Half Quotes

We share half our genes with the banana.

Love is a desire for that lost half of ourselves.

If competitors don't like our two to one advantage, dominating market share with both SP and DS, well, I've got bad news. Because we just made it two and a half to one.

In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.

All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

Half of what we know is wrong, the purpose of science is to determine which half.

I look at life like a big book and sometimes you get half way through it and go 'Even though I've been enjoying it, I've had enough. Give us another book.'

This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.

The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.

A thorough knowledge of the elements takes us more than half the road to mastership

On tour I'm finding out that I am half gypsy, 40% vagabond, and 10 house cat.

More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.

I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

Trouble that is easily recognized is half-cured.

If general perception changes from seeing the glass as 'half-full' to seeing it as 'half empty' there are major innovative opportunities.

The ungodly are not half so restrained in their blasphemy as we are in our praise.

Do you think I know what I'm doing? That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself? As much as a pen knows what it's writing, or the ball can guess where it's going next.

I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.

It's an honor to be compared with Terry Bradshaw. If I could do half of what he did, I'd be very happy.

The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the second five are half truths, neither complete nor adequate.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Nine holes of golf will take you one-and-a-half, two hours. I run in 20 minutes, I feel better off. So the cost benefit made me drop golf.

I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.

I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly.

Sometimes that is why you might even stay in the bathroom for even half an hour, making that water running all over, just singing.

I don't think we'll shoot 76 percent in a half ever again. That's crazy.

While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior.

Child of the pure unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet, and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy-tale.

Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!

When they called my name, I had this feeling I could hear half of America going, 'Oh no. Come on... Her, again?' You know. But, whatever.

Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.

The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.

For a woman to get half as much credit as a man, she has to work twice as hard, and be twice as smart. Fortunately, that isn't difficult.

A problem is often half-solved when it is clearly stated.

Ketchup left overnight on dinner plates has a longer half-life than radioactive waste.

There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.

Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.

I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.

However, those who have used those words use half the sentence to fit their purpose, which, of course, I believe is to discredit me and the new Nation of Islam that has come up around me.

I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked?

A wise man's question contains half the answer. Unfortunately the other 50% is harder to come by!

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.

We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We are but critics, or but half create.

When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion.

I used to have six left feet. Now I only have one and a half left feet.

There is a ban on Indian films in Pakistan, so that's half of our market gone.

Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.

Seven-and-a-half years of the weak and feckless foreign policy of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has weakened America's place in the world and it has emboldened the enemies of our freedom.