it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
in the comparatively short time between my childhood and my daughter's, the business society has ceased urging people to produce and is… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
The modification of prejudice takes a long time, and occurs as the result of a thousand things that happen to the prejudiced… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
the crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
The position of children as a group, in a commercial society, is not wholly advantageous. A commercial society urges its citizens to be responsible… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection ... Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
children are an embarrassment to a business civilization. A business society needs children for the same reason that a nomadic or a pastoral society… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
The only way not to worry about the race problem is to be doing something about it yourself. When you are, natural human vanity… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
