Fifty Quote by Laurence J. Peter Download Open image “There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.” — Laurence J. Peter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fifty Getting Hyphen Greatness Hyphen Hyphens Insist Getting Inspirational Men Men Proposition Proposition Insist Propositions
Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I think we don't need to be talking about hyphenated Americans, because we are all Americans, and we all want the same thing. — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
I must beg you to indulge me in the matter of hyphens… You will find that I have marked out a great many in… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I have a problem with the fact that when it's brought up, it's not really discussed. It's all that's brought up. So-and-so is an… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
“As you can see, the hyphen is a nasty, tricky, evil little mark that gets its kicks igniting arguments in newsrooms and trying to… — June Casagrande Copy Share Image
The hyphenated American is ridiculous. But that's what we have to put up with. I think that any person that's in the United States… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
There's something really natural to me about being what they call in the business a "hyphenate." Being a musician-actor or writer-musician-actor. — Lola Kirke Copy Share Image
“On identity politics: “The hyphenated American is ridiculous. But that’s what we have to put up with. I think that any person that’s in… — Scott Eyman Copy Share Image
You don't need to take a persons advice to make him feel good, just ask him for it. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
The surest sign that you haven't any sense is to argue with one who hasn't. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
When you find someone you want to spend forever with you, you don't let them go, whether forever turns out to be a day… — Nicole Williams Copy Share Image
What comes to mind when you think of heaven? Heaven is referred to in fifty-four of the Bible's sixty-six books, and the final two… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because… — Mark McGwire Copy Share Image
It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles on top… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
In North America and Western Europe, ten percent of the population of the world consumes fifty percent of its energy. — Yehuda Levi Copy Share Image
...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents. — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Last night we had three small zucchini for dinner that were grown within fifty feet of our back door. I estimate they cost somewhere… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Time starts out as a notion. But after you turn fifty, time is not a notion anymore but a fact that you start feeling… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
