Halfway Quotes - Page 14

• Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cities, Healthy, London

  Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.44, Harper Collins

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• The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long as they hold your interest, abandoning any that don't, halfway or a quarter of the way through if you like, and store up all that knowledge in the happy corners of your mind for your own self and not to show off how much you know or spit it back at your teacher on a test paper.

  Polly Horvath

  Summer, Teacher, Book

  Polly Horvath (2008). “My One Hundred Adventures”, p.10, Schwartz & Wade

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• Change the way you think, and you are halfway to changing the world.

  Theodore Zeldin

  Thinking, World, Way

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• It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.

  Lev Grossman

  Book, Home, Matter

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.612, Penguin

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• I’ve seen far too many Christians who are more than willing to travel halfway around the world to volunteer for a week in an orphanage, but who cannot bring themselves to take the personal risk of sharing Jesus with the co-worker who sits day after day in the cubicle right next to them.

  Lee Strobel

  Christian, Jesus, Volunteer

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• I had a history for starting something and maybe getting halfway done. Then I'd see the same thing I was doing on the bestseller list! My ideas were right, but I hadn't done them fast enough.

  Lori Greiner

  Ideas, Lists, Done

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• A ball will always come to rest halfway down a hill, unless there is sand or water at the bottom.

  Henry Beard

  Golf, Water, Balls

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• If your wearing lingerie that makes you feel glamorous, you're halfway thereto turning heads.

  Elle Macpherson

  Fashion, Lingerie, Glamorous

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• I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become.

  Veronica Roth

  Mother, Father, Desperate

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• I rolled back onto the lawn and pressed my forehead to the ground again and made the noise that Father calls groaning. I make this noise when there is too much information coming into my head from the outside world. It is like when you are upset and you hold the radio against your ear and you tune it halfway between two stations so that all you get is white noise and then you turn the volume right up so that this is all can hear and then you know you are safe because you cannot hear anything else

  Mark Haddon

  Father, Two, White

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• He's halfway sick and halfway stoned. He'd sure like to kick, but he's too far gone. So they wind him down with methadone.

  James Taylor

  Wind, Sick, Alcohol

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• Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.

  Sheri Holman

  Greater Good, Greater

  Sheri Holman (2010). “The Dress Lodger”, p.266, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I don't apologize for my behavior anymore. Whatever I do or don't do shouldn't matter. Moral certainty is dangerous. Moral certainty is what makes people go to war unnecessarily and illegally. Morality, as any halfway intelligent human being would tell you, is a very subjective thing.

  Steve Coogan

  War, Intelligent, People

  "Q&A: Steve Coogan on Sex, Drugs & Bad Press". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. July 9, 2013.

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• Cosmology does, I think, affect the way that we perceive humanity's role in nature. One thing we've learnt from astronomy is that the future lying ahead is more prolonged than the past. Even our sun is less than halfway through its life.

  Martin Rees

  Lying, Past, Thinking

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• The ability of so many people to live comfortably with the idea of capital punishment is perhaps a clue to how so many Europeans were able to live with the idea of the Holocaust: Once you accept the notion that the state has the right to kill someone and the right to define what is a capital crime, aren't you halfway there?

  Roger Ebert

  Halfway There, Punishment, Ideas

  Roger Ebert (2009). “Roger Ebert's Four Star Reviews--1967-2007”, p.516, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Your voice is your identity. If you don't use it- you're halfway to Asphodel already.

  Nico

  Voice, Identity, Use

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• Exactly halfway between exegesis and practical theology stands dogmatics.

  Karl Barth

  Exegesis, Theology, Practicals

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• When we can converse with the animals, we will know the change is halfway here. When we can converse with the forest, we will know the change has come.

  Tom Robbins

  Animal, Forests, Converses

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.371, Bantam

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• I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.

  Fiona Shaw

  Mother, Order, Singing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not going to tell you the movies, but I remember getting halfway through the thing and everything sort of tunnel-visioned on me and I couldn't read the script anymore. I looked at the people and I just turned and ran out in a cold sweat. It took me about a year to study it and feel comfortable going in and reading for people.

  John Corbett

  Reading, Tunnels, Years

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• I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.

  Caio Fonseca

  Magic, Mysterious Life, Elements

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• If halfway love is all you want or all you care to give, why bother with love at all and only halfway live.

  Marty Robbins

  Love, Giving, Care

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• Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.

  Van Morrison

  Politics, Persuasion, Occasions

  Song: Glad Tidings, Album: Moondance

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• You know, I can't remember the last movie I walked out of. If I pay, I'll see it through. I can't be halfway through a movie and think that I know everything that's going to happen, because I hope that I'm wrong.

  Bobby Farrelly

  Thinking, Pay, Lasts

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• That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.

  Alan Vega

  Halfway There, Long, Promise

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