After using the 'good offices' of UN diplomacy (economic sanctions and weapons inspections) to ensure that Iraq was brought to its knees,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In 2001, a systematic review of five studies revealed that roughly half of all chiropractic patients experience temporary adverse effects, such as… — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
The problem the world faces today is that only one-third of the world's population lives in decent circumstances, while half the population… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Build high-speed, electrified trains over the most-traveled corridors. It'sreally hard to power carbon-free airplanes, but electrified trains are much easier. We'll be… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the 20th century, before the migration began, 90 percent of all African-Americans were living in the South. By… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be somebody...If I've made it, it's half because I was game to take a wicked amount of punishment… — Althea Gibson Copy Share Image
As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression. — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
For me, if 'Maryland' became half of what 'Searchin' My Soul' became, as far as radio play goes, I would be thrilled. — Vonda Shepard Copy Share Image
Tis rushing now adown the spout, And gushing out below, Half frantic in its joyousness, And wild in eager flow. The earth… — Elizabeth Oakes Smith Copy Share Image
Social Security is an insurance policy. It's a terrible investment vehicle. Social Security has some great benefits. But it was never meant… — Laurence D. Fink Copy Share Image
What, after all, is the public under present conditions? What are the reasons for its eclipse? What hinders it from finding and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I always see the glass as half full and prefer to look on the bright side of life. — Alli Simpson Copy Share Image
In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues… — Randeep Hooda Copy Share Image
Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to… — James Richardson Copy Share Image
You can't just be a wimp and then a year and a half or two years later decide to not be a… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
As a fond mother, when the day is o'er, Leads by the hand her little child to bed, Half willing, half reluctant… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
People who live under fascism are not only miserable but they're full of shame. You just don't go in and inject democracy… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
To me the biggest waste of time is commuting. First, there is no place that is less than a two-hour commute from… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
There’s no card, business card, better than a compact disc for a composer. It doesn’t half impress people and they get a… — Peter Maxwell Davies Copy Share Image
I usually think about a play anywhere from six months to a year and a half before I sit down to write… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
If you're going to do something, do it with gusto. Don't do anything half-heartedly. That dishonors the doing and the doer. So… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
They whispered to Caesar that he was mortal, then sold daggers at half-price in the grand March sale. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Where do you wanna belong?" I half whispered. His expression changed with quicksilver speed, amusement dancing in his eyes. "Anywhere they don't… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
During the '90s or the first half of the zeros, whatever you want to call them, I was just doing a lot… — Taylor Steele Copy Share Image
You cannot achieve success without the risk of failure. And I learned a long time ago, you cannot achieve success, if you… — Paul Heyman Copy Share Image
The truly incredible thing is were realizing that you can perform a two-and-a-half-hour gig without being high and still have a fantastic… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
If I could take all my parts with me when I go somewhere / and not have to say to one of… — Pat Parker Copy Share Image
I wasn't feeling well in the first half. I felt down, man. I had three slices of pizza before the game and… — Leroy Loggins Copy Share Image
I don't like rushing, just like to sit down and rest before a match. Half the time I don't even look at… — Evonne Goolagong Cawley Copy Share Image
Half of the popcorn sh-t that's out there, we know it's popcorn. But we're like, "It's my guilty pleasure." I feel like… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
In some ways, I was a little bit surprised [by how dominant we were] but then I look at the players in… — Rio Ferdinand Copy Share Image
Once we have a sense of how long a decision should take, we generally should delay the moment of decision until the… — Frank Partnoy Copy Share Image