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Jane Haddam

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MICHEL VION Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
GEORGE D. PRENTICE Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
GEORGE D. PRENTICE Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
GEORGE DENNISON PRENTICE Making people uncomfortable is one of my hobbies. I'm always hoping that half the people get the...
JOSH HOMME Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB Well, well, well I am trap in well, half way to hell.
DEYTH BANGER To hate a person is a waste; half the people you hate don't care, and the other half don't know.
UNKNOWN In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned. -...
JANE HADDAM This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half ...
WALTER MURCH Half of life is fucking up the other half is dealing with it.
HENRY ROLLINS Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who hav...
ROBERT FROST Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS Really the second (half), I was very pleased. Because for the opportunities that we had in the first...
KRIS HENRY Half the people think I write Obama's speeches; the other half think I'm on 'Entourage.&...
JON FAVREAU How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL 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...
WALTER KERR Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advant...
WALTER KERR Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who...
ROBERT FROST Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.
LIONEL BARRYMORE Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
MARK TWAIN [Before], half the team probably didn't like each other. Now, everybody's always with each other.
JARVIS HERRING One half of the world will never understand the other half, and it doesn't matter which half you're ...
UNKNOWN If I had stayed human, how could you have remained with me as a lifemate?” She pushed her rounded ...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN It seemed like we were throwing it to the guys in orange the entire first half. We were (lazy) with ...
RICK CARLISLE It sometimes seemed to him that for love to work, it had to be fair, that he should tell only half t...
TAO LIN Imagine two strings with different properties joined end-to-end with each other. Chemically, one hal...
RACHEL SEGALMAN Baton Rouge had a population of 400,000; now it has a population of 800,000, with one-half needing t...
RON KRAL Growing up, I naturally embraced who I was, but I was always battling with myself. So I spent half m...
RUPI KAUR Life without you is just like a pair of compass with defect where only one movable arm is attached t...
MAGGIEGUE Half of the monkeys were recuperating; and the other half continued in a stable condition with our t...
DONG JUNXING What they're going to do is get the southbound ramp done first, then move to the northbound and do t...
GEOFF DUPAIX Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.
BUM PHILLIPS I got in a rhythm in the second half and everything seemed like it was going well,
SHERYL SWOOPES Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE You can never tire, never wilt-and become half-tyrant, half-psychiatrist, half-madman, and half-dead...
DIRK BENEDICT I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half.
JACK GOULD I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.
JAY GOULD I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half
JACK GOULD We all know each other and half are related.
KAY PELTIER The only way to know if the glass is half empty or half full is to measure it really accurately, lik...
STATEMENTS No soulmate leaves the world alone; they always take a piece of their other half along with them.
BRITTAINY C. CHERRY The moment seemed endless, but it was probably only half that.
STEVE TOLTZ Some people see the liquid and think half full. Others only see the air and think half empty. Someti...
MCCALL HOYLE There are only so many stories, and half of that has to do with the execution of it and half of it h...
DANA DELANY When history looks back I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and ...
SIMON WIESENTHAL We can step up and get better or we can continue to slide. At times we have showed a lot of promise ...
JEFF WALLACE With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half...
OTTO VON BISMARCK With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a hal...
OTTO VON BISMARCK Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid...
KURT VONNEGUT When I get home I take some sleeping pills and within what seemed like half an hour of unconsciousne...
IRVINE WELSH To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty.
EDDIE MONEY It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no cl...
NEIL GAIMAN We seemed to be in a hurry in the first half, especially in trying to get the ball inside to Dominiq...
WENDY PRICE I had to come out and be aggressive in the second half and not get in foul trouble. It seemed we'd g...
DAVID PADGETT It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no cl...
NEIL GAIMAN God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broke...
PADDY CHAYEFSKY I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.
DAVID SCHWIMMER I think we always kind of look forward to seeing each other. Dolly and Jane are both so kind of opti...
LILY TOMLIN Thank God my hair is always the same. And I get dressed very quickly. I am not one of those people w...
CAROLINA HERRERA Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
EDMUND BURKE Half of the world knows not how the other half lives.
GEORGE HERBERT There are some people that see the half full cup and get upset about where the other half of the cup...
DANIEL PROKOP Tag, you know ‘half-and-half’ is a pejorative use of an ableist term,” Jett chastises. “Both...
MATT WALLACE She was only half Bird now, and the other half song. She liked it that way.
KATHERINE CATMULL Wow the second half of my life is half over... it's time to get to work!
KEN O. ELDIB The second half has always been our half. We didn't know what to expect (from University) so we pace...
KYLE LEWIS I always tell my kids to cut a sandwich in half right when you get it, and the first thought you sho...
LOUIS C.K. I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of p...
ALTHEA GIBSON Surely anybody with a half a wit can figure out some other way to get what they?re after.
DON MITCHELL A mirror does not exist by itself. A mirror is a half. Half is done by the piece. The other half has...
CRISTIANE SERRUYA I have a half Lab and half golden retriever named Henry and then the other one, Lucy, is half Akita ...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST Half of this story is true and the other half might very well have happened.
WILLIAM PèNE DU BOIS All you have to do is watch the first minute and a half of the new season, and you know there's no o...
CHRIS ALBRECHT The first half, we just didn't get out on him. The second half ... I don't know if there was anythin...
BRAD KROUSE Coach wanted us to have a game like this, to get out and get after people at the defensive end. We d...
BRANDON JENKINS The first 10 days we were cursed for being sluggish. If the government satisfies half the people, th...
ALWI SHIHAB I hit .400 or something the rest of the way. I was crushing the ball. Everybody seemed to think it h...
JARROD SALTALAMACCHIA Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is...
GORE VIDAL Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is ...
GORE VIDAL Belief is like a glass of water that is either half full or half empty or about to get filled,depend...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) You have a wide array of people that are watching something, and you cannot please everyone at the s...
DAVID A. R. WHITE We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the o...
BILL CLINTON 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

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JANE HADDAM Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously.
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JANE SMILEY Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
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JANE ELLIOT I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family who...
JANE CAMPION I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, wi...
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JANE BIRKIN Seek women mentors. If you're a businesswoman, look at the TEDx conferences. There's a lot o...
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JANE GREEN Don't let anyone discourage you from writing. If you become a professional writer, there are ple...
JANE YOLEN Melanoma is not the most common of skin cancers, but it is the most dangerous if not found in the ea...
JANE GREEN Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration a...
JANE MAYER I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. ...
JANE GOODALL I think if you go from show to show without doing that big PR blitz it's helpful because people ...
JANE CURTIN Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any...
JANE GOODSELL I love nothing better than to get all the nuts and bolts out of the way - show up on time, with line...
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CALAMITY JANE We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
CALAMITY JANE While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.
CALAMITY JANE During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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CALAMITY JANE On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least th...
CALAMITY JANE Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden ...
CALAMITY JANE As many of the riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail and money that t...
CALAMITY JANE We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous...
CALAMITY JANE When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got...
CALAMITY JANE It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick s...
CALAMITY JANE By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider fo...
CALAMITY JANE I actually failed my first license test. I got an automatic fail. I guess I had been doing well but ...
JANE LEVY You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
JANE FONDA You want, in a sense, to relate to the main character, so often, the main character POV is a bit mor...
JANE GOLDMAN Thank God I've never had the sort of intense fame that means you can't walk up the road. Tha...
JANE ASHER What strange creatures brothers are!
JANE AUSTEN ...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
JANE AUSTEN [I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.
JANE AUSTEN Angry people are not always wise.
JANE AUSTEN I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But...
JANE AUSTEN The conversation soon turned upon fishing, and she heard Mr. Darcy invite him, with the greatest civ...
JANE AUSTEN Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk ...
JANE AUSTEN Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborh...
JANE JACOBS A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a mo...
JANE AUSTEN What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
JANE GOODALL I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than ...
JANE AUSTEN Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.
JANE AUSTEN Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was neces...
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JANE AUSTEN We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked...
JANE AUSTEN There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison
JANE AUSTEN I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
JANE AUSTEN To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
JANE AUSTEN There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My cour...
JANE AUSTEN I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. N...
JANE AUSTEN Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.
JANE AUSTEN I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is to...
JANE AUSTEN There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, whic...
JANE AUSTEN Somewhere a bird sang, its chant hanging plaintive and melancholy in the still air...I think it's a ...
JANE JOHNSON We are all fools in love
JANE AUSTEN ....how good Mrs. West could have written such books and collected so many hard works, with all her ...
JANE AUSTEN What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow? How could I p...
JANE AUSTEN Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals cor...
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JANE AUSTEN I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.
JANE AUSTEN If I am a wild Beast I cannot help it. It is not my own fault.
JANE AUSTEN I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.
JANE AUSTEN I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my lif...
JANE AUSTEN To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at la...
JANE AUSTEN Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.
JANE SMILEY Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
JANE AUSTEN The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really...
JANE AUSTEN In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to te...
JANE AUSTEN There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving peop...
JANE AUSTEN To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plai...
JANE AUSTEN Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last ...
JANE AUSTEN ...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with th...
JANE HARRISON Men are creatures with eight hands.
JANE MANSFIELD It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
JANE AUSTEN Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
JANE AUSTEN A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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JANE AUSTEN Telling lies and showing off to get attention are the mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to m...
JANE FONDA I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
JANE WAGNER When you affirm your own rightness in the universe, then you co-operate with others easily and autom...
JANE ROBERTS A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.
JANE FONDA But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism ...
JANE JACOBS You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful ...
JANE FONDA A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not...
JANE HARRISON My husband said he wanted to have a relationship with a redhead, so I dyed my hair.
JANE FONDA I worry that no matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.
JANE WAGNER You're probably not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spe...
JANE GOODSELL Channels, psychological and psychic, always exist, sending communications back and forth through the...
JANE ROBERTS Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever ...
JANE HOWARD From politics it was an easy step to silence.
JANE AUSTEN There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
JANE AUSTEN I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
JANE AUSTEN Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerab...
JANE AUSTEN Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itsel...
JANE ADDAMS One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
JANE AUSTEN It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good co...
JANE AUSTEN It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, s...
JANE AUSTEN I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than o...
JANE AUSTEN The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain - until it is secured for all of us and...
JANE ADDAMS One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
JANE AUSTEN One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, noth...
JANE AUSTEN Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
JANE AUSTEN Those who do not complain are never pitied.
JANE AUSTEN Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
JANE AUSTEN In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
JANE AUSTEN I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
JANE AUSTEN Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor o...
JANE AUSTEN What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
JANE AUSTEN With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
JANE AUSTEN There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman t...
JANE AUSTEN It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be...
JANE AUSTEN And I, Mr. Knightley, am equally stout in my confidence of its not doing them any harm. With all dea...
JANE AUSTEN America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is...
JANE ADDAMS The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
JANE ADDAMS Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion,...
JANE AUSTEN Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish prepara...
JANE AUSTEN Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
JANE AUSTEN Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
JANE AUSTEN For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
JANE AUSTEN To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
JANE AUSTEN It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing...
JANE AUSTEN A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as sh...
JANE AUSTEN . . . it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether...
JANE AUSTEN When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.
JANE FONDA Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young perso...
JANE AUSTEN You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have hear...
JANE AUSTEN We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
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JANE AUSTEN Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be...
JANE AUSTEN I go into the locker room and find a corner and just sit there. I try to achieve a peaceful state of...
JANE BLALOCK It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years ...
JANE AUSTEN It's never too late -- never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
JANE FONDA Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any othe...
JANE AUSTEN I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by ...
JANE AUSTEN A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
JANE HEARD Self-denial is painful for a moment, but very agreeable in the end.
JANE TAYLOR To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
JANE FONDA Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen...
JANE SEYMOUR In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain...
JANE SMILEY The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.
JANE PORTER If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that...
JANE FONDA My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.
JANE AUSTEN If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
JANE AUSTEN