Amy Tan Half And Half Quotes

#1. We are the kind of people who obsess over one word ... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.

Amy Tan

#2. There isn't a man on earth who doesn't at times pronounce an opinion on good and evil, even if it be only to find fault with somebody else.

Simone Weil

#3. The powdered sugar had caramelized and blackened into a sucking tar pit in which my ladyfingers languished like so many sunk mastadons.

Julie Powell

#4. Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

Amy Tan

#5. And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over.
-Rose

Amy Tan

#6. It's easier to be ignorant and say I don't know about the problem. But once you know, once you've seen it in their eyes, then you have a responsibility to do something. There is strength in numbers, and if we all work together as a team, we can be unstoppable.

Craig Kielburger

#7. Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog.

Grace Paley

#8. A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

Plato

#9. Half is done when the beginning is done.

Horace

#10. You could be married and bored or single and lonely. Ain't no happiness nowhere.

Chris Rock

#11. I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.

Emily Dickinson

#12. Without doubt I praise the wild excellence ...

Pablo Neruda

#13. Hope is never dead.

G. Norman Lippert

#14. Next to the wonder of seeing my Savior will be, I think, the wonder that I made so little use of the power of prayer.

Dwight L. Moody

#15. Find, then hold onto what makes your life special.

Steven Redhead

#16. At last, Russia has returned to the world arena as a strong state - a country that others heed and that can stand up for itself.

Vladimir Putin

#17. I think now that fate is half shaped by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. You have to pay attention to what you lost. You have to undo the expectation.

Amy Tan