Halfway Quotes - Page 11

• Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Knowledge, Knowing, Opinion

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• I own I never really warmed
  To the reformer or reformed.
  And yet conversion has its place
  Not halfway down the scale of grace.

  Robert Frost

  Grace, Reform, Scales

  Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• A bird half wakened in the lunar noon
  Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.

  Robert Frost

  Bird, Tunes, Noon

  Robert Frost (1936). “A Further Range”

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• I can't permit myself to do things halfway; I never was like that.

  Marion Bartoli

  Permit, I Can

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• As an actor, you have to have trust and believe that somebody is taking care of you or watching your back. With a part like this, especially with where we're going with it, I can't pull any punches. I can't do it halfway, especially when you're dealing with madness and this descent into madness.

  Jessica Lange

  Believe, Care, Actors

  "Jessica Lange Talks AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM, Her Psychological Work on the Show, Her Characters in Each Season and Returning for Season 3". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 12, 2012.

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• Would the Lord send one of the Twelve Apostles halfway around the world to help just one person? The answer is YES. He does it all the time.

  David A. Bednar

  Twelve, Doe, Answers

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• The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity ... the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. It is the halfway cultivation that leads to ornamentation.

  Bruce Lee

  Running, Simplicity, Height

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• To me, desert has the quality of darkness; none of the shapes you see in it are real or permanent. Like night, the desert is boundless, comfortless, and infinite. Like night, it intrigues the mind and leads it to futility. When you have flown halfway across a desert, you experience the desperation of a sleepless man waiting for dawn which only comes when the importance of its coming is lost.

  Beryl Markham

  Real, Night, Men

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.279, Open Road Media

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• If you haven't got a sense of humor you're making your life a hundred times harder. It doesn't matter what happens to you, if you can have a laugh about it, and don't take yourself so serious, you have the battles halfway won.

  Jack Bruce

  Laughing, Battle, Matter

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• With moviemaking, you can be halfway around the world for six months. So there are amazing benefits to doing TV, and with the platform change and the way it is, I would never ever rule out doing TV again.

  Chris Pratt

  Six Months, Benefits, World

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Humor is hard, hard, hard. And if you fail with humor, you don't fail halfway. You drop the ball humor-wise and everyone notices.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Wise, Balls, Failing

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• I took my father on a coach trip last summer.We were halfway there when the driver lost control of the coach, it flew down a hill around a bend and crashed through a brick wall. I wasn't hurt but luckily my father had the presence of mind to kick my head in.

  Chic Murray

  Funny, Summer, Hurt

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• Whoever wants to approach prayer without a guide, and proudly thinks that he can learn from books, and won't go to an elder, is already halfway into delusion. But the Lord helps the humble, and if there is no experienced guide, and he goes to a confessor, whoever he may be, then the Lord will cover him because of his humility.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Begin and you're halfway there.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Halfway There, Innovation, Inquiry

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• One night around that time, at Hammersmith, Bob Dylan was about to go into [his 1963 classic] 'Don't Think Twice, It's Alright.He said, 'Hey, Bucky! Play mandolin on this.' I am not really a mandolin player; I could only play in certain keys. Halfway through, he stops the band, turns to the audience and points to me. He says: 'He isn't playing, he's miming.' And then: 'Should I fire him?' The whole audience yells.

  Bob Dylan

  Player, Night, Thinking

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I was born in England and brought up in London. When I was 18 I read a book and came across the Dharma. I was halfway through the book when I turned to my mother and said, "I'm a Buddhist," to which she replied, "Oh are you dear? Well finish the book and then you can tell me about it." I realised I'd always been Buddhist but I just hadn't known it existed, because in those days not even the word 'Buddha' was ever spoken. This was in in the 1960s, so there wasn't that much available, even in London.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Mother, Buddhist, Book

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• When I was 18 I read a book about Buddhism and, before I was halfway through it I said to my mother, "I'm a Buddhist!" She said, "That's great. Finish reading the book and then you can tell me all about it." From that moment on I knew I was a Buddhist.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Mother, Buddhist, Book

  Source: fpmt.org

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• I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.

  Rosie Thomas

  Fear, Doe, Far Away

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• I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.

  Tom Cruise

  Pride, Three, Nine

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. December 4, 2003.

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• If reading makes you smart then how come when you read a book they have to put the title of the book on the top of every single page? Does anyone get halfway through a book, What the hell am I reading?

  Brian Regan

  Smart, Reading, Book

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• Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.

  Aristotle

  Metaphor, Commonplace

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• I would love to say that the world is changing in the movie industry for people of color, women, the LGBTQ community and other minorities since I began my career, and that we are evolving as a species, but I think that given this social and political climate, I'm at a loss. It's like running a marathon and thinking you're halfway done and you can see the finish line - but the finish line is actually the first checkpoint.

  Alexandra Shipp

  Running, Loss, Thinking

  Source: deadline.com

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• One day I locked my keys in my car and as I was standing there with a hanger halfway through the top of my window, a guy walks up and says, Lock yer keys in the car? Without missin' a beat I said, Nope, Just washed it and was hanging it up to dry. Here's your sign.

  Bill Engvall

  Keys, Car, Guy

  FaceBook post by Bill Engvall from Mar 04, 2013

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• ... while I bathed, while I tried but failed to sleep, I considered how I might become more like the women I respected and admired. Surrounded as I was by ambitious, accomplished women, I couldn't ignore the little voice in my head that said maybe I was supposed to shed halfway, and do something significant. Contribute something. Accomplish something. Choose. Be.

  Therese Anne Fowler

  Sleep, Voice, Ambitious

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• We discovered this halfway through the process. When we started making the film there were some lines of dialogue in Portuguese, but we then changed our minds. The film started from very specific issues in the world, in particular Latin America, but halfway through the journey we felt the necessity to have more universal ideas that were not so specific.

  Alex Abreu

  Latin, Journey, America

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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