Half Quotes · Page 69

I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?

— Oliver Stone

Avoid employing unlucky people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them.

— Ricky Gervais

I believe half of the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

— Anonymous

After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.

— Edgar Bergen

Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.

— E. W. Howe

At my age, I don't buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know?

— Merle Haggard

Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

— Hugh Gaitskell

One-half plus one-half does not equal one; one whole plus one whole equals relational wholeness.

— Surya Das

We share half our genes with the banana. [After the announcement Jun 2000 that a working draft of the genetic sequence of…

— Robert May, Baron May of Oxford

One of the most puzzling things about a novel is that "the way it really was" half the time is, and half…

— Randall Jarrell

What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels…

— Anonymous

Men who do not contend in earnest can have little warmth and fervor in what they undertake, and are more than half…

— William Godwin

Flourishing goes beyond happiness, or satisfaction with life. True, people who flourish are happy. But that's not the half of it. Beyond…

— Barbara Fredrickson

I really don't despise anyone. But there is a list of a half dozen people I would prefer never to hear from…

— Graydon Carter

I feel being an actress is probably not half as difficult as being a mother, and I do not know when I…

— Freida Pinto

I've not been able to avoid periods of time where I felt super-lonely. Luckily, I have a side that is able to…

— Will Ferrell

Being homeschooled for half of my life allowed me to choose my own curriculum and find things I really enjoy, and that's…

— Yara Shahidi

No more than a famous master can be replaced and another take over the completion of the half-finished painting he has left…

— Adolf Hitler

The experience of a century and a half has demonstrated that our system of free government functions best when the maximum degree…

— Brien McMahon

No pleasure or success in life quite meets the capacity of our hearts. We take in our good things with enthusiasm, and…

— Louise Imogen Guiney

Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a…

— Gabe Newell

“Nearly always, so as to live at peace with ourselves, we disguise our own impotence and weakness as calculation and policy; it…

— Benjamin Constant

The thousands of possible lives that used to spread out in front of me have snapped shut into one, and all I…

— Barbara Holland

Never believe what you hear, and only half of what you see

— Anonymous

We talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first.

— Oswald J. Smith

My dad is actually a manic depressive, which is very exciting half the time.

— Marc Maron

Every Christian needs a half-hour of prayer each day, except when he is busy, then he needs an hour.

— Saint Francis de Sales

I'm not sure we need half a billion dollars for women's health issues.

— Jeb Bush

I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.

— Mick Jagger

I hope I have given back half the joy music has given me.

— Placido Domingo

Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

When I was drumming with Mick Fleetwood I thought I looked half mad. I thought I looked half crazy.

— Caroline Corr

Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

— Edmund Burke

The human race cannot forever exist half-exploiters and half-exploited.

— Henry Ford

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

— Gaston Bachelard

For all of my movies, half of the press always hates it.

— Gaspar Noe

One thing about Kane - he never did anything by halves.

— Christine Feehan

“You have two ears and one mouth. Repeat only half of what you hear.”

— Jack Heath

I am a big foodie, so much so that I eat in every half an hour. This is the secret of my…

— Deepika Padukone