Half Life Quotes

• Half-Life is the finest implementation of a game on rails anybody has ever done

  Warren Spector

  Games, Done, Half

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• A God. The God. One word can make all the difference in the world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Differences, World, Videogame

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• Half the world does not know how the other half lives.

  Francois Rabelais

  Doe, Half, World

  "Pantagruel". Book by François Rabelais (chapter XXXII), 1532.

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• There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Half, Alive, Term

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• I wondered about the half-life of regret.

  Lorrie Moore

  Regret, Half

  Lorrie Moore (2009). “A Gate at the Stairs”, p.124, Vintage

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• Don't be obsessed with tactics but with purpose. Tactics have a half life.

  Noam Chomsky

  Purpose, Half, Tactics

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• A man who never sees a bluebird only half lives.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Men, Half, Bluebird

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• Do radioactive cats have eighteen half-lives?

  Steven Wright

  Cat, Half, Eighteen

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• Long ago it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.' That was true then. It did not know because it did not care. The half that was on top cared little for the struggles, and less for the fate, of those who were underneath, so long as it was able to hold them there and keep its own seat.

  Jacob August Riis

  Struggle, Fate, Long Ago

  Jacob August Riis (1914). “How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York”

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• If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect.

  Salman Rushdie

  Fall, Two, Elements

  Salman Rushdie (1995). “The Moor's last sigh”

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• Gratitude’s got a short half-life, Clarice.

  Thomas Harris

  Gratitude, Half

  Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.122, Macmillan

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• Settle your quarrels, come together,
  understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is
  already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that
  generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to
  act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in
  revolution.

  George Jackson

  Love, Failure, Reality

  George Jackson (1970). “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”, p.25, Chicago Review Press

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• If the time comes when our culture tires of the endless homicidal feuds, despairs of the use of force and war as a means of bringing peace, becomes discontent with the half-lives that its members are living - only then will our culture seriously look for alternatives.

  Carl Rogers

  War, Mean, Despair

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium.

  David R. Brower

  Safe, Matter, Waste

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• I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.

  Douglas Coupland

  Thinking, People, Elements

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• Millions who endure poverty and bad government can now know what they are missing. To see how the other half lives all they have to do is switch on their television sets.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Government, Missing, Television

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• Let's contemplate this, how many people would die if war breaks out. There are 2.7 billion people in the world. One-third could be lost; or, a little more, it could be half... I say that, taking the extreme situation, half dies, half lives, but imperialism would be razed to the ground and the whole world would become socialist.

  Mao Zedong

  War, People, Would Be

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• I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Writing, Years, Paper

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• Ketchup left overnight on dinner plates has a longer half-life than radioactive waste.

  Wes Smith

  Food, Cooking, Half

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• Either I'm alive or I'm dying, she said to Daniel. Please don't feel you can't tell me. Which is it?
  Which does it feel like? said Daniel. He patted her hand. You're not dead yet. You're a lot more alive than many people.
  This isn't good enough for Rennie. She wants something definite, the real truth, one way or the other. Then she will know what she should do next. It's this suspension, hanging in a void, this half-life she can't bear. She can't bear not knowing. She doesn't want to know.

  Margaret Atwood

  Life, Truth, Real

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bodily Harm”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• The half-life of love is forever.

  Junot Diaz

  Love, Forever, Half

  Junot Diaz (2012). “This Is How You Lose Her”, p.123, Faber & Faber

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• If the sun is shining, stand in it- yes, yes, yes. Happy times are great, but happy times pass- they have to- because time passes. The pursuit of happiness is more elusive; it is life-long, and it is not goal-centred. What you are pursuing is meaning- a meaningful life... There are times when it will go so wrong that you will be barely alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Meaningful, Pursuit Of Happiness, Happy Times

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• If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.

  Tom Stoppard

  Tuesday, Doe, Half

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• I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island.

  Yann Martel

  Spiritual, Lonely, Islands

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.401, Canongate Books

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