Half Quotes · Page 43

The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women.

— Franz Grillparzer

“Nearly half of all human beings live on less than US$2 a day.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

I don't consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.

— Ben Elton

We were once getting married. And I have loved you all this time- a century and a half. -Jem

— Cassandra Clare

It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.

— Norman Douglas

Lol I already did this…well half of it lol it's ur turn now

— Kayla

Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed.

— Kathleen Winsor

I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn't come in until half-past five.

— Henny Youngman

Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred…

— Edmund Burke

We say it is idealistic to think we can continue to live the way we live - with 5% of the world…

— Shane Claiborne

The first time at age 5 and a half, when I took a racket in my hands and my father fed me…

— Marion Bartoli

Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.

— Anonymous

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.

— Anne Bronte

But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that…

— Stanley Tucci

I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've…

— J. K. Rowling

It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different…

— Alan Vega

I am grateful for what I call well-spent moments: Making a tuna fish sandwich with the works. Taking at least a half…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

You think you need me, little firecracker?” The gruff question travels all the way through me, and I have to press my…

— Katy Evans

If I look at my own recordings, I think generally there is a focal point within the song and often it's the…

— Dean Wareham

Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large…

— Jane Goodall

I thought that deserved a book and feel like the door needs to be open so people can say, "Ok, here we…

— Brad Warner

Most people go on living their everyday life: half-frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragic-comedy that is being performed on the…

— Albert Einstein

I didn't understand key signatures or anything, you know. I'd say silly things at the top of a trumpet part like, 'Note,…

— Quincy Jones

A man who cannot win fame in big own age will have a very small chance of winning it from posterity. True,…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The glass is always completely full-half air and half liquid.

— Anonymous

I've never been swimming, and that's because it's never been more than half an hour since I last ate.

— Artie Lange

I enjoyed translating half a Bible page, with my mom back in Australia, into Hebrew.

— Ashley Zukerman

Better to have a big goal and reach half of it than to have no goal and reach all of it.

— Joyce Meyer

You don’t have to be half-naked to be successful. Just be talented.

— Amy Lee

Half the people who snuff people, that's what they want: recognition. Get their picture in the paper.

— Truman Capote

With life as short as a half-taken breath, don't plant anything but love.

— Rumi

Don't envy anyone who has everything in life handed to them.. They can't handle half of what you can.

— Nishan Panwar

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

— Chaim Potok

No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia.

— H. L. Mencken

Half the world does not know how the other half lives.

— Francois Rabelais

Like half of Kentucky, my family has pre-existing conditions.

— Andy Beshear

I consider myself to be half-Brazilian and half-German on the pitch.

— Roberto Firmino

A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.

— Thomas Pynchon

Now I don't know half of the young people in the industry. It's too spread out, too diffuse.

— Cesar Romero

If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton