Half Quotes

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.

Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.

You must go deeper into Russia - 150 kilometres from Moscow or more, and look there. The kids are fed with cattle feed - people don't get paid for half a year.

As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process.

The 1st Congressional District contains almost half of the biotech and biomedical companies in Washington, and my job often allows me to meet the people responsible for this exciting research.

The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!

I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess!

Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician.

It's like someone jammed an electric light bulb in your face, and busted it. I thought half my head was blowed off...When he knocked me down I could have stayed there for three weeks.

There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.

Believe that you can whip the enemy, and you have won half the battle.

One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen.

Loving one another is half of wisdom.

A God. The God. One word can make all the difference in the world.

You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half.

It's very far away/It takes about a half a day to get there/ If we travel by-dragonfly.

Another ten points from Gryffindor,” said Snape. “I would expect nothing more sophisticated from you, Ronald Weasley, the boy so solid he cannot Apparate half an inch across a room.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half.

Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.

Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be.

I look back and half of Ramadan is over in the blink of an eye. Before I know I'll be saying that about my entire life

One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but its spectre still hangs over the world and doesn't allow us to forget.

Custer is said to have boasted that he could ride through the entire Sioux Nation with his Seventh Cavalry, and he was half right. He got half-way through.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars

What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.

Climbing is a great game-great not in spite of the demands it makes, but because of them. Great because it will not let us give half of ourselves-it demands all of us. It demands our best.

Don’t sleep too much. If you sleep 3 hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in.

Don't bother her, don't try to talk to her, don't even look at her, or I'll fold you in half so many times you'll look like a tiny little origami werewolf.

It has been well over half a century and I'm glad to say we have taken the right path from authoritarianism to democracy and this is a road of no return.

Do the math: You never settle for less than the whole if you knew the half.

We had no idea that in as little as 35 years more than half the people on Earth would have cellular telephones, and they give the phones away to people for nothing.

By God, we will make the fire eat up half of Isreal if it tries to do anything against Iraq.

Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.

In the land of the skunk the man with half a nose is king!

If my cup won't hold but a pint and yourn holds a quart, wouldn't ye be mean not to let me have my little half-measure full?

A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.

I don't really like dressing up. Some people probably think actresses dress up everywhere they go. I'm in sweatpants half the time with my hair in a ponytail.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

To be successful, all you have to do is work half-days; you can work the first twelve hours or the second twelve hours.

The [first] argument asserts the non-existence of motion on the ground that that which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.