Halfheartedly Quotes

#1. To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

Pierre Corneille

#2. Working halfheartedly may reap you the same financial compensation as working with all your heart and soul, but it will slowly begin to rot your heart and mind and soul.

Matthew Kelly

#3. Reacher glanced back. The guy on the right was about to transition from unconscious to concussed. The guy on the left was squirming halfheartedly and pawing at everything between his ribcage and his knees.

Lee Child

#4. God did not create you halfheartedly;
God created you wholeheartedly.
What others see as defective,
God sees as a masterpiece.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#5. Better ignore it than halfheartedly listen!

Toba Beta

#6. Look," I said halfheartedly. "Another one of those tumbleweeds made out of old hair weaves."
"Tumbleweave," said J.Lo.

Adam Rex

#7. You're right." I played into his cynicism, but only halfheartedly. "We don't really believe that, do we?" "No, we don't," Bill admitted. "But tonight we do." I

Hope Jahren

#8. He smiled halfheartedly. Then he frowned. But isn't it more dangerous than that? In all the stories, they say that it's too hard ... they lose control ... people die.

Stephenie Meyer

#9. Sati was a custom religiously followed by a few, toed halfheartedly by rather more, sidestepped by many and ignored by most

Tim Mackintosh-Smith

#10. It's February, and the walls are halfheartedly hung with Valentine's Day decorations that are supposed to add a sense of festivity, but just seem sadistic, because in an all-boys' detention center, only a select few are finding romance this year.

Neal Shusterman

#11. No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly ... and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.

Murasaki Shikibu

#12. For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one is halfheartedly engaged in something else.

Henry Rollins

#13. You want to know a secret?" I asked. "Sure," she said halfheartedly. "I love to sniff the insides of books," I said in a whisper. "Because each book has its own special perfume.

Jack Gantos

#14. You always blush when you lie."
"I do not." I felt the flush spread down my neck.
"If you keep lying, I think I will have to leave," he threatened halfheartedly. "I don't feel like my virtue is safe."
"You're virtue?" I huffed. "Whatever."
"I know how you get." His eyes closed.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#15. Originality is the discovery of how to shed identity before the magic mirror of Antiquity's sovereign power.

Susan Howe

#16. I wouldn't have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is because it is thin.

Steven Spielberg

#17. It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity;

Robert Louis Stevenson

#18. You don't have the power to make rainbows or waterfalls, sunsets or roses, but you do have the power to bless people by your words and smiles You carry within you the power to make the world better.

Sharon G. Larsen

#19. My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a bit nerdy.

Jennifer Garner

#20. The romantic vision promises 'shadowless' relationships, but it is precisely by wrestling with the relationship's shadow, with disillusionment, that deep intimacy is sustained.

Terrence Real

#21. The masses cannot ultimately be free: only the individual can be.

Robert D. Kaplan

#22. It [In Memoriam] expressed exactly the nature of her own shock and sorrow, the very structure and slow process of pain, and the transformations and transmutations of grief, like rot in the earth-mould, like roots and other blind things moving in the grave.

A.S. Byatt

#23. The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.

Hans Selye

#24. - I believe in unlimited discovery and achievement.
- I believe that dreams can become reality.
- I believe in true love.
- I believe in kindness and intelligence.
- I trust life, regardless.

Elysse Poetis

#25. This year, we must address the Colorado Paradox. We have more college degrees per capita than any state. Yet we lag the nation in the percentage of students who go on to higher education.

Bill Owens

#26. Each week the machine is spitting out a number for a new person or a new world within New York that you get to know. And the idea from the beginning was that some of the characters would stick around and become part of the lives of the show, and the world of the show itself will continue to grow.

Jonathan Nolan