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Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., with Notes and Illustrations, by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks by William Roscoe, Esq

“Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky; Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.”

Moving Half Sky Clouds Fierce Eagles Liquid Dove Trembling

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)

“The house clock, place certain there at the bottom of things, strikes the half hour dry and null. All is so much, all is so deep, all is so dark and cold!”

Certain House Hours Dark Half Cold Bottom Strikes Clock Dry Half Hours Null

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“It's love,' they say. You touch the right one and a whole half of the universe wakes up, a new half.”

Whole Universe Half Wake Up

Book:Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems of William Stafford

Source: Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems of William Stafford

“Simply put, no society can truly flourish if it stifles the dreams and productivity of half its population. Happily, I see evidence all over the world that women are gaining social and economic power that they never had before. This is good news.”

Ifs World Dream Social Half Economic News Evidence Population Gender Productivity Good News Economic Power

Author:William J. Clinton

“One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home as good calves should; But made a trail all bent askew, A crooked trail as all calves do. . . . . And men two centuries and a half Trod in the footsteps of that calf.”

Men Should Made Two Home Half Century One Day Woods Bent Trails Boston Footsteps Crooked Precedent Calves Primeval

Author:Sam Walter Foss

“Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?”

Real Life Is Half Painting Communication Conversation Sentences Finished Real Life Overlapping

Author:Edgar Degas

“The sculptor must paint with his chisel; half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They are touches of light and shadow, and raise a ridge, or sink a hollow, not to represent an actual ridge or hollow, but to get a line of light, or a spot of darkness.”

Light Form Realizing Lines Half Darkness Shadow Raises Paint Spots Sculpture Hollow Sculptors Ridges Light And Shadow Chisels

Book:The seven lamps of architecture

Source: The seven lamps of architecture

“Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? / Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect?”

Stills Young Perfect Half Boots Coats Torn

Book:Thirst: Poems

Source: Thirst: Poems

“Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground is very dark.”

Hard Dark White Half Painting Difficulty Tubes

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.”

People World Half Opinion Trouble This World Great Men

Author:Mavis Gallant

“I have a new horse. I get her to come to me from half a mile away. With just a simple call. That's because she knows that when she's with me, she's taken care of. She trusts me.”

Knows Care Simple Half Taken Horse Miles Trust Me Miles Away

Author:Russell Crowe

“Art is an effort to make you walk a half an inch above ground.”

Art Walks Effort Half Art Is Inches

Author:Yoko Ono

“Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species.”

Art Real Running Half Art Is Rivers Stones Species Feminist Gender Tiny Cracks One Half Flawless Creeks Subjugation Feminist Art

Author:Andrea Dworkin

“The half-baked sermon causes spiritual indigestion”

Spiritual Causes Half Sermons Indigestion

Author:Austin O'Malley

“One is so apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving so with the tide, always going out or coming in but still fundamentally there: and I believe this difficulty in making allowance for the tide is the reason for half the broken friendships.”

People Thinking Believe Stills Reason Moving I Believe Half Broken Difficulty Affection Fixed Quantity Tides Going Out Allowance Friendship Broken

Author:Freya Stark

“There are eyes half defiant, Half meek and compliant; Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm To bring us good or to work with harm.”

Eye Black Half Harm Charm Wondrous Meek Black Eyes

Book:Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love

Source: Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love

“I'm a confirmed negaholic. I don't just see a glass that's half full and call it half-empty; I see a glass that's completely full and worry that someone's going to tip it over.”

Half Worry Empty Optimism Glasses Half Full Half Empty

Book:Love 101: To Love Oneself Is the Beginning of a Lifelong Romance

Source: Love 101: To Love Oneself Is the Beginning of a Lifelong Romance

“An optical impression is produced on our organs of sight which makes us classify as light, half-tone or quartertone, the surfaces represented by colour sensations. So that light does not exist for the painter.”

Doe Light Half Sight Surface Impression Painter Tone Colour Sensations Organs

Author:Paul Cezanne

“Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil's had the final say.”

Way Done Half Devil Finals Funeral Flags Haul Masts Disbanded

Author:Karl Shapiro

“I don't think I made a conscious decision as a career choice. From my school days I had decided, persuaded by my parents, to prepare myself for the law. Then the Japanese occupation came and we went through three and a half years of what I would call the university of life, it was hard, it was harsh.”

Thinking Years Made Hard School Law Choices Three Parent Decision Half Careers Conscious Decided University Occupation Harsh Half A Year School Days Careers Choices

Author:Lee Kuan Yew

“u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.”

Hours Half Eight Remarkable Minors Symphony Half Hours Banality

Author:Glenn Gould

“No one trusts me any more. I spent half the movie Maigret (1988) (TV) arguing with people and I was accused of causing big on-set rows. But what they won't tell you is I fought for Simeneon. I fought for the maintenance of quality. I don't believe in lyin.”

People Believe Bigs Half Quality Tvs Don't Believe Arguing Accused Trust Me Maintenance

Author:Richard Harris

“We've consistently seen, since the late 1990s, that more than half of women believe that abortion should be severely restricted or abolished altogether.”

Should Believe Half Late Abortion Consistently

Author:Faye Wattleton

“If the director wishes to print it, then you have a series of choices, maybe millions of choices within that minute-and-a-half, or 80 seconds, or 2 minutes or however long or short the take is, you have all those choices committed to celluloid. I find that absolutely thrilling.”

Ifs Long Choices Wish Half Millions Minutes Directors Series Committed Print Seconds Thrilling Celluloid

Author:Ben Kingsley

“I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.”

Love Life Reality Happiness Half Fantasy All Time Living My Life Fantasy And Reality

Author:Lady Gaga

“I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect.”

Different Lost Language Half Staring Sat Dialect

Book:Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr

Source: Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr

“Study your subject through half-closed eyes before starting to draw - you'll find that the lights and darks are exaggerated and easier to identify.”

Light Eye Half Study Subjects Easier Draws Starting Exaggerated Closed Eyes

Author:Stan Smith

“Some people stick with the traditional, feeling struck by the epic beauty or blown away by the insane scale of the universe. Personally, I go for the old "existential meltdown followed by acting weird for the next half hour. But everyone feels something.”

People Feels Feelings Universe Next Hours Acting Half Sticks Scales Traditional Insane Existential Epic Half Hours Blown Away Meltdowns

Author:Enrico Fermi

“Once God and grace move us to the second half of life, religion becomes a mystical matter, rather than a moral matter.”

Matter Moving Half Moral Grace Mystical

Author:Richard Rohr

“It's never a good idea to organize society in a way that depletes the energy of half the population.”

Way Ideas Energy Half Population Good Ideas Organize

Author:Susan Cain

“When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already thinking about the ending.”

Thinking Way Writing Book Half Focus Percent Hundred Half Way

Author:Anita Desai

“Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!”

World Fall Half Lord Judging Glory All Things Errors Endless Sole Prey Riddle Jest

Author:Pope Francis

“I had started to feel that somewhere in the second half of the 20th century, the idea of page-turning as a good thing had been lost. You were getting books that were the equivalent of absolutely beautifully prepared dishes of food that didn't taste like anything much.”

Feels Book Ideas Lost Half Century Taste Pages Good Things Prepared Dishes 20th Century Lost You Pages Turning

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I told the students [at Yale] we were going to talk about love - I meant love in the sense of devotions to one's work - and about half the students got really pissed off.”

Half Students Devotion Yale Pissed Off

Author:Kiki Smith

“Due to a life of training and playing, I seem to spend half my time in the shower.”

Seems Half Training Dues My Time Showers

Author:Jonny Wilkinson

“I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.”

Feels Kids Half Minutes Fame Band Sorry Disposable

Author:Zakk Wylde

“With the development of the Christian Lacroix house in Paris and my work notably for the theater, it wasn't serious doing things by half.”

Christian House Half Christianity Serious Development Theater Paris

Author:Christian Lacroix

“Making my English better is a hard job, a slow job. But it's getting better. Three years ago it would have taken me a half hour to say this sentence.”

Years Hard Jobs Three Hours Half Taken Years Ago Sentences Get Better Three Years Half Hours

Author:Goran Visnjic

“I think the first word of caution is; It's not the kind of market where you need to jump in immediately on these downs. We've trained investors so much over the past decade and a half: Buy the dip, buy the dip.”

Thinking Needs Firsts Kind Past Half Decades Investors Caution Over The Past Dip

Author:Liz Miller

“The question is whether we're ready to undertake responsibility for overcoming the crisis or will again sink in debates, mutual recriminations and half-steps”

Half Responsibility Steps Ready Overcoming Crisis Debate Mutual Taking Responsibility

Author:Yevgeny Primakov

“See him, the gentle Bible beast, / With lacquered hoofs and curling mane, / His wondering journey from the East / Half done, between the rock and plain.”

Done Half Wonder Journey Rocks Bible East Gentle Beast

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“The first half of fiscal 2006 has been exceptional for Cochlear. Importantly, Cochlear capitalized on a number of opportunities in this half with worldwide market share estimated to be in excess of 70%.”

Firsts Has Beens Opportunity Numbers Half Share Importance Excess Exceptional

Author:Chris Roberts

“For the artist who practises photography, capturing the image is learning how to sketch on some medium, but is only half the challenge; learning how to print is applying a subjective pallet to that sketch, and completes the creative process.”

Artist Process Challenges Half Creative Photography Mediums Print Creative Process Subjective Practise Methodology Pallets

Author:David Travis

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