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Half of this story is true and the other half might very well have happened.


William Pène du Bois

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LEON LITWACK If half of a country is rotten, the other half will soon start rotting as well!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Just between you and me and the lamppost, Dylan could easily be any girl's perfect other half...
JAMES PATTERSON I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.'
ANDRE HOLLAND The Jesuits have disseminated half a story, while burying the other half. They are engaged in a camp...
PAUL CHEVEDDEN I remember so many things [. . .] The problem is, only half of them are true . . . and the half whic...
PETER DAVID Six of one, half dozen of another. Oh, well, half of one, six dozen of the other.
JOE GARAGIOLA We will probably do either the east half or the west half of the road. It's difficult to put sidewal...
DAVE MCKAY I have a half Lab and half golden retriever named Henry and then the other one, Lucy, is half Akita ...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST We will have to defend very well and take half-chances. It will come down to who takes the half-chan...
GRAHAM ARNOLD Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE If I had stayed human, how could you have remained with me as a lifemate?” She pushed her rounded ...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN The first half we just didn't play very well. It was probably our poorest performance of the season ...
LEONARD BARNES Life without you is just like a pair of compass with defect where only one movable arm is attached t...
MAGGIEGUE Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.
BUM PHILLIPS Well, well, well I am trap in well, half way to hell.
DEYTH BANGER Half of us are in a state of learning... the other half is unlearning the shit that we have learned.
MARTIN T. SCREETON Half of life is fucking up the other half is dealing with it.
HENRY ROLLINS Half of what creates psychopaths is genetic, but the other half is conditioning.
JAMES NORTON Man is more miserable, more restless and unsatisfied than ever before, simply because half his natur...
PAUL BRUNTON I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as wel...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as wel...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN This has never happened before, the most he'd ever be late is a half an hour or so. He's a very heal...
ANGELA VIRGINIA The same wood used for the coffin and the roof structure. (Au cercueil sert le même bois, - Et à l...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE I like half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as y...
LORD OF THE RINGS Half of me is this wacked-out comedienne who will do anything for a buck and a laugh. Well, at least...
FAITH PRINCE Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who hav...
ROBERT FROST That might have been the worst half of basketball we've played.
JASON FLOETKE I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing.
PAUL CHATFIELD Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.
MARY WILSON LITTLE Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.
MARY WILSON LITTLE Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU They're a very good team. We didn't play well the first half but a lot of subs stepped up in the sec...
CARRIE BAILEY One half of the world will never understand the other half, and it doesn't matter which half you're ...
UNKNOWN We have to be upbeat and intense. We have to defend very well in the half-court, keep up the ball pr...
JOSH GREENBERG Montpelier played very, very well. They were the better team. We played better in the second half, b...
BRUCE VIENS This game is always a big one. We were lethargic in the first half, we didn't execute well and showe...
JEFF BEEMAN We held them to nine points in the first half, so our defense played very well (in the first half).
BILL WOLF Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who...
ROBERT FROST If we played in the first half how we played in the second half, things might have been different.
DAVE TODD We couldn't tell in the first half what happened and we wanted to find out, so we just ran it,
PETE CARROLL Hey, on a given day, a championship team can lose. We just happened to have a very bad second half.
JOE FONTANA What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW That should never have happened. But I don't think it affected us other than that it made us focused...
GAIL SHELLY Half of the world knows not how the other half lives.
GEORGE HERBERT We cranked it up in the second half. Bliss slowed the ball down in the first half and we didn't shoo...
DICK SIMPSON ...she opened the door very slowly and carefully, half hiding behind it, as if badly frightened of w...
JEFF LINDSAY Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat the...
DR. MARTIN HENRY FISCHER Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat the...
MARTIN HENRY FISCHER Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat the...
MARTIN H. FISCHER Tag, you know ‘half-and-half’ is a pejorative use of an ableist term,” Jett chastises. “Both...
MATT WALLACE It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the o...
BILL CLINTON A week and a half in the gym is what happened to us.
EMILY CEDERHOLM Very similar. But this one was more of (us) having a big lead. The other games were closer at the ha...
CASAUNDRA WILSON Keep well; that is the half of wisdom and of happiness.
EMILE ZOLA ‎"If you're cup is half empty, you can blame it on others, or you can fill it up yourself.."
REZA FARIVAR This is a half-hearted and half-baked solution to the problem of illegal immigration.
ANGELA KELLEY Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finis...
MARCUS AURELIUS Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have fini...
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have fini...
AUSONIUS A mirror does not exist by itself. A mirror is a half. Half is done by the piece. The other half has...
CRISTIANE SERRUYA Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE We were a little over-confident. This should not have happened, we wanted to decide the game in the ...
GERALD ASAMOAH We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help to free the other half
EMMELINE PANKHURST Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the per...
ROBERT HALF Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
ROBERT HALF There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to reco...
ROBERT HALF Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
ROBERT HALF There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to re...
ROBERT HALF Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.
ROBERT HALF Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
ROBERT HALF There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to reco...
ROBERT HALF The search for someone to blame is always successful.
ROBERT HALF Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.
ROBERT HALF Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It ...
ROBERT HALF Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake.
ROBERT HALF There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.
ROBERT HALF Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy
ROBERT HALF It's easy to make good decisions when there are no bad options.
ROBERT HALF What happens when the future has come and gone?
ROBERT HALF No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.
ROBERT HALF Free advice is worth the price.
ROBERT HALF Time spent on hiring is time well spent.
ROBERT HALF Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument.
ROBERT HALF Having respect for your own time will assure respect for the other person's time
ROBERT HALF The combination of hard work and smart work is efficient work
ROBERT HALF When faced with a mountain, I will not quit! I will keep striving until I climb over, find a pass th...
ROBERT HALF When the customer comes first, the customer will last
ROBERT HALF Even a boring occupation can be interesting when your goal is to do it better
ROBERT HALF The customer is our reason for being here.
ROBERT HALF When your future arrives, will you blame your past?
ROBERT HALF Aspirations can cure headaches
ROBERT HALF Not admiring a mistake is a bigger mistake.
ROBERT HALF They just have no idea that they might be consuming half of a very small stream coming down from the...
EILEEN HAGGERTY One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Saw him where?"
"While I was sitting outside with one of my half aunts."
This seemed to sa...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advant...
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ANTON DU BEKE It's great that ballroom dancing is being recognised. For many years ballroom dancers were misun...
ANTON DU BEKE Ballroom dancing: it's a wonderful thing at so many levels because you've got to follow the ...
ANTON DU BEKE Ballroom is two people dancing together to music, touching in perfect harmony.
ANTON DU BEKE Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps ...
PETE DU PONT I'm busier than ever and it's led to new opportunities. But I've never worried about bei...
ANTON DU BEKE I love the physical thing of being on the earth that bore you. I have the same feeling when I walk i...
JACQUELINE DU PRE I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes ri...
JACQUELINE DU PRE The peace of Manderley. The quietude and the grace. Whoever lived within its walls, whatever trouble...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.
DAPHNE DU MAURIER Now conquering Rome doth conquered Rome inter, And she the vanquished is, and vanquisher. To s...
JOACHIM DU BELLAY Why, he wondered, should he remember her suddenly, on such a day, watching the rain falling on the a...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER The days of rejoicing are gone forever. [Fr., Ils sont passes ces jours de fete.]
JACQUES DU LORENS The Ritz in London has an old-fashioned charm, with waiters wearing tails and white gloves. The dini...
ANTON DU BEKE Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. - What Is Literature?
CHARLES DU BOS Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
DAPHNE DU MAURIER The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could bec...
CHARLES DU BOS Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling,
Words that weary and perplex and pander and conce...
GEORGE DU MAURIER Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
DAPHNE DU MAURIER We're safe enough now,' he thought, 'we're snug and tight, like an air-raid shelter. We can hold out...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous ...
PETE DU PONT Because we had no other relatives living in the U.K., me, my parents and my siblings continuously jo...
ANTON DU BEKE I think science is a foreign land for many people, so I think of my role as an ambassador's job.
MARCUS DU SAUTOY Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way...
PETE DU PONT