Half Quotes
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.
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
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.
Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.
Hollywood needs more women directors, and Mama Ava needs a carafe and a half of that sweet vino divino.
Do you know what makes a movie work? Moments. Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember, and they'll leave the theatre happy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Eradication of microbial disease is a will-o'-the-wisp; pursuing it leads into a morass of hazy biological concepts and half truths.
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.
Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.
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.
Face the fact that there's only one sure-fire way to erase credit card debt. By picking up a big, shiny pair of scissors and cutting your wife in half.
I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year.
For me, it's always been the initial business - just getting a word down, any words down, on a blank piece of paper. Once I've done that, I'm away. Beginning is one half of the deed.
I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
Half the wrong conclusions at which mankind arrive are reached by the abuse of metaphors, and by mistaking general resemblance or imaginary similarity for real identity.
Some see the glass half full, some see it half empty, and some see it crawling with toxic alien parasites who want to devour your pancreas.
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.
The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.
The man who tells lies hides the truth, but the man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.
A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory
If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
What a strange life I lead- a kind of Cinderella-life-half glitter in crystal shoes, half mice and cinders! But it is a wonderful life all the same.
Most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.
The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there.
I'd advise you to visit New Orleans before you pass away. I really would. Because if you die without seeing New Orleans, you wasted half your life.
Study your subject through half-closed eyes before starting to draw - you'll find that the lights and darks are exaggerated and easier to identify.
When you got a dream, you don't just climb half way up the ladder, you climb all the way to the top
Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind.
Kristin Bauer is so funny. Half the time I'm working with her I'm just trying to keep a straight face.
Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who have somehow come into possession of the levers of power.
But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.
Someone like you makes the sun shine brighter. Someone like you makes a sigh half a smile. Someone like you makes my troubles much lighter. Someone like you make life seem worthwhile.
A very beautiful honey blonde, Sharon Tate, looked into the eyes of the man who the evidence shows just four and a half months later would order her tragic and violent death.