Quotes About Half

#1. 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

Socrates

#2. He possessed the power to depart, as much as a cat possesses the power to leave a mouse half killed, or a bird half eaten.

Emily Bronte

#3. ... the guy owns half the known universe. I hardly think he'd be all warm and fuzzy. More like dark and dangerous.

J. Kenner

#4. I wrote 'Marvels,' which was about a guy who had two daughters, and I wrote 'Astro City Volume 2 #1,' which was about a guy who had two daughters. In both cases, about a year and a half or two years apart. And then after that, I had two daughters, about a year and a half or two years apart.

Kurt Busiek

#5. We got stuffed 4-1, but it was just great to play against, it was like an education. You think you are half good and then you go and play against a side like that!

Alan Hansen

#6. When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.

Edmund Hillary

#7. If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.

Abraham Lincoln

#8. The girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not ended half a century later.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#9. If you're depressed and called Morgan spend the first half of the day in Germany for some positive affirmation.

Milton Jones

#10. We are all half fool, half wise , there is no wisdom without foolishness and no pride without shame .

Elif Shafak

#11. Half the ideas in this book are probably wrong.

Matt Ridley

#12. Books which are books are all that you want, and there are but half a dozen in any thousand.

Henry David Thoreau

#13. I knew I had to keep him to myself, as I'd slowly begun to keep everything. We had secrets now, truths and half-truths, that kept her always at arm's length, behind a closed door, miles away.

Sarah Dessen

#14. Don't make a fuss about a world war. At most, people die ... Half the population wiped out - this happened quite a few times in Chinese history ... It's best if half the population is left, next best one-third ...

Mao Zedong

#15. His head bowed and his lips fastened softly on my nipple. I groaned, feeling the half-painful prickle of the milk rushing through the tiny ducts. I put a hand behind his head, and pressed him slightly closer. "Harder," I whispered.

Diana Gabaldon

#16. Perhaps that's a smile on Delia's face-but Delia's half skull turns every expression into a leer. She says, Your uncle had a talent, kid. He made families wherever he went.

Daryl Gregory

#17. We'll give you half now, you give us the gold, and then we give you the other half."
"There are three babies. How do you give me half?"
He shrugged. "Chop a baby in two."
"You know, even for a goblin, that's disturbed.

Derek Landy

#18. I remember when I fell from my first bike:
There were no 'Are you okays?' and rarely 'Are you alrights?'
Just dirt in my pockets, handful of gravel ...
That's when I realized that getting up is only half the battle.

Big K.R.I.T.

#19. The truths that matter most to us come always half spoken.

Baltasar Gracian

#20. I have wrought my simple plan
If I give one hour of joy
To the boy who's half a man,
Or the man who's half a boy.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#21. I don't know why, but I'm continually amazed to think that two and a half billion of us around the world are connected to each other through the Internet and that at any point in time more than 30 percent of the world's population can go online to learn, to create and to share.

Gary Kovacs

#22. How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is exploded, we shall be called fools for having imagined it could be brought to use: if it should be turned to account, we shall be ridiculed for having doubted.

Horace Walpole

#23. A gumble bee is half gum ball, half bumble bee, and it's so chewy it stings. Makes me want to be a better lover and tractor salesman.

Jarod Kintz

#24. Henceforth an individual solace dear;
Part of my Soul I seek thee, and thee claim
My other half: with that thy gentle hand
Seisd mine, I yielded, and from that time see
How beauty is excelld by manly grace.

John Milton

#25. In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.

Peter Agre

#26. Do you think I know what I'm doing? That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself? As much as a pen knows what it's writing, or the ball can guess where it's going next.

Rumi

#27. Renee's self-possession, her ability to possess other selves, is a measure of the weakness of her husband, his inability to stop his own self from splitting in half.

Greil Marcus

#28. A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree - or even, occasionally, the careless - may turn out to be half a life.

Anna Quindlen

#29. As England manager I always felt we needed an extra man in midfield to retain the ball, but that was more as an attacking ploy to help create opportunities. It came from my experience playing international football in a 4-4-2 and spending half my time chasing the ball.

Glenn Hoddle

#30. In the middle of the woods Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. Two old chairs and half a candle, One old jug without a handle- These were all the worldly goods.

Edward Lear

#31. I sidestepped the vampire's rush, and drove my half of the former blasting rod down at its back, Buffy-like.
Maybe it works better on television.

Jim Butcher

#32. We are about half a century away from being ecologically and economically bankrupt because of global warming

Andrew Simms

#33. People do not want what we have in our pockets half as much as they want what is in our hearts. If we combine both, intelligently, however, according to our means, we give wisely and well.

George Matthew Adams

#34. It had been one of the most terrifying experiences of my life, and I'd swallowed half the pond in the process, but I'd gotten the gist of it, managed to conquer my blind panic and terror and trust myself.

Sarah J. Maas

#35. I'm half Asian, so people immediately go, "Oh, you do kung fu," like that's what we do. We wake up, we do kung fu, we brush our teeth. It's just assumed that you're not working your ass off to make this believable and make this something great, and we absolutely are.

Maggie Q

#36. Darkness descended on him, and when it lifted, he knew that he would never see Kainene again and that his world would always be like a candlelit room; he would see things only in shadow, only in half glimpses.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#37. Let us stop the continents from hurling epigrams at each other, and be sadder if not wiser by the mutual gain of half a hemisphere. We have developed along different lines, but there is no reason why one should not supplement the other. You

Kakuzo Okakura

#38. The first evening in an inn, though, I had remained awake for a good half-hour, fascinated by the remarkable variety of noises the male respiratory apparatus could produce. An entire dormitory full of student nurses couldn't come close.

Diana Gabaldon

#39. Probably they had good reason for omitting it. A profane mind might make a jest of an apostle half seas over, and ridicule an apostolic gate-keeper who couldn't keep his head above water.

Charles Bradlaugh

#40. I went to NYU for a year and a half, and I graduated from there and then years later went to Columbia for graduate school.

Nicole Holofcener

#41. At St. Bernardine's the nuns never liked me. Especially Sister Mary Bitch-and-a-Half. I think that was her biblical name.

Kathy Griffin

#42. Humanizing birth means understanding that the woman giving birth is a human being, not a machine and not just a container for making babies. Showing women-half of all people-that they are inferior and inadequate by taking away their power to give birth is a tragedy for all society.

Marsden Wagner

#43. It was a very Corsican wine and you could dilute it by half with water and still receive its message.

Ernest Hemingway,

#44. Seven and a half million hearts were beating in close proximity in this heaving old city, and many, after all, would be aching far worse than his.

Robert Galbraith

#45. We're all not as strong as we pretend, we only bend to be broken in half, don't try to laugh, your playing with a child's heart.

Shannon Nicole

#46. Half the world is screaming for water and freedom when the other half is ordering cocktails and complaining about the service.

Edward Docx

#47. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope ... I have loved none but you.

Jane Austen

#48. Jacob had seen too many horses whipped half to death to find anything romantic about horse-drawn carriages,

Cornelia Funke

#49. There's not a shirt and a half in all my company, and the half
shirt is two napkins tacked together and thrown over the
shoulders like a herald's coat without sleeves.

William Shakespeare

#50. 'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.

Florence Welch

#51. The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.

Lester R. Brown

#52. I read once that you get deja vu when the two halves of your brain process things at different speeds: the right half a few seconds before the left, or vice versa ... that would explain the weird double feeling that it leaves you with, like the world is splitting in half
or you are.

Lauren Oliver

#53. Music was a chain forged half of silences and half of sound, love was nothing without longing and loss, and were time not to have at its end the absence of time, and the absence of time not to have been preceded by time, neither would be of any consequence.

Mark Helprin

#54. I looked at you for two and a half years
I didn't see you.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#55. I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years.

David Ogden Stiers

#56. When you work on getting better at something, don't do it half speed

Ray Allen

#57. I was raising a child full time, sharing the responsibility with his mom. He lived with me half the time, so I chose not to go away and make certain movies.

Michael Keaton

#58. To venture into space we must be strong-willed and determined. We must be fully committed to its exploration and discovery; space permits no half measures and is unforgiving of mistakes.

Henry Joy McCracken

#59. For me, the backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music.

Amy Grant

#60. And Arya, well ... Ned's visitors would oft mistake her for a stableboy if they rode into the yard unannounced. Arya was a trial, it must be
said. Half a boy and half a wolf pup.

George R R Martin

#61. He is half my soul, as the poets say.

Madeline Miller

#62. I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.

Ian Botham

#63. In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing.

Bjorn Lomborg

#64. I shall take two huge handfuls of his rustling hair as he lies half dreaming, half waking, and wind them into ropes, very softly, so he will not wake up, and, softly, with hands as gentle as rain, I shall strangle him with them.

Angela Carter

#65. And in the most inegalitarian countries, such as the United States in the early 2010s (where, as will emerge later, income from labor is about as unequally distributed as has ever been observed anywhere), the top decile gets 35 percent of the total, whereas the bottom half gets only 25 percent.

Thomas Piketty

#66. I find it inconceivable that we're meeting for five and a half days, and there isn't one moment on the agenda to deal with the greatest crisis we've ever had in the church since 1789.

Roger Mahony

#67. The sad thing is, people don't want to believe that the person they're in love with is out of his mind, drinking and using, so if you give them even half an excuse, they're going to want to believe it.

Anthony Kiedis

#68. A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious.

Eminem

#69. I am pessimistic about a picture's power to be the emissary of just one thing. What I hope is that the picture says, "Here I am, this is what I am like," and the person seeing the picture says in return, 'You know a lot but you don't know half of what I know.'

Emmet Gowin

#70. She wanted
needed
a McCall induced orgasm.
And if he kept kissing her like she was the sexiest thing in the world, she might have one in the next half a minute.

Robin Bielman

#71. I am a big foodie, so much so that I eat in every half an hour. This is the secret of my glowing skin.

Deepika Padukone

#72. But who can find the truth in Canaan? Janis doesn't tell it, the Learning Room doesn't teach it. My father has twisted it, Mother half forgotten it, and the Forgetting is the thief that steals it.

Sharon Cameron

#73. I travel 330 days a year and eat every two and a half hours - I'm a big guy. I always carry a fork, little bottles of spices, and Sriracha. I eat what I feel like eating.

Robert Irvine

#74. The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.

Christopher Hitchens

#75. Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies.

Irving Berlin

#76. When the highest type of men hear Tao,
They diligently practice it.
When the average type of men hear Tao,
They half believe in it.
When the lowest type of men hear Tao,
They laugh heartily at it.
Without the laugh, there is no Tao

Lao-Tzu

#77. Avoid employing unlucky people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them.

Ricky Gervais

#78. The voting station was like a block and a half from my house, so me and my parents just walked on over and cast our ballots, and it was really cool. I love the civic pride of being a part of this national activity.

Bridgit Mendler

#79. One minute you're up half a million in soybeans and the next, boom, your kids don't go to college and they've repossessed your Bentley.

Dan Aykroyd

#80. Are you well? You look a trifle peaked.'
'If I do, it is because black doesn't become me. I mean to lighten my mourning, and have ordered a charming gray gown.'
'You are mistaken.'
'What, in going into half-mourning?'
'No, in thinking black does not become you.

Georgette Heyer

#81. Half of the energy is used by one seventh of the world's population.

Hans Rosling

#82. I spent 24 and a half years in prison

Ahmed Ben Bella

#83. My favorite part of podcasting is running my mouth for an hour. The only time I don't like it is when I'm off. Then that hour feels like a day and a half.

Bill Burr

#84. There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.

Alexander McCall Smith

#85. I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.

Elie Wiesel

#86. I do love America. And LA is a very short commute to America its like half an hour on the plane.

Craig Ferguson

#87. And because it was a drunken perception, it was perfect, entire, and lasted about half a second.

Michael Chabon

#88. [ ... ] I daily wished more to please him; but to do so, I felt daily more and more that I must disown half my nature, stifle half my faculties, wrest my tastes from their original bent, force myself to the adoption of pursuits for which I had no natural vocation.

Charlotte Bronte

#89. I don't know what I'm doing here, either. I suspect that the moment I have it figured out, I'll probably die half a second later.

Chuck Wendig

#90. My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

Adrien Brody

#91. about you?" Thomas nodded, "I have three names, Mr. McGuire, Thomas Charles Hooper." James smiled back, "That's fine. How old might you be, Thomas?" "I'm seven." "Seven, boy? You're older than we thought," Captain McGuire smiled through the half-truth. "And, where are you from?" Thomas

C. T. Marshall

#92. But I hate socks.' I do, especially sleeping in them. They always come half-off in the middle of the night, and why? What kind of inferior clothing item falls off of you when you're lying still?

Francesca Serritella

#93. Women are one-half of the world's people; they do two-thirds of the world's work; they earn one-tenth of the world's income; they own one one-hundredth of the world's property.

Peggy Orenstein

#94. It's dangerous to cherry-pick a few stand-alone verses, particularly when they are used as a weapon to silence and intimidate, effectively benching half the church5 in the midst of holy harvest season when the harvest is plentiful and the workers are few.

Sarah Bessey

#95. I'm living with K-Fed's retarded half brotha/sista.

Megan McCafferty

#96. I have a lot of ideas that I feel are half-formed, or half-way okay.

Joel Edgerton

#97. The Ethics of Aristotle is one half of a single treatise of which his Politics is the other half. Both deal with one and the same subject. This subject is what Aristotle calls in one place the "philosophy of human affairs;" but more frequently Political or Social Science.

Aristotle.

#98. The image sears my brain too, and I wonder if I will ever be able to forget it. Although I realize that I am in trouble here, there is still a part of me that wants to giggle. The situation has moved so out of control, I half-expect him to pull out a pair of furry handcuffs.

Julie Buxbaum

#99. The gaja might despise the Romany, but no Rom ever forgot his dead. For him, roaming over the earth were not only the half million Gypsies who drew breath but also the countless Gypsies who had gone before, restless spirits still wandering through cities and deserts, still real.

Martin Cruz Smith

#100. Big words from a guy who's trussed up like a turkey. What are you going to do, wobble over here like an upside- down turtle to snap me in half?"
"The logistics of breaking you are easy. The only question is when.

Susan Ee