Top 1200 Half Measures Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

It's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.

Campaigns are crazy things. They're half startup, half enterprise.

Man has here two and a half minutes-one to smile, one to sigh, and a half to love: for in the midst of this minute he dies.

Half the world knows not how the other half lies.

I consider myself to be half-Brazilian and half-German on the pitch.

The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet.

I'm a glass-half-full kind of guy, not half-empty.

Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is

The war is not going well and it is time to say why. It has been fought with half-measures. It has been fought with an eye on the wishes of our "coalition partners." It has been fought to assuage the Arab "street." It has been fought to satisfy the diplomats rather than the generals... Why have we not loosed the B-52s and the B-2s to carpet-bomb Taliban positions? And why are we giving the Taliban sanctuary in their cities? We could drop leaflets giving civilians 48 hours to evacuate, after which the cities become legitimate military targets.

It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.

I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.

Don't complain to others about your troubles. Half of them don't care and the other half are glad.

Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil.

Thirty-five is half a life. I can't lose the other half. I've lost so much living as a shadow of a person.

I like me Italian girls; half Halle Berry, half Penelope Cruz sort of thing!

In a country like Mexico, you can't forget about poverty - about how half of the population lives in poverty, and how half of that half live in extreme poverty.

Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.

The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half.

Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.

It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy straw.

I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.

The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.

I've got another friend who is half-German and half-Polish. He hates Jews but can't remember why!

Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it.

Half-truths are like half a brick - they can be thrown farther.

After a goalless first half, the score at half time is 0-0.

My mom is Filipino and my dad is half Russian and half Irish.

The first half has gone how I almost half-anticipated.

If it's half as good as the half we've known, here's Hail! to the rest of the road.

When you discover you've been leading only half a life, the other half is going to haunt you until you develop it.

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears

. . . I believe one half of the world is born for the convenience of the other half . . .

It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.

We are all full of discourses that we only half understand and half mean.

Well, half of half our faction.' 'In some circles they call that a quarter, Mar,' Lynn says.

Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering — at least half! All women!

I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening.

Everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaized, and the other half negrified.

Some people use half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

It's love,' they say. You touch the right one and a whole half of the universe wakes up, a new half.

I'm very much half city and half country boy.

Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed.

Stop asking if the glass is half full or half empty. Instead ask "What's in it? How did it get there? What can I do with it?"

Which other actor has appeared in one-half of a dance show as a girl and in the second-half as a man?

I like the Rockabilly look. My background is half Italian, half French. I wear cowboy boots and jeans.

So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed.

Half of what creates psychopaths is genetic, but the other half is conditioning.

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

I sort of lived half my life in California, half in England, so I am, I suppose, a little bit American.

Half of San Antonio's population is of Mexican descent; the other half just eats that way.

We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.

My daily breakfast is two poached eggs in the morning with half an avocado, and I get to have half a piece of toast.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Our aspirations are really for women to be in half the leadership roles and men to be doing half the work of parenting.