Half Quotes

Corrupt men are always liars. Lies are their instruments, their pleasure, their solace. In time they come to believe their lies, or rather to half-believe them.

A man who never sees a bluebird only half lives.

The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.

A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life.

Millions and millions of years would still not give me half enough time to describe that tiny instant of all eternity when you put your arms around me and I put my arms around you.

Freed from the thoughts of winning, I instantly play better. I stop thinking, start feeling. My shots become a half-second quicker, my decisions become the product of instinct rather than logic.

Old age is the time when birthday candles cost more than the birthday cake itself, and half of your urine is wasted on medical testing.

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.

If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anything and everything.

I knew the stars, the flowers, and the birds, The gray and wintry sides of many glens, And did but half remember human words, In converse with the mountains, moors, and fens.

He who is afraid is half beaten.

Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of them as I am at having to meet the live nuts I have to see every day.

The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Half of the energy is used by one seventh of the world's population.

Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided - not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.

Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?

A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being.

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.

Whoever thinks he is objective must already be half drunk.

Duets is about six people, so it's like three different movies - three different duets. I was on the set 18 days, spread out over three and a half or four weeks.

Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had

If I could rest anywhere, it would be in Arkansas, where the men are of the real half-horse, half-alligator breed such as grows nowhere else on the face of the universal earth.

Smokin' at the Half Note is the absolute greatest jazz-guitar album ever made. It is also the record that taught me how to play.

A culture that doesn't respect half its population will never prosper.

Mama, Mama, put me to bed I won’t make it home, I’m already half-dead I met an Invalid, and fell for his art He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

I never said half the crap people said I did.

As they used to say on Stingray, ‘Anything can happen in the next half hour’. I’ve always tried to live with that thought in mind.

Glass half empty, glass half full. Well, either way you won't be going thirsty, count your blessings not your flaws.

Ninety percent of this game is half mental.

... To this day I would rather see a fish, creep up to him and watch his rise to my fly than catch half a dozen fish unseen until they take.

I've got another friend who is half-German and half-Polish. He hates Jews but can't remember why!

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.

There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and down-right ignorance.

We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.

A photographer cannot be inexperienced, or too mature. A photographer ought to be half-ripe.

Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.

In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of people's wrath.

The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness

Dogs change lives. Half Buddha, half Bozo, they keep us tethered to the earth, and teach us to fly. Our dogs are our sanity keepers.

The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet.

The U.S. population, a mere four or five percent of the world total, creates half the world's toxic waste.

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect.

The world cannot afford to lose the talents of half it's people if we are to solve the many problems that beset us.

I'm half-Italian and half-Polish. So I'm always putting a hit out on myself.

You don't think you'll live past it and you don't really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that's still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.

While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing.