Half Quotes

I am certain that I never did grow in grace one-half so much anywhere as I have upon the bed of pain.

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.

It was six of a half and one dozen of the other.

I think MTV should consider using subtitles. Half the time, even I can't understand what the fu*k I'm talking about.

Patriotism is a salt against rottenness, a glorious spur to high endeavour; it recovers the half-obliterated virtue of loyalty, calls every man to service, and ennobles great and small alike.

I have sometimes played my best Davis Cup matches away from home when you stay in the moment a bit more. But it is tough when half the crowd are spitting on you.

Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep.

And yet today, half of all black children are aborted. Far more of the African-American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by policies of slavery

One's not half two. It's two are halves of one.

Not too slow, not too fast. Kind of like half-fast.

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.

Half the time, my job is basically to talk people off the ledge. It's more psychological than just me picking up some sticks and counting, "1, 2, 3, 4."

The perfect Sunday morning is the family at home, staying in pajamas for half the day and eating a late breakfast.

Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold holds you.

Thirty years ago I was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, and given two and a half years to live. I have always wondered how they could be so precise about the half.

I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun.

Those who seem to despise half of America will never be trusted to govern any of it. Those who cherish only the country's past will not be entrusted with its future.

I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to 'know' as to 'feel'.

It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.

There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public.

Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

Charlie Sheen called his boss on 'Two and a Half Men' a 'Jew ki**' and expected to go back to work. That’s crazy. If you could do that and keep your job, then everybody would do it.

Best and dearest flower that grows, / Perfect both to see and smell; / Words can never, never tell / Half the beauty of a Rose - .

Ahh, women! I never met one yet that was half as reliable as a horse!

We have sown a seed... Instead of a half-formed Europe, we have a Europe with a legal entity, with a single currency, common justice, a Europe which is about to have its own defence.

Life is too brief and too rich to tiptoe through half-heartedly, rather than galloping at it with whooping excitement and ambition.

If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.

Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted from our active international role during the past half-century.

Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I think I've never written a good line.

The biggest waste of water in the country by far. You spend half a pint and flush two gallons.

I never wore a single fedora filming L.A. Noire. It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.

In order not to annul our free will, I judge it true that Fortune may be mistress of one half our actions but then even she leaves the other half, or almost, under our control.

There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half. They will give up possessions, friends and honors, but it touches them to closely to disown themselves.

We are in effect enculturating kids from the very beginning to see women and girls as not taking up half of the space.

I just play, just you know, If i just sit down with the guitar and just do whatever for, you know, an half an hour or an hour whatever. That's pretty much, that should do it for me.

A half-starved limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step.

It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.

No one can survive on their own. Thinking you can is ridiculous, especially going into the middle half of the 21st century. To think you can do it alone is just ridiculous.

Over half of people who are working now and over 50 have nothing for retirement savings. They will only have Social Security to rely on.

There's 67 percent of women that are in this plus-size world that we live in. And that's over half of the women in the world. So why are we not dressing for [them]?

Born down in a dead man's town, The first kick I took was when I hit the ground, You end up like a dog that's been beat too much, Till you spend half your life just covering up...

You live in a world at war. Spiritual attack must be a category you think in or you will misunderstand more than half of what happens in your marriage.

It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time I get to get my real sleep. When I can't sleep I read books or watch movies.

The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.

Maybe the reason my memory is so bad is that I always do at least two things at once. It's easier to forget something you only half-did or quarter did.

I'm half Scotch-Irish on both sides, and when I lose my temper-brother, I go.