How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask-half our great theological and metaphysical problems-are like that.

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THOMAS J. WATSON Never go for a drink in London's square mile, nobody ever gets a round in.
BENNY BELLAMACINA It was a great win. We were happy the sun was finally shining. That's how all of our games should go...
AMY PIKAS I thought defensively, we played poorly in the second half which didn't help. In the first half, we ...
MARK SMITH The conundrum of whether or not the glass is half-full or half-empty depends on how thirsty you are.
RICHARD LYLES We are seeing a different environment and performance in the second half of the fiscal year compared...
BRUCE ROHDE They were just walking early, and theres just not many horses that can outkick this one the last qua...
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You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.
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Today, there are problems that could only be solved by people which are still to be born later. This...
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JOEL SELIGMAN

There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who h...
ANTON CHEKHOV

To the average fan, we probably look like the underdog. They're undefeated. And most people feel tha...
ERIC SCHMIDT

We are distressed because our churches are half empty; and many of them would be emptier if the Gosp...
W. R. INGE In one-half mile, we can have good sidewalks, trees, and lighting.
JON DEPRETER I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van...
SATHESH KUMAR M

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STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Whether your cup is half-full or half-empty, remind yourself there are others without one.
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ERIC BRIDGELAND

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ORISON SWETT MARDEN A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON

The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and t...
BISHOP GEORGE BERKELEY I like where we are and I'm looking forward to the second half. Looking back there is one or two gam...
DREW MURPHY There was a lot riding on the game. We had a great first half, they had a great second half. They do...
MAUREEN MINICUS We really picked it up from the half-mile pole in. Then I think by the time we got to the quarter po...
GARY STEVENS There are only so many stories, and half of that has to do with the execution of it and half of it h...
DANA DELANY She played a great first half and kept us close so we could regroup and play like we did in the seco...
JOE DEBRUYNE The first half we just didn't play very well. It was probably our poorest performance of the season ...
LEONARD BARNES Hiding in all the thorns, there is a yellow rose.
BEN OAK Dreams are the answers to questions that we haven't yet figured out how to ask.
FOX MULDER We played great character football in the second half. We had some kids, who are not starters (and) ...
DOUG KAY The last half against Duluth we had trouble on defense and we need to improve on that. We sometimes ...
ERIC HALL Half of us are in a state of learning... the other half is unlearning the shit that we have learned.
MARTIN T. SCREETON

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON The first half was quite even, but it was a case of how many we were going to score in the second ha...
DEREK JOHNSTON

The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN I'm a half mile from the beach, right on the water. That's how Waveland got its name,
ANN JACKSON From Los Angeles to Singapore, passengers are saving two and a half hours. And to New York passenger...
JAMES BOYD [Phillips said the Quakers] did a great job that first half tackling up front against a physical tea...
DOUG PHILLIPS There are lockers that have $400 bottles and then there are those that have $60 bottles in them. A l...
DANIEL HURST The 'problem lies' are the half-dozen or so falsehoods we hear every day that can lead us do...
PAMELA MEYER The search for wisdom is a great challenge; to act on wisdom is an even greater challenge. To accept...
JAGAD GURU CHRIS BUTLER Why are there very few minorities that were dignitaries to lead this march? Those are the serious qu...
BLANE HARDING On Monday, you name a writer from the Washington Post, and he was probably standing in our offices. ...
SCOTT CHERRY I'm pleased with the way our runners ran. They ran together as a pack for about a mile and a half an...
DAVE REDDEN Here is the same clock that walked quietly
Through those enormous years I half recall,
When b...
JUDITH WRIGHT Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic,...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It's been a while since our defense won a game. We were on the ropes. They probably had 35 snaps the...
BOB SNELL I remember so many things [. . .] The problem is, only half of them are true . . . and the half whic...
PETER DAVID We were in the bonus in the first half and had a chance to extend our lead. It was like a different ...
JEFF TURNER They are the quickest team we have faced this year, and it caused us a lot of problems in the first ...
DAVE BEZOLD Our mile-and-a-half program has improved a good bit this year compared to last year,
SCOTT WIMMER Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working 24 hours a day, for good or ba...
TOM BLANDI The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer rea...
ALICE WELLINGTON ROLLINS There are important and complex questions to be asked but I do think that we need to ask these quest...
CAROLINE FLINT It was a great first half. We hit their posts a bunch of times and controlled the tempo throughout t...
CESAR CARDOSO Unless the hole is MEANT to be square,' I said with a sudden erudition that surprised me, 'in which ...
JASPER FFORDE Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is Ger...
MARTIN FREEMAN They are a great second-half team. Give them a lot of credit. They are experienced in these situatio...
CRAIG FIELDS We had to hand in our workout calendars every two weeks in the summer and when we got to camp in Oct...
CARLA MCGHEE That's one of my problems is that there are so many songs to sing that I sort of get indecisive ...
ALISON ELLIOTT By the time of the game, there will be three new hotels within a half mile.
JULIE FRISONI He's a talker, ... Anytime he really starts, I'll say, 'You're talking again, Lewis.' ... I like him...
JASON GORE I think that all comics or humorists, or whatever we are, ask questions. That's what we're s...
ROSEANNE BARR By the 10th round we could have half the season's work done. If we can finish the week well we can b...
JAVIER AGUIRRE I like being out onstage in front of everybody, getting that energy and giving that energy. Hopefull...
GLENN DANZIG Making a journey into C.S. Lewis' quotes is like a journey into the most beautiful floral valley whi...
JOEY TALLADINO We still thought that we were the only two people in the world who were interested in the right kind...
PHILIP ZALESKI The problems with these high winds is not only is it sucking the moisture out of the fuel or the veg...
JUSTIN DOMBROWSKI I wasn't happy that we committed so many lazy and stupid fouls in the first half. We weren't moving ...
CALVIN SAUNDERS Having a strong will and desire is half the battle and probably the bigger half.
DIANE CROSSAN Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for g...
TOM BLANDI Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for g...
IRVING BERLIN He was great in the second half. In the first half, he looked like a drunk driver.
MIKE DAVIS See how the furniture is put together on those pages. For example, look at the sofa. Maybe you're dr...
KRISTAN CUNNINGHAM It was a great game. Our defense was excellent. We were able to move the ball well in the first half...
LARRY MILLIGAN The first half is how good we can be. The second half is some of our youthful inexperience showing t...
DAVE SANDERSON We made a great run in the second half. We were right in the game, the guys played hard, and that's ...
CRAIG FIELDS Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly...
GARY F EVANS... We are this fucking stick in the end...
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C.S. LEWIS Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences,...
C.S. LEWIS Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is ...
C.S. LEWIS The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I wa...
C.S. LEWIS Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, ...
C.S. LEWIS Alone among unsympathetic companions, I hold certain views and standards timidly, half ashamed to av...
C.S. LEWIS We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the ris-
ing generation. I am an oldster myself and...
C.S. LEWIS Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike t...
C.S. LEWIS No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
C.S. LEWIS And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, am...
C.S. LEWIS You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C.S. LEWIS Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon hi...
C.S. LEWIS I desired dragons with a profound desire.
C.S. LEWIS What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on wh...
C.S. LEWIS Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole w...
C.S. LEWIS You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of...
C.S. LEWIS But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do ...
C.S. LEWIS You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect th...
C.S. LEWIS Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia. But don't go trying to use the same route twice. Ind...
C.S. LEWIS People often think of Christian morality as a kind of bargain in which God says, 'If you keep a lot ...
C.S. LEWIS The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C.S. LEWIS We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shov...
C.S. LEWIS I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen; not only because I see it, but becaus...
C.S. LEWIS In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A y...
C.S. LEWIS Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies t...
C.S. LEWIS Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
C.S. LEWIS I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give...
C.S. LEWIS Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of a man he...
C.S. LEWIS You are told to love your neighbour as yourself. How do you love yourself? When I look into my own m...
C.S. LEWIS We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that...
C.S. LEWIS If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explan...
C.S. LEWIS All joy emphasises our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are...
C.S. LEWIS A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from thos...
C.S. LEWIS Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.
C.S. LEWIS What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong tu...
C.S. LEWIS If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precis...
C.S. LEWIS Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead ...
C.S. LEWIS Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither.
C.S. LEWIS â€œIf we insist on keeping Hell (or even Earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we ...
C.S. LEWIS To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possib...
C.S. LEWIS If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of t...
C.S. LEWIS Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, b...
C.S. LEWIS I like bats much better than bureaucrats. I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of Admin. The gre...
C.S. LEWIS The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epic...
C.S. LEWIS Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense ...
C.S. LEWIS The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small pric...
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How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask-half our great theological and metaphysical problems-are like that.

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How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask-half our great theological and metaphysical problems-are like that.

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