Top 1200 Half Measures Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival.

Half to forget the wandering and pain, Half to remember days that have gone by, And dream and dream that I am home again!

We cannot risk living all our lives under emergency measures.

I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he starts. The optimist has won half the battle, the most important half that applies to himself, when he begins his approach to a subject with the proper mental attitude. The optimist may not understand, or if he understands he may not agree with, prevailing ideas; but he believes, yes, knows, that in the long run and in due course there will prevail whatever is right and best.

Ideally, when you play a character, she goes away with half of you, and you go away with half of her. And you learn something.

I know two L.A.s. Half my life was around the house my folks had for 46 years at 3rd and Norton. The other half was in Boyle Heights on the Eastside, working with gang members.

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth.

I would say I live half in New York and half in Claridge's. How decadent! How hysterical!

...the other half of rising—the very half that makes rising necessary—is having been nailed to the cross.

I've always been of the idea that is doesn't really matter where you are geographically - with 'Lonerism,' we made half the album in Australia, half the album in Paris.

At times unpopular measures are needed in order to change behaviour.

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

Caliban is one of the most difficult characters to play because there's not a lot of history there. It's sort of a half-animal, half-man, and there's not a lot of background.

I spent the first half of my career learning what to put into my work, and the second half learning what to leave out.

Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is German.

To this day it is all but impossible for me to actually stop and think of my parents as white and black or to think of myself, therefore, as half and half.

There are many that despise half the world; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because the other half despises them.

Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.

I don't think that Donald Trump is a conservative. In fact, you go on Fox News, and half the people say he is and half say he isn't.

You're the type who thinks of the glass as being half full, instead of half empty. "No," she said, "I'm just grateful for the glass.

HALF of America pays NO taxes. Zero. So they're happy for tax rates to be raised on the other half that DOES pay any taxes.

The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.

Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.

I think my game measures up pretty well to myself.

Capitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually easily able to array one half of them against the other half, and thus dispose of both.

Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.

There is only a half step difference between the champions and those who finish on the bottom. And much of that half step is mental.

If general perception changes from seeing the glass as 'half-full' to seeing it as 'half empty' there are major innovative opportunities.

He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.

I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting.

I do one sit up a day. I get up in the morning, that's the first half. I lay down at night, that's the second half.

As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.

I am not menopausal. I just wanted half an hour alone. Is that too much to ask? A crappy half hour!

I think you're always gonna have half the generation that's lazy. But I think it makes the other half work that much harder.

O Woman, you are not merely the handiwork of God, but also of men; these are ever endowing you with beauty from their own hearts ... You are one-half woman and one-half dream.

I'm actually half Brit and half American. I have a British father and an American mother, but as far as I'm aware, no Middle Eastern blood.

I'm half-and-half on school. I had fun in grade school, but when I went to college, it was the worst place I've ever been in my entire life.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

The Limeys want us in even with our hastily made plans and our half-trained and half-equipped troops.

My mother is half-French, half-Malagasy, so I've been listening to African music, like Malian and Congolese music, since I was a child.

I spent the first half of my life making money and the second half of my life giving it away to do the most good and the least harm.

Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half

I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the past - a combination of both.

Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half.

In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.

TV writing - for me, at least - is half original voice and half an embodiment and a representation of the spirit of the actors you're writing for.

He said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god.

Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt.

'30 for 30s' are amazing. They're little documentaries and can be anywhere from half an hour to an hour-and-a-half - great sports stories.

It doesn't matter if the glass is half empty or half full. Be grateful you have a glass - your the only person that can decide what's in it.

Half the trouble in the world arises from men trying to anticipate their time and season, and the other half from their trying to prolong them.

Half the people in Lucky Harbor were in love with him. The other half were men and didn't count. -Tara on Ford

One half was like, I hope this doesn't affect it, and the other half was like, it's great that people know I did a Beyoncé record.

Islam cannot accept or agree to a situation which is half-Islam and half-Jahiliyya [separated from God].

Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a lie.” “No. It’s just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.

If we don't take the necessary measures, famine will be the scandal of this century.

When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation

I never look at the glass as half empty or half full. I look to see who is pouring the water and deal with them.

Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.