One Half Quotes

130 quotes by 111 authors

No nation, no society, no community can hold its head high and claim to be part of the civilized world if it condones the practice… — Manmohan Singh
Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should… — Marquis de Sade
What has been the effect of coericion [sic]? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and errors… — Thomas Jefferson
Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the… — R. Buckminster Fuller
One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
One half of my life has put the other half in the grave. — Pierre Corneille
Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into… — John Crowe Ransom
...those little people, my brownies, who do one half of my work for me while I am fast asleep, and in all human likelihood do… — Robert Louis Stevenson
We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent… — Michelle Bachelet
I think the Caribbean countries face rising oceans and they face increase in the severity of hurricanes. This is something that is very, very scary… — Steven Chu
The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
It is thus that mutual cowardice keeps us in peace. Were one half of mankind brave and one cowards, the brave would be always beating… — Samuel Johnson
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone.… — Andrea Dworkin
Long ago it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.' That was true then. It did… — Jacob August Riis
Creating video games is an especially important act. To me, video games are something I both play and create, so they're "special." If I lost… — Hidetaka Suehiro
Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites. — Isaac Mayer Wise
It's not as if grace did one half of the work and free choice the other; each does the whole work, in its own peculiar… — Bernard of Clairvaux
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars… — Thomas Jefferson
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other. — Novalis
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. — Terry Pratchett

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