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“I’ve spent the first half of my life studying and footnoting everything that can go wrong with the female body—and figuring out how to fix it. I’m dedicating the second half of my life to illuminating everything that can go right with the female body, including teaching women how to truly flourish.”

Firsts Body Half Study Teaching Female Including Illuminating Female Body

Author:Christiane Northrup

“It was precisely this notion of infinite series which in the sixth century BC led the Greek philosopher Zeno to conclude that since an arrow shot towards a target first had to cover half the distance, and then half the remainder, and then half the remainder after that, and so on ad infinitum, the result was, as I will now demonstrate, that though an arrow is always approaching its target, it never quite gets there, and Saint Sebastian died of fright.”

Firsts Results Half Century Shots Died Infinite Distance Series Notion Saint Philosopher Greek Target Ads Never Quit Arrows Fright Greek Philosopher

Book:Jumpers

Source: Jumpers

“The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.”

May Stories Half Morality Prove Highest Finished

Book:The Great Boer War

Source: The Great Boer War

“Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real one is closer to it, more its neighbor, than in the unreal half-artistic professions, which, while they pretend to be close to art, in practice deny and attack the existence of all art - as, for example, all of journalism does and almost all criticism and three quarters of what is called (and wants to be called) literature.”

Way Want Doe Art Real Three Literature Existence Half Practice Knowing Example Criticism Deny Profession Neighbor Journalism Artistic Quarters Unreal Real Ones

Book:Letters to a Young Poet

Source: Letters to a Young Poet

“Democracy...is a society in which the unbeliever feels undisturbed and at home. If there were only a half dozen unbelievers in America, their well-being would be a test of our democracy.”

Ifs Feels Wells Home Would Be America Half Democracy Tests Safety Well Being Dozen Unbelievers

Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United States will have to be attributed to slavery. For some years before the war began it was a trite saying among some politicians that "A state half slave and half free cannot exist." All must become slave or all free, or the state will go down. I took no part myself in any such view of the case at the time, but since the war is over, reviewing the whole question, I have come to the conclusion that the saying is quite true.”

Years War States Whole Causes United Views Half Cases United States Politician Slavery Slave Conclusion Rebellion Great War

Book:The Personal Memoirs of General U. S.

Source: The Personal Memoirs of General U. S.

“Women ... I mean, they are the other half of the sky, and without them there is nothing. And without us there's nothing. There's only the two together creating children, creating society.”

Mean Children Two Together Women Half Sky Creating Other Half

Author:John Lennon

“Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind; Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep, Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers.”

May Sometimes Next Sound Half Wind Flower Hair Sitting Stores Thee Spares Hook Careless Reap Poppies

Author:John Keats

“I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the past - a combination of both.”

Two Past Half Too Much Combination Warning Pollyanna Janus

Author:Ray Bradbury

“I've lived in California for half of my life. It's weird, everyone thinks of me as this guy who's from the South ... I'm really a Californian.”

Thinking Guy Half South California This Guy Think Of Me Californians

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“When you're a director, for two years or at least a year and a half, that's what your life is. So if you're gonna do it, you gotta be ready to do it and it has to be something you care about. I've found something that I do care about.”

Ifs Years Two Care Life Is Found Half Ready Directors Two Years I Do Care

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“I drew when I was very, very young. My mom kept stuff I drew when I was 2 and a half years old, because it looked like, you know, like a jaguar as opposed to a cheetah.”

Knows Years Young Stuff Half Like You Mom My Mom Half A Year Jaguars Cheetahs

Author:Dan Povenmire

“I have a four-and-a-half-year-old and, when she was two and a half, she would make my wife and I do voices, like Woody and Jessie the Cowgirl, or Elmo, or Yogi Bear and Booboo. If we didn't do it, she would scream at us. So, my wife and I would have adult conversations as Yogi Bear and Booboo. It was just a nightmare year.”

Ifs Years Two Voice Half Four Wife Bears Conversation Adults My Wife Nightmare Scream Woody Yogi Cowgirls Elmo Yogi Bear

Author:Judd Apatow

“I don't feel like I'm half as important as Elliott Smith or Kurt Cobain. And I'm not going to be somebody that became so unhappy that he succumbed.”

Feels Important Half Unhappy Cobain

Author:Christopher Owens

“I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.”

Mean Two Whole Half Doubt Impossible Equal Mathematics Math Proof Lawyer Mathematical Programming Mathematician Mathematical Proof

Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss

“The paint has a skin to it, here taut and glossy, there wrinkled, abraded, scarred. It is pierced, abraded, scraped. A line drawn through it will go through half a dozen states, from the furry bloom of crusted charcoal to a blind furrow, cutting a channel in to soft paint below.”

States Lines Half Cutting Painting Skins Blind Paint Dozen Furry Charcoal

Author:Andrew Forge

“When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part.”

People Half Operations Dozen Symphony

Author:Atul Gawande

“I do accept at least half of what society in general holds to be right.”

Author:Satoshi Kon

“After two and a half engagements, of course I want to get married and have babies, so I am going to freeze my eggs.”

Want Two Courses Half Baby Married Eggs Engagement Freeze

Author:Sophie Monk

“I went home one afternoon to pick up a script without bothering to change, and a half an hour later the Beverly Hills Police were at my door because a neighbor had reported a suspicious stranger lurking around Ross Martin's house. I had to peel off my beard to prove who I was.”

Home House Hours Half Doors Prove Picks Police Scripts Stranger Neighbor Hills Bother Afternoon Suspicious Beard Lurking Beverly Hills

Author:Ross Martin

“The judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth.”

Half Judgment Intellect Memories Dreams Reflections Inadequacy Feelings Of Inadequacy

Author:Carl Jung

“When you play the 12-string guitar,you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.”

Play Half Instruments Guitar Tunes Strings Other Half Tuning

Author:Pete Seeger

“Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole.”

Whole Reality Evil Half Recognition Paradoxical Converting

Book:Memories, dreams, reflections

Source: Memories, dreams, reflections

“O Woman, you are not merely the handiwork of God, but also of men; these are ever endowing you with beauty from their own hearts ... You are one-half woman and one-half dream.”

Men Heart Dream Women Half One Half Handiwork

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India

“[London is] like the sight of a heavy sea from a rowing boat in the middle of the Atlantic.... One lives in it, afloat but half submerged in a heavy flood of brick, stone, asphalt, slate, steel, glass, concrete, and tarmac, seeing nothing fixable beyond a few score white spires that splash up like spits of foam above the next glum wave of dirty buildings.”

Next White Half Seeing Sea Middle Building Stones Sight Glasses Wave Heavy London Boat Dirty Score Concrete Flood Steel Bricks Spit Rowing Slate Foam Submerged Spires Asphalt

Book:Mr. Beluncle: A Novel

Source: Mr. Beluncle: A Novel

“It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management performance. It forces the manager to think about what he is doing and to be able to explain his actions and behavior.”

Thinking Has Beens Said Able Action Force Half Behavior Tough Performances Management Unions Managers Improving Jest

Author:Peter Drucker

“Ideas are somewhat like babies - they are born small, immature, and shapeless. They are promise rather than fulfillment. In the innovative company executives do not say, "This is a damn-fool idea." Instead they ask, "What would be needed to make this embryonic, half-baked, foolish idea into something that makes sense, that is an opportunity for us?"”

Ideas Would Be Asks Opportunity Born Half Company Baby Fool Needed Promise Foolish Make Sense Fulfillment Damn Executives Innovative Immature

Author:Peter Drucker

“Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The strangest creatures are always found on the border lines of species.”

Men Way Mind Matter Found Lines Animal Half Creatures Plant Species Borders

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Throughout his last half-dozen books, for example, Arthur Koestler has been conducting a campaign against his own misunderstanding of Darwinism. He hopes to find some ordering force, constraining evolution to certain directions and overriding the influence of natural selection. [...] Darwinism is not the theory of capricious change that Koestler imagines. Random variation may be the raw material of change, but natural selection builds good design by rejecting most variants while accepting and accumulating the few that improve adaptation to local environments.”

“We can now determine, easily and relatively cheaply, the detailed chemical architecture of genes ; and we can trace the products of these genes ( enzymes and proteins ) as they influence the course of embryology . In so doing we have made the astounding discovery that all complex animal phyla - arthropods and vertebrates in particular - have retained, despite their half-billion years of evolutionary independence, an extensive set of common genetic blueprints for building bodies.”

Source: Leonardo's Mountain Of Clams

“I am sure the man who powders most, perfumes most, embroiders most, and talks most nonsense, is most admired. Though to be candid, there are some who have too much good sense to esteem such monkey-like animals as these, in whose formation, as the saying is, the tailors and barbers go halves with God Almighty.”

Men Animal Half Too Much He Man Esteem Nonsense Almighty Monkeys Perfume Formation Good Sense Powder Tailors Candid Barbers

Book:The life and letters of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography and select correspondence, from original manuscripts

Source: The life and letters of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography and select correspondence, from original manuscripts

“Yet, sluggard, wake, and gull thy soul no more With earth's false pleasures, and the world's delight, Whose fruit is fair and pleasing to the sight, But sour in taste, false as the putrid core: Thy flaring glass is gems at her half light; She makes thee seeming rich, but truly poor: She boasts a kernel, and bestows a shell; Performs an inch of her fair-promis'd ell: Her words protest a heav'n; her works produce a hell.”

Source: Emblems, Divine and Moral: The School of the Heart ; And, Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man

“I think the hard thing about this job [stand-up] I mean, I think this part is great but that the traveling is y'know, 'cause 'cause I'm gone a lot from home and this time I'm out for three-and-a-half weeks without going home, and that's hard, to be gone three-and-a-half weeks 'cause then I have to ask my friends, "Would you mind going to the house and watering the plants, and turn some lights on and make it look like somebody's home, and make sure that the mobile over the crib isn't tangled or the baby's gonna get bored.”

Thinking Knows Mind Looks Mean Hard Home Light Jobs Turns Three Asks House Causes Half Gone Week Baby My Friends Plant Bored Mobile Hard Things Tangled Going Home

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“The Adlerians, in the name of "individual psychology," take the side of society against the individual. ... Adler's later thought succumbs to the worst of his earlier banalization. It is conventional, practical, and moralistic. "Our science ... is based on common sense." Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.”

World Names Individual Sides Common Half Psychology Worst Honest Practicals Common Sense Frank Conventional Honored Deceitful Honest Truth Half Truth Adler

Author:Alfred Adler

“The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise isgone! it isgone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.”

Evil Lost Nations Felt Half Principles Grace Losing Vices Wounds Enterprise Touched Sentiments Honour Heroic Nurse Sensibility Defence Stains Chastity Manly

Author:Edmund Burke

“We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public; it is from their careless conversations, their half-finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters.”

Men May Real Character Feelings Action Perfect Half Judging Conversation Appearance Sentences Finished Probability Careless Accuracy Real Character Character Of A Man

Book:Castle Rackrent

Source: Castle Rackrent

“If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.”

Ifs Should Hours Half Meditation Silent Affair International Convinced

Book:Mortals and Others

Source: Mortals and Others

“Always hold your sales meetings in rooms too small for the audience, even if it means holding them in the WC. 'Standing room only' creates an atmosphere of success, as in theatres and restaurants, while a half-empty auditorium smells of failure.”

Ifs Mean Rooms Half Audience Standing Empty Meetings Smell Theatre Atmosphere Restaurants Half Empty Auditoriums

Author:David Ogilvy

“Jerry Lewis played on the very first season of Mad About You, and he played basically himself, but he was called some other name. He said he's never done it; he'd never done a half-hour of [sitcom] television. This was 1992 or '93. And I said, "Well how is that?" And he goes, "Nobody ever asked me." It's like the pretty girl at the dance; everybody's too afraid to ask.”

Firsts Wells Said Done Girl Asks Names Hours Half Television Seasons Mad Sitcom Jerry Half Hours Pretty Girl

Author:Paul Reiser

“The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.”

Firsts Ideas Values Half Growing Century Essentials Weakness Characteristics Twentieth Century Disappearance

Book:The Simone Weil Reader

Source: The Simone Weil Reader

“One of the most puzzling things about a novel is that "the way it really was" half the time is, and half the time isn't, the way it ought to be in the novel.”

Way Half Novel Ought Puzzling

Author:Randall Jarrell

“Both in verse and in prose [Karl] Shapiro loves, partly out of indignation and partly out of sheer mischievousness, to tell the naked truths or half-truths or quarter-truths that will make anybody's hair stand on end; he is always crying: "But he hasn't any clothes on!" about an emperor who is half the time surprisingly well-dressed.”

Wells Ends Half Cry Hair Clothes Naked Prose Quarters Verses Sheer Emperor Indignation Half Truth Well Dressed Always Crying

Author:Randall Jarrell

“Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic countries; but schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications, and if they are dismantled and dilapidated, ignorance and vice will pour in their legions through every breach.”

Ifs Mean Country Lines Half Security Ignorance Republican Army Vices Civilized Navy Defence Arsenal Legion Breach Forts Army Navy Fortification

Book:Common School Journal

Source: Common School Journal

“It really seems to me sometimes that the only hope is space. That is to say, perhaps the most energeticin a bad senseelements will move on to a new world in space. The problems of mass society will be transported into space, leaving behind this world as a kind of Europe, which then eventually tourists will visit. The Old World. I'm only half joking.”

World Kind Sometimes Problem Seems Moving Space Behinds Half This World Elements Mass Europe Leaving New World Tourists Energetic Space Travel Old World

Author:Mary McCarthy

“Half Europe thought... that with the Pope the Papacy was dead.”

Half Europe Pope

Author:Joseph Rickaby

“The gross and net result of it is that people who spend most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who nearly are half people and half bicycles.”

People Would Be Natural Results Numbers Half Personality Iron Atoms Riding Gross Bicycle Parish Natural Life

Book:The Complete Novels

Source: The Complete Novels

“Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.”

“You don’t have to be half-naked to be successful. Just be talented.”

Half Successful Naked Being Successful

Author:Amy Lee

“The first half of the 1960s was the apogee of what might be termed the Age of Cool - as defined by that quality of being simultaneously with-it and disengaged, in control but nonchalant, knowing but ironically self-aware, and above all inscrutably undemonstrative.”

Firsts Self Might Age Half Quality Knowing Defined 1960s Nonchalant

Author:Martin Filler

“Half the world knows not how the other half lies.”

Knows World Lying Half Other Half

Book:The poetical works of George Herbert

Source: The poetical works of George Herbert