Top 100 Quotes About Halfway
#1. I came to Houston for a job, the reason most people move halfway across the country with a first grader and a five-week-old. I came here to teach at Rice.
Justin Cronin
#2. The feeling of being halfway through a show and just realizing that there's nothing you can do to save it - it's a horrible feeling.
Babatunde Adebimpe
#3. Cat, hmmm? From where I sit you look more like a Kitten."
My head jerked around and I shot him an annoyed look.
Oh, I was going to enjoy this, all right.
"It's Cat," I repeated firmly. "Cat Raven."
"Whatever you say, Kitten Tweedy.
Jeaniene Frost
#4. Well, she asked him questions about his age and his attainments. The fact that he was a Catholic gave her pause, but when I explained to her that the present Pope was a well-meaning sort of chap, she said she was prepared to meet him halfway.
Elizabeth Cadell
#5. Your voice is your identity. If you don't use it, you're halfway to Asphodel already.
Rick Riordan
#6. The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile.
Ted Allen
#7. I was a halfway-decent-looking English boy who looked nice in a drawing-room standing by a piano.
Peter Lawford
#8. Celeste met me halfway, swinging her branch with each step. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing. Just not feeling well, I guess."
"Do. Not. Puke," she ordered. "Especially not on me.
Kiera Cass
#9. The safest place to be is always halfway into your future, without even knowing what it is.
Robert Krulwich
#10. A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism.
Dion Fortune
#11. Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again ... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid.
Barbara Hepworth
#12. You are Spider-Man!" she exclaimed.
Simon glanced down from his perch halfway up the pillar. "That makes you Mary Jane. She has red
hair,
Cassandra Clare
#13. Hardware is easy to protect: lock it in a room, chain it to a desk, or buy a spare. Information poses more of a problem. It can exist in more than one place; be transported halfway across the planet in seconds; and be stolen without your knowledge.
Bruce Schneier
#14. I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.
Nate Powell
#15. It is really surprising how many and what pleasant things happen to me; perhaps it is because I am always ready to meet an agreeable situation a little more than halfway.
A. Edward Newton
#16. A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.
Irving Penn
#18. The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
Michael Pollan
#19. I was your man, you were halfway around the world from me, honey, I'd fucking phone you ... If you told me you needed a timeout, first, I wouldn't fuckin' let you have one. Second, I wouldn't give you reason to fuckin' want one. And last, you took off anyway, I'd fuckin' phone.
Kristen Ashley
#20. L'appetit vient en mangeant. Appetite comes by eating. Your appetite will come back, but it must be met halfway. You must want it to come.
Diane Setterfield
#21. For, behind the scenes, halfway around the world in Mexico, were two decades of aggressive research on wheat that not only enabled Mexico to become self-sufficient with respect to wheat production but also paved the way to rapid increase in its production in other countries.
Norman Borlaug
#22. I wasn't the demonstrative type. I didn't say I love you all the time, and I wasn't girlish or giggly. I hated shopping in pairs and preferred staying home with a good romance novel than a girls' night out. But I figured sometimes you have to meet someone halfway.
C.D. Reiss
#23. I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.
Jo Brand
#25. We cannot meet 'em [Democrates] halfway. We can't cross the aisle. These people, I'm talking about the left wherever you find them, the Democrats, they have to be defeated.
Rush Limbaugh
#27. Once you get to earth orbit, you're halfway to anywhere in the solar system.
Robert A. Heinlein
#28. They're going to leave me. All I wanted to do was lie in the dry prickly grass with my feet in a ditch forever. I could be a convenient sort of milemarker, I thought. Get to the thief and you know you are halfway to Methana. Where ever Methana might be.
Megan Whalen Turner
#29. So I am halfway in and halfway out, as always.
Veronica Roth
#30. Ed? Are you alive?'
'Yes..and that's genuinely surprising
since your bike went over me about
halfway down. You're a very dangerous
girl to date.'
'We're not on a date.
Cath Crowley
#31. Instead of crushing them and mixing them with water, she decided to take them one by one, because there is always a gap between intention and action, and she wanted to feel free to turn back halfway.
Paulo Coelho
#33. 'Oh, gods,' said Holden, halfway into his tunic. 'I can't believe it's taken me five years to realize your one tragic flaw. You're a morning person. Stop being so chipper right now. At least until I've had my coffee.'
Maculategiraffe
#34. If halfway love is all you want or all you care to give, why bother with love at all and only halfway live.
Marty Robbins
#35. I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.
Tom Cruise
#36. So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
Alan Bennett
#37. I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.
Jack Kerouac
#38. For pity's sake, don't start meeting troubles halfway.
Teresa Of Avila
#39. Jesus didn't carry a cross to Calvary so that we could live a halfway life. He died so that we could come alive in the truest and fullest sense of the word.
Mark Batterson
#40. You know," Kabe tugged his shirt off and tossed it on the floor. "The whole innocent thing is kinda cute."
Shirt halfway up my middle, I stopped.
"I'm nothing like cute." My glare told him I'd hurt him if kept it up.
"Me and cute don't add up.
James Buchanan
#41. I didn't get to see Predator until halfway through shooting. It was great to get an education while I was shooting because it made me excited to be part of this legacy.
Sanaa Lathan
#42. I took my father on a coach trip last summer.We were halfway there when the driver lost control of the coach, it flew down a hill around a bend and crashed through a brick wall. I wasn't hurt but luckily my father had the presence of mind to kick my head in.
Chic Murray
#43. leaving my past is like jumping of a burning buiding. except jumping is a one way trip. You can't change your mind halfway down
Richard Scrimger
#44. Why should we live halfway up the hill and swathed in the mists, when we might have an unclouded sky and a radiant sun over our heads if we would climb higher and walk in the light of His face?
Alexander MacLaren
#45. Whenever the urge to kiss him came over me, I would kiss him. No more living life halfway. We had to go full tilt, just like the card players did. I would hit instead of stay. Always. We
Emma Scott
#46. I've always, for whatever my faults have been, felt like I've never done anything halfway.
Andy Roddick
#47. Maybe you're not such a monster, Mr Zombie. I mean, anyone who appreciates a good beer is at least halfway okay in my book.
Isaac Marion
#48. For your business to stand out and succeed, you have to put a primary focus on the social media space, go in big (halfway will not do), and do it better than most, right from the start.
Brian E. Boyd Sr.
#49. It is the deep-black-sky quiet time of night, which is the halfway time between the sun setting and the sun rising when even the night animals are quiet - as if they, like day animals, take a break in the middle of their work to rest.
Alexandra Fuller
#50. Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall ... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous.
John Bonham
#51. I'm halfway around the world with dozens of bags, feeling like all 4 members of Color Me Badd.
Drake
#52. The only thing marring the illusion is an empty swimming pool hanging halfway off the cliff on the edge of the grounds.
Susan Ee
#53. The trouble is, some people won't meet you halfway, heart to heart, skin to skin, without you first buying wholesale from the warehouse of their opinions.
Christopher Wilson
#54. It's daytime. A wall of billowing orange flame grows up silently from the tank farm a mile away, like a time-lapse chrysanthemum. It is so vast and complicated in its blooming, uncontrolled growth that Rife stops halfway up the stairs to watch.
Neal Stephenson
#55. It didn't matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.
Lev Grossman
#56. With all the differences and misunderstandings, meeting halfway is the only way to show that both of you are willing to sacrifice a portion of yourself for the benefit of both ...
NerD_Seyer
#57. If you can imagine it, you're halfway there
Pete Hautman
#58. If only one day,
their worlds could meet,
just halfway.
She would outplay,
the distance rest,
blaming the roads,
led her astray.
But only if,
they could meet,
just halfway.
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#59. To be fair, she called this morning. I stared at the phone. Circled it on my bed. And, eventually, it stopped ringing. If it had been important, she would've called back, right? That was the line of thought that ran through my head until halfway through the day, when I started to feel bad about it.
Kelley York
#60. The Thames Torso murders almost fell into my lap. After deciding to use a real historical crime as the focus for the book, I went to Google and searched for unsolved murders in Victorian London, and they basically popped out at me about halfway down the first results page.
Sarah Pinborough
#61. We're terrible at so many things - remembering important dates, college, making friends - but the one thing we've always been halfway decent at is being together.
Krista Ritchie
#62. She'd been so certain she knew every crevice of his heart, but Jacob was like a country she'd only traveled through halfway.
Cornelia Funke
#63. Everyone makes choices in life. Some bad, some good. It's called living, and if you want to bow out, then go right ahead. But don't do it halfway. Don't linger in whiner's limbo.
Maria V. Snyder
#64. The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.
Wilson Mizner
#66. 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
#67. Choose a checked or striped wall paper. People will be halfway home before they are able to focus.
Phyllis Diller
#68. Usually halfway through a book I have a serious depression, so I go on safari on my ranch in South Africa, or fishing off my island in the Seychelles. When I come back and re-read it, I think: 'What was all that about, Smith? It's fine, just get on with it.'
Wilbur Smith
#69. A Tibetan Lama said to me, "The best place to stand, Ram Dass, is halfway between hope and hopelessness." So I can write a scenario for the 21st century in either direction. One is that it all goes to hell and that it's truly the dark age.
Ram Dass
#70. I had a history for starting something and maybe getting halfway done. Then I'd see the same thing I was doing on the bestseller list! My ideas were right, but I hadn't done them fast enough.
Lori Greiner
#71. It is halfway true that if you are involved in a family coffeehouse you don't have a life.
Robin McKinley
#72. Life wasn't like that neat classification system, Achimwene had come to realize. Life was half-completed plots abandoned, heroes dying halfway along their quests, loves requited and un-, some fading inexplicably, some burning short and bright.
Lavie Tidhar
#73. 'Troy' is an adaptation of the Trojan War myth in its entirety, not 'The Iliad' alone. 'The Iliad' begins with the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon over the slave girl Briseis nine years into the war. The equivalent scene occurs halfway through my script.
David Benioff
#74. Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.
Bob Beamon
#75. Stay not where the lowlands are! Climb not into the sky! The world looks best by far when viewed from halfway high.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#76. Light's truth, if you got a woman to feed you on a regular basis, she was halfway won.
Robert Jordan
#77. The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
Laurence J. Peter
#78. She chose a very pale teal, halfway between blue and green, with a white silk fichu at the neck.
Anne Perry
#79. Sometimes, you really don't understand why something is important to you until you get halfway through the movie - or maybe even all the way through.
Jodie Foster
#81. The place smelled of commodes and playing cards, and before I was halfway to the end I had made a firm resolve never to begin to die. For me it would be all or nothing: no half measures, no lingering on the doorstep.
Alan Bradley
#82. An adage worth repeating is also halfway to being irrelevant. You end up with something that is easy to say but not connected to behavior.
Ed Catmull
#83. The flavour of something fresh out of the ground is 10 times better than something that's been flown halfway across the world.
Sheherazade Goldsmith
#84. He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.
Margery Allingham
#85. Scapegrace went to roll his eyes, but lost his enthusiasm halfway through and ended up looking at the ceiling.
Derek Landy
#86. 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
#87. When you see a roadblock or challenge as an opportunity, it is amazing how you are already halfway there.
Frances Hesselbein
#88. Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot
Iain Banks
#89. I think the most romantic thing you can do is just turn up. Turn up when it's difficult for you. Travel halfway around the world or just up the road. Whatever it is, just be there.
James McAvoy
#90. The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.
Bernard Avishai
#91. The Arts Council of England, in a 1998 report on 11 countries, found that Germany spent $85 per capita on the arts. The United States spent a shocking $6. And Canada, in its stubborn balance, spent $46 ... It's the Canadian way to be halfway between the Old and New worlds.
Michael Audain
#92. Elizabeth Taylor has a big heart. She recently built a halfway house for girls who don't want to go all the way.
Red Buttons
#93. If you send it halfway around the world before it is eaten, an organic food still may be 'good' for the consumer, but is it 'good' for the food system?
Gary Paul Nabhan
#94. 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
#95. In boxing, if you think you will lose..you're already halfway there.
Lennox Lewis
#96. Ruby's tenth birthday party. She wore a red dress and we skated and she told me we were halfway to twenty and someday we would go to France.
Catherine Lacey
#97. A slave that acknowledges its enslavement is halfway to its liberation.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#98. They're my ladies," she'd tell Bails and me. "Halfway between here and there.
Jandy Nelson
#99. Below the knee, halfway down the arm, and two finger widths below the collarbone.
Pope Pius XII
#100. Sometime later, halfway between midnight and dawn, I fell asleep with my head against the polished mahogany and my hand clutching a bottle full of nothing but blue dregs and the morning's regret.
Joe Ducie
