Best half & should Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We are one people despite the ostensible rifts, cracks, and differences between the American and Soviet democracies. We are one people and it is not in our interests that the West should liberate the East, for in doing this and in liberating the enslaved nations, the West would inevitably deprive Jewry of the Eastern half of its world power.”

People World Should Nations Interest Differences Half Democracy West Jew East Despite Cracks Soviet Eastern Liberating World Domination Rift World Power

Author:Chaim Weizmann

“Audiences are so much more sophisticated than they've ever been. They expect a lot more. I don't think because it's an hour of your Thursday night rather than an hour and a half of your weekend that you should be gypped at all in quality.”

Thinking Should Night Hours Half Quality Audience Weekend Sophisticated Thursday Thursday Night

Author:Maggie Q

“If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're too late. Good business leaders should be half a step ahead of what customers want, i.e. they don't actually quite know they want it. That's what innovation's about. With Plan A, we didn't wait for the consumers to tell us.”

Ifs Knows Want Needs Should Waiting Half Leader Steps Plans Late Innovation Customers Consumers Too Late Business Leaders Good Business

Author:Stuart Rose

“Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.”

Should Half Pairs Half Truth

Book:Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life

Source: Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life

“I was a devil of a scapegrace in my time.... Father racked his head for days together to find a punishment that I should remember; but it was all no good... bread and water was a welcome change to me from the everyday monotony of potatoes and bread-and-butter. After a sound drubbing followed by half a day’s fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever.”

Should Together Remember Father Felt Sound Water Half Laughing Cry Devil Everyday Forgotten Punishment Bread Welcome My Time Wickedness Potatoes Fasting Monotony Bread And Butter

Book:The Path of Life

Source: The Path of Life

“I should say, the one thing you run into is, if you're trying to raise a round you have to decide, well, how much money are you trying to raise? And then you have to justify that to your investors, because they want to know why you [are] raising that much? Why aren't you raising either twice as much or half as much?”

Ifs Knows Want Should Trying Wells Running Half One Thing Raises Rounds Justify Investors

Author:David Plotz

“Why should it happen that among the great many women whom I see and am fond of, suddenly somebody I meet for half an hour opens the door into poetry?”

Should Happens Hours Half Doors Great Men

Book:Conversations with May Sarton

Source: Conversations with May Sarton

“One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home as good calves should; But made a trail all bent askew, A crooked trail as all calves do. . . . . And men two centuries and a half Trod in the footsteps of that calf.”

Men Should Made Two Home Half Century One Day Woods Bent Trails Boston Footsteps Crooked Precedent Calves Primeval

Author:Sam Walter Foss

“We've consistently seen, since the late 1990s, that more than half of women believe that abortion should be severely restricted or abolished altogether.”

Should Believe Half Late Abortion Consistently

Author:Faye Wattleton

“At present I am using a good sized bedroom in the 2 bedroom house here as a studio, and it is large enough to step back from my canvases, and has a good north light. It should serve very well until I can afford to have the storeroom half of the back building lined and insulated and a chimney put in. That may be in about two years.”

Should Years Wells May I Can Two Enough Light House Half Steps Building Studios Two Years Bedroom Chimneys Bedroom House

Author:E. J. Hughes

“Feminists of my mother's generation argued that both mom and dad should work a little less and each do some of the household chores. My parents, for example, split everything 50/50. Even though my father is a terrible cook, he still made dinner exactly half the time.”

Should Littles Made Stills Mother Father Parent Half Generations Example Mom Dad Terrible Feminist Dinner Cooks Splits Household Chores Mom And Dad Household Chores

Author:Emily Oster

“A recent poll showed that nearly half the American public believes that the government should redistribute wealth. That so many people are so willing to blithely put such an enormous and dangerous arbitrary power in the hands of politicians-\-\risking their own freedom, in hopes of getting what someone else has-\-\is a painful sign of how far many citizens and voters fall short of what is needed to preserve a democratic republic”

“If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.”

Ifs Should Hours Half Meditation Silent Affair International Convinced

Book:Mortals and Others

Source: Mortals and Others

“I do my show half-hour a night four nights a week. I haven't seen my kids in 18 months, and I am losing calcium in my bones. Doctors say I should stop. I'm not going to.”

Should Shows Kids Night Hours Half Four Week Havens Months Losing Doctors Bones Half Hours Calcium

Author:Stephen Colbert

“The machinery of destruction is complete, poised on a hair trigger, waiting for the 'button' to be 'pushed' by some misguided or deranged human being or for some faulty computer chip to send out the instruction to fire. That so much should be balanced on so fine a point--that the fruit of four and a half billion years can be undone in a careless moment--is a fact against which belief rebels.”

Source: The Fate of the Earth: And, The Abolition

“Should novels generally be 600 pages? No, they should not. Half of writing, maybe 3/4 of writing, is editing. This seems to be a thing that has not gotten through to them. It's my impression that you could get rid of half of most of these books. These people are not good enough to be this long, but they're apparently also not good enough to be shorter.”

People Should Writing Long Book Enough Seems Half Novel Pages Impression Good Enough Editing Not Good Enough

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“Why should we faint and fear to live alone,Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die?Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own,Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh.”

Knows Should Heart Reason Dies Next Heaven Half Solitude Reason Why Sigh All Alone

Book:The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays Throughout the Year

Source: The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays Throughout the Year

“As an educator, I think educators should meet the people wherever they are. Don't even ask them to come half-way. Find them where they are, and sit on a couch with them.”

People Thinking Way Should Asks Half Couches Educator Half Way

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.”

Want Should Able Hours Interesting Half Teacher Groups Subjects Students Perspective Conversation Profession Friendly Interesting Conversation

Author:William Glasser

“Kewell should have been yanked off the pitch at half time and put in a hot bath, a boiling hot bath.”

Should Has Beens Half Should Have Hot Baths Should Have Been Boiling Hot Baths Half Time

Author:Eamon

“Most people have only half developed their single personalities. That a man should split his into four and more; and should develop each separately and perfectly, was so abnormal that many normals failed to understand it.”

People Men Should Half Four Personality Splits Abnormal Single Person

Author:Frederick Rolfe

“The battle of life is already half won by the young man who is brought in contact with high officials; and the great aim of every boy should be to do something beyond the sphere of his duties- something which attracts the attention of those over him.”

Men Should Young Life Is Attention Half Boys Duty Battle Aim Contact Young Man Officials Spheres Battle Of Life

Book:The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

Source: The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

“Contrary to common belief, it is not true that if you cut a worm-fisherman in half, each half will grow into a complete fisherman. For which we should all be eternally grateful.”

Ifs Should Belief Grows Common Half Cutting Sea Rivers Grateful Fishes Contrary Boat Lakes Fishing Worms Fisherman

Author:Ed Zern

“The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in thirteen states in the course of eleven years, is but one for each state in a century and a half. No country should be so long without one. Nor will any degree of power in the hands of government prevent insurrections.”

Source: Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States

“God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion... We have had thirteen States independent for eleven years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half, for each State. What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion.”

Should Years Has Beens Country States Wisdom Politics Half Economy Century Twenties Independent Liberalism Rebellion Eleven Thirteen

Book:Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States

Source: Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States

“Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.”

Should Literature Born Half Groups Adults Population Proportion Requirements Citizenship Hispanic Proficiency

Author:Linda Chavez

“I am among those who firmly believe that a round of golf should not take more than three and a half hours, four at most. Anything longer than that is not a round of golf, it's life in Albania.”

Should Believe Three Hours Half Four Golf Rounds Half Hours Albania

Author:Dan Jenkins

“The musical flags of the world should fly at half mast because truly one of the greatest guitarists in the world and king of the blues has died. I have cherished him and so has the rest of the world who knew him and loved him for his entire career. As we pain, we must celebrate that his music, his style of playing and singing will last forever, from the recordings that he has done and the influence that he has had and will have on guitarists all over this planet. Long live the spirit of B.B. King.”

World Should Long Done Pain Lasts Spirit Half Careers Forever Influence Style Planets Kings Singing Died Musical Celebrate Flags Guitarist Masts

Author:Stevie Wonder

“Roughly, the action of a character should be unpredictable before it has been shown, inevitable when it has been shown. In the first half of a novel, the unpredictability should be the more striking. In the second half, the inevitability should be the more striking.”

Should Firsts Has Beens Character Action Half Novel Inevitable Unpredictable Inevitability Unpredictability

Book:Collected Impressions

Source: Collected Impressions

“There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.”

Men Should Heart Book Matter Easy Hours Secret Half Company Written Reader Intelligent Lays Critics Conviction Every Man Impression Sufficient Unfinished Reviewers

Book:In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers

Source: In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers

“Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a tram run off a line, which in England or France might kill one or two people, without its making a holocaust of half a street full. ... The thing which surprises me is they should still employ animals of normal size; one would expect to see elephants and mammoths drawing the hansoms and carts!”

“The 'creator' and the 'editor' - two halves of the writer whole - should sleep in separate rooms.”

Should Two Whole Sleep Rooms Half Creator Editors

Author:Judith Guest

“It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life. Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.”

Knows Should Wells Enough Mother Born Half Talking Boys Baby Importance Filled Tired Intellect Nonsense Happy Life Infant Conceit Talking Nonsense

Author:Augustus William Hare

“Perhaps the best testimony to the effectiveness of the reforms of 1852 is the fact, that men of a slightly later generation, familiar with the working of the courts half a century after, find it difficult to believe that such abuses as are plainly described by the legislation of that year, should really have existed in the middle of the nineteenth century.”

Source: A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919

“When other presidents used the executive pen, they used to it for things like should we lower the flag at half mast for someone who died and things like that. When President Obama uses it, he changes the way America does business.”

Way Should Doe Use America Used President Half Died Executives Pens President Obama Flags Masts

Author:Eric Bolling

“They say you should never eat before you go to bed, but I've found just having a tiny little snack - like half an apple or something like that - before you go to sleep really helps.”

Should Littles Helping Found Sleep Half Bed Tiny Apples Going To Sleep Snacks

Author:Kelly Osbourne

“The record-breaking extreme weather events causing chaos across the globe should be a wake-up call. The transition to a low-carbon economy will be much more painful if we wait until there is a climate crisis before recognising that more than half of the world's fossil fuel reserves will have to remain in the ground.”

“[The Utopia of Rules] should offer a challenge to us all. Should we just accept this bureaucracy as inevitable? Or is there a way to get rid of all those hours spent listening to bad call-centre music? Do policemen, academics, teachers and doctors really need to spend half their time filling in forms? Or can we imagine another world?”

World Way Needs Should Form Hours Challenges Half Accepting Teacher Imagine Listening Offers Doctors Inevitable Centre Bureaucracy Filling Utopia Policemen Another World Filling In

Author:Gillian Tett

“The TV said you should ignore bullies and they would stop harassing you. In practice this worked about half the time. The other half, you ended up with two tall boys shadowing you through a trailer park, their fingers taking little nips at your clothes, like dogs.”

Should Littles Said Two Half Boys Practice Dog Tvs Clothes Fingers Parks Tall Bully Other Half Trailers Trailer Park

Book:Levitating Las Vegas

Source: Levitating Las Vegas

“... I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow we should never know half the good there is about us.”

Ifs Knows Inspirational Should Book Faces Half Trouble Sorrow Your Face

Book:Ghost stories

Source: Ghost stories

“I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well; but I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time, no matter how quickly its successor should come upon its heels, which I then formed.”

Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield ... With Frontispiece by H. K. Browne

“The beard, being a half-mask, should be forbidden by the police - It is, moreover, as a sexual symbol in the middle of the face, obscene: that is why it pleases women.”

Should Faces Half Middle Please Police Symbols Mask Forbidden Beard Obscene

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would suffice for the advancement and maintenance of many children.”

Should Children Father Enjoy Half Broken Injustice Possession Corners Advancement Maintenance Dead Father

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“To history therefore I must refer for answer, in which it would be an unhappy passage indeed, which should shew by what fatal indulgence of subordinate views and passions, a contest for an atom had defeated well founded prospects of giving liberty to half the globe.”

Source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 18 June, 1779 to 30 September, 1780

“If the Americans, in addition to the eagle and the Stars and Stripes and the more unofficial symbols of bison, moose and Indian, should ever need another emblem, one which is friendly and pleasant, then I think they should choose the grapefruit. Or rather the half grapefruit, for this fruit only comes in halves, I believe. Practically speaking, it is always yellow, always just as fresh and well served. And it always comes at the same, still hopeful hour of the morning.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Should Believe Wells Stills America I Believe Stars Hours Half Morning Fruit Symbols Indian Pleasant Hopeful Friendly Yellow Eagles Stripes Emblems Moose Grapefruit Bison

Author:Johan Huizinga

“It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.”

Should Wells Mother Born Inspiring Half Baby Importance Filled Intellect Infant Mothers Day Conceit

Author:Augustus Hare

“What is Americanism? Every one has a different answer. Some people say it is never to submit to the dictation of a King. Others say Americanism is the pride of liberty and the defence of an insult to the flag with their gore. When some half-developed person tramples on that flag, we should be ready to pour out the blood of the nation, they say. But do we not sit in silence when that flag waves over living conditions which should be an insult to all patriotism?”

“...when we are going through the aftereffects of a bad jolt in loss of money or pride--and both are closely connected--we should get off to ourselves, make an honest appraisal of our shortcomings, and try to find our weak spots and bolster them up before starting in again. First on the program we should figure out a plan to eat. The money we have lost is a small matter; if we can keep our pride and strong faith in ourselves the battle ahead is half won before we start.”

Ifs Should Trying Firsts Matter Lost Strong Loss Half Plans Honest Figures Failure Pride Battle Program Weak Perseverance Starting Connected Spots Shortcomings Appraisal Strong Faith Weak Spots

Author:Sue Sanders

“There is a clear acknowledgement all over the world that we should not teach people to read and then to leave them without literature. For they would then relapse into a dreary and ultimately dangerous state of half-education, in which they would be easily satisfied by crude semi-pictorial approximations of the strip cartoon and by the abundant supply of degenerate literature which destroys, rather than promotes, a capacity to face the problems of the world with skill and courage”

“If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack, You may get a bland smile from these sages; But should it, by chance, be imported from France, Half-a-crown is stopped out of your wages!”

Ifs Should May Chance Half France Orthodox Cracks Crowns Wages Sage Smack Bland

Author:W. S. Gilbert

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