Half Quotes

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

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

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.

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

To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose.

Once during the mission I was asked by ground control what I could see. "What do I see?" I replied. "Half a world to the left, half a world to the right, I can see it all. The Earth is so small."

We only half live when we only half think.

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

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!

Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia, and changed the destinies of kingdoms.

Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods.

If a thousand shares of stocks or bonds make nothing, you pay nothing. But on a thousand acres of land you pay enough to support half the community who own no land and pay no taxes.

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

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 economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.

Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.

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

There's not a shirt and a half in all my company, and the half shirt is two napkins tacked together and thrown over the shoulders like a herald's coat without sleeves.

And mind, with my heart in't; and now farewell Till half an hour hence.

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.

Half the game is 90% mental.

If half the society isn't engaged on any number of sectors, success and potential will be limited. In that sense, I do definitely believe there is a growing movement and moment for women's issues.

want won't kill you half as quick as worry will.

I always see the glass as half full and prefer to look on the bright side of life.

At least half of my life's many mistakes can be safely put down to impetuosity: the other half derive from inertia.

I'm me on the mound. I like to show my emotion, be real aggressive and give everything I've got for one half inning. I don't have to act. What you see on the mound is what I am in real life.

Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.

Fuss is half-sister to hurry, and neither of them can do anything without getting in their own way.

What would I have done if my coya had been captured or killed? My mate, Sharone. The other half of everything I am. What would I have done?

When a glass sits on a table here, people don't wonder if it's half filled or half empty. They just hope it's good beer.

For one half second, I wondered what it would feel like to put my hand in the fire. What it would feel like when I burned.

Thirty-five is half a life. I can't lose the other half. I've lost so much living as a shadow of a person.

It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it.

A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.

Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky; Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.

Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them.

I love my boys so much I fear my heart will explode. I wonder if this love will crack open my chest and split me in half. It is scary, this love.

And after I played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song.

Finding the tool is often half the battle.

Knowing where she was in the world, even if he never touched her, gave him a deep satisfaction, and he half despised himself for being satisfied with so little.

I've always believed that the range or depth of emotion can be great, whether you're play a three-minute piece, or a half-hour work.

How presumptuous of someone to think the world is interested in a half-dozen or eight or 10 of their kids.

The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.

Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal.

The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

Where there's more of singing and less of sighing, Where there's more of giving and less of buying, And a man makes friends without half trying That's where the West begins.