ben Shahn In '38, this time I did a job for Mr. Stryker. I went on his payroll at about half the salary I was getting before, to cover what he called Harvest in Ohio.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Bill Dedman In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45,000, plus as much as $10,000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo In law, as in every other branch of knowledge, the truths given by induction tend to form the premises for new deductions. The lawyers and the judges of successive generations do not repeat for themselves the process of verification any more than most of us repeat the demonstrations of the truths of astronomy or physics.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler In the documentary 'Facing Ali,' nearly half the fighters involved required subtitles despite speaking English, their speech slurred by the physical toll of their ring lives. This was their reward for testing their furthermost physical and mental boundaries.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Bjorn Lomborg In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Art Linkletter In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques.
    Art Linkletter
    Canadian-born American radio and television personality (1912 - 2010)
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