Top 1200 Half Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

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

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.

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

If you believe in the Lord, He will do half the work - but the last half. He helps those who help themselves.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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?"

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

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

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

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.

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

Half the world knows not how the other half lies.

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.