A Quote by E. B. White

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

E. B. White

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E. B. White
American - Writer
July 11, 1899 - October 1, 1985

A democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.

Felix Rohatyn

I don't often spend more than half an hour in prayer at one time, but I never go more than half an hour without praying.

Smith Wigglesworth

It is the ultimate conceit of conservatives: that more than half of American voters don't make up more than half of our country.

Kurt Eichenwald

Women are more than half of our globe, more than half of our promise and potential. And we have been not only underusing that resource but suppressing it.

Sally Kohn

When I speak to people I worked with when I was young, they constantly tell me they wish their students would work half as hard as I did. I was always one to get a lot more out of myself, seeing the glass as half-empty rather than half-full.

Milos Raonic

I love radio! I think radio, done right, can have more influence and have a greater connection with people and be more deeply meaningful than another medium like TV, which is on all the time and you're paying attention to it half the time.

Rush Limbaugh

Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half.

Samuel Gridley Howe

There's something hypocritical about a city that keeps half of its population underground half of the time; you can start believing that there's much more space than there really is-to live, to work.

Gloria Naylor

People ask me why I am a feminist. Because I am a woman of freedom and equality and it is not possible to have freedom in the world when half of humanity has no rights. Because we are more than half of humanity. There are more women than men. This is not a fight of so-called "minorities."

Maria Teresa Horta

More than half the U.S. population and more than half of the voters in this election were women. Among them, 42 percent voted for Donald Trump, 54 percent went for Hillary Clinton, essentially the reverse of how men voted.

Judy Woodruff

Chemically speaking or biologically, we research things, but we don't know half of them. We only know our half of it - symbolically - and we don't know ourselves more than half.

Yoko Ono

Half of the people in this room are more dressed up than on any other day in the year, and the other half are more dressed down.

Bill Murray

When you meet someone, treat them as if they were in serious trouble, and you will be right more than half the time.

Henry B. Eyring

Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism

Criss Jami

If I can reach a half-million people with the click of a button, that's more powerful than finding half of a million people to give a dollar to.

Spencer Dinwiddie

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.

Stijn Streuvels

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