Half Quotes

With the intellect I always have always shall overcome, but that is not the half of the work. The life, the life Oh my God! shall the life never be sweet!

The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to be either half truths or lies.

...Take a half-hour a day to really appreciate the good things you have. And you will feel great. If you want to feel twice as great double that time!

A feminist is a man or woman who already knows for a fact that men and women are qual and wants society to wake up to that fact, so the world can stop operating at half-strength.

It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory.

Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world.

In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.

Until the sky is the limit [for women], as it is for men, men as well as women will suffer, because all society is affected when half of it is denied equal opportunity for full development.

We are fashioned creatures, but half made up. - Victor Frankenstein

...we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves - such a friend ought to be - do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures.

I really like the half-hour comedy. I really do. I know people that are in movies all the time and they, you know, they don't see their families as much. And that takes its toll over time.

I haven't seen Iowa people get so excited since the night Frank Gotch and Strangler Lewis lay on the mat for three and a half hours without moving a muscle.

So I'm leaving Sony, a free agent, owning half of Sony. I own half of Sony's Publishing. I'm leaving them, and they're very angry at me, because I just did good business, you know.

If you cut me in half, I'm a footballer.

I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.

What I am arguing, in effect, is that the full democratic system of the second half of the fifth century B.C. would not have been introduced had there been no Athenian empire.

I started playing ball when I was 13 and a half. Before that, I just wanted to play football and baseball but I kept growing so I figured it was time for basketball.

The things that really change the world, according to Chaos theory, are the tiny things. A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian jungle, and subsequently a storm ravages half of Europe.

Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.

It occurred to me that a lot of beauty has to do with believing it yourself. That half of what we see is just the way it is presented.

We had a Judeo-Christian ethic hanging around a couple thousand years that didn't help erase racism at all. So the notion of the little half-hour comedy changing things is something I think is silly.

Don't bother. The glass is half-empty.

I played with Arthur Godfrey for about a year and a half.

If the NSF had never existed, if the government had never funded American mathematics, we would have half as many mathematicians as we now have, and I don't see anything wrong with that.

As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.

I'm the definition of half man, half drugs.

I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?

It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.

There is no such thing as a soulmate...and who would want there to be? I don't want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn soul.

Sometimes I can't believe half of the love that I get.

I was wishing I'd bought some of that Camp Half Blood orange thermal underwear..." ?!?!

Because of my two films - one was about my half-sister (Kati with an I) and the next one featured my cousin (Fake It So Real) - I was hesitant to start with someone so close.

There are four headwinds that are just hitting the American economy in the face: They're demographics, education, debt and inequality. They're powerful enough to cut growth in half.

You have to break in half to love somebody.

I'm an Episcopal, which is Catholic Lite. It's like same religion, half the guilt.

Use half as many words and they'll hit twice as hard.

I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.

Half of the popcorn sh-t that's out there, we know it's popcorn. But we're like, "It's my guilty pleasure." I feel like we have more guilty pleasure than actual f - kin' pleasure.

It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life.

You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it.

Give us a world where half our homes are run by men and half our institutions are run by women. I'm pretty sure that would be a better world.

Sister, they send you out for one and you bring back two... and a half. Such a clever girl.

One person with the ability of half a person doing the work of four people.

They got married, they got divorced, and half their money goes out the window.

The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the past and future are conquered and reconciled.

As a matter of fact my, my very first time singing when I was two and a half, three, was in church. So, ahm, church is very, very much a part of who I am.

Half of Silicon Valley's got a little bit of autism.

I wish people had half the honor of dragons.

Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and breathing Lady Murasaki...