Second Half Quotes

79 quotes by 66 authors

It can be said that the first half of the marathon is 20 miles long; the second half, 6.2 more. — Hal Higdon
There was a spell in the second half when I took my heart off my sleeve and put it in my mouth. — Ian Holloway
The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life. — Carl Jung
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… — Joseph Rotblat
Id always assumed that by 40 Id have at least a modicum of stability - a steady income, an established career, a bountiful fullness, like… — Deborah Copaken
A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She… — Gail Sheehy
I spent the first half of my career learning what to put into my work, and the second half learning what to leave out. — Alex Toth
It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation. — A A Milne
Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life… — Roy H. Williams
D-Day represents the greatest achievement of the american people and system in the 20th century. It was the pivot point of the 20th century. It… — Stephen Ambrose
In that, we agreed with Andrew Carnegie, who said that huge fortunes that flow in large part from society should in large part be returned… — Warren Buffett
In thirty years I have treated many patients. Among all my patients in the second half of life, every one of them fell ill because… — Carl Jung
In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of… — Carl Jung
The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me. — Bruce Cockburn
Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism… — Eric Hoffer
Once God and grace move us to the second half of life, religion becomes a mystical matter, rather than a moral matter. — Richard Rohr
Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable. — Jean de la Bruyere
Ann Sjoerdsma has successfully blended the fascinating story of her illustrious father's scientific achievements [in wide-ranging] drug research, with an enjoyable historic account of the… — Arvid Carlsson
Iâ€™ve spent the first half of my life studying and footnoting everything that can go wrong with the female bodyâ€”and figuring out how to fix… — Christiane Northrup
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… — Neil Gaiman

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