Half Quotes
5615 quotes by 3611 authors
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You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.
— Therese of Lisieux
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It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is criminal lunacy to keep on…
— Adolf Hitler
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One solitary God-centered, God-intoxicated man can do more to keep God's love alive and His presence felt in the world than a thousand half-hearted, talkative…
— Robert McNamara
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No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Well, Bill [Bill Hickok] was a pretty good shot. But he could not shoot as quick as half a dozen men we all knew in…
— Buffalo Bill
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The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of it anyway and…
— Pearl S. Buck
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You don't think you'll live past it and you don't really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that's still alive…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Millions and millions of years would still not give me half enough time to describe that tiny instant of all eternity when you put your…
— Jacques Prevert
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Envy hurt exponentially more than heartbreak because your soul was torn in two, half soaring with happiness for another person, half mired in a well…
— Diana Peterfreund
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Global warming is one of those things, not like an earthquake where there's a big bang and you say, 'Oh, my God, this is really,…
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.
— Solon
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The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.
— Pablo Picasso
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The journey to a different future must begin by defining the problem differently than we have done until now. . The task is not to…
— Unknown Author
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Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all…
— Alexander Pope
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I remember Grace (Coddington) looking at me and said, 'Can you do something?' and I was like, 'OK, how long do you give me?' and…
— Nicolas Ghesquiere
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Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not…
— Samuel Johnson
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Whether deliberately, unconsciously or accidentally, she seems to have composed her own life so that its fitful, rudderless, and self-doubting first half was alchemized into…
— Carolyn Heilbrun
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The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to…
— Samuel Johnson
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As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in bloom.
— Katharine Sergeant Angell White
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