Quotes of: Half-past Keyword

I always wanted to be a zookeeper when I was growing up, and I've wound up a zookeeper! I've been working with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years! I'm the luckiest old broad on two feet because my life is divided absolutely in half - half animals and h...

Betty White

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

John Acton

The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback.

Alain Resnais

The past is dangerous, not least because it cannot go away. It is simply , never to change, and in its constancy it reflects the eternity of God. It presents to the young mind a vast field of fascination, of war and peace, loyalty and treason, invent...

Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child

To dwell in the here and now does not mean you never think about the past or responsibly plan for the future. The idea is simply not to allow yourself to get lost in regrets about the past or worries about the future. If you are firmly grounded in th...

The Art of Power

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Books are only half our job ; the other half is human nature.

Bright Heritage

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

Alexandre Dumas

She was only half Bird now, and the other half song. She liked it that way.

Summer and Bird

Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.

Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination

I’ve spent half my life searching for the truth. The left half of my life.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

Like a Persian carpet the weave of time pushed their lives into a pattern.

One and a Half Wife

…one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half…

Persuasion

This is a silly place. Half the world has no clean water. The other half has so much that they pooh in it.

Larry Bird

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

P. L. Travers

We did like 12 shows, then we did the entire Ozzfest with the first half completely booked; then we did the second half with a couple days off here and there.

Tom Araya

If you're using half your concentration to look normal, then you're only half paying attention to whatever else you're doing.

Magneto

I'm half Puerto Rican and half Jewish and so, in some ways, living in many worlds at once is where I feel most at home.

Quiara Alegria Hudes

I think it's good for an actor to bounce between stuff on camera and stuff in theatre. If I could do half and half every year I would be a very, very happy man.

Richard Madden

For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done.

Richard J. Needham

Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.

Isaac Mayer Wise