One Half Quotes - Page 6

• In this denial of the right to participate in government, not merely the degradation of woman and the perpetuation of a great injustice happens, but the maiming and repudiation of one-half of the moral and intellectual power of the government of the world.

  Frederick Douglass

  Government, Intellectual, Denial

  Frederick Douglass (1994). “Autobiographies”, p.907, Library of America

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• I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other; besides, I like to enjoy my life at all sides and ends, which cannot be done by one that suffers himself to be the slave of a single propensity.

  Anne Bronte

  Drinking, Men, Giving

  Anne Bronte (2006). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.247, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• One would think that an unsuccessful volume was like a degree in the school of reviewing. One unread work makes the judge bitter enough; but a second failure, and he is quite desperate in his damnation. I do believe one half of the injustice - the severity of 'the ungentle craft' originates in its own want of success: they cannot forgive the popularity which has passed them over.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Believe, School, Thinking

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1857). “The Complete Works of L. E. Landon ...”, p.34

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• One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.

  Stendhal

  Love, Passion, Men

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• I've heard that one-half of the students at elite schools want to go into private equity or hedge funds. They want to keep up with their age cohorts at Goldman. This can't possibly end well in terms of meeting these expectations.

  Charlie Munger

  School, Expectations, Age

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• The price must be less than one half of the former high and preferably at or near its all time low.

  Peter Cundill

  All Time Low, Half, Lows

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• Capitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually easily able to array one half of them against the other half, and thus dispose of both.

  H. L. Mencken

  Democracies Have, Enemy, Democracy

  H. L. Mencken (2013). “Notes On Democracy”, p.50, Read Books Ltd

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• The fans are the end result of what we do. Sometimes I think we forget that those are the folks that mean it in this game. There's plenty of evidence to be found that you can have all the #1 records in the world, but if you really ain't touchin' them, you don't come home with gold records and platinum records. I'm very proud that we've only had one #1 record, but we've sold two and one half million!

  Aaron Tippin

  Home, Mean, Thinking

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• Almost one half of our time is spent in telling and hearing evil of one another ... and every hour brings forth something strange and terrible to fill up our discourse and our astonishment.

  Laurence Sterne

  Evil, Hearing, Half

  Laurence Sterne (1853). “Works ...”, p.588

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• The elective franchise is withheld from one half of its citizens...because the word 'people,' by an unparalleled exhibition of lexicon graphical acrobatics, has been turned and twisted to mean all who were shrewd and wise enough to have themselves born boys instead of girls, or who took the trouble to be born white instead of black.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Girl, Wise, Mean

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• One half was like, I hope this doesn't affect it, and the other half was like, it's great that people know I did a Beyoncé record.

  Bryce Wilson

  People, Records, Half

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• For me, it's always been the initial business - just getting a word down, any words down, on a blank piece of paper. Once I've done that, I'm away. Beginning is one half of the deed.

  Colin Dexter

  Done, Pieces, Half

  Source: strandmag.com

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• I hated being "Mrs." from the first second each time. I didn't know why. All I knew was how uncomfortable it felt. I hated being one half of a couple, without understanding that it wasn't the husband or the man I hated, it was situation, the identity.

  Vivian Gornick

  Couple, Husband, Men

  "We knew we were not liberated and were never going to be liberated. But we knew what liberation was". Interview with Madeleine Schwartz, believermag.com. March 24, 2014.

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• If rightly made, a boat would be a sort of amphibious animal, a creature of two elements, related by one half its structure to some swift and shapely fish, and by the other to some strong-winged and graceful bird.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Strong, Animal, Fishing

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.93, Penguin

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• Never make heads straight on the shoulders, but turn them aside to the right or to the left, even though they look down, or upward, or straight ahead, because it is necessary for them to look lively and awake and not asleep. And do not depict the front or rear half of the whole person so that too much straightness is displaced, one half above or below the other half; and if you should wish to use stiff figures, do so only in portraying old people.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  People, Wish, Looks

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• In order not to annul our free will, I judge it true that Fortune may be mistress of one half our actions but then even she leaves the other half, or almost, under our control.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Order, Judging, Mistress

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• This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Half, Harps

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• If you are ready for the secret, you already possess one half of it,therefore, you will readily recognize the other half the moment it reaches your mind.

  Napoleon Hill

  Secret, Mind, Half

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Think & Grow Rich”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• We're told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable. We see ourselves as a nation of extroverts -
  which means that we've lost sight of who we really are. Depending on which study you consult, one third to one half of Americans are introverts - in other words, one out of every two or three people you know.

  Susan Cain

  Mean, Sight, Two

  "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking". Book by Susan Cain, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 24, 2012.

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• If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Gossip, Would Be, Half

  Alexis De Tocqueville (2015). “Democracy in America: Book One”, p.478, eKitap Projesi

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• The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

  Aristotle

  Carpe Diem, Men, Lazy

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• To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Soul, Ignorant

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• It's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.

  Greta Garbo

  Paris, Making Love, Midnight

  "Fictional character: Leon". "Ninotchka", 1939.

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• One half of my head, from the top of my skull to the cleft of my jaw, hammers, bangs, sizzles while the other half, serene and content, looks on at the agony next door.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Doors, Agony, Skulls

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• Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to.

  Bobby Scott

  Educational, Opportunity, College

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