Half Quotes - Page 11

• That which you fear the most will meet you half way.

  Victoria Williams

  Way, Half Way

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• For me, a great show is when there's a great rapport with the band and the audience, and we're all really into it. The first trick is to bring the audience into the band, break the ice, have a life, and be one, so you can enjoy the next hour and a half together.

  Andy Summers

  Ice, Together, Band

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• Half my family was from the Imperial Japanese Navy, and the other half was U.S. Army, and I was raised on Army posts during my childhood, so I pretty much began my life with a split-brain sort of thing.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Army, Childhood, Brain

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• And to be fair, most documentaries are half an hour too long, anyway. Let's not kid ourselves. Most movies are an hour too long. I will say that the internet has changed everything in terms of distribution and because of iTunes and other outlets like that, length is no longer something you really think about, in my opinion. It's irrelevant.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Kids, Thinking, Long

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• A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sight, Fake, Kicking

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.222, Penguin

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• This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Harps, One Half

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• A speech belongs half to the speaker and half to the listener.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Speech, Listeners, Speakers

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• As a man grows older, his ability to sit still and follow indoor occupations increases. He grows vespertinal in his habits as theevening of life approaches, till at last he comes forth only just before sundown, and gets all the walk that he requires in half an hour.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Age, Occupation

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.394, Penguin

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• I am less affected by their heroism who stood up for half an hour in the front line at Buena Vista, than by the steady and cheerful valor of the men who inhabit the snow-plow for their winter quarters; who have not merely the three-o'-clock-in-the-morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest, but whose courage does not go to rest so early, who go to sleep only when the storm sleeps or the sinews of their iron steed are frozen.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morning, Sleep, Winter

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One has for one's raw material every single thing one has ever seen or heard or felt, and one has to go over that vast, smoldering rubbish-heap of experience, half stifled by fumes and dust, scraping and delving until one finds a few discarded valuables. Then one has to assemble these tarnished and dented fragments, polish them, set them in order, and try to make a coherent and significant arrangement of them.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Writing, Dust, Order

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• Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.

  Blaise Pascal

  Sleep, Thinking, Different

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• Viewers have a way of remembering the celebrity while forgetting the product. I did not know this when I paid Eleanor Roosevelt $35,000 to make a commercial for margarine. She reported that her mail was equally divided. "One half was sad because I had damaged my reputation. The other half was happy because I had damaged my reputation." Not one of my proudest memories.

  David Ogilvy

  Memories, Mail, Way

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• My way of working was different years ago. I used to wait until an idea came to me. Now I go half-way to meet it, though I don't know whether I find it any the quicker.

  Sigmund Freud

  Years, Ideas, Waiting

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• I feel, like all modern Americans, no consciousness of sin and simply do not believe in it. All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell. That is a final fact of my inner consciousness, and for no religion could I deny its truth.

  Lin Yutang

  Mother, Believe, Doe

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• The heaviest of burdens is simultaneously an image of life's most intense fullfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into new heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?

  Milan Kundera

  Real, Men, Air

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• I'm the female equivalent of a counterfeit $20 bill. Half of what you see is a pretty good reproduction, the rest is a fraud.

  Cher

  Female, Body, Bills

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• My relationships usually last a few years. When I'm involved with a man, other men are fascinated with me, but the minute I'm single again, half of those men disappear because they don't have the balls to really want me.

  Cher

  Men, Years, Balls

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• I determined to make my peace with Islam, even at the cost of my pride. Those who were surprised and displeased by what I did perhaps failed to see that ... I wanted to make peace between the warring halves of the world, which were also the warring halves of my soul.

  Salman Rushdie

  Pride, Soul, Islam

  "Excerpts From Rushdie's Address: 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor'". Address at Columbia University, www.nytimes.com. December 12, 1991.

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• A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Way, Humans, Human Beings

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• You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.

  Isabel Allende

  Collecting Things, Firsts, Collecting

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• Religion looks forward to the destruction of the world.... Perhaps half aware that its unsupported arguments are not entirely persuasive, and perhaps uneasy about its own greedy accumulation of temporal power and wealth, religion has never ceased to proclaim the Apocalypse and the day of judgment.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Looks, World, Argument

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.44, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil.... With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good.

  Maimonides

  Men, Views, Evil

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• At a time when politics deals in distortions and half truths, truth is to be found in the liberal arts. There's something afoot in this country and you are very much a part of it.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Country, Art, Truth Is

  Joyce Carol Oates' address to graduating class at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, May 28, 2006.

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• I have always understood the unbelieving look in the eyes of those whom success touches early - it is a look half fearful, as though the dream were still in the process of being dreamed and to move or to speak would shatter it.

  Moss Hart

  Dream, Moving, Eye

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• Half-truths are like half a brick - they can be thrown farther.

  Hyman Rickover

  Bricks, Half Truth, Thrown

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