Half Quotes

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

The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness

I will be the focal point for however long I decide to play. Half of me likes that idea and half of me doesn't, but once the adrenaline kicks in, I'll probably really enjoy it.

Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.

This book, 'Stupid White Men,' has sold now over four million copies worldwide. Probably about half of that may be in the U.S. and Canada, and the rest, overseas.

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.

My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open.

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

Half of all marriages end in divorce- and then there are the really unhappy ones.

Night is the other half of life, and the better half.

I told the students [at Yale] we were going to talk about love - I meant love in the sense of devotions to one's work - and about half the students got really pissed off.

Whatever your craft is, be a master of it. Being half assed at something, people will eventually see through.

So she sat on with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality.

Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.

Half the time when brothers wrestle, it's just an excuse to hug each other.

Rachel: You're a half-blood, too? Annabeth: Shhh! Just announce it to the world, how about? Rachel: Okay. Hey, everybody! These two aren't human! They're half Greek god!...They don't seem to care.

Technically, we're all half centaur.

If we talk about the glass being half empty or half full, I want to know what does the glass look like from underneath the table?

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.

although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all things when I am deprived of the time to ruminate.

If this nice friendliness would spread about in Mordor, half our trouble would be over.

Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won.

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.

The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure.

I felt fine after 24 hours and asked the state commission to prolong my stay in space to three days. And I carried out the entire schedule. Could I have done that if I had been half-dead?

When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.

I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.

In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.

Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls.

What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract?

Not partial membership of the European Union or anything that leaves us half in, half out. No, the United Kingdom is leaving the European Union.

Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

A bachelor is only half a man

I've never done anything half-heartedly; it's a disservice to me and the audience if I do it half-heartedly.

The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.

I'm not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to Hell?

After half an hour the drug hit me like a sensuous tidal wave. I turned into a tactile temptress and wanted to stroke the whole world. It gave me untold confidence.

Wake up, Caitlin, Mr. Lensing had said. But what he didn't under­stand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at arm's length or farther away.

Half of the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need.

And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose

Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil.

A woman's suffering is never above half known, for the fact of the publicity of her wrongs is counted to her for disgrace.

Why, thou deboshed fish thou...Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?

A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.

We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern corner, doing nothing. What the hell is going on?

If general perception changes from seeing the glass as 'half-full' to seeing it as 'half empty' there are major innovative opportunities.

Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.

Do you think I know what I'm doing? That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself? As much as a pen knows what it's writing, or the ball can guess where it's going next.