Half Quotes

I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch

The laying of fish on the embers, the taste of the fish, the feel of the texture of bread, the round and the half-loaf, the grain of a petal, the rain-bow and the rain.

I think a stalwart peasant in sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a half dozen children, is good quality

I'd been ill and hadn't trained for a week and I'd been out of the team for three weeks before that, so I wasn't sharp. I got cramp before half-time as well. But I'm not one to make excuses.

If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way.

Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

Wait for it, wait for it! Anticipation is half the fun, So I've been told...

I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Talent without tact is only half talent.

If we worried half as much what others are doing for us and spent twice as much time helping others, we would all be exponentially happier.

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.

More than half the questions I am asked are about the politics of the way I look

Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.

Life has two halves: one patient and one afire. Love is the fiery half. Make me, O Lord, food for the flames.

Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.

Emotion is the atmosphere in which thought is steeped, that which lends to thought its tone or temperature, that to which thought is often indebted for half its power.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

The New Testament never simply says, "Remember Jesus Christ." That is a half-finished sentence. It says, "Remember Jesus Christ is risen from the dead."

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.

An actress should never, ever, be asked to run beside a van in red disco boots for more than about half a block, and then only if her child is being kidnapped.

When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story.

And I suppose they [Spurs] are nearer to being out of the FA Cup now than any other time since the first half of this season, when they weren't ever in it anyway.

Yes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but everyone forgets the second half of that quote: the road to heaven is paved with good actions.

The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month.

Foul fiend of France and hag of all despite, Encompassed with thy lustful paramours, Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age And twit with cowardice a man half dead?

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.

Nothing is static. Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart. Since fight club, I can wiggle half the teeth in my jaw. Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer. Maybe self-destruction is the answer.

Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big.

But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived.

If you take the best of Wayne Dyer and add it to the best of Anthony Robbins, what you would have would only be half as good as Steve Chandler.

You have to be proactive about your destiny and then realize that the other half of it is completely out of your control. I think it's fascinating.

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.

Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal.

Half a King is my favorite book by Joe Abercrombie so far, and that's saying something.

It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.

The world meets nobody half way.

The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.

I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria - it always will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who is comfortable in the world. I look at it through Nigerian eyes.

There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done.

I often get disoriented on stage. Half the time I don't even know where I am.

We know that acid rain has had no significant environmental effect on trees or forests in the United States... It is based on popular myths and half-baked theories.

And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering.

There are sixteen cans of coffee here; together they hold a total of thirteen and a half pounds of coffee. Doesn't that seem like cheating?

Production speed is severely slowed down if one works with half-time people who have other obligations as well. This is at least a factor of four; probably it is worse.

Never meet trouble half-way.

I love the creation of these things — I love the sculpting, I love the coloring. Half the joy is fabricating the world, the creatures.

Frankfurt, discussing a stuntman: He missed being killed in that shot be literally half an inch.

Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.