Half Quotes

An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.

Each year in Africa about two and a half million people go blind...and they just go blind... they sit around in their huts.

Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?

Nearly two and a half million people die every year that are on the voter rolls. So it takes time to get dead people off the voter rolls.

I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.

It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival.

One half of me is yours, the other half is yours, Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so all yours.

Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.

The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

Women are half the society. You cannot have a revolution without women. You cannot have democracy without women. You cannot have equality without women. You can't have anything without women.

I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population and gave birth to the whole world. Without them the rest [of the world] are not getting to know the whole story.

Every Christian needs a half-hour of prayer each day, except when he is busy, then he needs an hour.

I grew up in Vancouver, man. That's where more than half of my style comes from.

The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement

Ry Cooder for me is a master, a great master that has a wonderful feel for Cuban music. He's also paid tribute my talent a bit, even though I don't know half of what he knows.

We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

Don't be a half-Christian. There are too many of such in the world. The world has a profound respect for people who are sincere in their faith.

I don't think I'll take the medal as the minute and a half of the race I actually won. I'll take it as the last decade of the hard slog I put in.

When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.

I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend!

A theme that appears repeatedly in the writings of the social critics of the second half of the 20th century is the sense of purposelessness that afflicts many people in modern society.

Spring's last-born darling, clear-eyed, sweet, Pauses a moment, with white twinkling feet, And golden locks in breezy play, Half teasing and half tender, to repeat Her song of May.

Nothing exposes religion more to the reproach of its enemies than the worldliness and half-heartedness of the professors of it.

No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.

Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time!

Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and a half of nonsense.

A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.

Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.

Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the time. It's time we gave this some thought.

You're only half the man that I am, and I have half the brain that you do.

Over half the world menstruates at one time or another, but you'd never know it. Isn't that strange?

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

The US is indeed a terrorist nation. ...It's also the greatest purveyor of violence on earth over the past half century, and the foremost threat to world peace today.

I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of work.

The need to impress others causes half the world's woes.

Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil's had the final say.

I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.

There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne — bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive.

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

I believe the second half of one's life is meant to be better than the first half. The first half is finding out how you do it. And the second half is enjoying it.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

I'm by no means a perfect human being. I experience more than half of my life perpetuating darkness. That was because I was dropped in a place of darkness and expected to find a way out.

One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.

I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.