Halfway Point Quotes

#1. It's funny, because when you're younger you're in a rush to be 18 or 21 or whatever. But then you hit 30. And now, the days go by like hours. You think, 40, man, this could be the halfway point. It could be the three-quarters point, you know? Who knows?

Mark Wahlberg

#2. At the halfway point of any drunken night, there is a moment when an Indian realizes he cannot turn back toward tradition and that he has no map to guide him toward the future.

Sherman Alexie

#3. Yes, as a people we are spoiled. We look for dinners that take two minutes to cook in our microwave instead of five, and we audibly sigh if the directions on the box require us to stir at the halfway point. Aw, I gotta stir? See what else is in the freezer.

Martha Bolton

#4. Mean, if you start a book and a couple of chapters in you decide you just aren't into it that's one thing, but once you reach the halfway point, there's no turning back. You're obligated.

Kim Holden

#5. The person who is not strong enough gives up at the halfway point - but you are limiting yourself before even starting.

Confucius

#6. The stupid line was so long that aluminum could have rusted in the time it took them to reach the halfway point.

Brandon Sanderson

#7. The summit is just a halfway point.

Ed Viesturs

#8. [Optimism] is not about providing a recipe for self-deception. The world can be a horrible, cruel place, and at the same time it can be wonderful and abundant. These are both truths. There is not a halfway point; there is only choosing which truth to put in your personal foreground.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

#9. Short boots are cool, in my humble opinion. They say, 'Hey! Winter is over, but summer hasn't yet arrived - so enjoy this halfway point!'

Rachel Nichols

#10. I spent four minutes yesterday looking for the halfway point between where I am & where I want to be. I found the city - you just have to tell me if you want pizza, coffee or strange street meat. Just four minutes searching, but all day (really all week), I've been thinking of this letter & you.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#11. The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely

Jackson Pollock

#12. Every patient tends to bury the most important story inside some other story, just the way new writers often 'bury the lede.' 'Burying the lede' is an old journalism term for when you only find out the real point about halfway into the article, but it also applies to therapy.

Gina Barreca

#13. There are only perches within society, and we can elevate our sights by considering how things might look from those of others.

Yuval Levin

#14. In my career as a director, there's always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: 'What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?' At that time you have to say: 'OK, forget that and just go ahead.'

Clint Eastwood

#15. It was really shocking to me that when I was dating a dude I could get married and my taxes were 8 grand less, blah blah blah.

Sia Furler

#16. Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.

Tom Waits

#17. You can tell what's informing a society by what the tallest building is.

Joseph Campbell

#18. You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#19. Nature, too, shall live its own life. We must beware not to disrupt it with the color of our houses and interior fittings. yet we should not attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together into a higher unity.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#20. The self in the twentieth century is a voracious nought which expands like the feeding vacuole of an amoeba seeking to nourish and inform its own nothingness by ingesting new objects in the world but, like a vacuole, only succeeds in emptying them out.

Walker Percy

#21. In this worldly life, one is possessed by the three ghosts of the mind, speech and the body.

Dada Bhagwan

#22. Aidan gasped. "How did you get into my email?" "Not the point right now." Jamie waved him off as his eyes tracked down the list, freezing halfway.

Layla Reyne

#23. Your informed, "no," to a particular service allows another to offer their gifted and unreserved, "yes."

Mary Anne Radmacher

#24. I feel glad to be alive - "I'm glad I'm not dead!" sometimes bursts out of me when the weather is perfect.

Oliver Sacks

#25. About as much business as a cat owner has selling dog food. Or an Olympic swimmer has advertising for downhill ski equipment. Or a nun writing hard core erotica.
Abso-fucking-none.

Laurel Ulen Curtis

#26. That's the point of Zeno's Paradox, isn't it? Whatever your goal, you're never more than halfway there.

Sam A. Patel

#27. It's not free - Somebody had to pay for it!

Angelo N. Dallas

#28. If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.

Lillian Hellman