Half Quotes

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He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports… — Henry David Thoreau
I'm too old to do things by half — Lou Reed
We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow… — Jean Baudrillard
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime… — John Milton
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness… — Samuel Johnson
Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind… — Walter Bagehot
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half… — Harriet Martineau
I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I'm tired of saying "How wonderful you are!" to fool men, who haven't got one half sense I've got. — Margaret Mitchell
Your music can be played easily and well by any half-stringed harper or fumble-fingered idiot. Not that I'm maligning your songs. It's just that they're… — Anne McCaffrey
I have all these computers and keyboards and synthesizers, and I rattle away. For instance, with The Lion King I wrote over four hours worth… — Hans Zimmer
It has been my firm belief, based on my research and investigations over the past half century, that UFOs and their occupants, which I have… — George Fawcett
You have lost all delight in life. Ahead is a large array of blind alleys. You are half-deliberately, half-desperately cutting off your grip on creative… — Sylvia Plath
It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill - it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an… — Vincent Van Gogh
Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, the (Rothschild) brothers conducted important transactions on behalf of the governments of England, France, Prussia, Austria, Belgium,… — G. Edward Griffin
I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on… — George Saunders
Man's Unhappiness... comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, with which all his cunning he cannot quite bury under… — Thomas Carlyle
It followed us during half of our orbit. We observed it on the light side, and when we entered the shadow side, it disappeared completely.… — Unknown Author
I believe the second half of one's life is meant to be better than the first half. The first half is finding out how you… — Frances Lear
The absolute minimum for effective exercise is three times a week on alternate days for at least half an hour. — Jane Fonda

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