Half-century Quotes

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The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
View quotes by Isaac Singer

The century on which we are entering - the century which will come out of this war - can be and must be the century of the common man. (Speech, 8 May 1942)
View quotes by Henry Wallace

He had, over half a century, perfected and personified that hardly definable English sound, the burble [Brian Johnston]
View quotes by Godfrey Smith

Thus does the Beeb ease the English into another gray familiar day, another half-century of magic mystic rays.
View quotes by Francis X Clines

The presence of a long term and conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a century.
View quotes by Mary Craig

The scientists say that it's going to be five to ten degrees warmer by the end of this century, the 21st century, than it is today.
View quotes by Peter Barnes

Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice
View quotes by James Russell Lowell

It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it.
View quotes by Winston Churchill

I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.
View quotes by Althea Gibson

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
View quotes by E B White

The one who wins the top half will win the tournament [on US Open 2007, Henin won from the top half]
View quotes by Marion Bartoli

Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.
View quotes by Lionel Barrymore

I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free
View quotes by Abraham Lincoln

There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.
View quotes by Norman Mailer

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
View quotes by Neil Gaiman

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
View quotes by David Hare

I won't be able to stop the drinking just like that but I've hopefully cut it in half and if you cut what I drink in half that is a hell of a lot.
View quotes by Andy Fordham

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
View quotes by Clarence Darrow

We knew at half-time we were only half-way there [on drawing 0-0 with Germany!]
View quotes by Simon Davies

The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
View quotes by Fedor Dostoevsky



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