Quotes with half-way

Quotes 1441 till 1460 of 2427.

  • Phyllis Mcginley Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but passé. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
    - +
     0
  • Samuel Johnson Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a gray one.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
    - +
     0
  • Samuel Johnson Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
    - +
     0
  • Phyllis Mcginley Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
    - +
     0
  • Bud Abbott Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing the time.
    Bud Abbott
    American comedian and actor (1897 - 1974)
    - +
     0
  • Romain Rolland Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.
    Romain Rolland
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1915) (1866 - 1944)
    - +
     0
  • Plautus Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
    - +
     0
  • Ben Vereen So be encouraged and dedicate yourself to your dream and if your dream should come my way one day then we will dance upon the boards of life.
    Ben Vereen
    American actor, dancer and singer (1946 - )
    - +
     0
  • T. S. Eliot So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
    - +
     0
  • Samuel Johnson So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
    - +
     0
  • Art Buchwald So far things are going my way. I am known in the hospice as The Man Who Wouldn't Die. I don't know if this is true or not, but I think some people, not many, are starting to wonder why I'm still around.
    Art Buchwald
    American humorist (1925 - 2007)
    - +
     0
  • Buffalo Bill So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley.
    An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (2009 edition)
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
    - +
     0
  • Carol Moseley Braun So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if we want to have government that is truly a representative Democracy, then we need to clearly address how we get our campaign laws out of the way of Democracy.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
    - +
     0
  • Carmen Busquets So I'm half deaf - and dyslexic. How about that? Nobody's perfect, and I'm proud of my defects.
    Carmen Busquets
    Venezuelan entrepreneur, philanthropist and investor (1965 - )
    - +
     0
  • Caleb Carr So if it seems that some of what I'll have to say in the pages to come doesn't reflect the mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does.
    The Angel of Darkness (1997)
    Caleb Carr
    American military historian and author (1955 - )
    - +
     0
  • Will Rogers So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
    - +
     0
  • Lord George Byron So much alarmed that she is quite alarming, All Giggle, Blush, half Pertness, and half Pout.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
    - +
     0
  • A. A. Milne So they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest a little boy and his bear will always be playing.
    The House at Pooh Corner (1928)
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
    - +
     0
  • Bob Inglis So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.
    Bob Inglis
    American politician (1959 - )
    - +
     0
  • Barack Obama So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
    - +
     0
All half-way famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 73)