Half Quotes · Page 40

The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.

— Dean Rusk

The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.

— T. S. Eliot

Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.

— Neil Kinnock

Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.

— Mark Twain

An intuitionist conception of justice is, one might say, but half a conception.

— John Rawls

If I had a pound for every time I heard Ollie Watkins' name I could buy half of London!

— Ivan Toney

The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.

— Isabel Paterson

The world, a tired performer, offers us another half-assed season.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I always tell my kids to cut a sandwich in half right when you get it, and the first thought you should…

— Anonymous

The international community... allows nearly 3 billion people - almost half of all humanity - to subsist on $2 or less a…

— Kofi Annan

A book can just be a description of a stick being snapped in half. If the reader is brought to feel the…

— Jesse Ball

I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.

— Calvin Klein

I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're…

— Carrie Brownstein

During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half…

— Gabriel Lippmann

I think a stalwart peasant in sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a…

— Clifford Sifton

You know your getting older when you lay in bed til 10am and think to yourself god I just wasted half the…

— Bill Engvall

I personally can watch an eight-hour documentary on Woody Allen because I'm fascinated by him. But, an audience can't really sit through…

— Brett Ratner

I find it fascinating that sport has such a strong connection to success in business. Arguably, C-suite women are some of the…

— Beth Brooke

Well, there was stuff going on, heroic events. One was what used to be, and probably still is, the largest moving project…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course,…

— Plato

... the only other place comparable to these marvelous nether regions, must surely be naked space itself, out far beyond atmosphere, between…

— William Beebe

According to a new survey, almost half of the voters in Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania say that they do not trust Hillary…

— Jimmy Fallon

He didn't like it all that much when he first came - all the rubbish and the rush - but it was…

— Colum McCann

More than half a century has passed, and yet each spring, when I wander into the primrose wood, I see the pale…

— Gertrude Jekyll

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

— Mark Twain

I'm a pessimistic person, I see the glass half empty even when it's full.

— Anonymous

If my real life was half as exciting as what is reported, I would be thrilled.

— Gabrielle Union

Churches don't need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over.

— Billy Sunday

I've been to Gettysburg probably more than half a dozen times.

— Keith Hernandez

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

— Brooks Atkinson

...if you live feeling like Your glass is half empty, well, It may as well be empty all the way.

— Anonymous

If you are glass half empty type of person, maybe you just haven’t been holding the right glass

— Richard Branson

I didn't listen to half of the criticism I received. I just didn't let it enter my brain.

— Alan Pardew

Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.

— Homer

We women talk too much, nevertheless we only say half of what we know.

— Anonymous

Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Is the glass half empty, half full, or twice as large as it needs to be?

— Anonymous

A problem is often half-solved when it is clearly stated.

— Dorothea Brande

I usually hate most of my work: probably at least more than half of it.

— Melina Matsoukas

Half of what we know is wrong, the purpose of science is to determine which half.

— Arthur Kornberg