#halfway

A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#becomes #better #climbing #expands #finer

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage. ↗

— Plutarch

#courage #cowardice #excess #halfway #lack

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway. ↗

— Bob Beamon

#whatever #you

Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there. ↗

— William Safire

#directed #down #even #halfway #happened

I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#destination #excellent #good #good person #got

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

#between #blinding #conclusion #decent #deduction

Halfway through the decade, we realized that we had a great team and that we could do great things, and that we could probably have something here that we believed we had a chance to reach greatness. ↗

— Franco Harris

#chance #could #decade #great #great team

My sister wanted to be an actress, but she never made it. She does live in a trailer. She got halfway. She's an actress, she just never gets called to the set. ↗

— Mitch Hedberg

#called #does #gets #got #halfway

The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there. ↗

— Ian Holm

#face #halfway #important #important thing #make

I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#apologize #being #come #curtain #decent