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“One night a guy hit his head on a welding gun. He went to his knees. He was bleeding like a pig, blood was oozing out. So I stopped the line for a second and ran over to help him. The foreman turned the line on again, he almost stepped on the guy. That's the first thing they always do. They didn't even call an ambulance. The guy walked to the medic department -- that's about half a mile -- he had about five stitches put in his head. The foreman didn't say anything. He just turned the line on. You're nothing to any of them.”

Firsts Helping Night Guy Lines Half Five Blood Gun Miles Knees Ran Department Pigs Say Anything One Night Bleeding Stitches Ambulance Welding Medics

Book:Working

Source: Working

“No more than a famous master can be replaced and another take over the completion of the half-finished painting he has left behind can the great poet and thinker, the great statesman and the great soldier, be replaced. For their activity lies always in the province of art. It is not mechanically trained but inborn by God's grace.”

Art Lying Left Behinds Half Grace Painting Poet Masters Activity Soldier Finished Thinker Replaced Left Behind Statesmen Provinces Completion God's Grace Great Poet

Author:Adolf Hitler

“You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and half-decent brains. Some people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime.”

People Has Beens Two Reason Hands Given Born Brain Half Lifetime Legs Karma Decent Two Hands

Author:Glenn Hoddle

“Nothing can preserve the integrity of contact between individuals, except a discretionary authority in the state to revise what has become intolerable. The powers of uninterrupted usury are too great. If the accretions of vested interests were to grow without mitigation for many generations, half the population would be no better than slaves to the other half.”

Ifs States Would Be Individual Grows Interest Half Generations Integrity Authority Slave Population Contact Preserves Other Half Vested Interests Usury

Book:The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes

Source: The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes

“At a few hundred kilometers altitude, the Earth fills half your sky, and the band of blue that stretches from Mindanao to Bombay, which your eye encompasses in a single glance, can break your heart with its beauty. Home you think. Home. This is my world. This is where I come from. Everyone I know, everyone I ever heard of, grew up down there, under that relentless and exquisite blue.”

Thinking Knows World Heart Home Eye Earth Half Break Heard Sky Grew Band Grew Up Hundred Blue Glances Exquisite Relentless Break Your Heart Bombay

Book:Contact

Source: Contact

“Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics.”

World Done Half Hopeless

Book:The Ghost Road

Source: The Ghost Road

“Dividing an elephant in half does not produce two small elephants.”

Doe Two Half Produce Elephants Dividing

Author:Peter Senge

“I'd advise you to visit New Orleans before you pass away. I really would. Because if you die without seeing New Orleans, you wasted half your life.”

Ifs Dies Half Seeing New Orleans Advise Passing Away

Author:Danny Barker

“There was a solid year and a half, perhaps two years, after making 'Temple Grandin,' when I didn't do anything. I just didn't have much patience for roles that were silly, or light, or inconsequential.”

Years Two Light Half Roles Silly Temples Two Years Inconsequential

Author:Claire Danes

“I would rather believe for something great and receive half of it, than to believe for nothing and receive all of it!”

Believe Half

Author:Joel Osteen

“The world's richest half billion people - that's about seven per cent of the global population - are responsible for fifty per cent of the world's emissions.”

People World Half Responsible Seven Population Billions Fifty Cents Emissions

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“I caught a tremendous fish and held him beside the boat half out of water, with my hook fast in a corner of his mouth. He didn't fight. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I stared and stared and victory filled up the little rented boat from the pool of bilge where oil had spread a rainbow around the rusted engine to the bailer rusted orange, the sun-cracked thwarts the oarlocks on their strings, the gunnels-until everything was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow! And I let the fish go.”

Littles Fighting Water Half Sun Victory Mouths Filled Caught Fishes Corners Spread Oil Boat Strings Engines Pool Rainbow Orange Hook Cracked Filled Up

Author:Elizabeth Bishop

“I haven't had sex in two and a half years. A guy I met in San Francisco gave me a sympathy blow job. It didn't really work. I said, "You're just doing this 'cause you feel sorry for me." We stopped in the middle.”

Feels Years Said Two Jobs Guy Sex Causes Half Middle Havens Mets Sorry Blow San Francisco Half A Year Blow Job

Author:Kevin Sessums

“Statistically you take thousands of photographs of your first kid, and then with your second kidyou take about half of that. And then with your third kid, you, like, pawn off your first and second kids' photographs and tell them they're theirs.”

Firsts Kids Half Thirds Photograph Pawns

Author:Milla Jovovich

“If you have nothing to hide, if you're actually working for eight hours, or 10 or 12 hours, however long people decide to work, it's OK to have windows around conference rooms, it's OK to have cubicles. Because you're actually working. If you're not working, doing social media and spending half the day for personal stuff, then an environment like this will actually bother you.”

People Ifs Long Social Stuff Hours Rooms Half Environment Media Window Social Media Eight Spending Bother Working It Conferences Cubicles Personal Stuff

Author:Marcelo Claure

“I never want someone to come out of one of my films and say, "Damn. I wasted an hour and a half of my life." I'm trying to avoid that.”

Want Trying Film Hours Half Damn

Author:Will Packer

“It's actually a good thing if you do reference checks on somebody and half the people you call say they are a micromanager and the other half say they actually give me a lot of responsibility. That's a feature not a bug.”

People Ifs Giving Half Responsibility Give Me Good Things Checks Features Bugs Other Half

Author:Keith Rabois

“I work out every morning. Only half an hour. I get on the treadmill. That's it. Every morning, I don't care what time. It gets your blood flowing. It gets your adrenaline flowing. I believe in eating well. It's not fanatical. Eat good food. Make sure you've got good vegetables.”

Believe Wells Care I Believe Hours Half Morning Blood Eating Work Out Don't Care I Believe In I Don't Care Vegetables Every Morning Adrenaline Good Food Treadmills Eating Well

Author:Kamala Harris

“I've always felt that singing is half technical, half taxing. You've got words, a melody, and an instrument, and you have to do justice to the words. You're just a medium for people to feel the song.”

People Feels Song Felt Justice Half Singing Instruments Mediums Melody

Author:D.A. Wallach

“In a couple of decades you have half of the wells that are drilled right now, and you're talking about numbers in the millions of wells drilled, leaking. That's a huge crisis in terms of water contamination. There's no way to fix that problem.”

Way Wells Problem Term Water Numbers Half Talking Millions Huge Couple Right Now Crisis Decades Contamination

Author:Josh Fox

“If all the lawyers were hanged tomorrow, and their bones were sold to a mah jong factory, we'd all be freer and safer, and our taxes would be reduced by almost a half.”

Ifs Would Be Half Tomorrow Taxes Bones Lawyer Factories

Author:H. L. Mencken

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

Way Goal Half Stage Illusion Distance Finite Half Way

Author:Aristotle

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

Men Lying Half Destiny Insane Expenses

Author:Philip Wylie

“If people would stop objectifying abstractions (which they probably never will), or if they would stop objectifying the abstractions they make consciously (which they might learn to do), at least half the pseudo-questions befuddling the world today - as they have befuddled it since time immemorial - would vanish. And that would be a very, very great gain.”

People Ifs World Might Would Be Today Half Gains Abstraction World Today Pseudo Objectifying

Author:Cassius Jackson Keyser

“You are never more than a half-step away from a right note.”

Half Steps Notes

Book:The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music

Source: The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Helping Would Be Lasts Half Attitude Leaving Buddhist Always Thinking Good Buddhist

Author:Anne Carson

“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.”

Knows Half Angry Leaving Agents Publishing Good Business Sony Free Agents

Author:Michael Jackson

“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.”

Hours Prayer Half Praying One Time

Author:Smith Wigglesworth

“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”

Half Taught Errors Gentleman Confession

Author:William Osler

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

Wells Lasts Half Progress Century Presses Frogs

Author:R.K. Narayan

“If a hundred or a thousand people, all of the same age, of the same constitution and habits, were suddenly seized by the same illness, and one half of them were to place themselves under the care of doctors, such as they are in our time, whilst the other half entrusted themselves to Nature and to their own discretion, I have not the slightest doubt that there would be more cases of death amongst the former, and more cases of recovery among the latter.”

People Ifs Would Be Care Age Half Cases Doubt Habit Thousand Hundred Doctors Constitution Illness Recovery Former Our Time Latter Discretion Other Half One Half

Author:Petrarch

“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.”

“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.”

Ifs Writing Half Advice Hot Drunk Tonight Neighborhood Chickens Other Half Writing Poetry Fried Chicken

Author:Charles Bukowski

“Creatures are cups. The sciences and the arts and all branches of knowledge are inscriptions around the outside of the cups. When a cup shatters, the writing can no longer be read. The wine's the thing! The wine that's held in the mold of these physical cups. Drink the wine and know what lasts and what to love. The man who truly asks must be sure of two things: One, that he's mistaken in what he's doing or thinking now. And two, that there is a wisdom he doesn't know yet. Asking is half of knowing.”

Thinking Knows Men Writing Art Two Lasts Asks Half Knowing He Man Drink Creatures Asking Wine Cups Branches Two Things Mistaken Mold Inscriptions

Author:Rumi

“To try something longer, I entered a half-hour radio drama contest with the national public broadcaster, CBC. To my surprise, I won. And that opened doors in film and television, because that broadcaster was looking to cultivate new Canadian talent, especially women who could write.”

Writing Trying Film Hours Half Doors Talent Television Drama Surprise Radio Contests Half Hours Broadcasters Film And Television Opened Doors Cbc

Author:Karen Walton

“One of the richest countries in the history of the world having communities where people have to go over half an hour to get to fresh produce and food is unacceptable.”

People World Country Community Hours Half Produce World History

Author:Wendell Pierce

“I don't drive an Escalade; I've never lived on a mansion; I live in a townhouse. Even with my internet business, when I was making just shy of a million and a half a year, I lived in the same house.”

Years House Half Millions Internet Shy Mansions Half A Year Internet Business Escalades

Author:Romany Malco

“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.”

People Thinking Giving Guy Half Type Partners Attractive Thumbs Thumbs Up

Author:Christian Rudder

“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.”

Thinking Knows Years America Past Actors Opportunity Half Majors Argument Entertainment African American League Major League Discrepancies

Author:Aml Ameen

“We live in the least ugly time in history. If you look at back when Beethoven was writing, half the kids were dying, mothers were dying at childbirth, there were more wars going on then than there are now. People wrote the most beautiful things during the ugliest times.”

People Ifs Writing Looks War Kids Beautiful Mother Half Dying Ugly Beautiful Things Childbirth Back When

Author:Joshua Bell

“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.”

Kind Inspiration Song Half Songwriting

Author:Win Butler

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

People Ifs World Hate Half Principles Basic Principles

Author:Al Jaffee

“I can't sing half as well as Claudia Lennear. Hats off to her, but somehow, things happened for me.”

Wells I Can Half Happened Things Happen Hats Claudia Hats Off

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“I thought if the climate was heating that CO2 was the only forcing, and it would be late in the century before we had trouble. Now that we know about the other half of the forcing, it's obvious that the trouble is coming much sooner.”

Ifs Knows Would Be Half Trouble Century Late Climate Obvious Other Half Co2 Heating

Author:Paul R. Ehrlich

“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.”

Ifs Way Community Attention Half Concerned Scientist Unions Statements Distinguished Nobel Don't Change

Author:Paul R. Ehrlich

“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.”

People Ideas Country Hard School Half Teaching Creation Planets Saving Destroying Teaching Religion

Author:Paul R. Ehrlich

“We [USA and China] have a common responsibility with different numerical targets, and that's the situation ultimately we are going to have with China. We emit six times more per person than they do. It's hard to tell them to cut theirs in half right now until we start moving. Being the ostrich with your head in the sand and tail feathers in the air like some would have us to do while China continues to pollute is simply not an option.”

Persons Different Hard Moving Common Half Responsibility Situation Cutting Air Right Now Six China Usa Sand Target Tails Feathers Ostriches

Author:Jay Inslee

“People with military experience seem to do very well in these situations. They've been taught that they can control their destiny, which is half the battle. They also have some experience in getting out of bad situations even if just through training. They know they have to make a plan and follow it and execute it.”

People Ifs Knows Wells Seems Half Situation Destiny Plans Military Taught Battle Training Bad Situations Military Experience

Author:Amanda Ripley

“I went out and started on my way up in television. I wrote music, I wrote books, I played an instrument half-ass. I would always have liked to play in a band. I would always have liked to be a substantial writer, to write country music for big singers. I had all sorts of proclivities, but I never had any big success.”

Way Writing Book Country Play Bigs Half Television Band Instruments Singers Ass My Way

Author:Chuck Barris

“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.”

Ifs Mean Hours Pay Half Company Thirds Workers Premium

Author:Liza Featherstone

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