Half Quotes

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

Half the people you know are below average.

I probably grow half my food. It's a good way to keep perspective.

Almost every scene, I re-think as Im about to start drawing it, and at least half of the time Im changing dialogue or whatever, or adding scenes or different things.

I've missed half or two-thirds of my children's lives.

There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the object.

It's never a good idea to organize society in a way that depletes the energy of half the population.

If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.

[Propaganda] does not have multiple shadings; it has a positive and a negative; love or hate, right or wrong, truth or lie, never half this way and half that way.

How can we effect change in the world when only half of it is invited or feel welcome to participate in the conversation?

If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped.

My gran always said I was half clever, half stupid, and half crazy.

I don't have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.

Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.

It is notorious that we speak no more than half-truths in our ordinary conversation, and even a soliloquy is likely to be affected by the apprehension that walls have ears.

The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half.

There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably done.

People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half.

Nonsense is nonsense whether it rhymes or not, just as bad half-pennies are good for nothing whether they jingle or lie quiet.

If I waited for a proper occasion to get dressed up I'd never wear half of these clothes. Put on the clothes and you make things happen to match them. It doesn't work the other way around.

Finding out the truth is only half of it. It's what you do with it that matters.

Half as sober as a judge.

A non-Communist premier with Communist ministers would be like a woman trying to stay half pregnant.

He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

Some people use half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

My brain begins to work stuff out, but then kinda half way through, it starts wandering off and it's like ahh, unicorns.

It's horrible, horrible, horrible. It took a year and a half until I found out that I had post-natal depression.

All writers - all people - have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.

To your care and recommendation am I indebted for having replaced a half-blind mathematician with a mathematician with both eyes, which will especially please the anatomical members of my Academy.

One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially from his belief in their sympathy with him.

Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century.

Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth.

To call it a crime against Mankind is to miss at least half its significance, it is also the punishment of a crime.

Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure.

He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone.

Women are more than half of our globe, more than half of our promise and potential. And we have been not only underusing that resource but suppressing it.

An anarchist does not want to rule others and does not want others to rule him. Nothing is so despicable as half-an-anarchist.

Got a new pup. He is half griffon. The other half is mistake.

Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.

The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.

I'm staying in a lovely hotel, dressing robe behind the door, lovely fluffy sheets - took me a half an hour getting my suitcase closed.

He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.

Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment.

Do nothing by halves which can be done by quarters.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

Half the world knows not how the other half lies.

I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.

He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know which half.