Best members & half Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members.”

Care Half Members Performers Earning Family Members

“Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have supported numerous wilderness designations. In fact, I cannot recall ever opposing a wilderness bill.”

Facts Half Members Resources Bills Wilderness Speakers Recalls Committees Opposing Designation

Author:Nick Rahall

“The clock struck half past two. In the little office at the back of Mr. McKechnie's bookshop, Gordon--Gordon Comstock, last member of the Comstock family, aged twenty-nine and rather moth-eaten already--lounged across the table, pushing a fourpenny packet of Player's Weights open and shut with his thumb.”

Littles Two Book Lasts Past Half Player Members Office Weight Twenties Tables Nine Clock Pushing Thumbs Moths Bookshops

Book:The complete works of George Orwell

Source: The complete works of George Orwell

“About one-half of the members of Congress are seekers for office at the nomination of the President. Of the remainder, at least one-half have some appointment or favor to ask for their relatives.”

Asks President Half Members Office Congress Favors Seekers Appointments Nominations One Half

Author:John Quincy Adams

“Most gun dealers follow the law and run honest businesses. But the statistics show that 1 percent of dealers sell more than half of all illegal guns. Why isn't the federal government going after them? Here's one reason: unlike mayors, members of Congress don't get a phone call in the middle of the night when a cop is shot and killed. They don't deliver the eulogies.”

“tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice. It would be subversive of every human interest that the cry of one-half the human family be stifled. ... The world has had to limp along with the wobbling gait and one-sided hesitancy of a man with one eye. Suddenly the bandage is removed from the other eye and the whole body is filled with light. It sees a circle where before it saw a segment. The darkened eye restored, every member rejoices with it.”

“Unfortunately, half the boats were lost in a great storm at sea, and many members of the six boats that did make it to their destinations safely, were later killed by the very native people to whom they sought to transmit their knowledge of the Atlantean sciences, arts and metaphysics.”

People Art Lost Half Sea Members Six Ancient Storm Boat Native Destination Metaphysics Transmit Ancient Egypt Atlantis

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“I have a half-brother who is very, very, very gay, many cousins, best friends who are all members of the LGBT community, and for me to not say anything would be hypocritical. There is a lot of prejudice. People think it is abnormal. No, its just another normal.”

People Thinking Would Be Community Half Brother Gay Members Normal Prejudice Lgbt Say Anything Cousin Abnormal Gay Men Hypocritical Lgbt Community

Author:Lea Salonga

“According to FBI statistics for 2008, only 22 percent of murder victims were killed by strangers. More than 30 percent were slain by family members, boyfriends, and girlfriends. Nearly half of all murders were committed by friends, neighbors, and casual acquaintances.”

Half Members Percent Murder Victim Committed Stranger Neighbor Girlfriend Statistics Acquaintance Casual Fbi Family Members Boyfriend And Girlfriend Murder Victims

Author:Alafair Burke

“The member of a culture ... purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized. ... He is embarrassed when this is taken out of its context of proper sentiments and presented bare, for he feels that this is a reintrusion of that world which his whole conscious effort has sought to banish. Forms and conventions are the ladder of ascent. And hence the speechlessness of the man of culture when he beholds the barbarian tearing aside some veil which is half adornment, half concealment.”

“You've a very important, early decision to make in your life: are you going to be alone, or are you going to be with somebody else? Are you going to be sane, or not lonely? A couple is a strange thing; it's an organism that's half as intelligent as the most intelligent member. And you both know who it is!”

Knows Important Humor Funny Decision Half Strange Couple Members Lonely Intelligent Sane Organisms Strange Things

Author:Dylan Moran

“You know, I'm not very good at magic - I can only do half of a trick. Yes - I'm a member of the Magic Semi-circle.”

Knows I Can Humor Funny Half Magic Members Very Good Circles Tricks

Author:Tim Vine

“In the build-up to a race I begin practising two days beforehand with two other team members. We have an hour and a half practise run together. Then on the next day we have another practise in two separate hour long sessions. On the actual day of competition we do a warm-up run in the car before the race.”

Long Two Running Together Next Hours Race Half Team Car Members Competition Warm Next Day Session Two Days Practise Team Member

Author:Liz Halliday

“Reasons why members of Congress deserve a pay raise: Many big corporations are cutting back on bribes; nearly half the members have never been indicted.”

Reason Bigs Pay Half Cutting Members Deserve Raises Congress Corporations Reason Why Bribe Why Me Big Corporations

Author:David Letterman

“I'm always keeping an eye on the court. Also, when the members of Congress came to his office during the budget debacle of a year and a half back and said, "We want to de-fund Planned Parenthood," he said, "Not going to happen." Those apparently were more or less his exact words.”

Want Years Said Happens Eye Half Members Office Court Congress Budgets Fund Parenthood Planned Parenthood Debacles

Author:Anna Quindlen

“Typically, among the audience members joining the actors, the director, Ann Ciccolella and myself, about half of these theater goers have read the novel [Anthem], and half have not read it. That is interesting.”

Actors Interesting Half Novel Audience Directors Members Theater Joining Anthem

Author:Jeff Britting

“I realized that in all the sectors of society where there's a huge gender disparity, the one place that can be fixed overnight is onscreen. You think about getting half of Congress, or the presidency ... It's going to take a while no matter how hard we work on it. But half of the board members and half of the CEOs can be women in the next movie somebody makes; it can be absolutely half.”

Thinking Matter Hard Next Half Huge Members Congress Gender I Realized Fixed Boards Ceo Presidency Disparity Board Members

Author:Geena Davis

“The bottom half of humanity is living in severe poverty; not all of them are malnourished or severely deprived now, but they are extremely vulnerable to even small upsets in their income or in the prices they face of basic necessities, and when something like this happens, they can be thrown off kilter in terms of a disease of a family member or a change in food prices; anything like that can throw them into destitution.”

Happens Faces Humanity Term Half Poverty Members Disease Bottom Income Vulnerable Upset Thrown Severe Deprived Family Members

Author:Thomas Pogge

Members Quotes

Related topics

Members Quotes