Half Quotes · Page 288

To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might…

— Oscar Wilde

Poverty ... is already half-Christian by its very nature; it has everything to gain by a doctrine which makes so little of…

— Henry Parry Liddon

I don't go to concerts much. I've heard everything. When I do go to movies, I walk out half the time. As…

— Ned Rorem

We've [me and brother] been playing hockey for a long time, since we were little kids. I started playing hockey at two…

— P. K. Subban

I started to put on weight when I was about four and a half and it got really bad when I was…

— Carnie Wilson

Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak…

— Anonymous

I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced…

— Martin Seligman

Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood.

— Rick Riordan

When I was younger, I had an older brother a year and a half older than me, so we always had each…

— Rib Hillis

... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

We don't need to wait one year or half year to be able to compete. We have tournaments every week, and we…

— Andrey Rublev

I get a lot done considering I spend half my day sleeping.

— Robert Rodriguez

There is a time when every person who encounters Jesus, who believes Jesus is the Son of God, decides that they will…

— Donald Miller

I never said half the things I said.

— Yogi Berra

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.

— Orison Swett Marden

Half a truth is better than no politics.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

When Congress passed the Authorization for the Use of Military Force immediately after the 9/11 attacks, no one could have imagined this…

— Peter Bergen

When the moon is ninety degrees away from the sun it sees but half the earth illuminated (the western half). For the…

— Galileo Galilei

I've got cut half in two, once, and blowed up a time or two, but nothing permanent.

— Red Adair

We filmed 'Labyrinth' in South Africa for two and a half months and it was just the most unbelievable experience. Lots of…

— Jessica Brown Findlay

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half…

— Jack Nicholson

I think the Caribbean countries face rising oceans and they face increase in the severity of hurricanes. This is something that is…

— Steven Chu

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

— Robert Hass

I'm functioning on a lung and a half, but I have proved that it's possible to challenge yourself.

— Stefanie Powers

If you're not funding female-founded firms, you're leaving behind half your talent.

— Dylan Taylor