Half Quotes
Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.
A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree - or even, occasionally, the careless - may turn out to be half a life.
I believe half of the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night.
I am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself.
I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
I spent the first half of my career learning what to put into my work, and the second half learning what to leave out.
...Time does not heal, It makes a half-stitched scar That can be broken and again you feel Grief as total as in its first hour. -Elizabeth Jennings
Why should we faint and fear to live alone,Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die?Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own,Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh.
I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember.
I was never over-weight, just under-tall. The correct height for my weight at the moment is seven feet ten and a half inches.
Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not.
If you can't afford a half hour three or four times a week taking care of the most priceless possession, your body, you've got to be sick. You're stupid.
Half of my success is my fearlessness and recklessness, of just seeing the end and not stopping until you get there.
I do my show half-hour a night four nights a week. I haven't seen my kids in 18 months, and I am losing calcium in my bones. Doctors say I should stop. I'm not going to.
It's love,' they say. You touch the right one and a whole half of the universe wakes up, a new half.
I thought about all of us women and how we spend half our lives rebelling against our mothers and the next half rebelling against our daughters.
The technique's many benefits for actors include minimized tension, centeredness, vocal relaxation, and responsiveness, mind/body connection and about an inch and a half of additional height.
When I was a child, the Earth was said to be two billion years old. Now scientists say it's four and a half billion. So that makes me two and a half billion.
After four and a half intense and wonderful years as CEO of Groupon, I've decided that I'd like to spend more time with my family. Just kidding - I was fired today.
I don't get a lot of enjoyment out of sitting there for an hour and a half watching a game like we saw between Ireland and England last Sunday.
Everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaized, and the other half negrified.
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
I'm frozen in time, it's more than just you being a dyme I see the other half of me when I look in your eyes
Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.
If you are ready for the secret, you already possess one half of it,therefore, you will readily recognize the other half the moment it reaches your mind.
I'm out doing my deal, I'm turning people on. What's wrong with taking people away from their everyday mundane situation and having a good, fun night for an hour and a half at a rock'n'roll scene?
A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half full.
Half of my heart's got a real good imagination, half of my heart's got you. . .Half of my hearts got a right mind to tell you that half of my heart won't do.
Sing lustily and with a good courage. Beware of singing as if you were half dead, or half asleep; but lift up your voice with strength.
A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.
Character is half the reason we read. We're excited because of the plot, but we care because of the characters.
Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
My mother is very wise and intelligent. If I have children and can do half as good a job as she did in keeping me in line, I'll be very happy.
She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.
Never underestimate the power that one good workout can have on your mind. Keeping the dream alive is half the battle.
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.
I'm the little half-black, half-Jewish girl who was odd and awkward. I try to be myself.