Top 1200 Half Measures Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

Never make heads straight on the shoulders, but turn them aside to the right or to the left, even though they look down, or upward, or straight ahead, because it is necessary for them to look lively and awake and not asleep. And do not depict the front or rear half of the whole person so that too much straightness is displaced, one half above or below the other half; and if you should wish to use stiff figures, do so only in portraying old people.

The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.

After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together.

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

The Bolsheviks could not have retained power for two and a half months, let alone two and a half years, without the most rigorous and truly iron discipline in our Party.

The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth.

Half of spiritual growth is learning what we don't know. The other half is unlearning what we do know.

I was born and brought up in South Mumbai. My father, Jagdeep, is a businessman and a Sindhi. My mother is half Brit and half Muslim. I am thus a cocktail of mixed blood. From the time I remember, I wanted to be an actress.

He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.

Spring's last-born darling, clear-eyed, sweet, Pauses a moment, with white twinkling feet, And golden locks in breezy play, Half teasing and half tender, to repeat Her song of May.

One of my closest friends was a half-black, half-Jewish girl. Another good friend had a shaved head... but I was also friends with jocks. I was a 'floater,' I guess you could say.

It is staggering that in the 21st century, half of the world's population - that's three and a half billion people - own no more than a tiny elite whose numbers could all fit comfortably on a double-decker bus.

Half my family was from the Imperial Japanese Navy, and the other half was U.S. Army, and I was raised on Army posts during my childhood, so I pretty much began my life with a split-brain sort of thing.

Measures are an innovation that changed a world of innocent and noble simplicity into one forever filled with dishonesty.

God never measures the mind... He always put His tape measure in the HEART

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.

I don't think people realize the extent to which TV networks are hurt when they carry public broadcasting. I think the estimate is that they lose a half-million dollars for a half day's programming.

Surviving a loss and letting go is only half of the story. The other half is the secret belief that we will find, in one form or another, what we have lost. And it is that potential, shimmery as a star on a clear night that helps us survives.

Public behavior is nurtured in private; earthshaking measures come form careful steps.

Growing up at school I played a lot of fly-half and a lot of scrum-half, I thought I had a good boot but never really used it as much as I do now.

The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.

It is absolutely unacceptable to talk to Russia - or anyone for that matter - in the language of ultimatums and coercive measures.

One becomes wise only in measures, as he goes through his own insanity.

It is imperative to use forceful measures to force the regime to respect human rights.

First, the American legislative process isn't well suited to large and complex measures.

You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.

I know that half of my advertising dollars are wasted ... I just don't know which half.

What I know is that if you're going to play half-court, you'd better have the greatest executioners of half-court basketball. If you run, you test the stamina and willpower of the other team. That's what I learned as a player.

God help us! it is a foolish little thing, this human life, at the best; and it is half ridiculous and half pitiful to see what importance we ascribe to it, and to its little ornaments and distinctions.

I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Thirty years ago I was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, and given two and a half years to live. I have always wondered how they could be so precise about the half.

The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.

Typically, among the audience members joining the actors, the director, Ann Ciccolella and myself, about half of these theater goers have read the novel [Anthem], and half have not read it. That is interesting.

Half of my heart’s got a grip on the situation, half of my heart takes time.

I am half-Byronic, half-moronic; part-shaman, part-showman.

Measures of self-precept must be tailored to the domain of psychological functioning being explored.

If you're working as secretary of state but half of your emails are about your own private business, since when is secretary of state such a leisurely job that half of your time and half of your email are spent on your own private business? There's something really wrong with that picture.

(R)eality TV (is) a medium dedicated to the proposition that with the help of judicious editing, carefully chosen half-wits can hold the attention of millions of their fellow half-wits for weeks on end.

The Gross National Product measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile.

If no one ever made a mistake we'd never get anywhere. One side would keep the ball until half-time and the other team would do the same for the whole of the second half.

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

An increase in bicycle ridership brings an increased need for measures to ensure the safety of cyclists.

If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.

I am willing to take any measures when it comes to the fundamental principle of human rights.

Nothing in or of this world measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence of God.

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Women are the half of the engine of our societies; they are half of the engines of our economies.

There was no mistaking, even in the uncertain light, the hand, half crabbed, half generous, and wholly drunken, of the Consul himself, the Greek e's, the flying buttresses of d's, the t's like lonely wayside crosses save where they crucified an entire word.

God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.

A lot of my main-event matches will last around the half-hour mark, and if you can have a variety of emotions within that half hour, that's a great story from start to finish.

God measures people by the small dimensions of humility and not by the bigness of their achievements or the size of their capabilities.

I absolutely love Canada, and I wouldn't live anywhere else. It's half American and half European, and I really enjoy that. And the people are just fantastic - nicer than any people in the world.

Both half success and half failure must be considered as a full failure!

We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half.

The impact of punitive government measures is long-lasting and widens inequality and social discord.

We must engage in a whole-of-government approach to combat Russian active measures.

The first half of fiscal 2006 has been exceptional for Cochlear. Importantly, Cochlear capitalized on a number of opportunities in this half with worldwide market share estimated to be in excess of 70%.

Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.

I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes me quite a blank canvas.

We don't have any measures in most cases of the health of our social relationships, of what we're giving to the community.