Top 100 Robert Half Quotes
#1. I have also noted, over the course of our friendship, that his hearing is curiously erratic. He can hear a lizard-bird scratching itself half a mile away, but occasionally seems unable to hear the politest of requests no matter how loudly I shout them at him.
Robert Asprin
#2. Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.
Robert Charles Winthrop
#3. Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.
Robert Crumb
#4. While only about half of the voters feel they know very much about Reagan or what he stands for, the Republicans who do have a very positive perception of him.
Robert Teeter
#5. Most personal correspondence of today consists of letters the first half of which are given over to an indexed statement of why the writer hasn't written before, followed by one paragraph of small talk, with the remainder devoted to reasons why it is imperative that the letter be brought to a close.
Robert Benchley
#6. The happiness even of the naturalist depends in some measure upon his ignorance, which still leaves him new worlds of this kind to conquer. He may have reached the very Z of knowledge in the books, but he still feels half ignorant until he has confirmed each bright particular with his eyes.
Robert Wilson Lynd
#7. I couldn't tell you, Robert, what the higher ramifications are of being soul mates. I can tell you this however. As long as you are separated from your own, that long are you troubled. No matter what the circumstances, no matter how exquisite the environment in which you find yourself. To be half
Richard Matheson
#8. After a while I got hungry and went to the kitchen. There was nothing to eat. I drank another beer and looked again, and found half a loaf of whole wheat bread behind the beer in the back of the refrigerator ...
Robert B. Parker
#9. One is always half mad when one is shy of people.
Robert Walser
#10. Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Robert Half
#11. And I managed to arrange to get some research support and to stay in Hong Kong for another year and a half, interviewing people coming out of China, both Westerners and Chinese. And that was my first real research study on thought reform or so-called brainwashing.
Robert Jay Lifton
#13. There are true unseen forces, but not nearly so many as we believe, nor would they rule us so sternly if we did not admit them to our souls. We would not be assailed half so often by devils, had we not taken the trouble to invent so many of them.
Robert Silverberg
#14. A blogger is an average person who happens to have a need to count his friends every half hour.
Robert Breault
#15. Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.
Robert Half
#16. I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought: 'You can't rewind the movie. I've spent more than half my life in the Middle East. There have been great moments of horror and depression and loneliness.'
Robert Fisk
#17. You shoot, you always shoot to kill. It's not the movies. You're in a crisis situation, you got about a half second to do what needs to be done. Your
Robert B. Parker
#18. It's easy to make good decisions when there are no bad options.
Robert Half
#19. The New Testament never simply says, "Remember Jesus Christ." That is a half-finished sentence. It says, "Remember Jesus Christ is risen from the dead."
Robert Runcie
#20. Current intelligence-testing practices require examinees to answer but not to pose questions. In requiring only the answering of questions, these tests are missing a vital half of intelligence- the asking of questions ...
Robert Sternberg
#21. Now anybody can be "kind." And everybody's supposed to be. Except that long ago it was something you were born into and couldn't help. Now it's just a faked-up attitude half the time, like teachers the first day of class.
Robert M. Pirsig
#22. Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.
Robert Jordan
#23. If things were half as bad as some people persist in believing, I'd have retired with a bottle of Scotch and a pistol a long time ago.
Robert Maxwell
#24. Right now, I'm worth a million dollars, and I owe Uncle Sam a million-and-a-half dollars, and I made a deal with him. I said, 'Uncle Sam, I'm going to pay you 25 grand a month.'
Robert Blake
#25. People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Robert Half
#26. As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as intensely as we once would have [the] constriction of our liberties that would have been utterly intolerable a mere half century ago.
Robert Bork
#27. In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.
Robert South
#28. I get a lot done considering I spend half my day sleeping.
Robert Rodriguez
#29. I definitely want to produce more because I have a bunch of projects that I've either written or half written and I want to continue developing them and if cant direct one right away cause I'm doing something else I will love to still see it get made.
Robert Rodriguez
#30. But honestly ... I just don't know what anyone's thinking. To me, that's scarier than any half-rotten ghoul trying to eat my flesh.
Robert Kirkman
#31. Corrupt men are always liars. Lies are their instruments, their pleasure, their solace. In time they come to believe their lies, or rather to half-believe them.
Robert Payne
#32. With a modest amount of looks and talent and more than a modicum of serendipity, I've managed to stretch my 15 minutes of fame into more than half a century of good fortune.
Robert Vaughn
#33. A bird half wakened in the lunar noon
Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.
Robert Frost
#34. It's easy enough to get into power. You can make promises and try to be all things to all people. But the moment you have to make decisions, you're going to annoy at least half of them. Whatever you do, in the end you're almost certain to be brought down by your own character traits.
Robert Harris
#36. Pvt. Robert Fruling said he spent two and a half days at Pointe-du-Hoc, all of it crawling on his stomach. He returned on the twenty-fifth anniversary of D-Day "to see what the place looked like standing up" (Louis Lisko interview, EC).
Stephen E. Ambrose
#37. The capitol city of Angkor Kol Ker, the heart of the Khmer empire, held architecture the likes of which Europe would not see for half a century.
Robert Doherty
#38. You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half.
Robert Crippen
#39. It's not like you get up in the morning on the first day of shooting and say, 'I'm so smart today I'm going to determine every choice I make from now until a year and a half from now.' So it changes. You gain insights. The movie bucks you.
Robert Schwentke
#40. Half of your mastery of power comes from what you do NOT do, what you do not ALLOW yourself to get dragged into.
Robert Greene
#41. The man who tells lies hides the truth, but the man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.
Robert Bolt
#42. You may cure yourself of a depression by forcing yourself to perform, in rapid order and with excruciating concentration, half a dozen or so unpleasant chores, especially if they have long been postponed. This is a kind of homeopathic purgative, a treatment of like with like.
Robert Grudin
#43. O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.
Robert Browning
#44. A half-dead thing in a stark, dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold;
While high overhead, green, yellow and red, the North Lights swept in bars?-
Then you've a hunch was the music meant ... hunger and night and the stars.
Robert W. Service
#45. Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
Robert Southey
#46. 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
#47. Why do we marry, why take friends and lovers? Why give ourselves to music, painting, chemistry or cooking? Out of simple delight in the resident goodness of creation, of course; but out of more than that, too. Half earth's gorgeousness lies hidden in the glimpsed city it longs to become.
Robert Farrar Capon
#48. In this world, who can do a thing, will not;
And who would do it, cannot, I perceive:
Yet the will's somewhat - somewhat, too, the power
And thus we half-men struggle.
Robert Browning
#49. The Dispatcher had played with his phones, calling from one to the other. Then he put them all down and announced that he had them on "hold," a curious expression since it was the first time in half an hour he hadn't been holding one.
Robert Asprin
#50. For as long as there have been heroes, those half-brave, half-mad souls willing to dash headlong against things that would send most of us screaming in the other direction, there have been stories to immortalize their journeys.
Nathan Robert Brown
#51. There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Robert Half
#52. Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Robert Half
#53. I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer ... I am a half-fast writer.
Robert Asprin
#54. A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released.
Robert Penn Warren
#55. Satellite communications connect television screens in Japan with television cameras in England, and the distance of half a world loses its meaning.
Robert Kennedy
#56. Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy
Robert Half
#57. I'm a product of the 1970s, so I have a short attention span. You know, I grew up on cartoons and half-hour shows. So the stories that I'm interested in grab my attention very quickly, and they have to keep my attention.
Robert Kurson
#58. Half of love is restraint. Patience and respect. Don't waste your time on the unworthy.
Aleksandr Voinov
#59. I'd like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
May no fate wilfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. Earth's the right place for love:
I don't know where it's likely to go better.
Robert Frost
#60. I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.
Robert Staughton Lynd
#61. He drank it sitting in Robin's chair, and ate half a packet of digestives,
Robert Galbraith
#62. There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.
Robert Half
#64. Who was there to guide them? The words of self-obsessed politicians, egotistical media personalities, power-crazed newspaper magnates and half-mad clerics? Who could reason sensibly when supplied with all the wrong information for all the wrong reasons?
Robert Rankin
#65. When I label something as fiction, people say it's true, and when I label something as non-fiction, people say it is made up. If something is not 100% true, then I label it as fiction. After all, there is no half of a lie, is there?
Robert Black
#66. One solitary God-centered, God-intoxicated man can do more to keep God's love alive and His presence felt in the world than a thousand half-hearted, talkative busy men living frightened, fragmented lives of quiet desperation.
Robert McNamara
#67. With the half of a broken hope for a pillow at night
That somehow the right is the right
And the smooth shall bloom from the rough:
Lord, if that were enough?
Robert Louis Stevenson
#68. In 1800, in the first interparty contest, the Federalists warned that presidential candidate Thomas Jefferson, because of his sympathy expressed at the outset of the French Revolution, was 'the son of a half-breed Indian squaw' who would put opponents under the guillotine.
Robert Dallek
#69. We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.
John Robert Seeley
#70. She tells her love while half asleep,
In the dark hours,
With half-words whispered low:
As Earth stirs in her winter sleep
And puts out grass and flowers
Despite the snow,
Despite the falling snow.
Robert Graves
#71. Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
Robert Burns
#72. I went to do my first big movie when I was 17. I was in South Africa for three and half months, and I was by myself.
Robert Pattinson
#73. Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.
Robert Half
#74. Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!
Robert Browning
#75. 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
#76. Writing [for the novelist] is not an activity, but a condition. That is why one simply can't resume the work when one has a job and a free half-day. Reading is the conveyance of this condition.
Robert Musil
#77. The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Robert Half
#78. I don't see anyone for the first hour and a half that I'm awake. I don't like to talk, and I don't like to hear any sounds. People know not to bother me! I use that time to read, and make lists and notes of things I have to do later in the day.
Robert Wilson
#79. I know if you talk faster and use more ten-dollar words than everyone around you, you convince half of them that they should shut up because you know what you're talking about.
Robert Downey Jr.
#80. You know, a left-winger, the barrier to success if you're on the left in commercial radio is a mile and a half higher than it is if you're on the right.
Robert McChesney
#81. No one can be right all the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.
Robert Half
#82. To marry the Daughter of the Nine Moons!" "To die and live again, and live once more a part of what was!" "To give up half the light of the world to save the world!
Robert Jordan
#83. People think it's funny that I enjoy dreaming so much. I just use it as a form of entertainment. It's very private. I don't see my dreams as separate. I mean, half the time I'm wandering around dreaming anyway.
Robert Smith
#84. Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three.
Robert Rauschenberg
#85. It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know.
Robert Breault
#86. If adapted to the unique requirements of various regions and peoples of the world, such economic pluralism could have a greater global impact over the next fifty years than the collectivist economics of Marxism and neo-Marxism have had during the half century just past.
Robert Dickson Crane
#87. Surprisingly now, over a half a century later, time symmetric approaches to electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, gravity, and cosmology might be consonant with the kind of eschatology that a theist such as Pannenberg supports.
Robert John Russell
#88. He could cut a Trolloc in half with a gateway at three hundred paces, and summon fire from inside Dragonmount itself, and he still wanted to carry a sword. It was, she decided, a male thing.
Robert Jordan
#89. 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
#90. I've never seen a woman half as beautiful as Jennifer Love Hewitt.
Robert Iler
#91. Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.
Robert Macfarlane
#92. find the right words for your troubles, and your troubles become half-joys.
Robert Aickman
#93. I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope. Of despair and of achievement. I have seen our government at its best, but today I fear that we see our government at its worst.
Robert Byrd
#94. People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.
Robert Half
#95. I love drinking now and then. It defecates the standing pool of thought. A man perpetually in the paroxysm and fears of inebriety is like a half-drowned stupid wretch condemned to labor unceasingly in water; but a now-and-then tribute to Bacchus is like the cold bath, bracing and invigorating.
Robert Burns
#96. When your future arrives, will you blame your past?
Robert Half
#97. I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67. That program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us.
Robert Crippen
#98. Half the people in the world are below average. That's the definition of average and explains the behaviour of a lot of people.
Robert Popple
#99. You know you are working on clean code when each routine turns out to be pretty much what you expected." Half
Robert C. Martin
#100. Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake.
Robert Half
