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It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.
People wanted to me to describe more about what I call "the container," and then describe what the second half of life feels like.
How old are you? 'I'm four and a half!' You're never thirty-six and a half. You're four and a half, going on five! That's the key.
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.
A new study says that over half of all Californians are obese. In fact, half of Californians are really two-thirds of Californians.
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
Life is too brief and too rich to tiptoe through half-heartedly, rather than galloping at it with whooping excitement and ambition.
You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship!
The half-human was the hottest thing he'd ever gotten anywhere near. And he'd cozied up to a lightning strike once or twice before.
I could do a video doing my makeup or vlogging my day with friends, and I know half of my comments section will be about my weight.
The mouthpiece of the half-inarticulate, all-suggesting music that is at once the very soul and the inseparable garment of romance.
It's much better to play the guitar a half hour a day, every day, than not practice for a week and then jam for five hours one day.
I live in my own place - have never copied anyone even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh.
there are things you mustn't even try to explain. They either become trite or they tie you down to something that's only half true.
If people would turn their TVs off for half the time, study science and practice an instrument, they'd be virtuosos and have Ph.Ds!
Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.
The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad.
Live, it's just the free flow and the energy and the excitement. It's a one-off and you have that adrenaline for an hour and a half.
I'm probably creative for half an hour a day. The rest of the time, I'm just doing what's necessary to make that creativity visible.
Dogs change lives. Half Buddha, half Bozo, they keep us tethered to the earth, and teach us to fly. Our dogs are our sanity keepers.
I learned by reading an awful lot and by writing a half a million words of stuff nobody would do anything with except wrap old fish.
It's not terrible, I guess, but if Ricky Gervais was half as talented as me, maybe the show would actually be funny once in a while.
I have had no real gratification or enjoyment of any sort more than my neighbour on the next block who is worth only half a million.
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.
It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.
He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
Half-caf, double-tall, non fat, whole-milk foam, bone-dry, half-pump mocha, half sugar in the raw, double cup, no lid, capp - to go.
I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.
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.
I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I’m half ground, that I don’t want to be a sausage after all.
Half condemn him and write him off as useless like him dad. The other half just shrug and indulge him and say, ‘Well, that’s Adrian.
Eradication of microbial disease is a will-o'-the-wisp; pursuing it leads into a morass of hazy biological concepts and half truths.
When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people.
I once performed The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to about 15 sea captains. The song was about a ship that broke in half and sank.
There is only a half step difference between the champions and those who finish on the bottom. And much of that half step is mental.
I think it's important to remember that by the second half of our lives, we are meant to see in wholes, and no longer just in parts.
A half century of living should put a good deal into a person's face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds around the chin.
You always hear people saying, 'I hope I'm not turning into my dad', but I'd be honoured if I became half as decent a bloke as he is.
By the early seventies I had become an Englishman - that is to say, I hated England just as much as half my compatriots seemed to do.
Most teams - whether they like it or not against Manchester City - you're going to find yourself quite often penned in your own half.
Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.
I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola.
I'm really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can't sit there with someone that loves me.
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
The next time someone tells you, "The Church is full of a bunch of hypocrites." You can respond, "You don't even know the half of it."
I might be in a bit of a Skoda garage rather than a Mercedes garage, but I am telling you some old bangers don't half polish up great.
Adulthood has something to do with not choosing any of the pure points of view, but living about half of what you really want to live.
I never want someone to come out of one of my films and say, "Damn. I wasted an hour and a half of my life." I'm trying to avoid that.
I spent four and a half hours debating Donald Trump in three debates, which I think should put to rest any questions about my stamina.