Half Quotes

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Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. — Henry Rollins
Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made. — E. W. Howe
The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes, you might be… — Raymond Chandler
A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man. — H. L. Mencken
The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we are to have a billion… — Calvin Coolidge
For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much as I did.… — Hilaire Belloc
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone.… — Andrea Dworkin
As you pass from sunlight into darkness and back again every hour and a half, you become startlingly aware how artificial are thousands of boundaries… — Rusty Schweickart
I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all. As far as I can… — Gene Wolfe
The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it. — Michel de Montaigne
As a general comment on baseball:"90% of the game is half mental." — Yogi Berra
For more than a half a century, we know that we prospered because of a bipartisan consensus on defense and foreign policy. We must do… — Hillary Clinton
You can't write a song out of thin air. You have to feel and know what you are writing about. ... Talent is only a… — Irving Berlin
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean the bastards aren't out to get you. ... Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.… — Lorenz Hart
I don't write songs, songs write me. ... Writing a song can be agony or ecstasy. It can take half an hour or half a… — Sammy Cahn
What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason. ... I wrote… — Rod Stewart
In fast-moving, progress-conscious America, the consumer expects to be dizzied by progress. If he could completely understand advertising jargon he would be badly disappointed. The… — Daniel J. Boorstin
We do not believe that you can be 'half responsible' or pick and choose the convenient areas to be responsible in — Unknown Author
The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples.… — John F. Kennedy

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