Half Quotes

When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly half way between. It is possible for one side simply to be wrong.

I have found nothing half so good / As my long-planned half solitude, / Where I can sit up half the night / With some friend that has the wit.

Most salespeople are half prepared. They know everything about their company and their product. They know nothing about their prospect.

I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

Dude, the place is filling up," I say. "It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass." Like somehow we're running out of time.

Remember: we all get what we tolerate. So stop tolerating excuses within yourself, limiting beliefs of the past, or half-assed or fearful states.

I get appalled when I see good drivers being left on the sidelines because they haven't come up with the half million to a million to put themselves in a competitive car.

In the game of life, nothing is less important than the score at halftime.

One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.

I am among those who firmly believe that a round of golf should not take more than three and a half hours, four at most. Anything longer than that is not a round of golf, it's life in Albania.

My beer has been universally well-liked beyond my most sanguine expectations. Cannot serve half my customers, and they are increasing every day.

My homie lost his family and snapped, shot up half the block to bring them back.

I saw the yearbook picture. There was six of them! I ain't have six friends in high school, I don't have six friends now! That's three on three with a half court.

Film is cool because it's an hour and a half to two hours. It's a great ride. It's typically three acts - beginning, middle and end. It's going on an adventure and by the end it's all cleaned up.

The world has always been like a comic book world to me! What's happened is that communications got better and better, so now with cell-phones we can be in touch with people half a globe away.

What do you call a stock that's down 90%? A stock that was down 80% and then got cut in half.

I still think of myself as the new kid, even though I've been on the air for two and a half years. But my job is the same as it ever was, which is to make 9:00 P.M. as good as I can.

True love is when both people think they have the better half of the deal.

I've always juggled a lot of projects because at least half the projects you do get shelved. So you have to do a lot of things in order for things to move forward.

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.

There's a whole form of literature in India which talks about the quest for the perfect man by a woman, where every woman looks for a perfect man but only ends up with half that.

Our sports are totally different, if Lance Armstrong himself were to come and train with us he'd be completely exhausted after half and hour.

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed The speculating rooks at their nests cawed And saw from elm tops, delicate as flower of grass, What we below could not see, Winter pass.

Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half of your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of it.

I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead.

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

The average smartphone user checks his or her device every six and a half minutes.

A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.

We were once getting married. And I have loved you all this time- a century and a half. -Jem

My drawings have to be quick. If they don't happen in 20 minutes or a half hour, then they're no good.

Vacation: a period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need.

Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.

Service or giving is the other side of receiving. Giving and receiving is a full circle: a full circle feels more natural than a half circle.

Hannibal Lecter: We live in a primitive time - don't we, Will? - neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse of it. Any rational society would either kill me or give me my books.

Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.

His finest hour lasted a minute and a half.

A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him

Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.

Half to forget the wandering and pain, Half to remember days that have gone by, And dream and dream that I am home again!

One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.

Boy is my wife stupid. It takes her and hour and a half to watch 60 minutes. My daughters no bargain either. In public school she was voted most likely to conceive.

Half-heartedness never won a battle.

Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.

Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable.

The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

I don't believe we can get very far, with leaders who write off half the nation as a bunch of victims who never take responsibility for their own lives.

Instead of facing a crisis as I approached middle age, I discovered that a new and better life lay before me. I called the process of discovery 'halftime,' and the outcome led to my second half.