Top 100 Quotes About A Better Half
#1. If there is "better", then there is a "best". If there is "half", then there is a "complete". Far more than being a "better half", you can be a "best complete"; like a word/phrase that beautifies and gives meaning to a sentence when it is added.
Olaotan Fawehinmi
#2. Half the world cries Half the world laughs Half the world tries To be the other half
Neil Peart
#3. This is as 'alone' as I'm likely to get with you - you're not half so fetching as your daughter.
Janet Morris
#4. One damn sure thing! - he wasn't going to let them be rough with that Smith lad. He was a nuisance, granted, but he was a nice lad and rather appealing in a helpless, half-witted way.
Robert A. Heinlein
#5. Modern families are complicated things. Siblings, half siblings, stepparents, stepcousins, what have you. You can't pick who you're born to, that's for sure.
Cherie Priest
#6. What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#7. The baby's body lay in a bassinet. He was the size of a half loaf of bread, his bones light as a bird's and stretched with thin skin.
Jodi Picoult
#8. Of course it would be hard. But I remembered what my nurseryman grandfather used to say when I didn't want to go to school: half the work in the world was done by people who didn't feel so good today.
Rollo Romig
#9. The history of colonisation is replete with tales of happy, hippy natives dancing around half-naked, taking fantastic drugs and having as much sex as they could wave a stick at.
Victor L. Machin
#10. Look, I never wanted to be a half-blood. most of the time it gets you killed in nasty, dangerous ways.
Rick Riordan
#11. That is the case with us all, papa. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. Later
Jane Austen
#12. Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning.
Mark Batterson
#13. In spite of his capacity for concealing his emotions, I could easily see that Holmes was in a state of suppressed excitement, while I was myself tingling with that half-sporting, half-intellectual pleasure which I invariably experienced when I associated myself with him in his investigations.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#14. The mouthpiece of the half-inarticulate, all-suggesting music that is at once the very soul and the inseparable garment of romance.
Walther Von Der Vogelweide
#15. Something out of childhood whistles through this space, a sense of games and half-made selves, but it's not that you're pretending to be someone else. You're pretending to be exactly who you are. That's the curious thing.
Don DeLillo
#16. Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place that is affected is parties and conventions.
Michael Beschloss
#17. 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
#19. Everything I do, I'm sort of half in, half out.
Harrison Ford
#20. I'm a theater guy at heart; I love the theater. I was lucky enough to spend a good decade and a half in the New York theater community.
Thomas Sadoski
#21. I thought I was only seeing half the man But that was all there was to you You
Carrie Fisher
#22. 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
#23. Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs.
Julie Burchill
#24. You know how they say revenge is best served up cold? I'd say it's best not served up at all. Revenge is a great motivator, but it doesn't help achieve the desired results. I've seen guys lose buddies, then go off half-cocked, piss fuel running through their veins. Things never turned out well.
Ellen Hopkins
#25. People say Altamont was the 'end of the '60s.' It was unfortunate, but at the time we didn't think of it as signaling anything. The fact that nobody got killed at Woodstock is amazing because that was half a million people. We only had 300,000 at Altamont.
Grace Slick
#26. After a day and a half or so the traveler will realize that crossing the continent by Interstate he gets to know the country about as well as a cable messenger knows the sea bottom.
Wallace Stegner
#27. I'm not dating anyone. I don't even know where I am half of the time.
Ashton Irwin
#28. Every once in a while you definitely have to film someone for half an hour saying something that you do not think is funny because for the previous two hours they said a bunch of stuff that you think is really funny.
Seth Rogen
#29. He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
Horace
#30. Half of this story is true and the other half might very well have happened.
William Pene Du Bois
#31. Sister Maria Martinez whom I believe I've mentioned before has been giving me cooking classes. Today I learned how to bake mean banana bread. The secret apparently is half a cup of dark rum.
Adele Griffin
#32. It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
George Dennison Prentice
#33. And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell.
Edward FitzGerald
#34. I don't want to be your other half. I believe that one and one make two.
Alanis Morissette
#35. Recollection, I have found, is usually about half invention ...
Wallace Stegner
#36. My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese.
Tom Shadyac
#37. If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.
Warren Buffett
#38. The truly incredible thing is were realizing that you can perform a two-and-a-half-hour gig without being high and still have a fantastic time.
Stevie Nicks
#39. Two years ago, if anyone had told me I'd be doing half the stuff I'm doing, I wouldn't have believed it.
Zayn Malik
#40. As spokesman for Lipitor, I have been an advocate of preventive medicine in addition to my work with the Jarvik 2000 Heart, which has rescued people from death and sustained a patient with a normal, mobile lifestyle for seven and a half years - the longest in the world.
Robert Jarvik
#41. This was our language: half-truths, obvious lies, accusations neither one of us would ever make. It was a system eery bit as complicated as Morse code or the dancing of bees. Don't ask, don't tell, stay civil.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#42. When all the time it was that grand tree, taking up half the garden with its roots and not allowing anything else to grow.
Zadie Smith
#43. In the half-reclined bed, Yaz slept, mouth open, snoring - probably doped. Mike turned on the TV. For twenty minutes, he watched retired generals on CNN discussing Afghanistan and troop surges as though they knew what the hell war was all about.
Pete Barber
#44. 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
#45. It would be about as easy for an American to become a Chinaman or a Hindoo as for him to acquire an Englishness or a Frenchness or a European-ness that is more than half skin deep.
Ezra Pound
#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. A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment.
Michael Chabon
#48. From its outside wall half a luggage trolley protruded: platform 93/4 was where the Hogwarts Express docked. River
Mick Herron
#49. Nothing is whole, not for too damned long. The world is half night.
Peter Straub
#50. While one-half of the people of the United States are robbed of their inherent right of personal representation in this freestcountry on the face of the globe, it is idle for us to expect that the men who thus rob women will not rob each other as individuals, corporations and Government.
Susan B. Anthony
#51. clothes looked good at all. So, after trying on half her closet, she settled for a pencil
Noelle Adams
#52. You should've just gotten a kids' meal." Adrian told me, pointing to my half-eaten burger and fries. "You could've saved me a lot of money. And gotten a toy.
Richelle Mead
#53. That's the worst of growing up,
and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so
much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful
to you when you get them.
L.M. Montgomery
#54. We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don't spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I have met don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop
Peter Drucker
#55. When we rise in the morning ... at the table we drink coffee which is provided to us by a South American, or tea by a Chinese, or cocoa by a West African; before we leave for our jobs we are already beholden to more than half the world.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#56. You only have to look at London, where almost half of all primary school children speak English as a second language, to see the challenges we now face as a country. This isn't fair to anyone: how can people build relationships with their neighbours if they can't even speak the same language?
Theresa May
#57. Pius XII, more than half a century ago, said that the tragedy of our age was that it had lost its sense of sin, the awareness of sin. Today we add further to the tragedy by considering our illness, our sins, to be incurable, things that cannot be healed or forgiven. We
Pope Francis
#58. Your mortal's storming the slaver den." Aric's tone was half-amused, half-approving. "I'm hereby inviting myself on his incursion.
Kresley Cole
#59. Ali had a break that was an inch and a half long, and you keep getting hit as hard and as much as I hit Ali, the pain would take over and you would pass out.
Ken Norton
#60. He was about an inch shorter than me, about half the width of me, and certainly not as good looking. Not everyone can be me. Who
J.R. Rain
#61. 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
#62. By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in about five weeks; I do several drafts, very, very furiously rewriting. I literally do more or less nothing else and I stick with it and go through it and I begin to hate it.
Terry Pratchett
#63. 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
#64. Only a fool wants war, but once a war starts then it cannot be fought half-heartedly. It cannot even be fought with regret, but must be waged with a savage joy in defeating the enemy, and it is that savage joy that inspires our bards to write their greatest songs about love and war.
Bernard Cornwell
#65. In the modern world, it may be that a living father can only be half a father to a boy - the dead father is the other vital half: the half that grows the boy up once and for all.
Michael Leunig
#66. Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program.
Louise Slaughter
#67. Intelligent too, ooh you my sweetheart. I've always liked my women book and street smart. Long as they got a lil' class like half days and the confidence to overlook my past ways.
Drake
#68. And then split his own cranium in half. I would like to see you do that yourself Blore. It would take some practice.
Lombard Philip Lombard
#69. 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
#70. Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating ...
Evelyn Underhill
#71. I have brought you half of my pancakes," said Gollie.
"And I have removed one of my outrageous socks," said Bink. "It's a compromise bonanza!
Kate DiCamillo
#72. Well, if you look back, in almost two and a half years, the biggest change probably was in late 2000 when we decided to totally change the CA business model.
Sanjay Kumar
#73. Half the spiritual life consists of remembering what we are up against and where we are going.
Ayya Khema
#74. I'm a goner, a kid who stays up half the night trying to figure out the horror of the world and trying to survive it.
Deborah Wiles
#75. I love to not work. I love to go to the movies, I like to travel ... I think I work maybe half the year. Sometimes, people think I've done three films in a year, but it's because I did a participation in a film. But I work for half a year, no more.
Catherine Deneuve
#76. One Kerry man seduced and was taking her to the ball. She felt like Cinderella it had taken her 16 and half years to get him to take her out anywhere not a mind to the school ball.
Annette J. Dunlea
#77. For over half a century the automobile has brought death, injury, and the most inestimable sorrow and deprivation to millions of people.
Ralph Nader
#78. I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.
Arthur Godfrey
#80. Half the time I don't know what I'm trying to say.
Donald Miller
#81. I think the first word of caution is; It's not the kind of market where you need to jump in immediately on these downs. We've trained investors so much over the past decade and a half: Buy the dip, buy the dip.
Liz Miller
#82. More than one-half of the world's major rivers are being seriously depleted and polluted, degrading and poisoning the surrounding ecosystems, thus threatening the health and livelihood of people who depend upon them for irrigation, drinking and industrial water.
Ismail Serageldin
#83. Eve: "You already own half the universe"
Roarke: "Why settle for half when you can have all?
J.D. Robb
#85. Government aid programs have been endlessly expanded, and the government has sought to maximize the number of people willing to accept handouts ... Roughly half of all Americans are dependent on the government, either for handouts, pensions, or paychecks.
James Bovard
#86. Life has two halves: one patient and one afire. Love is the fiery half. Make me, O Lord, food for the flames.
Khalil Gibran
#87. We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.
Michelle Bachelet
#88. You've brushed your teeth," He says, staring at me.
"I used your toothbrush."
His lips quirk up in a half smile. "Oh Anastasia Steele, what am I going to do with you?
E.L. James
#89. Often you see people who move there and then, once they have arrived, the ball moves here after which they also come here, but then the ball goes there again. I say: just stay where you are, then you are in any case at the right place half of the time.
Johan Cruijff
#90. She could tell he was exhausted, maybe half as much as she was, but he was still willing to do anything for her. It made her sad, someone being this loyal to her.
Hugh Howey
#91. He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know which half.
Erwin Chargaff
#92. 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
#93. In the road ships must ride in 30, 40, or 50 fathom water, not above half a mile from the shore at farthest: and if there are many ships they must ride close one by another.
William Dampier
#96. I believe if we had half our companies and half our countries run by women, and half our homes run by men, things would be better. We know our companies would be more productive. If you use the full talents of the population, you're more productive. We know our homes would be happier.
Sheryl Sandberg
#97. He made a noise like a pig swallowing half a cabbage,
P.G. Wodehouse
#98. In the Western world there isn't much value given to the necessity for just being quiet. And just resting, and just being, without a focus or a goal. At least a certain amount in our lives - we don't need to do half and half; it's okay if we're doing a lot of doing, we just need some being mixed in.
Shakti Gawain
#99. It would change everything, gentlemen. It would shift the entire balance of power in Europe-maybe the world. Alexander conquered half of it. Think what he would have done with arrows dipped in monster snot!
Rick Yancey
#100. He can read and write, but he doesn't get what he's read. He's half-baked. The country is full of people like him, I'll tell you that. And we entrust our glourious parliamentary democracy
Aravind Adiga
