Half Quotes

Because a poem is not written while running or while answering the phone. It's written in whatever minutes one has. Sometimes you have half an hour.

If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.

I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.

Not to understand a treasure's worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is.

There Lives More Faith in Honest Doubt, Believe Me, Than Half the Creeds. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Social sorrow loses half its pain.

Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.

In the road ships must ride in 30, 40, or 50 fathom water, not above half a mile from the shore at farthest: and if there are many ships they must ride close one by another.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

The house clock, place certain there at the bottom of things, strikes the half hour dry and null. All is so much, all is so deep, all is so dark and cold!

Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.

Better to have a big goal and reach half of it than to have no goal and reach all of it.

One half of my head, from the top of my skull to the cleft of my jaw, hammers, bangs, sizzles while the other half, serene and content, looks on at the agony next door.

What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to do.

When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run.

It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.

...The girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not ended half a century later.

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

The hell with "love" anyway, and with every other phony, time-wasting, half-assed emotion in the world.

I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things.

My most memorable adventure was investigating the chalk cliffs in Yorkshire. While clambering over kelp-covered boulders half-covered by the sea, I fell and smashed my tail bone on one of them.

No. Because it's so stupid no Dauntless with any sense would speak it, let alone think it. Pansycake. What are you, twelve?" "And a half," he says.

A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.

At the weekend, one of the paparazzi left their lunch box filled with half-eaten pasta salad on my doorstep: it was like a little warning, you know? 'We have been here.'

If only loud people were even half as interesting as they think they are.

In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking me.

My girlfriend and I rented a nice house on the river and I was there for about two and a half months, and we were just out of Alabama. I hardly got to see Alabama.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them.

Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.

The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect.

If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.

I would not want to be a mobile home repo man. Those would be hard to sneak away - "Knock knock - Hi, would you go cut your grass and look that way for a half an hour?"

If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half.

Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.

I had a job at a movie theater for like a year and a half and then a job at a health food store for like two years. Those were the only two jobs I ever had.

The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.

We can't expect to effectively move forward with half the population carrying sandbags.

I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.

Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.

It was amazing that during rehearsals, without any of the costume on, the character was there complete. It just happened. Half the time, I didn't know I was doing it.

Due to a life of training and playing, I seem to spend half my time in the shower.

The CIO put up half a million dollars for Roosevelt's 1936 campaign and provided him with an immense group of active labor workers who played a large part in the sweeping victory he won at the polls.

But oh, she dances in such a way! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight.

We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We're going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we use water and grow crops.

Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.

I am an American. I adore Britain and have a strong English half, but my roots are here in the U.S. - it is not a matter of choice; it is simply fact.