Half Quotes - Page 14

• Playing half court or even organising a practise game against another team is a great way to train. It ensures a tough session and is often the best way to learn what works and what doesn't

  Catherine Cox

  Team, Games, Way

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• I've completed half of my space training at Space City in Moscow. I love adventure, and I've been training in a centrifuge and MiG Fighter with a view to going into space and being a spokesman for space exploration!

  Brian Blessed

  Adventure, Space, Views

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• This is not a dictatorship, this is based upon scientific evidence to support a given project. If you want to put up a building, say half a mile high, the material has to be available. Using statistics is not a dictatorship. It's a method of getting the most from existing resources.

  Jacque Fresco

  Support, Want, Statistics

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• There are over 30 doctors running for the US Congress this year. That's going to be rather strange. Half the time these folks will be playing God and asking women to take their clothes off and the other half the time they will be doctors.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Clothes, Doctors

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• Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Heaven, Busy

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.38, CCEL

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• To pray diligently is more than half the task.

  Martin Luther

  Tasks, Praying

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• The first half of Vietnam was fought to win the war, and the second half of Vietnam was soldiers going haywire without a mission, getting further and further towards our friend, Captain Kurtz and our friends at 'Apocalypse Now.'

  Dylan Ratigan

  War, Winning, Soldier

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• If you walk into somebody's office with your hair uncombed and a pick in the back, and your shoes untied, and your pants half down, tattoos up and down your arms and on your neck, and you wonder why somebody won't hire you? They don't hire you 'cause you look like you're crazy!

  Michael Nutter

  Tattoo, Crazy, Shoes

  Michael A. Nutter (2017). “Mayor: The Best Job in Politics”, p.115, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Writing can be a bit like unfolding something...Slowly, the writer reveals what's happening. But that's only half of what's going on. Writers are very cunning people who are not only unfolding and revealing. Just like conjurors and magicians, they are hiding stuff too.

  Michael Rosen

  Writing, People, Stuff

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.

  Carl Jung

  Opposites, Doe, World

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• I'm so scared girls look at my breast implants and think, 'To get boys, you need big boobs.' I tell them, 'Don't get it done. Those fears go away. You develop other insecurities, but breasts aren't one of them.' I want to get them half-size.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Girl, Boys, Thinking

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• The officers of the branch of the Force (the Obscene Publications Squad) have a discouraging club tie, on which a book is depicted being cut in half by a larger pair of scissors.

  John Mortimer

  Book, Cutting, Squad

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• If the paintings are too large, cut them in half!

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Cutting, Painting, Ifs

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• Younger and younger, our children are seeing the sippy-cup as half empty.

  Maria Bamford

  Children, Cups, Empty

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• There are always those who say legislation can't solve the problem. There is a half-truth involved here. It is true that legislation cannot solve the whole problem. It can solve some of the problem. It may be true that morality can't be legislated, but behavior can be regulated.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  May, Morality, Problem

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• It is very seldom that any one is in prison for an ordinary crime unless early in life he entered a path that almost invariably led to the prison gate. Most of the inmates are the children of the poor. In many instances they are either orphans or half-orphans; their homes were the streets and byways of big cities, and their paths naturally and inevitably took them to their final fate.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Children, Home, Fate

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• Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.

  Carl Jung

  Sleep, Imagination, Waking

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• A maid that laughs is half taken.

  John Ray

  Taken, Laughing, Maids

  John Ray (1818). “A compleat collection of English proverbs. To which is added, A collection of English words not generally used. Repr. verbatim from the ed. of 1768”, p.10

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• I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.

  Groucho Marx

  Regret, Years, Age

  Groucho Marx (2009). “Groucho And Me”, p.28, Da Capo Press

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• There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half. They will give up possessions, friends and honors, but it touches them to closely to disown themselves.

  Meister Eckhart

  Giving Up, Honor, Way

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• I felt very bad in Washington. . . I didn't like my job, and I didn't know what was going to happen to me, and I was cold and half-hungry, so I wrote a great many poems.

  Langston Hughes

  Jobs, Cold, Hungry

  Langston Hughes (2015). “The Big Sea: An Autobiography”, p.205, Hill and Wang

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• We cannot have a society half slave and half free; nor can we have thought half slave and half free. If we create an atmosphere in which men fear to think independently, inquire fearlessly, express themselves freely, we will in the end create the kind of society in which men no longer care to think independently or to inquire fearlessly.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Men, Thinking, Atmosphere

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• The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.

  T. S. Eliot

  Hints, Quartets, Incarnation

  1941 Four Quartets,'The Dry Salvages', pt.5.

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• It takes me about a week and a half to read the typical book. I don't know how many ten-day spans I have left. Eventually the unread books on my shelves will have to be abandoned, or they will join me on the pyre. The book I'm about to purchase may be among them. We all buy books we won't live to read.

  Ken Kalfus

  Book, May, Typical

  "A Book Buyer's Lament" by Ken Kalfus, www.newyorker.com. June 25, 2015.

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• It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Insignificant Things, Hours, Half Hours

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