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  • Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism of the twentieth century is the echo of words bandied about by brilliant speakers and writers in the second half of the nineteenth.

    Echoes   Events   Half  
    Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”
  • In many ways Nazism was antithetical to what the great mass of Germans said they admired - and certainly to what they paid homage. It was noisy, undisciplined, vainglorious; its leader was a half-educated posturing foreigner. For a decade the National Socialists were regarded as hoodlums, as part of the breakdown of what had been, if anything, an excessively ordered society before.

    History   Leader   Way  
    Eugene Davidson (1997). “The Making of Adolf Hitler: The Birth and Rise of Nazism”, p.365, University of Missouri Press
  • In dire times of survival it's not uncommon for people to turn to their faith and that was also true for the men on the oil tanker Pendleton, which was cut in half by 60-foot waves during the hurricane.

    Cutting   Men   Oil  
    Source: www.christianpost.com
  • We have our nominee, and it's is Secretary [Hillary] Clinton. I do hope that Secretary Clinton will take into account the huge resonance of the vision that Senator ["Bernie"] Sanders was putting forward.This has inspired millions of citizens - a style of campaign we've never seen before winning 22 states, extraordinary number of caucuses. Now the challenge is to bring the two halves of the party together.

    Party   Winning   Two  
    Source: www.npr.org
  • Even I just listen to some bands on YouTube. I'll think, "Oh, I quite like that, I should buy it someday," but I don't get around to buying half the stuff I liked.

    Thinking   Band   Half  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • I might be half Derek's size, but I was the one who sounded like a two-hundred-pound beast plowing through the woods.

    Two   Plowing   Half  
    Kelley Armstrong (2010). “The Reckoning: The Darkest Powers Trilogy”, p.156, Penguin Group
  • Knowing where she was in the world, even if he never touched her, gave him a deep satisfaction, and he half despised himself for being satisfied with so little.

    Knowing   Half   World  
    Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.142, Penguin
  • There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.

    Sea   Water   Silence  
    'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 19
  • Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.

    Home   Beer   Way  
    Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 62
  • To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

    Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1961). “The Story of Civilization: The Age of Reason begins, 1558-1648”
  • An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.

  • If general perception changes from seeing the glass as 'half-full' to seeing it as 'half empty' there are major innovative opportunities.

    Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.116, Routledge
  • The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks. She spent half her time in thinking of beauty, bravery, magnanimity; she had a fixed determination to regard the world as a place of brightness, of free expansion, of irresistible action, she thought it would be detestable to be afraid or ashamed. She had an infinite hope that she would never do anything wrong. She had resented so strongly, after discovering them, her mere errors of feeling.

  • One is so apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving so with the tide, always going out or coming in but still fundamentally there: and I believe this difficulty in making allowance for the tide is the reason for half the broken friendships.

  • I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island.

    Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.401, Canongate Books
  • The word in language is half someone else’s… it exists in other people’s mouths, in other people’s contexts, serving other people’s intentions: it is from there that one must take the word, and make it one’s own.

    People   Half   Mouths  
  • My ability to persuade my wife to marry me was quite my most brilliant achievement ... Of course, it would have been impossible for any ordinary man to have got through what I had to go through in peace and war without the devoted aid of what we call, in England, one's better half.

    War   Men   Wife  
    "Churchill by Himself". Book by Richard Langworth, p. 511, 2008.
  • It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.

  • I've never seen a woman half as beautiful as Jennifer Love Hewitt.

    "Family secrets" by Chris Heath, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2001.
  • Jesus is a half-naked guy, hanging, nailed to a cross, and then people wear that around their neck, and then those are the people that are upset about violence in movies.

    Jesus   People   Guy  
  • It was never a conscious decision - I was introducing myself as Duffy and my friends were calling me Duffy, so I just knocked off the first half of my name. For me it's no big deal, but a lot of people want to unearth why I've called myself this. It's just what I'm known as, you know.

    Names   People   Decision  
  • A single person is a manageable entity, whom you can either make friends with or leave alone. But half of a married couple is not exactly a whole human being: if the marriage is successful it is something a little more than that; if unsuccessful, a little less. In either case, a fresh complication is added to the already intricate business of friendship: as Clem had once remarked, you might as well try to dance a tarantella with a Siamese twin.

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

    "Le Cid". Book by Pierre Corneille, act III, scene iii, 1636.
  • Growth is improving the lot of the poor in many countries, reducing poverty by half since 1981. Freer trade could accelerate progress.

  • There was a solid year and a half, perhaps two years, after making 'Temple Grandin,' when I didn't do anything. I just didn't have much patience for roles that were silly, or light, or inconsequential.

    Silly   Light   Years  
  • Parasites are not only incredibly diverse; they are also incredibly successful. There are parasitic stretches of DNA in your own genes, some of which are called retrotransposons. Many of the parasitic stretches were originally viruses that entered our DNA. Most of them don't do us any harm. They just copy and insert themselves in other parts of our DNA, basically replicating themselves. Sometimes they hop into other species and replicate themselves in a new host. According to one estimate, roughly one-third to one-half of all human DNA is basically parasitic.

    Successful   Dna   Half  
  • Most people go on living their everyday life: half-frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragic-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.

    Eye   People   Everyday  
  • The real important function of the church is to present the symbol, to perform the rite, to let you behold this divine message in such a way that you are capable of experiencing it. What the relationship of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost to each other might be, in technical terms, is not half important as you, the celebrant, feeling the Virgin Birth within you, the birth of the mystic, mythic being that is your own spiritual life.

    Spiritual   Father   Real  
  • Refrain from drink which is the source of all evil-and the ruin of half the workmen in this Country.

    Country   Evil   Alcohol  
    George Washington (1908). “Letters and Addresses,”
  • I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.

    Past   Careers   Half  
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