“In the first-half we were like the Dog and Duck, in the second-half we were like Real Madrid. We can't go on like that. At full-time I was at them like an irritated Jack Russell.”
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A Grief Observed (1961)
Context: Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. 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.
Michael Hulse and Philip Boehm translation, Picador 2002, p. 81
The Appointment (1997)
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“By the time we got to Woodstock
We were half a million strong”
"Woodstock"
Songs
Context: By the time we got to Woodstock
We were half a million strong
And everywhere there was song and celebration.
And I dreamed I saw the bombers
Riding shotgun in the sky
And they were turning into butterflies
Above our nation.
“We cannot at the end count them a second time because we do not like the result.”
Source: A Theory of Justice (1971; 1975; 1999), Chapter III, Section 23, pg. 135
Context: The claims of existing social arrangements and of self interest have been duly allowed for. We cannot at the end count them a second time because we do not like the result.
Perry, Andrew (2004). "The White Stripes uncut" http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,,1349947,00.html ObserverGuardian.co.uk (access June 6, 2006)
On deciding to end the Elephant tour when they did
“… like us? Counting up the minutes -- have we spent half an hour together?”
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover