Half Quotes

Courage in danger is half the battle. [Lat., Bonus animus in mala re, dimidium est mali.]

I'm Christian. Growing up in Ethiopia, it's half-Christian and half-Muslim. You grow up with Muslim kids. I'm very much aware of their religion.

Cynicism is more than a pose; it's also a handy time saver. By deflating your companion's enthusiasm, you can cut conversations in half.

I would give worlds, could I believe One-half that is profess'd me; Affection! could I think it Thee, When Flattery has caress'd me.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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?"

The half is greater than the whole.

Since September 11th, federal terrorism investigations have resulted in charges against more than 400 suspects, and more than half of them have been convicted.

Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn't noticed the change, I'd been having such a ball!

I felt very bad in Washington. . . I didn't like my job, and I didn't know what was going to happen to me, and I was cold and half-hungry, so I wrote a great many poems.

I learned words, I learned words; but half of them died from lack of exercise. And the ones I use often look at me with a look that whispers, Liar.

I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me, And still it half calls up the realms of fairy, Where I beheld what never was to be.

Sexuality is half poison and half liberation. What’s the line? I don’t have a line.

Uncertain whose the narrowest span,--the clown unread, or half-read gentleman.

There are so many little places I want to play, sometimes weird places I think would be fun to play... a bar that's half full.

I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It's half-British, half-Indian.

Right,' said Kai, 'that'll be no problem in a city of two and a half million people. Let me just go dig out my special Lunar detector, and I'll get right on that.

A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: See all, nor be afraid!

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.

A bird in a cage is not half a bird.

A half-century after racing the Russians to the moon, the U.S. is barely suiting up in the international race to secure interests in the Arctic.

I rejoice in my spine, as in the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the world.

A garden is half made when it is well planned.

To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry.

As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in bloom.

When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is morbid and unhealthy.

If the boxers are a little more colorful, talk a little like I did and just do half as much as I did for boxing, it will be all right.

We are in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. The great point is to choose good models and to study them with care.

In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle.

My father is Jaime Rodriguez from San Antonio, Texas, and I've got one whole half of my family that's Mexican through and through.

Any man who's not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.

A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch.

Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.

Everything within a half-a-minute or a half-an-inch is gold, silver, bronze or nothing.

Who's started has half finished.

I was walking an average of about two and a half miles a day, which is still more than most Americans. Most Americans don't even walk that.

We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation.

A year and a half ago, there were people who questioned whether Vince Young could be a major college quarterback.

You hear this story that we're all on the left, but when there's a demonstration, you count how many actors actually come out. If there's a half dozen, that would be a big day.