The distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before… — Jules Verne 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
I was born on the eighteenth of December, 1935, in the town Bourg-en-Bresse, about thirty miles northeast of Lyon, the second of… — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image
In other words these children, by avoiding the early drill on combinations, tables, and that sort of thing, had been able, in… — Louis P. Benezet 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
World fertility surveys indicate that anywhere from one third to one half of the babies born in the Third World would not… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
One-half of life is admitted by us to be passed in sleep, in which, however, it may appear otherwise, we have no… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
My genetic interests persist in the area of the control of human development. Something must be fundamentally flawed with a reproductive system… — Robert Edwards 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
Never make heads straight on the shoulders, but turn them aside to the right or to the left, even though they look… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
If a hundred or a thousand people, all of the same age, of the same constitution and habits, were suddenly seized by… — Petrarch 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
'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice. It would be subversive of every human interest… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
. . . I believe one half of the world is born for the convenience of the other half . . . — Sarah Siddons Copy Share Image
There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves. — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
A man in the wrong may more easily be convinced than one half right. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell. — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
One half of me is a hopeless romantic. The other half is well... just realistic. — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
One half was like, I hope this doesn't affect it, and the other half was like, it's great that people know I… — Bryce Wilson Copy Share Image
One half of my head, from the top of my skull to the cleft of my jaw, hammers, bangs, sizzles while the… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what the… — Edward Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner. — Lindsey Nelson Copy Share Image
One half was sad because I had damaged my reputation. The other half was happy because I had damaged my reputation. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
If rightly made, a boat would be a sort of amphibious animal, a creature of two elements, related by one half its… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think the Caribbean countries face rising oceans and they face increase in the severity of hurricanes. This is something that is… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
I hated being "Mrs." from the first second each time. I didn't know why. All I knew was how uncomfortable it felt.… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
In this denial of the right to participate in government, not merely the degradation of woman and the perpetuation of a great… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
...those little people, my brownies, who do one half of my work for me while I am fast asleep, and in all… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
For me, it's always been the initial business - just getting a word down, any words down, on a blank piece of… — Colin Dexter Copy Share Image
The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
The fans are the end result of what we do. Sometimes I think we forget that those are the folks that mean… — Aaron Tippin Copy Share Image
... the only other place comparable to these marvelous nether regions, must surely be naked space itself, out far beyond atmosphere, between… — William Beebe Copy Share Image