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Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then?...

Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning about shame, fire, fire brigade, life

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

Quote by Albert Camus about philosophy, sun, indifference, history

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Quote by Jane Austen about world

Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about victory

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

Quote by Jane Austen about joy, state, being

To be prepared is half the victory.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about victory

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

Quote by Bette Davis about man

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.

Quote by Agatha Christie about books, writing, worry, people

It's really important for boys to see that girls take up half of the planet - which we do.

Quote by Geena Davis

People want you to satisfy every possible dream or expectation they would have for a woman president... We still live at a time when a female president is controversial - even though it seems so bizarre that we've made it to the 21st century...

Quote by Geena Davis about expectation, dream, woman, talent, time, people, contentment

I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more.

Quote by Catherine Deneuve about work, love

Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Quote by Winston Churchill about danger, contentment

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Quote by Princess Diana about happiness, day, love

I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want...

Quote by Princess Diana about day, happiness, age, olderness, world, love, people

Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step.

Quote by Placido Domingo about public

With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.

Quote by Placido Domingo about voice

When I used to put an album out, I knew everyone on the charts. There weren't that many bands, now I couldn't even name half the new groups.

Quote by Joe Cocker about name

People in the United States, on average, marry in their mid to late 20s, and half of all divorces take place in the first seven years of marriage.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about marriage, people

I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember.

Quote by Brett Favre about football, faith, life

Initially, I know that I handled it worse than she did and I think partly because I've always been... every bit of adversity I've faced up until the last year and a half is adversity I brought upon myself - or the opposing teams have given me.

Quote by Brett Favre