One Half Quotes

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
Terry Pratchett

Knowledge, Ignorance, Bad

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Jane Austen

Understand, Cannot, Half

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
Emily Bronte

Work, Person, Done

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
Charles Baudelaire

Art, Half, Eternal

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
Novalis

Faith, Knowledge, Half

I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.
Jay Gould

Working, Half, Class

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.
Charles Baudelaire

Art, Half, Changing

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.
Pierre Corneille

Life, Put, Half

I love being one half of a romantic couple.
Julianna Margulies

Love, Romantic, Half

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
George Dennison Prentice

Hope, Face, Stand

Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'
Ernestine Rose

Power, Freedom, Society

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 and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.
Michelle Bachelet

Peace, Health, Women

I was born on the eighteenth of December, 1935, in the town Bourg-en-Bresse, about thirty miles northeast of Lyon, the second of three sons of Jeanne and Jean-Victor Pepin. Weighing only two and one half pounds, I nearly died at birth.
Jacques Pepin

Two, Three, Born

It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.
Frances Wright

Power, Important, Far

I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.
Albert J. Nock

Said, Difficult, Easy

The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad.
Kenneth Grahame

Men, Half, Clever

One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.
Lee H. Hamilton

Live, Two, Conscience

One half who graduate from college never read another book.
G. M. Trevelyan

Book, Another, College

Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to.
Bobby Scott

College, Show, Results

One half-conscious thought was burned in my mind: stay on your feet.
Gene Tunney

Mind, Thought, Stay

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.
Peter Agre

Act, United, Half

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
George Dennison Prentice

Debt, Half, Avoid

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.
Mary Wilson Little

Good, Half, Manners

And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell.
Edward Fitzgerald

Wine, Honor, Often

Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.
Isaac Mayer Wise

Half, Number, Europe

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.
Georges Carpentier

Art, Boxing, Half

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