About one-half of the members of Congress are seekers for office at the nomination of the President. Of the remainder, at least… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
Giving is only one-half of the law of increase. Receiving is the other half. We can give and give but we may… — Catherine Ponder Copy Share Image
I've heard that one-half of the students at elite schools want to go into private equity or hedge funds. They want to… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you're never ridden a fast horse at a dead run across a desert valley at dawn, be of good cheer: You've… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The price must be less than one half of the former high and preferably at or near its all time low. — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Satan would seem to be mannerly and reasonable; making as if he would be content with one-half of the heart, whereas God… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students… — Bobby Scott Copy Share Image
I'm me on the mound. I like to show my emotion, be real aggressive and give everything I've got for one half… — Eric Gagne Copy Share Image
In Southern West Virginia we live in a war zone. Three and one-half million pounds of explosives are being used every day… — Judy Bonds Copy Share Image
The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Capitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
No nation, no society, no community can hold its head high and claim to be part of the civilized world if it… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites. — Isaac Mayer Wise Copy Share Image
I have observed gratitude to be a principle, that bears the smallest share in the hearts of those where it ought to… — Charlotte Charke Copy Share Image
More than one-half of the world's major rivers are being seriously depleted and polluted, degrading and poisoning the surrounding ecosystems, thus threatening… — Ismail Serageldin Copy Share Image
There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
