Half Quotes

You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.

The government's Small Business Administration reports that small businesses represent 99% of all employers in the U.S. and are responsible for generating well over half of new jobs created.

You know you're rich when you have to drive for a half hour to get to your house once you're on your property.

No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.

So you get two good hours on the field about every day, you get about an hour and a half in the meeting room and that's pretty much all you need to thoroughly coach your team.

She was always like that: grateful for life itself. Her glass was not only half full, it was gold plated with a permanent refill.

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.

I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.

The use of psychoactive drugs - including both antidepressants and antipsychotics - has exploded...[yet] 'the tally of those who are disabled...increased nearly two and a half times.

It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know.

You're the type who thinks of the glass as being half full, instead of half empty. "No," she said, "I'm just grateful for the glass.

But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.

The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.

My way of working was different years ago. I used to wait until an idea came to me. Now I go half-way to meet it, though I don't know whether I find it any the quicker.

Begin: To have commenced is half the deed. Half yet remains; Begin again on this and thou wilt finish all.

The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.

I'm a confirmed negaholic. I don't just see a glass that's half full and call it half-empty; I see a glass that's completely full and worry that someone's going to tip it over.

I think the best thing about being dumb is that it makes magic a lot better. Where the hell did that rat come from? I dunno, but I'm calling the cops because he just cut that lady in half.

Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.

The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.

At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere.

Conran's Law of Housework - it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour.

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.

Half the world cries Half the world laughs Half the world tries To be the other half

It was an incredible effort by the Irish down in Tallahassee. Jameis Winston was too tough in the second half; congrats to the Seminoles.

A wise man's questions contain half the answer.

My mother, because of her life, had almost a contradictory way of viewing life. She had this great zest and joy for life and I think that I have that. The glass is always half full for me.

Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.

I was nice to the people in the Philippines for the two and a half years I was there, because I knew even­tually I'd have to kiss up to them so my grandchildren could have toys.

Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new; One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true.

And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.

In the southern half of the country perhaps no crop has larger possibilities for quick increase of production of food for both men and animals than the sweet potato.

Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths.

I have lived in the United States for half of my life, my entire adult life.

All my vocals were recorded at home, which was great for me. You can actually have a studio in a computer program called ProTools. I did half the record with ProTools.

I've come to the realisation that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing half the time...

A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.

No half measures. Some things can’t be cut in half. You can’t half-love someone. You can’t half-betray, or half-lie.

Half of spiritual growth is learning what we don't know. The other half is unlearning what we do know.

I only listen to my own music when I'm playing an hour-and-half set each night. I don't put it on recreationally.

As I get older... I start to realize that life ain't half bad. Each year, I'm amazed that I'm still alive. I don't take any of this for granted, I'm a lucky dude.

When I heated my home with oil, I used an average of 800 gallons a year. I have found that I can keep comfortably warm for an entire winter with slightly over half that quantity of beer.

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.

I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.

If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display. And let thy strength be seen: But O, if Fortune fill thy sail With more than a propitious gale, Take half thy canvas in.

the missing piece my breath my heart my memory me the other half the missing half

Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.