The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
A half century of living should put a good deal into a person's face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds… — Frances Parkinson Keyes Copy Share Image
“Half a century goes by in what seems like a year. Don't waste an hour in boredom, son, or wishing for tomorrow.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time. — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history. — John Bruton Copy Share Image
It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression. — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century. — Lord Mountbatten Copy Share Image
“After a half century of ministry, F. J. Hallett claimed that in the actual work of a parish, the most successful leader… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“When Warren Buffett talks about competing against only half of the population, I think about her and wonder how different her life… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“The majority of American women have demanded over the last half century that society reject and revise traditional norms about what women… — Anne-Marie Slaughter Copy Share Image
79 senators, including that great conservative Elizabeth Warren, said they didn't like the medical device tax, so we will go at that… — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
My fellow Black Americans are expected to fit a certain mold and think a certain way. We've been socially conditioned to blindly… — Vernon Jones Copy Share Image
Me stash box never empty. The fifty dollar bag we call that half century. Me start me own herb documentary. Bermy man… — Collie Buddz Copy Share Image
We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“If there is one central intellectual reality at the end of the twentieth century, it is that the biological approach to psychiatry--treating… — Edward Shorter Copy Share Image
There is some evidence that average wave heights are slowly rising, and that freak waves of eighty or ninety feet are becoming… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Leaving wasn't a personal thing where I intentionally wanted to stick it to management or anyone. This is business. I felt I… — Albert Belle Copy Share Image
In Cuba, our experiment is not the best democracy and should not be a reference to anybody elses, it is ours. It… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
I tried to grow up. Honest. Didn’t quite happen. I guess I’m someone for whom youth still seems more real than the… — Donald Fagen Copy Share Image
“The triumph of plainsong, of polyphony, and of truly liturgical organ playing, in the first half century of his life, represented for… — James E. Frazier Copy Share Image
“Fantasy and science fiction are closely allied in publishing, since both categories posit worlds that are not reality. The SF editor is… — David G. Hartwell Copy Share Image
“Al-Kind¯ı (ca. 800 – ca. 870), the first to develop philosophical thought as such in Arabic, was a polymath in the translated… — Dimitri Gutas Copy Share Image
“There are two visions of America a half century from now. One is of a society more divided between the haves and… — Joseph E. Stiglitz Copy Share Image
“Here is where Taylor locates the most significant shift in the post-’60s West: while ideals of tolerance have always been present in… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“In the past half century, however, an impressive body of formal theory has been erected by mathematical statisticians and economists to help… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
“Inclusion on race has been a very different journey, and I worry that for all the progress we have made, we are… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
“The west, and especially the United States, has shown no serious or sustained interest in the Middle East until the last half… — Graham E. Fuller Copy Share Image
“Although, approximately 2,800 of the Kennedy assassination documents have been released, only 52 files have not been previously seen. It comes as… — Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
“I have been accused of a habit of changing my opinions. I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The attachment voids experienced by immigrant children are profound. The hardworking parents are focused on supporting their families economically and, unfamiliar with… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Dr. Urbino caught the parrot around the neck with a triumphant sigh: ça y est. But he released him immediately because the… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“A half century after Nidetch’s Mallomar binges, scientists had developed a technology that could see cravings erupting, like solar flares, inside the… — Mark Schatzker Copy Share Image
“For half a century he had stood too close to darkness, and some it crept into his bones.” — Max Gladstone Copy Share Image
Sociology seems to have missed every intellectually promising boat in the last half century. — Pierre L. van den Berghe Copy Share Image
We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive. — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
