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“When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.”

“Life goes not in a straight line, lad, but in a circle. The first half we spend venturing as far as the world's end from home and kin and stillness, and the latter half brings us back, by roundabout ways but surely, to that state from which we set out.”

World Way Firsts Ends States Home Lines Half Circles Latter Stillness Straight Lines Lad

Book:Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles

Source: Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles

“Friendship is far more delicate than love. Quarrels and fretful complaints are attractive in the last, offensive in the first. And the very things which heap fewel on the fire of ardent passion, choke and extinguish sober and true regard. On the other hand, time, which is sure to destroy that love of which half certainly depends on desire, is as sure to increase a friendship founded on talents, warm with esteem, and ambitious of success for the object of it.”

Source: The Intimate Letters of Piozzi and Pennington

“A first book often has enough material in it for half a dozen.”

Firsts Book Enough Half Materials Dozen

Author:Caroline Gordon

“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

“The most important thing, my father told me, which I have never forgotten, and which I have often put unto practice was: If you get into a quarrel with anybody, hit him first. "If you hit first, the battle is half-won," my father always said "Don't let him hit first. You hit him first." "What's more," he never forgot to say, too "Usually one blow is all you need." I found this to be true.”

Ifs Needs Firsts Said Important Found Father Half Practice Battle Important Things Forgotten Blow Being True Quarrels

Author:Christopher Vokes

“For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire, the second half trimming it.”

Firsts Half Music Careers Singers Extending Trimming

Author:Ethan Mordden

“My first job ever was working a ski lift when I was 16. I also worked at a garden center, which I loved. I did that for two and a half years.”

Years Firsts Two Jobs Half Garden Lifts Skis Half A Year

Author:Sara Canning

“At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone.”

World Firsts War Hours Half War Of The Worlds Impressive World War 2 Monotonous

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“In tennis you move a lot. Golf you dont. In tennis, you can have a bad half-hour, but you cant in golf. You can lose the first set in tennis and still win.”

Firsts Stills Moving Winning Hours Loses Half Golf Tennis Cant Half Hours

Author:Ivan Lendl

“I reveled in the smallness, the coziness of an upstairs bedroom in a traditional American Cape Cod house the half-floor that forces you to duck, to feel small and naive again, ready for anything, dying for love, your body a chimney filled with odd, black smoke. These square, squat, awkward rooms are like a fifty-square-foot paean to teenage-hood, to ripeness, to the first and last taste of youth.”

“I opened the Woodstock Festival even though I was supposed to be fifth. I said, 'What am I doing here? No, no, not me, not first!' I had to go on stage because there was no one else to go on first - the concert was already two-and-a-half hours late.”

Firsts Said Two Hours Half Stage Havens Goes On Late Supposed To Be Concerts Fifth Festivals Half Hours Woodstock

Author:Richie Havens

“My first published novel, American Rust, took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.”

Writing Years Firsts Two Three Half Novel Rust Apprentice Half A Year

Author:Philipp Meyer

“When you think of the "Exorcist" (1973) you think of Linda Blair and pea soup and all this madness, but really if you look at the first half of that film, the stuff between her and Ellen Burstyn is so naturalistic and so real.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Looks Real Film Stuff Half Madness Soup Blair Peas Exorcist

Author:Matt Reeves

“I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was a period in which we came very, very close to a demagogic immobilization of racism in this society.”

Firsts Half Periods Racism Inequality Rising This Society

Author:William Julius Wilson

“I don't quite recollect how many tumblers of whiskey toddy each man drank after supper; but this I know, that about one o'clock in the morning, the baillie's grown-up son became insensible while attempting the first verse of 'Willie brewed a peck o' maut'; and he having been, for half an hour before, the only other man visible above the mahogany, it occurred to my uncle that it was almost time to think about going.”

Source: The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

“For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.”

Firsts Government Half Millions Resources First Time Despite Fund Denied Stable Survived Centre Dwelling Bihar

Author:Lalu Prasad Yadav

“The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.”

Firsts School Half

Author:Mark Twain

“Most personal correspondence of today consists of letters the first half of which are given over to an indexed statement of why the writer hasn't written before, followed by one paragraph of small talk, with the remainder devoted to reasons why it is imperative that the letter be brought to a close.”

Firsts Reason Today Given Half Written Letters Statements Reason Why Devoted Imperatives Paragraph Correspondence Small Talk

Book:Benchley beside himself

Source: Benchley beside himself

“Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty; it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs.”

Firsts Done Poor Half Drink Empty Generosity Moderation Jars Half Empty Dregs

Author:Hesiod

“Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.”

Firsts Causes Fear Grief Half Enemy Victory Shapes Torment

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“...when we are going through the aftereffects of a bad jolt in loss of money or pride--and both are closely connected--we should get off to ourselves, make an honest appraisal of our shortcomings, and try to find our weak spots and bolster them up before starting in again. First on the program we should figure out a plan to eat. The money we have lost is a small matter; if we can keep our pride and strong faith in ourselves the battle ahead is half won before we start.”

Ifs Should Trying Firsts Matter Lost Strong Loss Half Plans Honest Figures Failure Pride Battle Program Weak Perseverance Starting Connected Spots Shortcomings Appraisal Strong Faith Weak Spots

Author:Sue Sanders

“The first time at age 5 and a half, when I took a racket in my hands and my father fed me some balls, I made 50 backhands in a row - didn't miss a single one.”

Firsts Made Hands Age Father Half Missing First Time Balls Feds Racket

Author:Marion Bartoli

“In the past, in order to continue as a candidate, a serious candidate, you had to be in the top three finishes in Iowa. You had to be in the top two out of New Hampshire. All our presidents elected in the past half-century finished either first or second in New Hampshire and in the top three in Iowa. That changed with the Citizens United, when we gave unlimited amounts of money.”

Firsts Two Past Order Three President United Half Century Changed Serious Amount Citizens Finished Candidates Unlimited Iowa Hampshire New Hampshire Citizens United

Author:Mark Shields

“If I spend a year and a half writing a script, the first year will be outlining in notebooks. It's just the way I work, definitely not necessarily the best way.”

Ifs Way Writing Years Firsts Half Scripts Best Way Notebook Outlining

Author:Rian Johnson

“Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quick off the mark, but ends in disgrace and slinks away crestfallen and uncrowned. The crown is the prize of the really good runner who perseveres to the end.”

Firsts Wells Ends Running Courses Goal Half Mark Perseverance Clever Reaching Prize Flags Crowns Runners Encouraging Disgrace Persevere Rogues

Author:Plato

“I was 16 when we made the first song. We've been touring for half a decade together and we've had quite a bit of time spent learning our craft. You improve as a song writer and as a musician over time.”

Firsts Made Together Song Bits Half Musician Decades Crafts Touring Time Spent

Author:Andy Biersack

“I chose Bagdasarian Productions when I heard from some colleagues at work who were buying story boards at the time back in the early '90. I met the man once when I came in with the first half of the story board and the only thing he said when looking at the first half of the board was, "It's so nice to see someone using their imagination."”

Men Firsts Said Stories Imagination Half Nice Heard He Man Mets Productions Boards Buying Colleagues

Author:Mike Royer

“I was the first son and first child. When my sister came along, well, she was two years younger, and I had to go to the golf course because my mother couldn't handle all the action going on. So I came with father to the golf course since I was a year and a half old and I spent the day with him here, and it worked in naturally. And it was fun for me being with my father, and doing things that a kid did it was great.”

Years Firsts Wells Children Two Kids Action Mother Courses Father Fun Half Son Golf Handle Two Years My Sister Golf Course

Author:Arnold Palmer

“There is a story in the book Night Shift, called 'The Mangler,' about a laundry machine that takes on a sort of malignant life. I worked in a laundry for about a year and a half after I got out of college. It was the only job I could find to support my wife and our first child. There was a fellow there that had no hands or forearms. He simply had hooks. This is one of the things that they don't tell you about when you become management. You have to wear a tie. It was this fellow's tie that did him in.”

Years Firsts Children Book Stories Hands Jobs Night Half Support Wife College Machines Management Fellows My Wife Ties Hook Laundry Night Shift

Author:Stephen King

“The first idea, the first art piece I ever did, was when I was four. I cut the seed of a pear in half and the seed of an apple in half in put those two halves together and planted the seed, hoping a very strange tree might grow. And I never stopped.”

Firsts Art Two Ideas Might Together Grows Half Pieces Four Cutting Tree Strange Seeds Apples Pears

Author:Yoko Ono

“I hated being "Mrs." from the first second each time. I didn't know why. All I knew was how uncomfortable it felt. I hated being one half of a couple, without understanding that it wasn't the husband or the man I hated, it was situation, the identity.”

Knows Men Firsts Felt Understanding Half Situation Identity He Man Couple Husband Hated Uncomfortable One Half

Author:Vivian Gornick

“The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.”

Ifs Firsts Pain Can Do Healing Half Steps Cost Smile Ill Cancer Hardest Recovery Broken Heart Remedy Hardest Thing Healing Heart

Author:Allen Klein

“The [first] argument asserts the non-existence of motion on the ground that that which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.”

Way Firsts Science Goal Existence Half Stage Argument Notion Half Way Non Existence

Author:Zeno of Elea

“Oh, yes, I taught 13 and a half years. I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.”

Years Firsts School Half Taught High School Catholic Forests Lakes Half A Year Catholic School

Author:Elizabeth George

“In the first half of the 20th Century, we lived through human disasters on a scale unimaginable. The Holocaust was once suggested would be the end of not only civilization, but art, too.”

Firsts Humans Art Ends Would Be Half Century Civilization Disaster Scales Holocaust 20th Century Unimaginable

Author:Ian Mcewan

“I write exclusively using computers. Pens and typewriters can fsck right off - I wrote my first half million words in my teens on a manual typewriter (had to trade it for a new one due to keys snapping from metal fatigue) so I am not a pen or typewriter fetishist.”

Writing Firsts Half Millions Keys Computer Trade Dues Pens Metals Teens Fatigue Typewriters Manuals Snapping

Author:Charles Stross

“I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux distro in the press was published in late 1996.)”

Knows Firsts Half Computer Late Presses Decades Reviews Linux Columnists Shoppers

Author:Charles Stross

“I think the first year and a half that I was in New York I was having trouble just living somewhere. Back in them days the city was a lot different than it is now.”

Thinking Years Firsts Different Cities Half Trouble New York

Author:Mickey Rourke

“I don't look at people's expressions, because I still get nervous when I play, especially when I first put the harp up there. I just try to tune - it takes me a half-hour to tune, and I get nervous if I look at anybody when I do it.”

People Ifs Trying Firsts Looks Stills Play Hours Half Expression Nervous Tunes Take Me Half Hours Harps

Author:Joanna Newsom

“I changed the Linux copyright license to be the GPL some time in the first half of 1992. Mostly because I had hated the lack of a cheaply and easily available UNIX when I had looked for one a year before.”

Years Firsts Half Changed Available Hated License Copyright Linux Unix

Author:Linus Torvalds

“I did 40 voices for Chris Wedge, the director of the first film, before coming up with the version we used. He was hard to please, I don't know why. I gave him really slow talking voices. then I thought perhaps Sid could be an Indian sounding sloth. To find out more about my character, I watched footage of sloths. I discovered that the food they store in their pouches rots and ferments and half the time they're drunk.”

Knows Firsts Hard Character Film Used Voice Half Talking Please Directors Stores Versions Drunk Indian Sloth Wedges Sids

Author:John Leguizamo

“I spent the first half of my life making money and the second half of my life giving it away to do the most good and the least harm.”

Giving Firsts Half Harm Making Money

Author:Andrew Carnegie

“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

“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

“Playing catch is often the first professional act of the day, it's a transition from personal life to team business. Lastly, as all position players think they can pitch, at least half of us are working on our off-speed stuff likely at the detriment of our elbows and shoulders, but we can't help it. It's too much fun. My changeup has come a long way since high school.”

Thinking Way Firsts Long Helping School Fun Stuff Half Too Much Player Team Position High School Speed Shoulders Transition Personal Life Long Way Elbows Too Much Fun

Author:Fernando Perez

“If you want to say something truly new, you must first know everything that has been said in the human history; not half, not ninety percent, but all that has been said! Only then you can say something new, if you can!”

Ifs Knows Want Firsts Humans Has Beens Said Half Percent Something New Ninety Human History New You

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“In some ways, I was a little bit surprised [by how dominant we were] but then I look at the players in our changing room and it doesn't surprise me because we've got quality in there. If we click and play well like we did in the first half, we can open up any team.”

Ifs Way Firsts Wells Looks Littles Play Bits Rooms Half Quality Player Team Little Bit Surprise Dominant Clicks Surprise Me

Author:Rio Ferdinand

“For me, a great show is when there's a great rapport with the band and the audience, and we're all really into it. The first trick is to bring the audience into the band, break the ice, have a life, and be one, so you can enjoy the next hour and a half together.”

Firsts Shows Together Next Enjoy Hours Half Break Audience Band Tricks Ice Rapport

Author:Andy Summers

“Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Firsts Littles Different Sleep Half Awake Other Half

Author:Blaise Pascal

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