Half Quotes

Almost half of all Latinas currently on Social Security rely exclusively on their benefit check in retirement.

If you pursue an evenhanded policy between a cat and a mouse, do you help the mouse to survive - or allow the cat to eat half the mouse?

Send me the half that's got my keys.

My dad's Russian. My mother's English. I would say my bottom half is Russian.

When you meet someone, treat them as if they were in serious trouble, and you will be right more than half the time.

I work out two, two and a half hours a day. For 'Immortals,' it was body-weight stuff: crunches, pullups, and martial arts-based cardio.

I work out two, two and a half hours a day.

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

Some of my best work is done when I'm half asleep.

Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.

He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out of someone.

Half-man, half-beast, all nightmare. The shapeshifter warrior form.

People spend their lives searching for their one true love, their other half. I found mine in college, dancing in a fraternity house driveway. Lucky for me, she found me right back.

Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.

I don't think about wealth. I get one thing in my mind, "How can I help people...come on humans...do something, you know. Let's wake up. Man alive...you're half dead. Let's do some living".

That is the beautiful part about weights: even if you are 100 year old, you can lift something. Maybe it's only a half a pound or a pound or two pounds. It will still do something.

It is very much easier to divide your outlook on the world into two halves, to say that you know this belongs to the daily half and this belongs to the Sunday half.

I'm half Native American and half white so I think I can adjust culturally to anything.

there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.

A new study says that over half of all Californians are obese. In fact, half of Californians are really two-thirds of Californians.

The world, a tired performer, offers us another half-assed season.

We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day.

If England had scored in the first half, I think the young legs would have found younger hearts inside them

The glass is always half empty. All good comedians are manic-depressive.

"I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else"

Seavilization will be better than civilization, and we have nearly half the world's surface to discover it.

There are no half-hearted champions.

Smart leaders believe only half of what they hear. Discerning leaders know which have to believe.

Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.

While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.

Half a loaf is better than none.

Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes.

Sound is what drives my solos, not verbal concepts, I never think 'I'm going to use a Lydian Dominant scale and then go up a half-step', even though that might be exactly what I end up doing.

You always hear people saying, 'I hope I'm not turning into my dad', but I'd be honoured if I became half as decent a bloke as he is.

Half a loaf is better than no bread.

The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily be buried, or half-buried, by the life.

A person like me... isn't even worth the tip of a toe. I can't even compare to half.

The half-life of love is forever.

I think for more than half of my career I have refrained from talking to the media.

I used to date Kellan Lutz. We were together for two and a half years, but the distance and travel really kept us apart. In the end we decided it wouldn't work, but we're still good friends.

I like to work half a day. I don't care if it is the first 12 hours or the second 12 hours.

A three-year-old is not half a six-year-old.

When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people.

I was a different sort of child, as half the children are. I was in that category of being free-spirited.

But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.

[On children:] Being built closer to the floor, they can dust the baseboards in half the time.

I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know what was going to happen they wouldn't bother to do it.

Comedies are often half-hour programs and then drama and action series are often an hour.

Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne.