Top 1200 Half Measures Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.

Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided - not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.

For the young Gaels of Ireland Are the lads that drive me mad, For half their words need footnotes And half their rhymes are bad.

When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.

I look better with a tan, but I've never gone the fake route. I don't need to - I have good foreign genes: half Spanish, half Hungarian.

I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses.

I'd been told that he had been created-literally created-just for me,as my "perfect other half." Let me tell you-if Dylan was my perfect other half, then i needed to give my first half a seriouis look-see.

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

Methods and conclusions formed by half the race only, must necessarily require revision as the other half of humanity rises into conscious responsibility.

If I am on a journey where I only have time to read one-and-a-half books, I never know which one-and-a-half I'll feel like reading. So I bring eight.

It is simply service that measures success.

If you believe, as I do, that merit is equally distributed between the sexes, then any result that isn't around half and half should be troubling.

I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don’t dare tell me the truth, and the other half can’t find it.

What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.

I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.

We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other half.

We are the mediocre, we are the half givers, we are the half lovers, we are the savourless salt. Break the hard crust of complacency. Quicken in us the sharp grace of desire.

And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose

I am half Bengali and half Marathi.

If you are ready for the secret, you already possess one half of it,therefore, you will readily recognize the other half the moment it reaches your mind.

My kids come first on all measures.

I haven't seen a half-monkey, half person yet.

Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.

The misdeeds of ordinary men can be buried with them, and their lives described in half-truths that are really half-lies. But not a public man. Particularly not this one.

Half of us is easy, the other half is hard. Even though we do our best, we end up being scarred.

Am I right in saying that the locust of this problem is simply that judges in America are half political animals and half oracular demigods?

The bell that measures time is ringing

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.

I always wanted to be a zookeeper when I was growing up, and I've wound up a zookeeper! I've been working with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years! I'm the luckiest old broad on two feet because my life is divided absolutely in half - half animals and half show business. You can't ask for better than two things you love the most.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

If some baboons just happen to be good at seeing water holes as half full instead of half empty... we should be able to as well.

Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.

I tend to write a pretty half and half split of, like, slow, morose things and then sort of more upbeat stuff.

Everything I do, I'm sort of half in, half out.

Necessity urges desperate measures.

Right now I'm looking at a liger out my bedroom window. He's half lion and half tiger. And he's absolutely beautiful. His name is Patrick.

It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half

The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the past and future are conquered and reconciled.

A half-truth is usually less than half of that.

But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.

I'm, like, half Norwegian and half Italian.

There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.

I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.

I'm half Puerto Rican and half Jewish and so, in some ways, living in many worlds at once is where I feel most at home.

I think any form of self-expression is half confidence, half sheer hard work and, maybe, a bit of talent thrown in.

Mum and Dad sent us to a bilingual school, so we had half the lessons in English and half in French. But I remember being hugely lost.

About one-half of the members of Congress are seekers for office at the nomination of the President. Of the remainder, at least one-half have some appointment or favor to ask for their relatives.

It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it.

When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect.

Probably the greatest writer of westerns himself was Homer. His character were never all good or all bad. They're half and half, these characters, as all human beings are.

We cannot have a society half slave and half free; nor can we have thought half slave and half free. If we create an atmosphere in which men fear to think independently, inquire fearlessly, express themselves freely, we will in the end create the kind of society in which men no longer care to think independently or to inquire fearlessly.

I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?

Now, if you're an NBA fan, you know what Vince Carter did. I came up with a line about him: 'Half-man, half-amazing.'

Halfway measures are not enough.

I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola.

Sing lustily and with a good courage. Beware of singing as if you were half dead, or half asleep; but lift up your voice with strength.

When you play the 12-string guitar,you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.

My father is Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino; my mother is half-Irish and half-Japanese; Greek last name; born in Hawaii, raised in Germany.