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“I used to envy the father of our race, dwelling as he did in contact with the new-made fields and plants of Eden; but I do so no more, because I have discovered that I also live in "creation's dawn." The morning stars still sing together, and the world, not yet half made, becomes more beautiful every day.”

World Made Stills Together Beautiful Used Father Stars Nature Race Half Beauty Morning Creation Fields Plant Envy Contact Dawn Dwelling Eden

Book:Gentle wilderness: the Sierra Nevada

Source: Gentle wilderness: the Sierra Nevada

“In my younger days, when I was painted by the half-educated, loose and inaccurate ways women had, I used to say, "How much women need exact science" But since I have known some workers in science, I have now said, "How much science needs women"”

Way Needs Said Science Used Half Known Workers Educated Exact Sciences Younger Days

Author:Maria Mitchell

“Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage, turning it all one way, the way home. Telegraph poles ahead looked like half-used pencils; the small cross on the steeple glittered with a sharp and shapely permanence.”

Way Home Used Half Loneliness Fields Wind Higher Bird Crosses One Way Pencils Permanence Way Home Telegraph Foliage Steeples

Author:A. E. Coppard

“I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done for. And here I am now, at the very moment of such an odious, though respectable, danger.”

Ifs Thinking Men Done Moments Used Hours Half Danger Letters Respectable Here I Am Pretension Half Hours

Book:Quite Early One Morning

Source: Quite Early One Morning

“Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance, superstition, poverty, eccentricity, unrecognized anachronism, passion and ignorance and the little boy's misery. Yeats was treated well but was bitterly unhappy; he prayed that he would die, and used often to say to himself: "When you are grown up, never talk as grown-up people do of the happiness of childhood.”

“Like all truly pure souls she [Chantal] quickly resigned herself to past faults, thought only of how to repair whatever harm they had done. "Of all my daughters, you are certainly the least bothered by scruples of conscience," Abbé Chevance used to say.... Even sin, once the will is detached and no longer nourishes it, withers and dies sterile. It is in the secret of intentions, like in a decomposing humus, in the dark forest of future sins, unpardoned sins, half dead, half living, that new poisons are distilled.”

Soul Done Past Used Dies Dark Sin Secret Half Pure Daughter Conscience Faults Intention Harm Forests Poison My Daughter Bothered Detached Resigned Scruples Pure Soul

Author:Georges Bernanos

“I always used to say to players at half-time, 'Be patient. The last fifteen minutes throw the kitchen sink at them. It's worth a gamble'. You are going to lose the game anyway. There is nothing better than when you get to that last fifteen minutes and you actually win the game late on. The fans are going out of the gates I gave it a try and it worked.”

Trying Lasts Used Games Winning Loses Half Player Fans Minutes Late Patient Kitchen Gates Fifteen Going Out Be Patient Gamble Half Time Kitchen Sinks

Author:Alex Ferguson

“If conservatives really believed in individual liberty, as they endlessly claim and if they used both halves of their brains then they'd be libertarians. Instead, they sabotage themselves, and their cause, by constantly generating one spurious reason after another to deprive other people of their freedom.”

People Ifs Reason Used Individual Causes Brain Half Liberty Claims Libertarian Sabotage Individual Liberty

Author:L. Neil Smith

“I had to share a room with my sister, who is five and a half years older than I am. We didn't get along well, and I felt that I had no privacy. So books were my privacy, because no one could join me in a book, no one could comment on the action or make fun of it. I used to spend hours reading in the bathroom -- and we only had one bathroom in our small apartment!”

Years Wells Book Action Used Reading Fun Felt Hours Rooms Half Five Share Privacy Comment My Sister Apartment Bathroom Half A Year

Author:Gail Carson Levine

“Yes, I actually have a portable fly-tying kit in my vest. I spent hours putting it all together, with a special emphasis on midge materials as well as enough fur and feathers to whip out a half dozen of virtually every conceivable dry pattern nature can throw at me. I have used it once, in 1993.”

Wells Enough Together Used Hours Half Sea Special Materials Rivers Patterns Fishes Boat Dry Lakes Fishing Dozen Emphasis Feathers Whips Fur Vests Midges

Author:Jack Ohman

“Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too. Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally, language used wrongly, breeds lies, half-truths, confusion. In that sense you can say that grammar is morality. And it is in that sense that I say a writer's first duty is to use language well.”

Source: Steering the craft: exercises and discussions on story writing for the lone navigator or the mutinous crew

“When other presidents used the executive pen, they used to it for things like should we lower the flag at half mast for someone who died and things like that. When President Obama uses it, he changes the way America does business.”

Way Should Doe Use America Used President Half Died Executives Pens President Obama Flags Masts

Author:Eric Bolling

“In Missouri, it's a 50/50 state, so I'm kind of used to half the state being mad at me.”

Kind States Used Half Mad Missouri Being Mad

Author:Barack Obama

“I never get used to it, the unknowable mystery of a person so suddenly, totally closed, snapped shut like a half-read novel.”

Persons Used Half Novel Mystery

Book:Steel Guitar

Source: Steel Guitar

“I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, I could get used to this. And I just never stopped.”

Thinking Littles Self Remember Faces Used Parent Half Fronts Walking Crowds Applause Folding Walking Out

Author:Dallas Roberts

“I used to say I live my life a quarter mile at a time and I think that's why we were brothers- because you did, too. No matter where you are, whether it's a quarter mile away or half way across the world. The most important thing in life, will always be the people in this room. Salute mi familia. You'll always be with me... And you'll always be my brother.”

“I used to sit home with my computer and write. After the Newbery, I probably spend more than half my time on the road.”

Writing Home Used Half Computer My Time

Author:Linda Sue Park

“Many people are dreaming. Let me rent. Let me have a job. Let me work until I'm 70. That's not what the American Dream used to be. It used to be, let me own a home. Let me retire at 59 and a half or 65 at the latest. Let me do this. And now, really, given what's happened, good luck with anything happening unless you do it yourself.”

People Home Dream Jobs Used Given Half Happened Happenings Let Me Luck Used To Be Retiring American Dream Good Luck Do It Yourself

Author:Suze Orman

“We speak of facts, yet facts exist only partially to us if they are not repeated and re-created through emotions, thoughts and feelings. To me it seemed as if we had not really existed, or only half existed, because we could not imaginatively realize ourselves and communicate to the world, because we had used works of imagination to serve as handmaidens to some political ploy.”

Ifs World Facts Feelings Political Used Speak Realizing Imagination Emotion Half Communicate Thoughts And Feelings Ploy

Book:Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.”

World Has Beens Hard Used Passion Three Half Achievement Empathy Excuse Obstacles Divorce Motherhood Traps Three Times Marriage And Divorce

Book:Fear of Fifty

Source: Fear of Fifty

“Suddenly I'm not half the girl I used to be. There's a shadow hanging over me . . . From me to you out of my electric devil.”

Used Girl Fear Half Devil Shadow Used To Be Electric

Book:Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

“I used to be surprised and even depressed when I met someone I had admired and discovered him or her to be a jerk or, perhaps worse, rather common. Now I half expect this reaction and even find it a little reassuring, maybe even uplifting. Isn't it amazing that somebody like that could produce such and such.”

Littles Science Used Common Half Produce Mets Mathematics Reactions Used To Be Uplifting Jerk Reassuring

Book:A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper

Source: A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper

“When I'm taking my last breath, I want to look at how I used up the best of myself. How much did I sweat, push, pull, rip, fall, hit, crash, explode?...My dream is to be so well-used that in my last-half second, I just burst into dust.”

Source: Streb: How to Become an Extreme Action Hero

“A very simple and useful device is to have a memorandum-book, so small that it can be easily carried in the pocket, to be used instead of your mind to keep note of any errand or any appointment that you may have. The Standard Diary, less than four inches long and less than two and a half inches wide, is one of the best for this purpose. ...In fact, such diaries as these, in their wide range of information, would seem to be all that one needs in practical life, the only other book that at all approaches them in this respect being unquestionably Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.”

“I always felt, and I still feel, that the media doesn't belong in a public official's private life. It's a very difficult balance, because if you are elected to public office, people have a right to know a great deal about you, and the press has an absolute obligation to report all of that. But the reality is that there are times in which the reporting is really happening for almost voyeuristic reasons, in the gossip columns. Maybe half of it is wrong, and half of it is correct, and a lot of it is exaggerated. You've just got to get used to that if you're in public life.”

“Historian Larry Hise notes in his book Pro-Slavery that ministers 'wrote almost half of all defenses of slavery published in America.' He listed 275 men of the cloth who used the Bible to prove that white people were entitled to own black people as work animals.”

Source: Holy horrors: an illustrated history of religious murder and madness

“Feminists are now being vilified in politics, erdogan used to speak more embracingly, saying he was the leader of everyone, whether they voted for him or not. He sounds as if he puts a distance between himself and half the nation.”

Ifs Used Politics Speak Nations Sound Half Leader Distance Feminist Erdogan

Author:Elif Safak

“I do not think being a coordinator is a requirement, but it does give you some advantages. You get used to working with half the team and you go through the game-planning and decision-making processes.”

Thinking Giving Doe Used Games Process Decision Half Team Advantage Planning Decision Making Requirements Decision Making Process Coordinator

Author:Tony Dungy

“I saw a guy wearing a "What Would Jesus Do?" bracelet and a Lance Armstrong bracelet, and he went up to this blind kid and rubbed his eyes, and the kid could see. But he wasn't used to the light, 'cause it was bright, and he walked into traffic and was killed instantly. Okay, the people that are laughing right now? I'm gonna call you guys half-full. Because you're focusing on the important part of the story: the bracelets are working.”

People Important Stories Humor Light Eye Kids Funny Used Guy Jesus Causes Half Laughing Saws Right Now Okay Blind His Eyes Traffic Armstrong Half Full Bracelet

Author:Daniel Tosh

“Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half.”

Men Mean Science Used Interest Nature Animal Interesting Half Taken Mountain Rivers Plant Clouds Productions Indifferent Most Interesting Other Half

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)

“Half of my mum's family is Welsh. I remember when I was a kid she used to read to me, and witches and wizards in books always had a Welsh accent, so I guess I took it from that really.”

Book Kids Remember Used Half Witch Mum Accents Remember When Wizards Welsh

Author:Keira Knightley

“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

“A new study finds that women use their whole brain when listening and men only use half of their brain. You see, men use the other half of their brain to come up with excuses. I don't think women use their whole brain when listening. I think they use half of it and the other half is used to memorize what men are saying so they can use it against them 10 years later!”

Thinking Men Years Whole Use Used Brain Half Study Listening Come Up Excuse Other Half

Author:Jay Leno

“My way of working was different years ago. I used to wait until an idea came to me. Now I go half-way to meet it, though I don't know whether I find it any the quicker.”

Knows Way Years Ideas Different Used Waiting Half Years Ago My Way Half Way

Author:Sigmund Freud

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