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Nietzsche lampooned the romantics of his day (a half century later), noting that "they muddy the waters to make them look deep.
— Robert Solomon
Half a century goes by in what seems like a year. Don't waste an hour in boredom, son, or wishing for tomorrow.
— Dean Koontz
Madame Aubain's servant Felicite was the envy of the ladies of Pont-l'Eveque for half a century.
— Gustave Flaubert
In the first half of the 20th century, fashion was simply not a very English thing to do.
— Mary Quant
Pretty much anything you laughed at in the second half of the 20th century can be traced back to Your Show Of Shows.
— Rob Reiner
We are about half a century away from being ecologically and economically bankrupt because of global warming
— Andrew Simms
My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.
— Antonio Porchia
I'm grateful for the evangelical resurgence we've seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God's doing.
— Billy Graham
The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.
— Lester R. Brown
You must remind me: "Edith! Speak up! Tell the story." It has been more than half a century. I suppose it is time.
— Edith Hahn Beer
Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but its spectre still hangs over the world and doesn't allow us to forget.
— Irena Sendler
Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century.
— Ernst W. Mayr
For over half a century the automobile has brought death, injury, and the most inestimable sorrow and deprivation to millions of people.
— Ralph Nader
We were once getting married. And I have loved you all this time- a century and a half. -Jem
— Cassandra Clare
Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well.
— R.K. Narayan
As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.
— Svetlana Alliluyeva
Beyond doubt, the most salient characteristic of life in this latter half of the 19th Century is its SPEED
— William Rathbone Greg
Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
— Ralph G. Neas
Dimka wondered what it must be like, to love a woman for half a century and then lose her, suddenly, between one beat of the heart and the next.
— Ken Follett
In half a century of challenge and learning and trial-and-error, each of us had struggled from hard times to a present lovely beyond our dreams.
— Richard Bach
[The Democratic Party]it's a party with an incredible century-and-a-half history of institutional racism.
— Sean Hannity
I have a feeling I may have been born a century and a half too late, two classes too low, and in the wrong country...
— Jack Rollins
Sociology seems to have missed every intellectually promising boat in the last half century.
— Pierre L. Van Den Berghe
A half-century after racing the Russians to the moon, the U.S. is barely suiting up in the international race to secure interests in the Arctic.
— Rick Larsen
We have seen in this chapter how, in less than half a century, man's view of the universe, formed over millennia, has been transformed.
— Stephen Hawking
The hunger for land: that great hunger which for more than half a century was to shake Russia and to throw her into a fever, body and mind.
— Isaac Deutscher
Even now, over a half-century later, the engraved words stirred emotions in him he would rather not confront.
— Stephen Lloyd Jones
A half century of living should put a good deal into a person's face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds around the chin.
— Frances Parkinson Keyes
For half a century he had stood too close to darkness, and some it crept into his bones.
— Max Gladstone
If anything has made men more effeminate in the past half-century, it's been the running feminist critique of masculinity.
— Jack Donovan
Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.
— Richard Meier
'Blue Plate Special' is the autobiography of my first half-century of life, with food as the subject.
— Kate Christensen
The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.
— Tom Wolfe
Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses.
— Alasdair Gray
Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.
— John Bruton
Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted from our active international role during the past half-century.
— David Rockefeller
After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.
— Philip Zimbardo
The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.
— Simone Weil
All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the United States averaged 81 percent.
— Thomas Piketty
I want to sleep for half a second,
a second, a minute, a century,
but I want everyone to know that I'm still alive ... — Federico Garcia Lorca
a second, a minute, a century,
but I want everyone to know that I'm still alive ... — Federico Garcia Lorca
Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century,
— Herbie Hancock
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.
— Sophie Swetchine
The capitol city of Angkor Kol Ker, the heart of the Khmer empire, held architecture the likes of which Europe would not see for half a century.
— Robert Doherty
General theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. They are the great intellectual achievements of the first half of this century.
— Stephen Hawking
The half-life between story of the century and not even the story of the day is quicker than you would ever guess.
— John Scalzi
The U.S. has fallen behind with tax policies that haven't been updated in a half-century.
— Rob Portman
We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive.
— Neale Donald Walsch
That casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that had still not ended half a century later.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century.
— Henry A. Wallace
For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times.
— George W. Bush
If you were an optimistic teen, then you'll be an optimist at 80. People's reactions to bad events are highly stable over a half century or more.
— Martin Seligman
Otto Warburg had, half a century before, proposed that oxidation was the cause of many cancers.
— Carl Sagan
As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century.
— Li Peng