"When the ancients said a work well begun was half done, they meant to impress the importance of always endeavoring to make a good beginning."

-- Polybius

#Half Quotes #Done Quotes #Said Quotes

“Suddenly, I found I was married to a millionaire.”

Source : "Thy Pitcher's Wife". Interview with Lillian Ross, www.newyorker.com. June 6, 2005.
“I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered as I have done...in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right. Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children, and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments, I submit: so let it be done!”

Source : Speech at trial for treason and insurrection, Charlestown, Va., 2 Nov. 1859 See Bible 333
“Lots of fellows think a home is only good to borrow money on.”
“You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.”
“A Christian philosophy of literature begins with the same agenda of issues that any philosophy of literature addresses. Its distinctive feature is that it relates these issues to the Christian faith.”

Source : Leland Ryken (2011). “The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing”, p.23, Shaw Books
“Southcliffe is an anthem to ordinary peoples ability to reinvent themselves in the face of ultimate darkness.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The music I make is very underground-sounding, it doesn't sound like it goes into the charts. It doesn't sound like it's trying to fit into today's style. So I think I have already a vibrating tool to an art form that isn't the mainstream. I'm very outside of the mainstream in my taste of music.”

Source : Source: www.indieberlin.de
“The shy little Mayflower weaves her nest, But the south wind sighs o'er the fragrant loam, And betrays the path to her woodland home.”

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