Half Quotes

I've always been obsessed with things that are half animal and half human - like mermaids and Minotaurs - because they are trapped in an animal body. And I felt trapped in my own life.

I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.

The judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth.

A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.

Linda and I aren't one and one. We are two halves that make a whole -- two halves fitted together are more efficient than either half would ever be alone!

I don't go to any sexy places to eat where they give you half a lamb chop and one bean. I like going, 'Uhhh, I'm done' when I eat.

Life is too short for half-hearted connections and meaningless run-throughs.

Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.

'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.

At your next breath each of you will probably inhale half a dozen or so of the molecules of Caesar’s last breath.

The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.

The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive.

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.

It's too late," she said. "Don't say that." His voice was half a whisper. "I love you, Tessa. I love you.

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

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

If you're depressed and called Morgan spend the first half of the day in Germany for some positive affirmation.

Each and all, we are riding into the dark. Even living, we cannot remember half the events of our own days.

I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.

I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking 'What have I achieved?' rather than 'What have I enjoyed?'

We spend the early years feeding our brains with information and the latter half trying not to think about it all.

I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the past - a combination of both.

I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.

Three half-mile repeats on the track at 5-K race pace with a short recovery jog in between shouldn't scare anyone away-and it will improve your speed.

About half the practice of a decent lawyer is telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should shut up.

He is not half through yet, and to what he will come in the end not even Elrond can foretell. Not to evil, I think. He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can.

If you can fall in love again and again if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical you've got it half licked.

But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn't have me.

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.

As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.

I am not one for half measures or half-hearted efforts.

In the middle of the woods Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. Two old chairs and half a candle, One old jug without a handle- These were all the worldly goods.

The unsound convert takes Christ by halves. He is all for the salvation of Christ, but is not for sanctification. He is for the privileges, but does not appropriate the person of Christ.

A relationship is not two halves coming together to make a whole. Each of you is already complete.

A well begun is half ended.

It's better to have nobody, than to have someone who is half there, or doesn't want to be there

I don't really watch too many movies. I don't have the patience usually to watch one, one and a half or two hours in a row.

You have never lost money in stocks over any 20-year period, but you have wiped out half your portfolio in bonds (after inflation). So which is the riskier asset?

Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe.

There was a spell in the second half when I took my heart off my sleeve and put it in my mouth.

I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

I'm bored way too easily. I'm staring at screens half the day. I need to be overstimulated. And how will that express itself artistically?

In a good marriage each is the others better half.

If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.

Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.

One of the key qualities that you need to be a great hockey player is fantastic anticipation and feel for the game - if you know where the puck is going before it is hit, that is half the battle.

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.