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“Why should it happen that among the great many women whom I see and am fond of, suddenly somebody I meet for half an hour opens the door into poetry?”

Should Happens Hours Half Doors Great Men

Book:Conversations with May Sarton

Source: Conversations with May Sarton

“I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these came as a terrible shock and, like anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.”

Firsts Happens Would Be Half Accepting Forever Terrible Ordinary Extraordinary Shock Splits Extraordinary Things Before And After

Book:Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Source: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“Those who have been indulged by fortune and have always thought of calamity as what happens to others, feel a blind incredulous rage at the reversal of their lot, and half believe that their wild cries will alter the course of the storm.”

Feels Believe Has Beens Happens Courses Half Cry Blind Fortune Storm Rage Calamity Reversal

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know what was going to happen they wouldn't bother to do it.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Happens Half Painting Painter Bother Painting A Picture

Author:Lucian Freud

“I took the position of organizing 126 Democrats who voted against the Iraq war resolution. And I happen to think it was the right position. Today we're faced with over 500 casualties, a cost of over $200 billion, and it could rise the casualties could go into the thousands and the costs could go over a half trillion if we stay there for years, as a number of people on this stage intend to see happen.”

People Ifs Thinking Years War Happens Today Numbers Half Stage Position Cost Democrat Iraq Billions Resolution Iraq War Casualties Over 50

Author:Dennis Kucinich

“When I finished the juniors I felt, perhaps for about a year and a half, that everything was going to be the same and that I would be able to go out there and win any match. But it wasn't the case. I struggled. It took me time to adjust and to realise it was not going to happen like it did in the juniors. It was three years between the junior ranks and reaching the Australian Open, and even then, having reached the final against Hingis, I wasn't really realising what it would take to go higher.”

Years Happens Would Be Able Three Winning Felt Sports Half Cases Higher Finals Finished Reaching Realising Three Years Juniors Australian

Author:Amelie Mauresmo

“I like little collaborations where the other thing happens, where it's half-baked or it's improvised, and let's develop it together. "What do you want to wear? Do you have an idea?" All that's fun to do, and I like that, but it doesn't take anything away.”

Want Littles Ideas Happens Together Fun Half Things Happen Collaboration

Author:Jeff Goldblum

“Since I learned the secret and started applying it to my life, my life has truly become magical. I think the kind of life that everybody dreams of is one I live on a day to day basis. I live in a four-and-a-half-million-dollar mansion. I have a wife to die for. I get to vacation in all the fabulous spots of the world. I've climbed mountains. I've explored. I've been on safaris. And all of this happened and continues to happen, because of knowing how to apply The Secret.”

Thinking World Kind Dream Happens Dies Secret Half Millions Knowing Four Wife Happened Mountain Bases Dollars Spots Vacation Day To Day Fabulous Million Dollars Mansions

Author:Jack Canfield

“The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never happen--a greater part of the other half.”

World Happens Half Poverty Greater Anxiety Other Half Exaggerated

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“Destiny is another name for humanity's half-hearted yet persistent search for death. Again and again peoples have had the chance to live and show what would happen if human life were irrigated by continual happiness; and they have preferred to blow up the canals and perish of drought.”

Ifs Humans Shows Happens Humanity Names Chance Half Destiny Blow Human Life Life And Death Again And Again Persistent Hearted Drought Canals Half Hearted

Book:Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia

Source: Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia

“I’ve often said that global climate change is an issue where no one has the luxury of being “half-pregnant.” You either are or you aren’t. And so it is with climate change. You either understand and accept the science – or you don’t. Folks this isn’t a cafeteria where you can pick and choose and accept the science that tells us what is happening, but then reject the science that warns us what will happen.”

Said Happens Half Accepting Issues Happenings Picks Climate Climate Change Folks Luxury Rejects Pregnant Cafeteria

Author:John F. Kerry