Quotes with truth-and-a-half

Quotes 4441 till 4460 of 25898.

  • Bob Barr Defending the Constitution is always important. That duty is even more vital today, when the president and top administration officials argue that the executive branch may break the law whenever the president deems it to be necessary in a time which he declares to be wartime.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Peter Bechmann Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
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  • Wayne Dyer Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Robert Benchley Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Alan Bennett Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
    Alan Bennett
    British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author (1934 - )
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  • A. R. Ammons Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
    Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues (1996 edition), Univ of Michigan Pr
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Bruce Lipton Deism is the belief that nature and God are one and the same thing. If you study nature, you're getting insights about God.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Robert Half Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.
    Robert Half
    American businessman, founder of Robert Half HR consulting firm
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  • Achille Poincelot Delicacy is the coquetry of truth; fastidiousness is the prudery of falsehood.
    Achille Poincelot
    French aphorism writer
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Abigail Adams Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
    Letter to John Adams (5 August 1776)
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Og Mandino Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Alice S. Rossi Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Barack Obama Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.
    V.N. 23 sept 2009
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Karl Kraus Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Plato Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Joseph A. Schumpeter Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.
    Joseph A. Schumpeter
    Austrian-American economist (1883 - 1950)
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