A Quote by Emile Zola

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

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Emile Zola
French - Novelist
April 2, 1840 - September 29, 1902

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

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

I believe the second half of one's life is meant to be better than the first half. The first half is finding out how you do it. And the second half is enjoying it.

Frances Lear

We spend the second half of our life making up for the first half.

Richard Jeni

Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.

Jean de la Bruyere

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

Saul Bellow

I always thought that I would spend the first half of my life making money so I can spend the second half of my life giving it all away. And one of the defining moments of my life was when I realized that I could do both at the same time with TOMS.

Blake Mycoskie

Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.

Russell Baker

I remember when I first came out, it was like half and half, half the female fighters were like, 'I understand why she did it, and I'll fight her,' and half said I shouldn't be in the cage and said horrible, horrific transphobic comments about me.

Fallon Fox

A tree there is that from its topmost bough Is half all glittering flame and half all green Abounding foliage moistened with the dew; And half is half and yet is all the scene; And half and half consume what they renew.

William Butler Yeats

It can be said that the first half of the marathon is 20 miles long; the second half, 6.2 more.

Hal Higdon

For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire, the second half trimming it.

Ethan Mordden

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

Carl Jung

I put on 15 kg for my role as an amateur wrestler in the first half of the Marathi film Natrang.' Then, I lost 17 kg for the second half of the film where I play a nachya,' an effeminate character in traditional Marathi tamasha. The weight gain took 40 days and I lost weight in the next 40 odd days.

Atul Kulkarni

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Living out one's faith is either no way to live or the only way to live; it's either imprisonment, or the only path to freedom. It offers happiness, or it frustrates the pursuit. There is no half-love, half-religion, half-worship, half-belief, half-truth. There is no kinda-sorta.

Tarek Saab

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