Top 1200 Half Way Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

I'm half-Russian, half-Polish and all Jewish.

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.

Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.

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

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.

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.

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

A road well begun is the battle half won. The important thing is to make a beginning and get under way.

Some think of Islam as an expedient jobs program that moves the female half of the population out of the way.

It's amazing the way one can take a step ten and a half miles long and still always land in a cowpat.

He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.

Anybody that was famous found their way to the Playboy Mansion. It was exciting for me. But I didn't know half of them!

Worry is half impatience and half ignorance.

Let's contemplate this, how many people would die if war breaks out. There are 2.7 billion people in the world. One-third could be lost; or, a little more, it could be half... I say that, taking the extreme situation, half dies, half lives, but imperialism would be razed to the ground and the whole world would become socialist.

Probably more than half my life, I've thought from a trap mindset, a hood mind frame in the way I was moving.

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.

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

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

The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.

Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage, turning it all one way, the way home. Telegraph poles ahead looked like half-used pencils; the small cross on the steeple glittered with a sharp and shapely permanence.

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.

My dad is Japanese; he was an art director there. My mom is half-English, half-Argentinian. They met in Japan in the '70s. Her parents were diplomats posted there.

It occurred to me that a lot of beauty has to do with believing it yourself. That half of what we see is just the way it is presented.

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.

Fuss is half-sister to hurry, and neither of them can do anything without getting in their own way.

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.

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.

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.

Our first single, 'Ticket To Ride', was a kind of half-hit, half flop: in some places it was number one, in others it was ash-tray material.

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.

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.

I am half Bengali and half Marathi.

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.'

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.

When Medicare was created for senior citizens and America s disabled in 1965, about half of a seniors health care spending was on doctors and the other half on hospitals.

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

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

The best way to economize time is to 'lose' half an hour each day attending Holy Mass.

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

If bearing a reputation as a weirdo is all it takes to be a genius, I'm a shoo-in. Come to think of it, half the people I know are geniuses - the other half, peculiarly enough, idiots.

I once bought an ill-advised half cashmere, half camel hair jumper for £800, then ruined it by spilling a pint of Guinness all over it.

We need to quit arguing about whether the glass is half full or half empty - and instead acknowledge that there's not quite enough water to go around.

To my way of thinking, whether it's a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you've got to care about the characters. You've got to understand the characters and you've got to be interested. If the characters are interesting, you're half-way home.

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.

Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.

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.

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

I commuted an hour and a half each way to high school in N.Y.C. I took a bus, a ferry, then a subway.

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.

When need something really aggressive, outrageous and not done half-way, I feel like I'm your girl.

I'm the definition of half man, half drugs.

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.

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

If I could have my way I would place the Deity on half-pay as the Government of this Country did the subaltern officers.

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?

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

My life, in some ways, has been a half-measure. I didn't commit myself all the way to my marriage and family, because I would have given up more. And I didn't go all the way with just being completely selfish. I always wonder where my career would be if I was more selfish.

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.

I had to fight like hell to convince people I was beautiful in my own Polish half-breed way.