Half Quotes

I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell.

Women hold up half the sky.

To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty.

It is my private life which no one knows anything about, nor ever will. It needs more than half my time if it is to be a success.

To pray diligently is more than half the task.

I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound.

Half the joy of life is in little things taken on the run... but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open that nothing worth our while shall escape us.

And I knew, nothing I could say or do Could come close to thankin' you for your love And I could try for the rest of my life But that wouldn't be half enough

Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose heads are filled with half-truths and lies.

If you're going to do something, do it with gusto. Don't do anything half-heartedly. That dishonors the doing and the doer. So go for it. Hold nothing back. In life. Or love. Or anything at all!

It doesn't matter if a cave has been in darkness for 10,000 years or half an hour, once you light a match it is illuminated.

Nanotechnology is the idea that we can create devices and machines all the way down to the nanometer scale, which is a billionth of a meter, about half the width of a human DNA molecule.

I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.

The Bolsheviks could not have retained power for two and a half months, let alone two and a half years, without the most rigorous and truly iron discipline in our Party.

Over this odd world, this half the world that's dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears.

Its haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.

People don't get angry about the half a million dead Iraqis from the sanctions.

Wednesdays were the best thing about Atlantis. The middle of the week was a traditional holiday there. Everyone stopped work and celebrated the fact that half the week was over.

Mystery is part of each life, and maybe it is healthier to uphold it than to spend a lifetime in search of half-made answers.

I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and to choose. I feel myself walking on a tightrope instead of on the ground.

I love being one half of a romantic couple.

life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we learn again and again is that of accepting heroic helplessness.

I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.

I said I 'liked' being half-educated; you were so much more 'surprised' at everything when you were ignorant.

A strip of water's spread in the setting sun, Half the river's emerald, half is red. I love the third night of the ninth month, The dew is like a pearl; the moon like a bow.

All analysts spend half their time hunting through the literature for inequalities which they want to use and cannot prove.

What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?

I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.

Jean Tigana has spent the entire first half inside Liam Brady's shorts.

In tennis you move a lot. Golf you dont. In tennis, you can have a bad half-hour, but you cant in golf. You can lose the first set in tennis and still win.

Pour me something tall and strong, make it a Hurricane before I go insane. It's only half past twelve but I don't care, it's 5 O'clock somewhere.

I'm not dating anyone. I don't even know where I am half of the time.

It is not in the power of every one to taste humor, however he may wish it; it is the gift of God! and a true feeler always brings half the entertainment along with him.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.

My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.

Being cheerful and affable with people is by itself half of wisdom.

Short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things.

Only about half of all commercials actually work.

We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love.

Physically I'm not as strong as I was, but I try to make up for it mentally. It's a big challenge, and I relish it, competing with guys half my age.

A people without a language of its own is only half a nation. A nation should guard its language more than its territories, 'tis a surer barrier and a more important frontier than mountain or river.

What's well begun is half done.

I do accept at least half of what society in general holds to be right.

They are fools who do not know how much the half exceeds the whole.

People are always asking me when I'm going to retire. Why should I? I've got it two ways - I'm still making movies, and I'm a senior citizen, so I can see myself at half price.

A life lived at less than its full potential is a life half wasted.

If I had a picture of two handcuffed criminals being booked, I would cut the picture in half and get five bucks for each.

The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.

I would love to see a giant squid. Very few people have seen them. And only about half a dozen people have seen one alive.