Top 100 Quotes About Halves
#1. Look at us. A line of symmetry. Two halves of a whole. Two peas in a pod. A pair of queens. Though your card, I must observe, has aged better than mine, which has been played too often.
Erika Robuck
#2. Life has two halves: one patient and one afire. Love is the fiery half. Make me, O Lord, food for the flames.
Khalil Gibran
#3. I saw her note the way I hovered over the various ethnicities on the form. First the 'white' box, then to the airspace over the 'black' box, a kind of momentary hesitation, a protest of stillness, a staring into the abyss of everything I did not know about myself. She, like me, was made of halves.
Olivia Sudjic
#4. The spouses of authors ought to really read their better halves books. What is found amidst those pages may enlighten them to knowing a side of their partner that can only be seen on the written page.
Sai Marie Johnson
#5. I once stayed in a roach-infested hotel in Istanbul for a work trip. I had to share my room with a male model, and pointedly all we talked about was our other halves.
Jasmine Guinness
#6. Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole.
Carl Jung
#7. Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on end waiting to fall.
Barbara Kingsolver
#8. Women are all so far Machiavellians that they are never either good or bad by halves; their passions are too strong, and their reason too weak, to do anything with moderation.
Lord Chesterfield
#9. Religion was the glue of Pakistan, holding the halves together; just as consciousness, the awareness of oneself as a homogenous entity in time, a blend of past and present, is the glue of personality, holding together our then and our now.
Salman Rushdie
#10. Bloody stars, if this was what it was going to be like having both halves of herself merged into one, she wasn't so certain she wanted to do it. Before evrething was morally black or white, and now if was becoming alarmingly gray.
Kady Cross
#11. What is it with you and girls, Adrian, dear? Why do they either mean nothing to you or everything? It's always an extreme."
"Because I don't do things in halves, mom. Especially when it comes to love.
Richelle Mead
#12. I'd be more open than a book too. My spine would crack, I'd fall out in halves.
Tamara Faith Berger
#13. They're called "better halves" for a reason, I guess. You can't have one half that's worse than you. It'd be a disaster.
Skyla Madi
#14. A woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves.
George Sand
#15. Two halves make one whole. It's not important if those two halves are exactly the same.
Harmony Raines
#16. Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.
Plato
#17. Don't get trapped into thinking people are halves instead of wholes.
David Levithan
#18. The time between two seconds was immeasurable, and though I knew our moment would come to an end, it would be a limitless one. We were two halves of one being who had at last found each other and come together in this union.
Nicole Williams
#19. The unsound convert takes Christ by halves. He is all for the salvation of Christ, but is not for sanctification. He is for the privileges, but does not appropriate the person of Christ.
Joseph Alleine
#20. Do nothing by halves which can be done by quarters.
F. R. Scott
#21. In order to fight off fear we must become it. When we become one with fear we become one with opposite of fear, peace. They are two halves to the same object.
Matthew Donnelly
#22. As if they were two halves of a mold. He
Celeste Ng
#23. And after I played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song.
Amy Tan
#24. Lord Akeldama never did anything by halves, especially if he might double it at three times the expense.
Gail Carriger
#25. I must conquer my loneliness alone. I must be happy with myself or I have nothing to offer you. Two halves have little choice but to join; and yes, they do make a whole. But two wholes when they coincide ... that is beauty. That is love ...
Peter McWilliams
#26. They lived for different futures, but they were each other's unrecognized halves, and what fascination between them did come to pass was lit up, beyond question, with grace.
Thomas Pynchon
#28. No question about it: potential is wrapped in great mystery. Like rainbows, which are really circles-we see only the upper halves, the horizon hides the rest-potential never reveals its entirety.
Max De Pree
#29. aryaputra, a 'gentleman', and the aryaputri, a 'lady', a prototypical human partnership of two strong individuals, who didn't compete for exact equality but were complementary, completing each other. Two souls that were dependent on each other, giving each other purpose; two halves of a whole.
Amish Tripathi
#30. We were two halves to a whole. Water, the mother of creation. Land, the father who supported it. We were forever joined, our souls tethered. In this moment, the truth came to life: Whether the gate closed or not, I would never be whole without this man by my side.
Denise Grover Swank
#31. The first idea, the first art piece I ever did, was when I was four. I cut the seed of a pear in half and the seed of an apple in half in put those two halves together and planted the seed, hoping a very strange tree might grow. And I never stopped.
Yoko Ono
#32. Imaan is of two halves; half is patience (Sabr) and half is being thankful (Shukr).
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
#34. Men are not good in truth when they are good by halves.
Thomas Watson
#35. I used to think how dangerous the world would have been if these ants were the size of dogs. They would have cut the humans in two halves just by a single strike of their flippers.
Abhishek Leela Pandey
#36. Matilda said, Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable ...
Roald Dahl
#38. Vicksburg is the nail head that holds the South's two halves together.
Jefferson Davis
#39. But together they moved through the world quite easily, two small halves of courage making a brave whole.
Ann Patchett
#40. Because I don't think God trusts just anybody with so much heartache. The world has not yet seen what God can do with a man who gives both halves of a broken heart to him. And I don't doubt that a man like that can change the world ... or at least a little part of it.
Chris Fabry
#41. Don't imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
Matsuo Basho
#42. If I'm to be damned for what I've done, I'll be damned in full and not by halves.
Jacqueline Carey
#43. Zabi and I know each other like the wind knows the sky, each one separate, yet always together, two halves of a whole.
Mary Funk
#44. Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous ...
Roald Dahl
#45. I didn't appear to need anyone: I could do it all myself. I could do everything. I was both halves: did that mean I was whole?
Rachel Cusk
#46. For a modern woman it is important to be supported and that there is equality in every aspect, and that it's not two halves that make a whole - it's two wholes that make a whole.
Katy Perry
#47. This communicating of a Man's Selfe to his Frend works two contrarie effects; for it re-doubleth Joys, and cutteth Griefs in halves.
Francis Bacon
#48. We open the halves of a miracle, and a clotting of acids brims into the starry divisions: creation's original juices, irreducible, changeless, alive: so the freshness lives on
Pablo Neruda
#49. It is never worth while to do anything by halves.
Jules Verne
#50. For the second time today, I left her, both of us broken, only halves of one soul that yearned to fit together.
Ashlan Thomas
#51. Women are the twin halves of men.
Muhammad
#53. They were two halves that together formed a magical whole.
Dick Button
#54. Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
Honore De Balzac
#55. I always have a rule that acting is acting and truth is truth and you just go out there and you do it. But what happens in each medium is that you have other responsibilities. The acting remains the same, but each medium dictates assuming other halves to make the acting work.
James Woods
#56. Whenever she imagined her child, grown up without interference from a judgemental world, she imagined its male and female halves as complementing each other, and as being secretly, almost magically powerful.
Kathleen Winter
#57. I hope that here in America more and more the ideal of the well-trained and vigorous body will be maintained neck by neck with that of the well-trained and vigorous mind as the two coequal halves of the higher education for men and women alike.
William James
#58. She thought of a new way to kill my love for the beautiful Munchkin maiden, and made my axe slip again, so that it cut right through my body, splitting me into two halves.
L. Frank Baum
#59. Patch was in my life for a reason. I needed him. We were two halves of the same whole.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#61. Both halves of this delicate bivalve are exactly matched. Each side, like the wing of a butterfly, is marked with the
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#62. We're two halves of a whole. We make a lot more sense when we're together.
Maisey Yates
#63. Move the kundalini from the solar plexus region into the heart center, which purifies it and connects the two halves of you being. Bring the kundalini down again from the heart center to the navel center.
Frederick Lenz
#64. Why would men want to do without women? We adore women."
"Because they serve you," she grumbled.
"No.Because they complement us. And I mean complement with an e,not an i. Women are our other halves. Men need women.
Susan Mallery
#65. I don't like doing things by halves, and I realised you can't do stand-up comedy part-time.
Deirdre O'Kane
#66. Things that you do, do with your might; things done by halves are never done right." While
Mary-Ann Kirkby
#67. Because this is what shall be, the light and the dark together, two halves making a whole.
J.R. Ward
#68. She investigated further: moving along with little kisses down his throat and over his collarbone until she came to the same location on his neck that on hers was currently a decorative black and blue color. She bit him. Hard. Alexia never did anything by halves.
Gail Carriger
#70. You are the two halves of a whole. You must be different, like light and shadow- he brings you caution to temper your recklessness, and you bring him recklessness to temper his caution. Without each other you would not function as well as you do. That is what parabatai means.
Cassandra Clare
#71. ... marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.
Louisa May Alcott
#72. Two halves don't make a whole. Two wholes make a whole. In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn't doing better by doing that. I became less of a man.
Jason Mraz
#73. Two halves of the same mind, working at full speed, in perfect coordination.
Judith Merkle Riley
#74. Me, I couldn't give two halves of a quarter fuck when I was alive. I tried, I swear. It just wasn't going to happen. In fact, the only thing I truly cared about was ensuring that I could comfortably not care without repercussion, and I was damn good at it.
C.L. Allen
#75. He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.
Henry David Thoreau
#76. If you want a full man, you need to be the full version of yourself. Never expect anyone to complete you. Don't be two halves to make a whole, be two wholes and make something more.
Katy Evans
#77. He kissed me until there was no part of me that didn't know who it belonged to. He kissed me until my heart again fused with his - two halves of one whole.
Tillie Cole
#78. My grandma used to say that people born on the same day are two halves of the same soul
Leylah Attar
#79. I determined to make my peace with Islam, even at the cost of my pride. Those who were surprised and displeased by what I did perhaps failed to see that ... I wanted to make peace between the warring halves of the world, which were also the warring halves of my soul.
Salman Rushdie
#80. Often when I walked alone in the mountains, I tried to make sense out of the two halves of my life. What went on in the city during the week seemed chaotic and unrelated to the events in my mountain world.
Galen Rowell
#81. It is very much easier to divide your outlook on the world into two halves, to say that you know this belongs to the daily half and this belongs to the Sunday half.
Jacob Bronowski
#82. It's all because of doing things by halves and saying things by halves, being good by halves, that the world is in the mess it's in today.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#83. I turn and look at them, at both halves of my heart, cuddled tightly together in a bed of irony.
Colleen Hoover
#84. Two halves of the same whole.They cannot live together, yet
cannot die apart.
Jessica Verday
#85. Richie and Eddie couldn't exist without each other. They're two halves of the same person.
Adrian Edmondson
#86. If the Holy Bible was printed as an Ace Double it would be cut down to two 20,000-word halves with the Old Testament retitled as 'Master of Chaos' and the New Testament as 'The Thing With Three Souls.
Terry Carr
#87. He'd never been to military pilot school, but he knew that years of training had compartmentalized Alex's brain into two halves: piloting problems and, secondarily, everything else.
James S.A. Corey
#88. Magic gave so much to Man, and Man so much to Magic, that their edges blurred, and their threads all tangled, and now they can't be pulled apart. They're bound together, you see, life to life. Halves of a whole. If anyone tried to part them, they'd both unravel.
V.E Schwab
#89. Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one and go halves with t'other.
William Congreve
#90. Saying of the Prophet
Women
Women are the twin-halves of men.
Idries Shah
#91. It was like we were two halves of an oyster shell, and when you put us together, it hid the gray gunk inside.
Alex Flinn
#92. We all have other halves, and when they're feeling bad, we get a little piece of the pain
Paulo Coelho
#93. You have the face of a man who gently caresses field flowers and dandelions. And a smile that is like a dagger, cutting the sun in halves.
Malak El Halabi
#94. When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.
Carl Jung
#95. The 'creator' and the 'editor' - two halves of the writer whole - should sleep in separate rooms.
Judith Guest
#96. Linda and I aren't one and one. We are two halves that make a whole
two halves fitted together are more efficient than either half would ever be alone!
Bruce Lee
#97. There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature. JANE AUSTEN
Melanie Shankle
#98. Enough that in the present case, as in millions, it was not the two halves of a perfect whole that confronted each other at the perfect moment; a missing counterpart wandered independently about the earth waiting in crass obtuseness till the late time came.
Thomas Hardy
#99. At times like this, Eryn didn't feel like they were just twins. They were teammates. They were partners. They were two halves of the same brain.
Margaret Peterson Haddix
#100. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. My attachments are always excessively strong.
Jane Austen
