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“I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It's half-British, half-Indian.”

Half England British Theatre Indian Dialect

Author:Kunal Nayyar

“England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.”

Source: Poetical works

“My ability to persuade my wife to marry me was quite my most brilliant achievement ... Of course, it would have been impossible for any ordinary man to have got through what I had to go through in peace and war without the devoted aid of what we call, in England, one's better half.”

Men Has Beens War Courses Ability Half Wife Impossible Achievement Ordinary England My Wife Brilliant Aids Devoted Ordinary Man Marry Me Better Half

Author:Winston Churchill

“By the early seventies I had become an Englishman - that is to say, I hated England just as much as half my compatriots seemed to do.”

Half England Hated Seventies Englishmen

Author:Nick Hornby

“Half of the receipts in our cookbooks are mere murder to such constitutions and stomachs as we grow here. ...in America, owing to our brighter skies and more fervid climate, we have developed an acute, nervous delicacy of temperament far more akin to that of France than of England.”

America Grows Half Sky Food Constitution England Murder Cooking Mere Climate Nervous France Culinary Temperament Brighter Delicacy Owing Cookbook Receipts

Book:American Woman's Home

Source: American Woman's Home

“Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a tram run off a line, which in England or France might kill one or two people, without its making a holocaust of half a street full. ... The thing which surprises me is they should still employ animals of normal size; one would expect to see elephants and mammoths drawing the hansoms and carts!”

“The popularity of the famous device of the use of lands into England is said to be largely due to the mendicant friars of the then new Orders of St. Dominic and St. Francis, who, arriving in this country, in the first half of the thirteenth century, found themselves hampered by their own vows of poverty, no less than by the growing feeling against Mortmain in acquiring the provision of land absolutely necessary for their rapidly developing work.”

Source: A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919

“There is some evidence that average wave heights are slowly rising, and that freak waves of eighty or ninety feet are becoming more common. Wave heights off the coast of England have risen an average of 25 percent over the past couple of decades, which converts to a twenty-foot increase in the highest waves over the next half century. One cause may be the tightening of environmental laws, which has reduced the amount of oil flushed into the oceans by oil tankers.”

“Stoichkov's playing on the wing, in this situation he likes to come in and scalp the centre-half.”

Half Situation England Wings Likes Centre

Author:Ron Atkinson

“They've come out at half time and gone bang.”

Half Gone England Bangs Half Time

Author:Ron Atkinson

“The second half was easy to sum up - and absolute shambles! (on England losing to Denmark 4-1)”

Easy Half Losing England Absolutes Scotland Denmark Shambles

Author:Alan Hansen

“I haven't counted, obviously, but I reckon I've lost over a year and a half of my career through injury so far.”

Years Lost Half Careers Havens England Injury

Author:Jamie Redknapp

“I don't get a lot of enjoyment out of sitting there for an hour and a half watching a game like we saw between Ireland and England last Sunday.”

Lasts Games Hours Half Saws Sitting England Enjoyment Sunday Ireland

Author:Michael Owen

“We [me and my wife] went back to St. Paul, worked for a year - again, I guess I would have to admit now, doing a rather shaky job of teaching people - but at the end of that year we returned to England and worked in the [Bernard] Leach Pottery for two and a half years.”

People Years Two Ends Jobs Half Wife Teaching England My Wife Pottery Half A Year

Author:Warren MacKenzie

“Cover your glass in France or Germany --even worse, in England - and in the voice of someone who has personally affronted, your host will ask why you're not drinking. 'Oh, I just don't feel like it this morning.' 'Why not?' 'I guess I'm not in the mood?' 'Well, this'll put you in the mood. Here. Drink up.' 'No, really, I'm OK.' 'Just taste it.' 'Actually, I'm sort of...well, I sort of have a problem with it.' 'Then how about half a glass?”

Feels Wells Problem Asks Voice Half Morning Drink Taste England Drinking Glasses Mood France Germany Why Not Host

Author:David Sedaris

“But young hearts mend easily, and hearts that own half of England have something better to do than to beat faster for love.”

Heart Young Half Beats England Faster Something Better Young At Heart

Book:The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)

Source: The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)

“If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half by transferring them to the Land of Israel, I would choose the latter, for before us lies not only the numbers of these children but the historical reckoning of the people of Israel.”

People Ifs Children Lying Numbers Half Land England Historical Israel Terrorism Germany Latter Cleansing Zionist Zionism Reckoning Jewish National

Author:David Ben-Gurion

“Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, the (Rothschild) brothers conducted important transactions on behalf of the governments of England, France, Prussia, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Naples, Portugal, Brazil, various German states and smaller countries. They were the personal bankers of many of the crowned heads of Europe. They made large investments, through agents, in markets as distant as the United States, India, Cuba and Australia.”

“Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn't noticed the change, I'd been having such a ball!”

Home Remember Half Dad Balls England My Dad Skeletons

Author:Paul McCartney

“The failure of the Reformation to capture France had left for Frenchmen no half-way house between infallibility and infidelity; and while the intellect of Germany and England moved leisurely in the lines of religious evolution, the mind of France leaped from the hot faith which had massacred the Huguenots to the cold hostility with which La Mettrie, Helvetius, Holbach, and Diderot turned upon the religion of the fathers.”

Way Mind Father House Left Religious Lines Half Cold Evolution England Hot Moved Intellect France Germany Capture Infidelity Hostility Reformation Frenchmen Half Way Infallibility

Author:Will Durant

“If I knew that it would be possible to save all the children in Germany by bringing them over to England and only half of them by transporting them to Eretz Israel, then I opt for the second alternative.”

Ifs Children Would Be Half England Israel Alternatives Germany

Author:David Ben-Gurion

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