Top 1200 Half-Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.

He can't decide whether to leave his visor half open or half closed.

One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.

I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.

I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess!

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

I spend half my time comforting the afflicated, and the other half afflicting the comfortable.

I'm half-Italian and half-Polish. So I'm always putting a hit out on myself.

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

I've got a gig," Jim said. I sat up in my bed, wide-awake. A gig was good- I needed the money. "Half." "Third." "Half." "Thirty-five percent." Jim's voice hardened. "Half." The phone went silent as my former Guild partner mulled it over. "Okay, forty." I hung up.(...) The phone rang. I let it ring twice before I picked it up. "Fine." Jim's voice had a hint of a snarl in it. "Half.

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half.

My dad lives in Sicily, so I'm half Italian and half Irish - it's a fiery combination.

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.

I'm half Moroccan and half Indian so I have quite an adventurous taste in food.

Making Superman was so hard. We were a year over schedule. We were there a year and a half, the first time. And in a year and a half, you go through everything you go through in a life. So you can't really go, "Oh, it must have been fun to work with Chris Reeve." In a year and a half, you bonded like a family, so you know someone far too well to think something as simplistic as "Oh, it's just fun." You know their secrets. I mean, it was everything. It was truly - it's a cliché to say we were family, but we really were.

I grew up half in South Central and half in the San Fernando valley.

Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.

We want to see a struggle. We want to see people falling over but getting themselves back up on their feet, and that's what's extraordinary- ordinary people and their struggle. There's nothing as interesting as real life out your window. You walk down the street for half an hour, I'll give you half an hour of drama.

When the moon is ninety degrees away from the sun it sees but half the earth illuminated (the western half). For the other (the eastern half) is enveloped in night. Hence the moon itself is illuminated less brightly from the earth, and as a result its secondary light appears fainter to us.

Love is a flower of life - sometimes half open, one has to receive it with both hands. Nurture it, so it may open to its full bloom - you will be rewarded with its blessful frangrance. You may be intoxicated for life. If you let it drop on the ground, you have missed the most valuable gift of life.

Discrimination and multiple deprivations of human rights are also frequently part of the problem, sentencing entire populations to poverty... It is surely a matter of outrage that over half a million women die annually from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. This is nearly half the annual global death toll, and arguably, a direct reflection of the disempowerment of women in social, economic and political life.

You're better off with a kick-ass half than a half-assed whole.

The half-life of love is forever.

Half my life is an act of revision.

To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty.

One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.

An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

I'm a professor of neuroscience at Stanford University, and I'm kind of half-neurobiologist, half-primatologist.

If anyone knows me, I feel like I'm half-media, half-player as it is.

The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.

My first band, Kid Wicked, we did half covers and half originals.

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.

I've got a friend who is half-Jewish and half-Italian. If he can't buy it wholesale, he steals it!

My friends love this idea of me as half man, half camera.

Half the world's starving; the other half is trying to lose weight.

Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.

We don't have much wisdom about the second half when things really open up and end up looking a lot more progressive. In my own Catholic church, for example, we're sort of circling the wagons today by thinking that more moral strictures, more exclusionary rules on this or that, that that's going to do for the first half of life. I don't think it really does.

Without a bottle to hold, I feel incomplete, the way Plato says we are each born only half a circle, and we spend out lives seeking out our other half. A drink is my beloved. Without it, I am wanting; I feel half finished.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

The human race cannot forever exist half-exploiters and half-exploited.

Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.

How come, when people wear half shirts, it's always the top half?

I've spent half my life on planes.

Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water.

An epigram is a half-truth so stated as to irritate the person who believes the other half.

I think you gotta look at stuff half-full as opposed to half-empty.

Your new-caught, sullen peoples, / Half-devil and half child.

O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.

Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds in the primeval oceans.

Loyalty is dead, the experts proclaim, and the statistics seem to bear them out. On average, U.S. corporations now lose half their customers in five years, half their employees in four, and half their investors in less than one. We seem to face a future in which the only business relationships will be opportunistic transactions between virtual strangers.

Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half.

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

One half of me is a hopeless romantic. The other half is well... just realistic.