Half Quotes - Page 9

• That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

  Aristotle

  Distance, Goal, Way

  "Physics". Book by Aristotle (VI:9, 239b10), circa 340 BC.

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• Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.

  Philip Wylie

  Lying, Destiny, Men

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• At least half of your mind is always thinking, I'll be leaving; this won't last. It's a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I'm just sad.

  Anne Carson

  Buddhist, Attitude, Thinking

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• So I'm leaving Sony, a free agent, owning half of Sony. I own half of Sony's Publishing. I'm leaving them, and they're very angry at me, because I just did good business, you know.

  Michael Jackson

  Leaving, Agents, Good Business

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• I don't often spend more than half an hour in prayer at one time, but I never go more than half an hour without praying.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Prayer, Praying, Hours

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• Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is

  William Osler

  Errors, Gentleman, Taught

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• Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well.

  R.K. Narayan

  Progress, Frogs, Lasts

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• Once we have a sense of how long a decision should take, we generally should delay the moment of decision until the last possible instant. If we have an hour, we should wait 59 minutes before responding. If we have a year, we should wait 364 days. Even if we have just half a second, we should wait as long as we possibly can ... Life might be a race against time but it is enriched when we rise above our instincts and stop the clock to process and understand what we are doing and why. A wise decision requires reflection, and reflection requires a pause.

  Frank Partnoy

  Wise, Reflection, Years

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• It's hot tonight and half the neighborhood is drunk. the other half is dead. if I have any advice about writing poetry it's - don't. I'm going to send out for some fried chicken.

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, Drunk, Advice

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• Women are much more discriminating. I think both types of people are equally interested in having an attractive partner. But women essentially give the thumbs up to only half as many guys as guys giving the thumbs up to women.

  Christian Rudder

  Thinking, Thumbs Up, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• They think America is like a major league in entertainment. For me personally being here for the past year-and-a-half, I know some of the arguments and discrepancies African American actors have with the opportunities here.

  Aml Ameen

  Opportunity, Thinking, Past

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Songwriting is reliant on inspiration, which ideally you don't have that much control over. Songs kind of half make themselves, and then you have to finish them.

  Win Butler

  Song, Inspiration, Kind

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I guess if people all followed the basic principles of their own religions, they would love everybody instead of hating half the world.

  Al Jaffee

  Hate, People, Principles

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• Here's the scientific community saying, fundamentally, "If we don't change our ways, we're screwed." And they got no attention at all. Even though the Union of Concerned Scientists put out this statement which was signed by more than half of all the Nobel laureates in science and another 1,500 distinguished scientists.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Community, Attention, Unions

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• I don't like the idea of teaching religion in schools, and creation is not my thing, but that's a trivial point compared to saving the creation. I'd much rather have half of the people in the country be creationists and work really hard to save the creation than have everybody be evolutionists and be destroying the planet.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Country, Teaching, School

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. November, 2008.

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• Wal-Mart workers make just over $8 an hour, and they must pay more than a third of their health insurance premium if they choose to take the company's insurance. That means just about half of them don't choose to take the health insurance because they can't afford it.

  Liza Featherstone

  Mean, Pay, Hours

  "Selling Women Short". Interview with Michal Lumsden, www.motherjones.com. February 2, 2005.

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• Half of all people who go bankrupt cite a medical problem as one of the things that drove them into bankruptcy.

  Amelia Warren Tyagi

  Medical Problems, People, Citing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'm not a visionary, but I've spent half my life drawing things Imagined, Remembered, and Observed, comparing the differences between them, and my study confirms that "the difference between night and day / is not as great as people say."

  Peter Blegvad

  Night, Drawing, Differences

  Interview with Franklin Bruno, believermag.com. November 1, 2009.

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• In my experience of doing physical scenes, half of your energy is spent on trying to get the other actor to enter into it physically with you. Most actors don't want to hurt each other.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Hurt, Trying, Energy

  Source: collider.com

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• As a libertarian I believe we should have a federal government simple and circumscribed enough to be run by an average, dull, normal American. With George W. Bush we have half the equation in place.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Running, Believe, Simple

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• During terms, Professor Marsden lives in Cambridge with his wife, chess player
  extraordinaire and distinguished physician and surgeon Bryony Asquith Marsden. His
  favorite time of day is half past six in the evening, when he meets Mrs. Marsden's train at the
  station, as the latter returns from her day in London. On Sunday afternoons, rain or shine,
  Professor and Mrs. Marsden take a walk along The Backs, and treasure growing old
  together.

  Sherry Thomas

  Rain, Sunday, Player

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• North Korea is creating its own time zone. It's going to push the country's time back a half hour. So it's not bad enough that they don't have food and they're ruled by an insane dictator. Now they have to wait until 8:00 to watch 'Wheel of Fortune.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Country, Korea, Time Zones

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• If you are glass half empty type of person, maybe you just haven’t been holding the right glass

  Richard Branson

  Glasses, Empty, Type

  FaceBook post by Richard Branson from Aug 03, 2015

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• The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be grandly subservient to the half-truths of the moment, doggedly servile, and yet be no less intense.

  T. J. Clark

  Art, Painting, Moments

  T. J. Clark (2015). “The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers”, p.78, Princeton University Press

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• The glass is always completely full-half air and half liquid.

  Mark Millar

  Glasses, Air, Liquid

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