Halfway Quotes - Page 6

• America has global trade with plenty of nations that provide inexpensive labor, but it's better for us when they're in our own hemisphere, rather than sending that business halfway around the world.

  Ernest Istook

  America, Mind Your Own Business, Hemisphere

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• You sit down at Katz's and you eat the big bowl of pickles and you're eating the pastrami sandwich, and halfway through you say to yourself, I should really wrap this up and save it for tomorrow. But the sandwich is calling you: Remember the taste you just had. So fatty. It's what you want. It's what you are! I've never gotten home from Katz's with a doggie bag in my hand. A pastrami sandwich at Katz's is what's bad and good about food. It's the sacred and the profane.

  Mario Batali

  Food, Home, Past

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• The fact is that Britain is the most warlike nation on earth. In the history of armed combat, we are the only democracy to have declared war on another democracy - England versus Finland in the second world war, in case you're interested - and we're always at the front of the queue when Johnny Foreigner gets a bit uppity. Who stood up to the Kaiser? Who stood up to Adolf? And let's not forget the Argies. What other country would have sent its fleet halfway round the world and lost 250 men to protect a flock of sheep and some oil that might or might not be there? We're still at it.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Country, War, Men

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• For pity's sake, don't start meeting troubles halfway.

  Teresa of Avila

  Saint, Sake, Trouble

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1966). “The Letters of Saint Teresa of Jesus”

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• Below the knee, halfway down the arm, and two finger widths below the collarbone.

  Pope Pius XII

  Two, Arms, Knees

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• For the slow labor of realizing a potential gift the artist must retreat to those Bohemias, halfway between the slums and the library, where life is not counted by the clock and where the talented may be sure they will be ignored until that time, if it ever comes, when their gifts are viable enough to be set free and survive in the world.

  Lewis Hyde

  Artist, Library, World

  Lewis Hyde (2009). “The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World”, p.67, Vintage

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• I don't want to do anything halfway. It has to be perfect.

  Bruce Lee

  Perfect, Want

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.116, Tuttle Publishing

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• I was ravenous for my child and took to gorging myself in the boneyard, hoping that she might possibly meet me halfway, or just beyond, one night, if only for an instant—step back into her own bare feet, onto the wet grass or fallen leaves or snowy ground of the living Enon, so that we could share just one last human word.

  Paul Harding

  Children, Night, Feet

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• I was a halfway-decent-looking English boy who looked nice in a drawing-room standing by a piano.

  Peter Lawford

  Nice, Boys, Piano

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• I only have to do three things to look halfway decent. Curl my eyelashes, fill in my eyebrows and put some lipstick on.

  Courteney Cox

  Eyelashes, Eyebrows, Curls

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

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• I, in my own mind, have always thought of America as a place in the divine scheme of things that was set aside as a promised land...Any person with the courage, with the desire to tear up their roots, to strive for freedom, to attempt and dare to live in a strange and foreign place, to travel halfway across the world was welcome here.

  Ronald Reagan

  Land, Roots, America

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• You must sleep sometime between lunch and dinner, and no halfway measures. Take off your clothes and get into bed. That's what I always do.

  Winston Churchill

  Sleep, Lunch, Clothes

  Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.999, RosettaBooks

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• I left my heart in San Francisco, high on a hill, it calls to me. To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars, the morning fog may chill the air, I don't care. My love waits there in San Francisco, above the blue and windy sea, when I come home to you, San Francisco , your golden sun will shine for me.

  Tony Bennett

  Travel, Morning, Stars

  Song: (I Left My Heart) In San Francisco, 1962

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• I love meeting life halfway.

  Peter Max

  Life, Meetings

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• I remember every player-every single one-who wore the Tennessee orange, a shade that our rivals hate, a bold, aggravating color that you can usually find on a roadside crew, "or in a correctional institution," as my friend Wendy Larry jokes. But to us the color is a flag of pride, because it identifies us as Lady Vols and therefore as women of an unmistakable type. Fighters. I remember how many of them fought for a better life for themselves. I just met them halfway.

  Pat Summitt

  Hate, Pride, Player

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• This bridge will take you halfway there - the last few steps you will have to take yourself.

  Shel Silverstein

  Halfway There, Bridges, Discipline

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• Why should we live halfway up the hill and swathed in the mists, when we might have an unclouded sky and a radiant sun over our heads if we would climb higher and walk in the light of His face?

  Alexander MacLaren

  Light, Sky, Might

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• If you have a book to write, write it. If you want to record an album, record it. No need to wait for someone in a cubicle halfway across the country to decide if you're worthy.

  Seth Godin

  Country, Book, Writing

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• When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film.

  Francois Truffaut

  Want, Film, Great Film

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• Although, my experience when I've been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I'm too depressed to pick up my feet. So if you can at least write about it, you're halfway away from it.

  Paul Westerberg

  Song, Writing, Feet

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• The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

  Bernard Avishai

  Smart, Technology, Men

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• Almost halfway down the aisle, she saw someone she wasn't expecting, and she almost stumbled on her satin heels. Kingsley Martin stood at the end of a pew, his arms crossed. He was wearing a tuxedo as well. Just like any other guest. What was he doing here? He was supposed to be in Paris! He was supposed to be gone! He looked directly at Mimi. She heard his voice loud and clear in her head. Leave him. Why should I? What do you promise me? Nothing. And everything. A life of danger and adventure. A chance to be yourself. Leave him. Come with me.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Being Yourself, Adventure, Voice

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• Nothing that had ever happened to him, not the shooting of Oyster, or the piteous muttering expiration of John Wesley Shannenhouse, or the death of his father, or internment of his mother and grandfather, not even the drowning of his beloved brother, had ever broken his heart quite as terribly as the realization, when he was halfway to the rimed zinc hatch of the German station, that he was hauling a corpse behind him

  Michael Chabon

  Mother, Brother, Father

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• Halfway down the stairs, is a stair, where I sit. There isn't any, other stair, quite like, it. I'm not at the bottom, I'm not at the top; So this is the stair, where, I always, stop. Halfway up the stairs, isn't up, and isn't down. It isn't in the nursery, it isn't in the town. And all sorts of funny thoughts, run round my head: It isn't really anywhere! It's somewhere else instead!

  A. A. Milne

  Running, Somewhere Else, Nurse

  A. A. Milne (1999). “Pooh to Grow on”, E P Dutton

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• There was a tale he had read once, long ago, as a small boy: the story of a traveler who had slipped down a cliff, with man-eating tigers above him and a lethal fall below him, who managed to stop his fall halfway down the side of the cliff, holding on for dear life. There was a clump of strawberries beside him, and certain death above him and below. What should he do? went the question. And the reply was, Eat the strawberries. The story had never made sense to him as a boy. It did now.

  Neil Gaiman

  Fall, Boys, Men

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