1469 Half Quotes for You to Enjoy

I look forward to the day when half our homes are run by men and half our companies and institutions are run by women. When that happens, it won't just mean happier women and families; it will mean more successful businesses and better lives for us all. Sheryl Sandberg

Day Women Better Will Men Half Our Run More Institutions Look Families Just Happens Happier Mean Us Successful Successful Businesses Businesses Forward Companies Homes Lives

Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds in the primeval oceans. Stephen Jay Gould

Life Simple Three Half Organic About Compounds Could Spontaneously Because Oceans Years Years Ago Began Billion Necessarily

I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it. Stephen King

Life Love Me People Made My Life Half Year Other Books Spent Exactly See Idea Like Know Also Because Occurred Go Been Lot Going Movie Movies Working Novel Interpreted

Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around. Sylvia Earle

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The world needs thinkers, leaders, and doers more than ever, so neglecting the minds of half the population means a lost opportunity to benefit from their ideas, contributions, and actions. Tae Yoo

Needs World Opportunity Half Lost Benefit Minds Neglecting More Leaders Ideas Doers Than Contributions Means Actions Population Ever Thinkers

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting. Thomas Huxley

Myself Wise Fools Half Nothing Doubting Despise Once Those Plodding Plough Would Vanity Restless Having Content Am Go Were Stimulus Hand Ambitious Oh Which Formed Who Set

From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation. W. E. B. Du Bois

Government Day Equality Black Men Half Nation Birth Those More Voices New Powers Anomaly Sought Within Said Sound Governed Than Which Forming Derive Who Asserted Population Lived Nearly Million Consent Slavery Slaves

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me. Walter Scott

Use gentle means before you come to extremity, and whatever lesson you work him, and never take above half his strength, nor ride him till he is weary, but a little at a time and often. William Cavendish

Work Time Strength You Ride Weary Half Before Whatever Lesson Extremity Above Take Never He Never Take Come Him Gentle Till His Nor Often Little Means Use

An unmarried man, in my opinion, enjoys only half a life. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Life Man Half Unmarried Only Opinion In My Opinion

The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet. Yehudi Menuhin

Rare Poet Half Distilled Potency Tiger Human Phenomenon Violinist

Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels. Barack Obama

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A well begun is half ended. A. C. Benson

Half Well Begun Ended

That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours. Aaron Paul

Great You Long Half Television Tell Able About Long Story Hour Hour And A Half Hours Because Where Story Really Film Two

I like to look at the glass half full. Abdullah II of Jordan

Half Glass Like Look Half Full Full

My deceased patients have taught me over the years to believe in the glass half full, to make good use of the time we have, to be generous - that was their lesson for the Uber-mind, and it was free. 'Do that,' they said, 'and then perhaps death shall have no dominion.' Abraham Verghese

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I wanted to reveal how genetic code is translated into protein. I knew a great application could be for antibiotics, since half of the useful ones target the ribosomes, but I didn't believe I could contribute to it. It was like the next Mount Everest to conquer. It was my dream to contribute something to humanity. Ada Yonath

Great Humanity Half Believe Dream Something Could Knew Since Genetic Like Protein Reveal How Antibiotics Target Mount Mount Everest Contribute Wanted Translated Next Useful Conquer Code Everest Application

When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now. Adam Ant

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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life. Adam Brody

Life Love Me You Battle Half Important Enjoy Find Something Excites Sort Truly Very To Love Career

I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where I'd give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks. Adam Faith

Financial Sunday Half Big Energy Nothing Give Write Mail Had Shares Half Years Felt Years Big Story Tips Where Story Burst Breaks Newsroom Worked Page Compares Floor Two

As a man, it is true that I will never know what it is like to be a woman. As an organizational psychologist, though, I feel a responsibility to bring evidence to bear on dynamics of work life that affect all of us, not only half of us. Adam Grant

I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it. Adam Green

Life Love Day You Director Every Day Three Half Year Every Think Unless Spend Minutes Something Absolutely Between Audience Years Anywhere Working Your Hard

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