Half Quotes

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.

Half the world knows not how the other half lies.

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.

Do nothing by halves which can be done by quarters.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

Recently, a six-year-old boy said to me, "I've been waiting to meet you for half my life."

We've consistently seen, since the late 1990s, that more than half of women believe that abortion should be severely restricted or abolished altogether.

Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.

I spent 24 and a half years in prison

When you say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can understand the other fellow's side.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

As many as half of Ethiopias girls become wives before becoming adults. But Ethiopia is also a place where lasting solutions to child marriage are starting to make a difference.

I'm half Jewish, but no one believes me because my looks lean a little WASP-y... It's sometimes hard for me to get the roles I'm drawn to.

Half of the people in this room are more dressed up than on any other day in the year, and the other half are more dressed down.

If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.

Two days like icebergs bleak, blank, half-melting, all frigid, mainly out of sight, and definitely a threat to peace of mind drifted by and were good to put behind.

You can’t prevent undernourishment so easily, but famines you can stop with half an effort. Then the question was why don’t the governments stop them?

Half the game is 90% mental.

Great thoughts in crude, unshapely verse set forth lose half their preciousness, and ever must, unless the diamond with its own rich dust be cut and polished, it seems little worth.

I think the best exercise that I do is singing for an hour-and-a-half out on the stage, because, yes, I use the lung, the biggest muscle in your body.

The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.

Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods.

If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack, You may get a bland smile from these sages; But should it, by chance, be imported from France, Half-a-crown is stopped out of your wages!

Stoichkov's playing on the wing, in this situation he likes to come in and scalp the centre-half.

Everyone has a mad half-hour once a month.

People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery.

After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.

It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.

In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now.

I love playing half squid/half crab guy because you can get away with a level of acting that if you tried it anywhere else they'd arrest you for crimes against acting.

For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times.