Half Quotes
I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.
It has taken me half a lifetime merely to find out what is best worth doing, and a good slice out of another half to puzzle out the ways of doing it.
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.
Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?
I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery.
Beware of organizations that proclaim their devotion to the light without embracing, bowing to the dark; for when they idealize half the world they must devalue the rest.
Some say that one-sided love is better than none, but like half a loaf of bread, it is likely to grow hard and moldy sooner.
Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.
u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.
Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well.
How many businesses do you know that want to cut their revenue in half? That's why the healthcare system won't change the healthcare system.
That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.
Economy is half the battle in life, but it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well. Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.
For more than a half a century, we know that we prospered because of a bipartisan consensus on defense and foreign policy. We must do more than return to that sensible, cooperative approach.
I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years.
In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.
Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to learn to write the characters.
I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.
All too often people concentrate on finding the right spouse, little realizing that half of any marriage is being the right spouse.
Never complain about your troubles; they are responsible for more than half of your income.
Cuba's poverty is caused by the crackpot Marxist doctrines imposed by its sociopathic ruler and promoted by half the liberal arts professors on American faculties.
I would like to go to Russia very much — although the bastards murdered half my family.
Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.
I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money
Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor.
I still love sparkles and grocery shopping and really old cats that are only nice to you half the time. I still love writing in my journal and wearing dresses all the time and staring at chandeliers.
Resisting and avoiding pain sucks energy-and time. The more you let yourself feel those minute-and-a-half hells, the quicker you'll start feeling those minute-and-a-half happinesses.
No one could ever hate me as much as I hate myself, okay? So any mean thing someone's gonna think of to say about me, I've already said to me, about me, probably in the last half hour!
Half of me knows too much to be carefree. But the other half knows enough to be grateful.
Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12.
Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - especially if he has a teenage daughter.
Very often in mathematics the crucial problem is to recognize and discover what are the relevant concepts; once this is accomplished the job may be more than half done.
Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.
Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half
You can't marginalize more than half of the globe's population and expect to see any meaningful solutions to the problems that ail the world.
If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure.
I think I've always been half out of my shell and half in. Sometimes I can be extremely wild and sometimes I can be extremely shy. It just depends on the day.
In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.
