Half Quotes · Page 42

I once had half a cup [of coffee], twenty years ago, and I'm still working it off.

— Elizabeth Warren

Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.

— John Milton

In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.

— Jodi Picoult

A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.

— Charles Simmons

“Whether your glass is half full or half empty there's still room for more wine.”

— Trish Jackson

The main thing is to score a goal in the first half. Then everything will be possible.

— Lukas Podolski

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.

— William Hesketh Lever

I married somebody half my age, and everybody thought I was crazy, but she is just an absolute angel.

— Dick Van Dyke

...she was a level-headed woman who saw the glass as neither half empty nor half full, but rather a glass with something…

— Joanne Fluke

If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal,…

— Bertrand Russell

Any mother with half a skull knows that when Daddy's little boy becomes Mommy's little boy, the kid is so wet he's…

— Erma Bombeck

When a man but half forgives his enemy, it is like leaving a bag of rusty nails to interpose between them.

— Hugh Latimer

Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.

— Seneca the Younger

Well that's the point: People don't normally take away things from films anymore. You go and see a $100 million film, half…

— Eriq La Salle

Secret to what?" "Secret to shutting you up," he said. "I just have to beat you till you're half-dead, then give you…

— Ilona Andrews

I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.

— Robert Staughton Lynd

Well, it’s no use your talking about waking him, said Tweedledum, when you’re only one of the things in his dream. You…

— Lewis Carroll

I would make a genuinely terrible guide. I can't remember things. I would get half way through telling a story or explaining…

— Bill Bryson

That is what diminishes the artist and his song. The artist is now hermetically sealed. The publishing company got him his deal…

— Michael Kosser

Students using astrophysical textbooks remain essentially ignorant of even the existence of plasma concepts, despite the fact that some of them have…

— Hannes Alfven

Each year, millions of animals are euthanized at local shelters because of overpopulation. Almost half of the animals brought into these shelters…

— Jud Tylor

The realization that I came to is that each citizen for himself or herself understands the economics, which is, "I better make…

— David Mamet

There's a schizoid quality to our relationship with animals, in which sentiment and brutality exist side by side. Half the dogs in…

— Michael Pollan

What is Americanism? Every one has a different answer. Some people say it is never to submit to the dictation of a…

— Anna Howard Shaw

The word priority was singular for 500 years—what does priorities mean—'many many first things.'

— Greg McKeown

TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour.

— Bill McKibben

“If we weren’t already doing it this way, is this the way we would start?”

— Paul Depodesta

Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had

— Raymond Chandler

To me, the costume does half the job for you, or even more than half of the job.

— Phoebe Dynevor

All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.

— George Bernard Shaw

Believe not all that you see nor half what you hear !!

— AaRon

There are some occasions when a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest.

— Lord Chesterfield

Keep well; that is the half of wisdom and of happiness.

— Emile Zola

You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half.

— Robert Crippen

“Only half the story is true. The rest is necessary.”

— John Yau

Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

— Amy Tan

I was so nervous to turn 40, but the last year and a half has been the most fun I have ever had.

— Giada De Laurentiis

I'm not much of a jewelry man. I don't even wear a watch half the time.

— Red Schoendienst

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.

— Saint Teresa of Avila

A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.

— Henry Ward Beecher