Top 1200 Half Measures Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children.

My mother was born on February 8, 1944, in Lucknow, India. Her father, Albert, was half-Indian and half-Portuguese.

The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

Christmas traditions are important in my family. Being half English and half Polish-Lithuanian, we have two separate celebrations.

Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it according to the motion it takes.

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.

It's because you alienate half the room talking about sports. Half the crowd will be against you no matter what you say.

It's funny: half my films were flops, half did well. It would be terrible if I'd had only success.

The planet is always half light and half dark, and so are we.

I was half Catskills comedian, half 1800s matron.

He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know which half.

Order, cleanliness, seemliness make a structure that is half support, half ritual, and - if it does not create it - maintains decency.

Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

Half Man, Half Sit-Out-The-Season.

I'm like half Brazilian and half American now.

At least half of my life's many mistakes can be safely put down to impetuosity: the other half derive from inertia.

A speech belongs half to the speaker and half to the listener.

Half of golf is fun; the other half is putting.

I'm half Jewish, half Christian. I'm a Jew for Jesus.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

When a glass sits on a table here, people don't wonder if it's half filled or half empty. They just hope it's good beer.

He that measures not himselfe, is measured.

Long ago it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.' That was true then. It did not know because it did not care. The half that was on top cared little for the struggles, and less for the fate, of those who were underneath, so long as it was able to hold them there and keep its own seat.

I am lucky because I do fine art, and that is half of my living. And then illustration provides the other half.

Mind is a duality; it is always split. There is no single point on which the mind agrees in totality. Half of the mind will agree and half of the mind will disagree, and whatever you choose, you are choosing only the half. The remaining half is going to take revenge. The unchosen part, the left over, will wait for its chance to show you that whatever you have chosen is wrong. But it does not matter which part you choose. Choice itself is wrong.

There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.

To me, the glass is half-empty some days and half-full on others. Sometimes it's bone-dry. Or overflowing.

Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new; One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true.

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

Night is the other half of life, and the better half.

I'm sort of half-Chilean at this point anyway, half-Argentine. This is where I have been living and working for a long time now.

The fact that I went from making a minute-and-a-half video in my bedroom to doing an hour-and-a-half live show is just crazy.

An apt aphorism half kills, half immortalizes.

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?"

Knowing is half the battle. Explaining it is the other half.

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

I was brought up to always see the glass half full instead of half empty and played my cricket that way.

I am half Bengali and half Irish by birth.

I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It's half-British, half-Indian.

Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.

I think at one point I had 50 or 60 tattoos, but then they all morphed to become a half sleeve and then a full sleeve and then a sleeve with half my hand and then half my back. So I have so many now where I feel like I can get away with saying, 'I have three tattoos.'

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

Learning to earn a living is only half the job. The other half is to make life worthwhile and meaningful.

I think 'Hollow City' only took a year and a half to write... but it felt like two and a half!

I have to make half of my decision based on what I think my fans will appreciate, and the other half has to be for my personal reasons.

Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.

My guitar is half my life and my wife is the other half.

Believe only half of the praise and half of the criticism.

When you have a half slice of chocolate pie, it's as if you owe yourself the other half - what's known in medical circles as a 'caloric deficit.'

You're a Demigod Percy, half god and half mortal!

Half of life is up - the other half is dealing with it.

Half-uttered praise is to the curious mind, as to the eye half-veiled beauty is, more precious than the whole.

Paul Newman's half Jewishand Florence Henderson's half, tooPut them together,What a fine looking Jew!

London is a labyrinth, half of stone and half of flesh.

When you do a half-hour show, there's only so much you can do. At best, you're going to get a character with two-and-a-half dimensions.

One solution might be to impose the duty on admissions officers to arbitrarily admit only half women and half men.

You're only half the man that I am, and I have half the brain that you do.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

Half of Louisiana is under water and the other half is under indictment.