Top 100 Quotes About The Other Half
#1. If half of a country is rotten, the other half will soon start rotting as well!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#2. There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half. They will give up possessions, friends and honors, but it touches them to closely to disown themselves.
Meister Eckhart
#3. Women were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business of the world ...
Shulamith Firestone
#4. When Medicare was created for senior citizens and America 's disabled in 1965, about half of a senior's health care spending was on doctors and the other half on hospitals.
Dennis Hastert
#5. It is half about what you want to be and the other half is what destiny lets you to be.
Ali Gh.
#6. What would I have done if my coya had been captured or killed? My mate, Sharone. The other half of everything I am. What would I have done?
Lora Leigh
#7. It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it.
Winston Churchill
#8. Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.
Lionel Barrymore
#9. Everyone has a temptation; a weakness that they would yield to. Mine is you. Not only you, but your love. For your love is unique. For you are the other half of my soul. I feel you, even when you are not there. It's like a shadow. You are my shadow. Your love follows me every step I tread.
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#10. One half of me is yours, the other half is yours,
Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,
And so all yours.
William Shakespeare
#11. Of course none of those men was suitable. Half were
after your fortune, and as for the other half - well, you
would have reduced them to tears within a month."
"Such tenderness for your youngest child," Hyacinth
muttered. "It quite undoes me.
Julia Quinn
#12. Half of me wanted to punch his gorgeous face, and the other half wanted to make out with it.
J. Sterling
#13. My heart only beats because you allow it to. You own my heart and the other half of my soul.
Ashley Suzanne
#14. Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them
Walter Kerr
#15. 25 States allow anyone to buy a gun, strap it on, and walk down the street with no permit of any kind: some say it's crazy. However, four out of five US murders are committed in the other half of the country: so who's crazy?
Andrew Ford
#16. Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Robert Frost
#17. Half of the population is behind bars and the other half is guarding them,' Russians have said of their country since the times of Stalin.
Masha Gessen
#18. One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.
Maya Angelou
#19. Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
Gloria Steinem
#20. I ain't one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience that when a fellow has that half knowledge he finds it's the other half which would really come in handy.
George Horace Lorimer
#21. You are going to fail at a lot of things, so when you do, do it on such a grand scale that half the room gives you a standing ovation, and the other half gives you the middle finger.
Brittany Gibbons
#22. Half my family was from the Imperial Japanese Navy, and the other half was U.S. Army, and I was raised on Army posts during my childhood, so I pretty much began my life with a split-brain sort of thing.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
#23. I think you're always gonna have half the generation that's lazy. But I think it makes the other half work that much harder.
Corey Taylor
#24. One half of the world fears stagnation and the other half change.
Marty Rubin
#25. I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria - it always will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who is comfortable in the world. I look at it through Nigerian eyes.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#26. Are we not wasps who spend all day in a fruitless attempt to traverse a window-pane - while the other half of the window is wide open?
Wei Wu Wei
#27. Thus soul mates are those people who are part of your "family of souls". Our twin flame is quite simply the other half of our soul.
Debbie Nagioff
#28. My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like that. She is a completely intertwined partner. She is the other half of me. Also, we're still very much in love with each other. We always have been, we always will be.
Michael Caine
#29. He kept telling me I was queer, and I didn't like it. The word, I mean. Shutting you away, somehow; roping you off with a lot of people you don't feel much in common with, half of whom hate the other half anyway, and just keep together so that they can lean up against each other for support.
Mary Renault
#30. It's like I'm split in two and playing tag with myself. One half is chasing the other half around this big, fat post. The other me has the right words, but this me can't catch her.
Haruki Murakami
#31. Bright Side wasn't only my best friend; she was like my other half ... the other half of my brain, the other half of my conscience, the other half of my sense of humor, the other half of my creativity, the other half of my heart.
Kim Holden
#33. True admiration," said Mrs. Keith, "is one half respect and the other half self-denial.
Henry James
#34. I don't get involved with people because quite frankly most people aren't worth getting involved with. I don't need somebody to complete me, be the other half of me or any of that freaky shit.
L.P. Lovell
#35. You rich people are all the same. You couldn't care less about the other half of the world. They can all starve to death for all you care!
Sally Wentworth
#36. I looked closely at it for the first time; the charm was just a slim line of silver - half of it hammered into the shape of a feather, the other half a dagger. It was interesting and beautiful; just like him.
Michelle Hodkin
#37. People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half.
Jane Haddam
#38. What time do we start?" I resisted the urge to grin. "Show up at the New Living Hope Revival Church at ten tomorrow morning." His eyes flew open. "Ten? That early?" "Half the world's awake by ten, and the other half is sleeping in China.
Denise Grover Swank
#39. Half the weapons looked like they were more of a danger to the user than the victim and the other half looked like they were meant for decapitation. She was only fifteen. She couldn't have someone's death on her hands.
L. Taylor
#40. When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the noise they make. The other half is the terror at being forced to accept that they exist.
Noah Cicero
#41. I swear I've spent half my life hiding behind a couch and the other half wondering why no one was paying attention to me. On
Sarah Hepola
#42. love was simply the tenacity to make sure that the other half of your heart knew he, or she, was adored in every way.
Tillie Cole
#43. You think you want me now. But you'll change. Someday you'll find it damned easy to forget about me. I'm a bastard. A servant, and not even an upper servant at that
"
"You're the other half of me." (Again The Magic)
Lisa Kleypas
#44. Don't complain to others about your troubles. Half of them don't care and the other half are glad.
Emmitt Smith
#45. Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
Charles Baudelaire
#46. Half of the people in this room are more dressed up than on any other day in the year, and the other half are more dressed down.
Bill Murray
#47. No one with a thirst for knowledge goes to the university now. Half of the faculty has resigned, the other half gives courses in advanced ignorance
Douglas Adams
#48. I have to make half of my decision based on what I think my fans will appreciate, and the other half has to be for my personal reasons.
Joe Lando
#49. Half the people think I write Obama's speeches; the other half think I'm on 'Entourage.' So I'm at the level of fame where people kind of know who I am, but they confuse me with other people.
Jon Favreau
#53. The TV said you should ignore bullies and they would stop harassing you. In practice this worked about half the time. The other half, you ended up with two tall boys shadowing you through a trailer park, their fingers taking little nips at your clothes, like dogs.
Jennifer Echols
#54. And when they saw the somewhat extravagant tattoo I have on my back - a half of a SEAL Trident (Morgan has the other half) - they damn near fainted.
Marcus Luttrell
#55. Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.
Andy Rooney
#56. Half of the Ullers are half-mad, the saying went, and the other half are worse.
George R R Martin
#57. Religion made half of us afraid to die, and the other half afraid to live.
Jim Palmer
#58. At least half of my life's many mistakes can be safely put down to impetuosity: the other half derive from inertia.
Donald James
#59. I couldn't imagine that I'd ever fall in love again like I had with Gideon. For better or worse, he was my soulmate. The other half of me. In many ways, he was my reflection.
Sylvia Day
#61. To get a clearer idea of the other half, allow me to paint a picture for you. Imagine, if you will, nothing. Now imagine that it's endless. Now triple that. This is a perfect description of the United States between the Denver International Airport and approximately Wrigley Field.
Doug DeMuro
#62. Half of the things are as they seem. The other half, who knows. This has always been true.
Elizabeth Alexander
#63. The missing piece my breath my heart my memory me the other half the missing half
Kami Garcia
#64. Half the world wants to be like Thoreau worrying about the noise of traffic on the way up to Boston; the other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half.
Franz Kline
#65. She was only half Bird now, and the other half song. She liked it that way.
Katherine Catmull
#66. When you discover you've been leading only half a life, the other half is going to haunt you until you develop it.
Phillips Brooks
#68. I suppose that unrequited love is the hardest kind to shed because it is not really love at all. It is a half-love, and we are forever stomping around trying to get ahold of the other half.
Jan Ellison
#69. The proverb says that 'well begun is half done.' But the other half is harder and more necessary,-to get a thing well ended.
Henry Van Dyke
#70. A home is not a place. It's not a country or a town or a building or possession. Home is with the other half of your soul, the person who shares in your grief and helps you carry the burden of loss. Home is with the person who throughout it all never gives up on you and brings you eternal happiness.
Tillie Cole
#71. I might have to wait. I'll never give up. I guess it's half timing, and the other half's luck. Wherever you are, whenever it's right, you'll come out of nowhere and into my life.
Michael Buble
#72. I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. Half of them don't dare tell me the truth, and the other half can't find it.
George R R Martin
#74. It's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
Greta Garbo
#75. Occasionally, once a speaker is on his feet, it is difficult to get him to sit down ... If and when he returns to earth, he notices half of the room is paging the other half and a few are playing with the melted candles.
Erma Bombeck
#76. HALF of America pays NO taxes. Zero. So they're happy for tax rates to be raised on the other half that DOES pay any taxes.
Rick Warren
#77. Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
Edmond De Goncourt
#78. One half of me is a hopeless romantic. The other half is well ... just realistic.
Faraaz Kazi
#79. I'm alone even in a crowded room of people. I'm alone every time I laugh because you're not there with me. It's an empty dream when the other half of me is somewhere else.
S.D. Hendrickson
#80. After a pause, one half of the children cried in chorus, 'Yes, sir!' Upon which the other half, seeing in the gentleman's face that Yes was wrong, cried out in chorus, 'No, sir!' - as the custom is, in these examinations. 'Of
Charles Dickens
#81. Women ... I mean, they are the other half of the sky, and without them there is nothing. And without us there's nothing. There's only the two together creating children, creating society.
John Lennon
#82. If you are ready for the secret, you already possess one half of it,therefore, you will readily recognize the other half the moment it reaches your mind.
Napoleon Hill
#83. Half the trouble in the world arises from men trying to anticipate their time and season, and the other half from their trying to prolong them.
Arthur Bryant
#84. My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.
Francesco Clemente
#85. I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.
Soren Kierkegaard
#86. We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.
George Bernard Shaw
#88. From the second Edmund burst into the ceremony, she'd no longer wanted to be a duchess.
She just wanted Edmund.
Seeing his face had been like being flooded with magic. He was sunshine and sultry nights.
Laughter and sensuous kisses. The other half of her heart.
Erica Ridley
#89. If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?
Jodi Picoult
#90. I've discovered that half the people would love to go into space and there's no need to explain it to them. The other half can't understand and I couldn't explain it to them. If someone doesn't know why, I can't explain it.
Sally Ride
#91. I love 'Somebody to Love' by Queen and of course 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is one of my favorites, just because it makes everyone in the room go crazy. Everyone tries to sing along with it, and half the room gets it right and the other half gets it wrong.
Faith Hill
#92. I spend half my time in Montana, the other half in New York City. In unique ways, both places help me unwind, and both are the most satisfying places to live I can imagine.
Jeff Shaara
#93. One half of my head, from the top of my skull to the cleft of my jaw, hammers, bangs, sizzles while the other half, serene and content, looks on at the agony next door.
Rudyard Kipling
#94. I'm frozen in time, it's more than just you being a dyme
I see the other half of me when I look in your eyes
Gift Of Gab
#95. Strange. Half my years afraid of life. The other half, afraid of death. Always some kind of afraid.
Ray Bradbury
#96. A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
P.L. Travers
#97. For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life.
Hugh Hefner
#98. I had a dream about you. You suggested to split the profits, so I did. I threw one half in the furnace to power the steam engine, and the other half in the air to distract our pursuers.
Bauvard
#99. I know two L.A.s. Half my life was around the house my folks had for 46 years at 3rd and Norton. The other half was in Boyle Heights on the Eastside, working with gang members.
Greg Boyle
#100. Half of us is easy, the other half is hard. Even though we do our best, we end up being scarred.
Steve Winwood
