Top 100 Half Life Sayings
#1. I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.
Douglas Coupland
#2. I watched as she, with a half-life-worth of anger and resolve, flickered into this dark night and tried with all her might to get back what was taken from her.
Mo Daviau
#4. What is the half-life of information? Does its rate of decay correlate with the medium that conveys it? Pixels need power. Paper is unstable in fire and flood. Letters carved in stone are more durable, although not so easily distributed, but inertia can be a good thing.
Ruth Ozeki
#5. Such is the nature of comic strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Typically, the end result is lazy, rich cartoonists.
Berkeley Breathed
#7. When Natasha thinks about love, this is what she thinks: nothing lasts forever. Like hydrogen-7 or lithium-5 or boron-7, love has an infinitesimally small half-life that decays to nothing. And when its gone, its like it was never there at all.
Nicola Yoon
#8. I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island.
Yann Martel
#9. I'd be lying if I wrote that I remember exactly what he said. I don't. Which is the sad half life of arguments - we usually remember our side better.
Leslie Jamison
#10. Or were they breed who had died from their half-life, caught in the sun, perhaps, or withered by longing?
Clive Barker
#12. I want to be alive again," she said. "Not in this half-life. I want to be really alive.
Neil Gaiman
#13. There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.
Jeanette Winterson
#14. Nothing in the universe had a shorter half-life than a politician's memory for inconvenient facts,
David Weber
#15. I felt bad when George Bush was booed. But only briefly. My sympathy for that man has a half-life of about four seconds.
Dick Cavett
#16. There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium.
David R. Brower
#17. I had to leave. She would have died for my sake. Wasn't it better for me to live a half life for her sake?
Jeanette Winterson
#18. Pain has its own half-life; words don't change that. There
Will McIntosh
#19. Does the half-life of information correlate with the decay of our attention? Is the Internet a kind of temporal gyre, sucking up stories, like geodrift, into its orbit? What is its gyre memory? How do we measure the half-life of its drift?
Ruth Ozeki
#20. Ketchup left overnight on dinner plates has a longer half-life than radioactive waste.
Wes Smith
#22. You go to more doctors. You celebrate Arlenny's Ph.D. defense. And then one June night you scribble the ex's name and: The half life of love is forever.
Junot Diaz
#23. Half-Life is the finest implementation of a game on rails anybody has ever done
Warren Spector
#24. Don't be obsessed with tactics but with purpose. Tactics have a half life.
Noam Chomsky
#25. Locking away appetite, anger, the fullness of life, anorexia helps cover up whatever struggles inside. With its controlling bouts of bingeing and starvation, of trance and half-life, it becomes a shield to fend off despair and longing and what most of use would see as ordinary responsible behavior.
Carol Lee
#26. Academic life is but half life it is a withdrawal from the fight to utter smart things that cost you nothing except the thinking them from a cloister.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#27. I feel like Sleeping Beauty, forever asleep, with the waking world continuing on without me fully aware. Only there is no prince to wake me from this slumber, this half-life.
Tiffany Clare
#28. This is a half-life, a split purgatory where her body and mind coexist but occupy separate realities.
Bill Clegg
#29. He, who had once been whole, was halved, without hope of ever being complete again. And when you've known that kind of love, to endure the creeping passage of time without it is to live a half-life where nothing ever feels real.
Karen Marie Moning
#30. He understood the half-life of hope: it is not despair that destroys us, but its opposite. Hope is the winding, despair the unwinding. Despair brings with it the possibility of an ending. Taken to the extreme, its logical conclusion is death. But hope sustains. It can be exploited. Ormsby
John Connolly
#31. Love was actually more like calculus or physics. What was the half-life of love? Did it have cosigns and slopes, or quarks that morphed from wave to particle faster than you could say, please don't leave?
Trebor Healey
#32. The time necessary for the disappearance of half the atoms, called the half-life, is a fundamental characteristic of each radio-element; according to the substance, the value of the half-life varies between a fraction of a second and millions of years.
Irene Joliot-Curie
#33. When we think about the workplace, people think about hard skills being dominant, but they're not. The employer realizes knowledge will shift quickly, and there's a half-life to knowledge in this world.
Gerald Chertavian
#34. If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect.
Salman Rushdie
#35. The first 'Half-Life' movie treatment pitched to us climaxed with a tearful reunion between enslaved Vortigaunts and their Vortiwives and children. The last one I saw had Black Mesa invaded by a cavalry unit, just so as to feature a scene of bullsquids tearing into armored horses.
Marc Laidlaw
#36. It shows how long-lived anger is, the desire for vengeance: it has a nuclear half-life, and it teaches people patience in the most sinister way.
Claire Messud
#37. If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that.
But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.
Tom Stoppard
#38. The half-life between story of the century and not even the story of the day is quicker than you would ever guess.
John Scalzi
#39. Shelley Jackson's 'Half Life' is the textual equivalent of an installation, a multivocal, polymorphous, dialogic, dystopian satire wrapped around a murder mystery wrapped around a bildungsroman.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#40. The half life of love is forever."
- Junot Diaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Robyn Collins
#41. He can't live once more through those fifteen years, those fifteen years whose half-life have been so long and so resonant, that have determined everything he had become and done.
Hanya Yanagihara
#42. I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.
Berkeley Breathed
#43. Instead of facing a crisis as I approached middle age, I discovered that a new and better life lay before me. I called the process of discovery 'halftime,' and the outcome led to my second half.
Bob Buford
#44. I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember.
Brett Favre
#45. Thus a man will sometimes suffer half an hour of mortal fear with a robber, but once the knife is finally at his throat, even fear vanishes.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#46. As the child once fantasized that its wishes governed the world, and the youth fantasized that heroism could manage to do it all, so the person in the second half of life is obliged to come to a more sober wisdom based on a humbled sense of personal limitations and the inscrutability of the world.
James Hollis
#47. Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have supported numerous wilderness designations. In fact, I cannot recall ever opposing a wilderness bill.
Nick Rahall
#48. Phonogram is the memory of a long period in my life through a surprisingly small filter. Those characters are basically the golem who accompanied me on that decade and a half.
Kieron Gillen
#49. Half the spiritual life consists of remembering what we are up against and where we are going.
Ayya Khema
#50. Life has two halves: one patient and one afire. Love is the fiery half. Make me, O Lord, food for the flames.
Khalil Gibran
#51. One of the eternal truths of life - People who ask "do you know who I am?" will always, given half a chance, tell you.
Christina Engela
#52. We still and always want waking. We should amass half dressed in long lines like tribesmen and shake gourds at each other, to wake up; instead we watch television and miss the show.
Annie Dillard
#53. Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!
Robert Browning
#54. A bird painted not with beauty but with all the dirt and wounds collected in a long hard life, in battle, in love, with torn feathers and a busted leg and a chipped beak and one of its eyes half closed; and yet a bird of deeper loveliness for all of that.
Jeff Noon
#55. There are so many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and proasic with the poison of life.
H.P. Lovecraft
#56. I had prepared myself for the second half of my life [to be] filled with other passions that don't include being in front of the camera. And then all of a sudden I got more work and more work and more work. And I went, "Well maybe things have shifted." And I think they have.
Sandra Bullock
#57. If you're going to do something, strive to do it better than anyone else. Do it all the way. If you're going to half-ass it, why bother?
Ashly Lorenzana
#58. He was a glass half full kind of person and she was ... what? The glass is going to break before you can even pour kind of person. Yikes.
Erin McCarthy
#59. What you seek in vain for, half your life, one day you come full upon, all the family at dinner. You seek it like a dream, and as soon as you find it, you become its prey
William Gaddis
#60. I moved out of my house at 17 and half, I rented an apartment ... I pulled all the things off. It was pretty amazing and I lived a pretty good life, I had a car and I was making good money.
Eric Hernandez
#61. I had been doing something for more than half of my life that I wanted to continue doing - I really loved making the film and I really love acting and it is what I want to do.
Emma Watson
#62. Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?
Edgar Degas
#63. Facing your fears and living a life that's free is easy. Spending the rest of your days living half a life is hard.
Eric Worre
#64. As a man grows older, his ability to sit still and follow indoor occupations increases. He grows vespertinal in his habits as theevening of life approaches, till at last he comes forth only just before sundown, and gets all the walk that he requires in half an hour.
Henry David Thoreau
#65. That's what life is, it's the small struggles. You walk down the street for half an hour, you see half an hour of drama. You don't need convoluted plot lines. You don't need long-lost brothers. You don't need it's set on the future; it's set on the moon.
Ricky Gervais
#66. When I got him out he was near froze solid and shivering. He was shaking so hard that I wasted half a glass of whiskey trying to aim it for his mouth. Must have got enough of it into him, though, since it did seem to bring him back to life.
Abraham Lincoln
#67. As I get older ... I start to realize that life ain't half bad. Each year, I'm amazed that I'm still alive. I don't take any of this for granted, I'm a lucky dude.
Dave Grohl
#68. Half of life is fucking up, the other half is dealing with it.
Henry Rollins
#69. Never trust someone who can't enjoy music [...] you can guarantee that they're only half alive.
Jane Godwin
#70. [My mum] was always like that: grateful for life itself. Her glass was not only half full, it was gold plated with a permanent refill.
Sarah Winman
#72. I was learning things in school rather than learning how to teach myself, which is what you have to do in life, so I just abandoned it and did ceramics for a year and a half.
Michael Moschen
#73. If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count.
Mariah Carey
#74. It is my private life which no one knows anything about, nor ever will. It needs more than half my time if it is to be a success.
Marlene Dietrich
#75. A cup of coffee, a cigarette, the penetrating aroma of its smoke, myself sitting in a shadowy room with eyes half-closed...I want no more from life than my dreams and this...It doesn't seem much? I don't know. What do I know about what is little and what is a lot?
Pessoa, Fernando
#76. Economy is half the battle of life; it is notso hard to earn money as to spend it well.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#77. I wanted to live in Lucy and Ricky's world, where the blunders of life were righted in one neat half hour. They made it look easy.
Emery Lord
#78. Once God and grace move us to the second half of life, religion becomes a mystical matter, rather than a moral matter.
Richard Rohr
#79. Half hating, half loving, this free time between writing books.
K.J. Mecklenfeld
#80. Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes.
John Irving
#81. What is ugly about life is that it so often only provides uneasy half solutions that are so seldom pure and tragic ones.
Harry Graf Kessler
#82. For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done.
Richard J. Needham
#83. For me, a great show is when there's a great rapport with the band and the audience, and we're all really into it. The first trick is to bring the audience into the band, break the ice, have a life, and be one, so you can enjoy the next hour and a half together.
Andy Summers
#84. They were all brave men when faced with death. If they had had half as much fortitude in the face of life, they would have been invincible.
Donald Jack
#85. My mom was an enthusiastic, positive, glass-is-half-full type of person and that is how I live my life and I owe that to her. She was an amazing woman.
Kliff Kingsbury
#86. Just because a child doesn't have both parents raising him or her, doesn't mean that child becomes half the person they were meant to be. One wonderful parent can love enough for two, and love will always be the biggest influence in a child's life.
Ron Baratono
#87. I never mind the accusations of domesticity, as long as people recognise that all of us, even the luckiest, will live lives in which we have our hearts broken, suffer the loss of loved ones, worry ourselves half to death about our kids.
Nick Hornby
#88. For a man, staying single in teenages is equivallent of smoking to two and a half packets of cigarettes.
Srinivas Shenoy
#89. Many leave the labours of half their life to their executors and to chance, because they will not send them abroad unfinished, and are unable to finish them, having prescribed to themselves such a degree of exactness as human diligence can scarcely ontain.
Samuel Johnson
#90. Recently, a six-year-old boy said to me, 'I've been waiting to meet you for half my life.'
Fay Wray
#91. After all the throwing up, I would starve myself. Which meant eating lettuce and water for two and a half months. I almost lost my life.
Richard Simmons
#92. When a man lives out his life under the sun and the stars, half the time riding alone over mountains and desert, then he usually has a religion although it may not be the usual variety.
Louis L'Amour
#93. I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.
David Schwimmer
#94. There are no intermediaries when it comes to matters of change. Anyone who is not for change is against it. Anyone who is against change is an enemy of nature!
Israelmore Ayivor
#95. I had to face the fact that I had been using my gay friends as props. They were always supposed to be funny and entertain me and praise me and listen to my problems, and their life was supposed to be a secret that no one wanted to hear about. I wanted them to stay in the half closet.
Tina Fey
#96. The mature and well-balanced man, standing firmly with both feet on the earth, who has never been lamed and broken an half-blinded by the scandal of life, is as such the existentially godless man.
Karl Barth
#97. My overwhelming concern will always be the well-being of the athletes. In Olympic sport, it is rare for competitors not to devote half their young life to this. Their families will have given up all sorts of things to allow them to do that.
Sebastian Coe
#98. I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful wife, brilliant students, the best job anyone could hope for, and about half of my hair. Not the half I would have kept, but no one consulted me.
Daniel Gilbert
#99. It seemed to me that half of life's problems would be solved if one of us had a vagina.
Richard Powers
#100. It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.
Jess C. Scott
