Top 100 Second Half Quotes
#1. Instead of facing a crisis as I approached middle age, I discovered that a new and better life lay before me. I called the process of discovery 'halftime,' and the outcome led to my second half.
Bob Buford
#2. As the child once fantasized that its wishes governed the world, and the youth fantasized that heroism could manage to do it all, so the person in the second half of life is obliged to come to a more sober wisdom based on a humbled sense of personal limitations and the inscrutability of the world.
James Hollis
#3. You only have to look at London, where almost half of all primary school children speak English as a second language, to see the challenges we now face as a country. This isn't fair to anyone: how can people build relationships with their neighbours if they can't even speak the same language?
Theresa May
#4. And my heart shatters for the second time today. It's blown apart into so many pieces, the shrapnel spread so far and wide, I know what remains will never fit back together again. Puzzles don't work when you only have half of the pieces. Same goes for hearts. I
Kim Holden
#5. What I am arguing, in effect, is that the full democratic system of the second half of the fifth century B.C. would not have been introduced had there been no Athenian empire.
Moses Finley
#6. I think that we've made great moral progress in the second half of the 20th century in many respects, and particularly in relation to human rights but I think that we are losing sight of some of the values of concern for others, and self-respect and respect for others.
Alexander McCall Smith
#7. I was born on the eighteenth of December, 1935, in the town Bourg-en-Bresse, about thirty miles northeast of Lyon, the second of three sons of Jeanne and Jean-Victor Pepin. Weighing only two and one half pounds, I nearly died at birth.
Jacques Pepin
#8. I had prepared myself for the second half of my life [to be] filled with other passions that don't include being in front of the camera. And then all of a sudden I got more work and more work and more work. And I went, "Well maybe things have shifted." And I think they have.
Sandra Bullock
#9. A Home Run Derby is fun. It's just like taking batting practice, and you just want to go deep. Guys do it every day. Yes, there's a little more pressure when they pull that cage back, but if you practice properly, it shouldn't affect the second half of your season at all.
Frank Thomas
#10. I'm as anxious as any viewer would be to see what Temple is going to do next. All I know is that in the second half of the season, he's going to have more sexual tension developing. And it's a great cast - they're all Broadway actors except for me. I aspire to that.
Sean Patrick Thomas
#11. This same system could condemn injustice, but instead it chooses to condemn something as simple and fundamental as the search for the second half. We are all born wanting this. Why does it matter what shape this second half takes, provided it is the thing both sides seek?
Martha Brockenbrough
#12. Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century.
Ernst W. Mayr
#13. How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Lou Holtz
#14. Once God and grace move us to the second half of life, religion becomes a mystical matter, rather than a moral matter.
Richard Rohr
#16. Because we were a poor area, the school had a small budget and was unable to teach the second half of the alphabet.
George Carlin
#17. 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
#18. At 41 and a half weeks pregnant, I started to have second thoughts about becoming a mother.
Jenny Mollen
#19. The film medium is some sort of magic. I think also it's a magic that every frame comes and stands still for a fraction of a second and then it darkens. A half part of the time when you see a picture you sit in complete darkness. Isn't that fascinating? That is magic.
Ingmar Bergman
#20. The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.
Bruce Cockburn
#21. This explains why I've been making Recession Tea- letting a teabag steep for half the time it should so I can use it again for a second cup later.
Suzan Colon
#22. Those who lack within themselves the means for living a blessed and happy life will find any age painful.
- How to grow old: ancient wisdom for the second half of life.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#23. The second time is the one we remember, where memory begins. Putting the moments in order is only half the story. What matters is the weight of the moments as they accumulate.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#24. Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second half refusing to let black people define me.
Thomas Sowell
#25. Every. Damn. Second." "Maybe only half of them.
Kit Rocha
#26. The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.
Mark Twain
#27. Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
Emile Zola
#28. Lumpy and lazy; I aspired to lethargy. In the second year of university, I missed half my classes just because I couldn't pull myself out of bed.
Victor LaValle
#29. The Bears are front-runners. Quitters. They are not a second-half team, just a bunch of cry-babies.
George Preston Marshall
#30. There's an old adage that for every second too fast per mile in the first half of the race, you'll run at least 2 seconds slower at the end.
Jeff Galloway
#31. A moment passed, perhaps half a second when their faces said what they felt, and then Emma was smiling, laughing, her arms around his neck.
David Nicholls
#32. I'm the first Thai prime minister in history that first time win half of parliament seats and second time win 76% of parliamentary seats and I was ousted because too popular.
Thaksin Shinawatra
#33. Technology has certainly reduced performance differences among drivers. Whereas a talented driver could get a half-second out of every lap in the past, nowadays talent makes up for only about one or two tenths of a second. But the driver is still the key factor.
Michael Schumacher
#34. For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire, the second half trimming it.
Ethan Mordden
#35. It's an old and sad story. The artist lets the bottle or the dope get between him and his art. He spends half his life achieving success and the second half throwing it all away. How many talents have self-destructed before him? How many more will follow in his wake?
H. Joaquin Jackson
#36. Thalia's shoulders relaxed. "I owe you one."
"Two."
"One and a half," Thalia said.
She smiled, and for a second, I remembered that I actually liked her when she wasn't yelling at me.
Rick Riordan
#37. I started off as a juggler. I used to do a half-hour show on the weekends to make money as a kid. Then I went to Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 to the international jugglers competition junior division and came second. So that was my first job, being a juggler.
Patrick Dempsey
#38. Yes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but everyone forgets the second half of that quote: the road to heaven is paved with good actions.
Tucker Max
#39. I'd always had a childhood ambition to go into the investment capital business, and spent twenty-odd years in it. But the thought of spending the second half of my career in the same business was boring, so I looked around for other opportunities .
Chris Corrigan
#40. I had started to feel that somewhere in the second half of the 20th century, the idea of page-turning as a good thing had been lost. You were getting books that were the equivalent of absolutely beautifully prepared dishes of food that didn't taste like anything much.
Neil Gaiman
#41. I want to sleep for half a second,
a second, a minute, a century,
but I want everyone to know that I'm still alive ...
Federico Garcia Lorca
#42. I thought I wasn't attractive or talented anymore. I cried easily and was depressed and removed. I became emotionally insecure about what the second half of my life would bring. I was angry, scared, frightened and lonely.
Marsha Mason
#43. The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.
Pablo Picasso
#44. For us the most important thing is to be visual, and for the cats watching us to have fun. This is all we want. We get very upset if people get bored when we're only half way through smashing the second set.
Roger Waters
#45. Have you ever noticed how many men in the Bible failed in the second half of life? Our enemy is so cunning that he will wait forty or even fifty years to set a trap.
Joseph C. Aldrich
#46. We burst through the gardens, half leaping over wheelbarrows in the first, avoiding a crop of herbs in the second, and getting barked at by an evil terrier in the third.
Anonymous
#47. The transition's of life's second half offer a special kind of opportunity to break with the social conditioning and do something really new and different.
William Bridges
#48. I think I've always been a player who's done better in the second half, who's done better in the fourth quarter. That's the fun time to play, when everything you've worked for the whole game boils down to those last few possessions.
Jeremy Lin
#49. Blitzen and Hearthstone collapsed at the bow. They started arguing with each other about which of them had taken the stupider risks, but they were so tired the debate deteriorated into a half-hearted poking contest, like a couple of second-graders.
Rick Riordan
#50. For the first half of your life each minute feels like a year, but for the second half, each year feels like a minute.
Melanie Gideon
#51. He dipped her low and kissed her fiercely, as if he were angry, and each time his lips left hers, even just for half a second, the most parching thirst ran through her, making her cry out.
Lauren Kate
#52. It was not in her nature to stop short at half-measures, not to pause when once she had fixed her purpose. If she ever trembled on looking forward to the utter ruin she was about to encounter, her second emotion was to despise herself for such pusillanimity, and to be roused to renewed energy.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#53. The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.
Niall Ferguson
#54. because it was a drunken perception, it was perfect, entire, and lasted about half a second. I
Michael Chabon
#55. It was an incredible effort by the Irish down in Tallahassee. Jameis Winston was too tough in the second half; congrats to the Seminoles.
Dick Vitale
#56. For Ann, aged two in 1903, a year was half a lifetime. She did not expect the second winter, and then, when it came, vaguely assumed it was eternal, until spring came, and summer came, and she understood that they had come "again" and began to learn to expect.
A.S. Byatt
#57. I thought symphaths didn't have a conscience."
"I'm half my mother's boy, too. So I have a little."
"Aren't you lucky."
The Reverend's chin dipped down, and his eyes flashed pure, purple evil for a split second. Then he smiled. "No ... all the rest of you are fortunate.
J.R. Ward
#58. To be successful, all you have to do is work half-days; you can work the first twelve hours or the second twelve hours.
Don Shula
#59. In the second half of life, we do not have strong and final opinions about everything, every event, or most people, as much as we allow things and people to delight us, sadden us, and truly influence us.
Richard Rohr
#60. It took less than half a second for me to realize that, as long as I was truly insane now, I might as well enjoy the delusions while they were pleasant.
Stephenie Meyer
#61. The first half of Vietnam was fought to win the war, and the second half of Vietnam was soldiers going haywire without a mission, getting further and further towards our friend, Captain Kurtz and our friends at 'Apocalypse Now.'
Dylan Ratigan
#62. 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.
Richard Rohr
#63. No one who has lived through the second half of the 20th century could possibly be blind to the enormous impact of exchange programs on the future of countries ...
William J. Clinton
#64. We say it is idealistic to think we can continue to live the way we live - with 5% of the world using half the world's resources, with $20,000 a second being spent on war.
Shane Claiborne
#65. Over the next hour and a half, I came to the conclusion that Emilia Rhodes was either the devil incarnate or the second coming of Coco Chanel.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#66. When I'm taking my last breath, I want to look at how I used up the best of myself. How much did I sweat, push, pull, rip, fall, hit, crash, explode? ... My dream is to be so well-used that in my last-half second, I just burst into dust.
Elizabeth Streb
#67. It definitely puts a strain on family life - I miss them like mad. Being a working mother I've been juggling house and career from day one. I want to hold out for telly for the second half of the year.
Louise Jameson
#68. Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.
Paul Bryant
#69. You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.
Isabel Allende
#70. The staff at the Institute will present an analysis on how asset price fluctuations and subsequent structural adjustments influence sustained economic growth, based on Japan's experience since the second half of the 1980s.
Toshihiko Fukui
#71. I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is ... you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside, you look left, you look right, in, what, a second and a half? And that's a life.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
#73. It's going to be legen ... wait for it ... and I hope you're not lactose-intolerant cause the second half of that word is ... dairy!
Barney Stinson
#74. Mr. de Lamartine once wrote to me thusly: "Your doctrine is only the half of my program. You have stopped at liberty; I go on to fraternity." I answered him: "The second half of your program will destroy the first.
Frederic Bastiat
#75. You bought it though. You must think the worst of me." He sighed softly and looked sad for half a second. "I'm not a monster, Kiera.
S.C. Stephens
#76. You'll find you spend half your second year shaking off the undesirable friends you made in your first ...
Evelyn Waugh
#77. I like to work half a day. I don't care of it's the first twelve hours or the second twelve hurs. I just put in my half every day. It keeps me out of trouble.
Kemmons Wilson
#79. In the second half of the 20th century, people are becoming more limited: Vocabularies are smaller, thoughts are smaller, aspirations are smaller, everything is very scaled down. Everyone is typecast.
Christopher Reeve
#80. The first half was end-to-end stuff. In contrast, in this second half it's been one end to the other.
Lou Macari
#81. The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs.
(on being 36 yrs old)
C. G. Jung
#82. As we took the court for the second half, I made a secret now to myself that I would never listen to a single thing that Mel Thompson said to me again. I would obey him and honor him and follow him, but I would not let him touch the core of me again. He was my coach, but I was my master.
Pat Conroy
#83. A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is THE man.
Doris Lessing
#84. I didn't know what was going to happen with 'Teen Wolf.' I was only scheduled to do four episodes for them, but they kept me on, and I was like, 'Sweet! I'm still employed! That's awesome!' And then, they let me know that they were considering having me for the second half of the season.
Adelaide Kane
#85. Pretty much anything you laughed at in the second half of the 20th century can be traced back to Your Show Of Shows.
Rob Reiner
#86. Life is all about practicing for heaven." p 101.
Richard Rohr
#87. You shoot, you always shoot to kill. It's not the movies. You're in a crisis situation, you got about a half second to do what needs to be done. Your
Robert B. Parker
#88. Roughly, the action of a character should be unpredictable before it has been shown, inevitable when it has been shown. In the first half of a novel, the unpredictability should be the more striking. In the second half, the inevitability should be the more striking.
Elizabeth Bowen
#89. Because I have been a magician for many years, people have often asked me whether I ever have sawn a woman in half. I reply, Oh, yes I've sawn over seventy women in half in my lifetime, and I'm learning the second half of the trick now.
Raymond Smullyan
#90. 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
#91. Once Europe's colonial empires were sent into deep decline, thanks to World War II, America became globalization's primary replicating force, integrating Asia into its low-end production networks across the second half of the twentieth century - just like Europe had integrated the U.S. before.
Thomas P.M. Barnett
#92. There was a spell in the second half when I took my heart off my sleeve and put it in my mouth.
Ian Holloway
#93. When I was young I was one of the second generation of black people in Holland. My father was the first. My mother was white, and living with a black man at that time and having a how-you-say half-caste boy is not easy.
Ruud Gullit
#94. End the first half with vigor; start the second with tenacity, and stay focused to the very end!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#95. 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.
Joseph Rotblat
#96. Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century.
Kenneth Frampton
#97. I'm feeling anxious about tonight - half dread and half excitement - like when you hear thunder and know that any second you'll see lightning tearing across the sky, nipping at the clouds with its teeth.
Lauren Oliver
#98. To know your borders in a relationship
makes the love more lovely
each and every half a Second.
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
September 10, 2016
Petra Hermans
#99. If you want to know the value of half a second, ask the person who came second in a sprint event at the Olympics.
Sunday Adelaja
#100. But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.
Sally Field
