Top 1200 Half Measures Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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!

That there is a continuous link from humans to gorillas, with the intermediate species merely long dead, is beyond the understanding of speciesists. Tie the label Homo sapiens even to a tiny piece of insensible embryonic tissue, and its life suddenly leaps to infinite, incomputable value.... Self-styled pro-lifers, and others that indulge in footling debates about exactly when in its development a foetus becomes human, exhibit the same discontinuous mentality. Human, to the discontinuous mind, is an absolutist concept. There can be no half measures. And from this flows much evil.

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

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.

In the modern world, it may be that a living father can only be half a father to a boy - the dead father is the other vital half: the half that grows the boy up once and for all.

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

You have a wide array of people that are watching something, and you cannot please everyone at the same time. Half the people will love it; half the people will hate it. Half the people won't see it.

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

We spend the second half of our life making up for the first half.

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

Half the world wants to be like Thoreau worrying about the noise of traffic on the way up to Boston; the other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half.

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

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

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

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.

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

How do we receive the highest mystery of Divine love to us ? the mystery of the Christian faith? With our mind, heart and life; with our free will? Are all the three powers of our souls penetrated by holy faith, as were the souls of the saints? The kingdom of heaven 'is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till the whole was leavened' (Lk. 13:21). The three measures are the three powers of the soul.

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

Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.

Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil.... With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good.

The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.

If a person measures his spiritual fulfillment in terms of cosmic visions, surpassing peace of mind, or ecstasy, then he is not likely to know much spiritual fulfillment. If, however, he measures it in terms of enjoying a sunrise, being warmed by a child's smile, or being able to help someone have a better day, then he is likely to know much spiritual fulfillment.

All subsidy measures, all schemes to redistribute income or to force Peter to support Paul, are one-eyed as well as shortsighted. They get their immediate appeal by focusing attention on the alleged needs of some particular group of intended beneficiaries. But the inevitable victims - those who are going to be asked to pay for the new handout in increased taxes (which directly or indirectly means almost everybody else) - are left out of account. Only one-half of the problem has been seen. The cost of the proposed solution has been overlooked.

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

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.

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.

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

...the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.

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

One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.

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

I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every man needs a blind eye and a deaf ear, so when people applaud, you'll only hear half of it, and when people salute, you'll only see part of it. Believe only half the praise and half the criticism.

There is a kind of dictatorship that can come about through a creeping paralysis of thought, readiness to accept paternalistic measures by government, and along with those measures comes a surrender of our own responsibilities and therefore a surrender of our own thought over our own lives and our own right to exercise the vote. The free system gives the right to every citizen to do something for himself. Because he has the right, the opportunity is always there.

Memento mori - remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die-what makes this any different from a half hour?

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

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

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

One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck.

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

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

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

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

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

History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their people. The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. ... These measures never fail to create great and violent jealousies and animosities between the people favored and the people oppressed; whence a total separation of affections, interests, political obligations, and all manner of connections, by which the whole state is weakened.

If we reduce batch sizes by half, we also reduce by half the time it will take to process a batch. That means we reduce queue and wait by half as well. Reduce those by half, and we reduce by about half the total time parts spend in the plant. Reduce the time parts spend in the plant and our total lead time condenses. And with faster turn-around on orders, customers get their orders faster.

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

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.

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