Half Quotes - Page 20

• Half a league, half a league,
  Half a league onward,
  All in the valley of Death
  Rode the six hundred.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  League, Valleys, Six

  "The Charge of the Light Brigade" l. 1 (1854)

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• The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.

  Aristotle

  Important, Too Late, May

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• I graduated from CUNY College of Staten Island with a 3.9 GPA in three and a half years.

  Vinny Guadagnino

  College, Islands, Gpa

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• For eight years I was an inmate in a state asylum for the insane. During those years I passed through such unbearable terror that I deteriorated into a wild, frightened creature intent only on survival. And I survived. I was raped by orderlies, gnawed on by rats and poisoned by tainted food. I was chained in padded cells, strapped into strait-jackets and half-drowned in ice baths. And I survived. The asylum itself was a steel trap, and I was not released from its jaws alive and victorious. I crawled out mutilated, whimpering and terribly alone. But I did survive.

  Frances Farmer

  Being Alone, Cells, Years

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• The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

  Lois Lowry

  Book, Other Half, Reader

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• We believe half-instinctively that evil always defeats itself in the long run. Pacifism is founded largely on this belief. Don't resist evil, and it will somehow destroy itself. But why should it? What evidence is there that it does... unless conquered from the outside by military force?

  George Orwell

  Running, Military, Believe

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.174, HMH

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• After people like Lennon and Dylan, I think David Bowie brought a very modernistic intelligence and the necessity for change. I think he was completely positive, certainly through one and a half decades of completely overriding influence, in the best of popular music, and I take my bloody hat off to him!

  Roger Meddows Taylor

  Thinking, People, Hats

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• If you took half of something and continued to take half of that half and so on, you would never reach an end.

  Albert Einstein

  Ends, Ifs

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• To me the biggest waste of time is commuting. First, there is no place that is less than a two-hour commute from New York. You can be half a mile outside of the city limits; you're two hours away by car. I don't care how close they tell you it is. "Oh, it's only thirty miles." Thirty miles? At 8:30 in the morning, thirty miles outside New York, you might as well be starting out in Omaha.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Morning, New York, Cities

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• For over a half century now I've watched office obesity develop into a full-blown, crippling disease. As our office clutter mounts, we're ever more intimidated and frustrated by it. We engineer drainage and removal of water and liquid wastes from society to prevent hazardous buildup, but the effluent that pours into our offices-paper-is never flushed out.

  Don Aslett

  Water, Office, Frustrated

  Don Aslett (2004). “The Office Clutter Cure”, p.2, Adams Media

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• There's a world of troubleTrying to take its turn I can hear it shaking undergroundAnd half a dozen lessons I might never learn Not until them troubles come around.

  Gillian Welch

  Lessons, Dozen, Might

  Song: Only One And Only, Album: Revival

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• A lover makes you smile like children smile. That smile that was only meant for you. The half smile. The big shiny smile full of teeth and white enamel and pink gums. The smile that fades in the distance as I drive away in a taxi again.

  Jann Arden

  Children, Distance, White

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• Confidence begets confidence.
  Courage, an independent spark from heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant, high, alone.
  Courage in danger is half the battle.

  Plautus

  Independent, Heaven, Soul

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• Relationships have a nasty habit of reversing themselves; whatever has been done to you in a previous involvement you'll do to the next person you're involved with, if you get half a chance.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Done, Next, Chance

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• We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

  Bill Gates

  Math, Years, Two

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• To love is the half of to believe.

  Victor Hugo

  Believe, Love Is

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• The word Gothic, in the sense in which it is generally employed, is wholly unsuitable, but wholly consecrated. Hence we accept it and we adopt it, like all the rest of the world, to characterize the architecture of the second half of the Middle Ages, where the ogive is the principle which succeeds the architecture of the first period, of which the semi-circle is the father.

  Victor Hugo

  Father, Circles, Age

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.343, BookCaps Study Guides

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• After 14 months of military service, I had a wife, a child, half an apartment, no car, and no job.

  Charley Pride

  Jobs, Children, Military

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• The best way to save face is not to use the lower half.

  Lou Holtz

  Use, Way, Faces

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• Half of the people can be part right all of the time, Some of the people can be all right part of the time. I think Abraham Lincoln said that. 'I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours,' I said that.

  Bob Dylan

  Dream, Thinking, People

  Song: Talkin' World War III Blues, Album: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, 1963

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• In the legislature, the House of Representatives is chosen by less than half the people, and not at all in proportion to those who do choose. The Senate are still more disproportionate, and for long terms of irresponsibility. In the Executive, the Governor is entirely independent of the choice of the people, and of their control; his Council equally so, and at best but a fifth wheel to a wagon. In the Judiciary, the judges of the highest courts are dependent on none but themselves.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Independent, Long, People

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• When I recall my teachers at school, I realise that half of them were abnormal. . . . We pupils of old Austria were brought up to respect old people and women. But on our professors we had no mercy; they were our natural enemies. The majority of them were somewhat mentally deranged, and quite a few ended their days as honest-to-God lunatics! . . . I was in particular bad odor with the teachers. I showed not the slightest aptitude for foreign languages - though I might have, had not the teacher been a congenital idiot. I could not bear the sight of him.

  Adolf Hitler

  Teacher, School, Sight

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• Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I'm only half joking

  Alan Greenspan

  Office, President, United States

  Alan Greenspan (2008). “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World”, p.60, Penguin

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• For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one is halfheartedly engaged in something else.

  Henry Rollins

  Artist, Sound, Albums

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• I have been listening to the Stooges' self-titled first album for well over half my life, and it remains one of the most exciting and essential records I have ever had the good fortune to come into contact with.

  Henry Rollins

  Self, Listening, Firsts

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