Half Quotes

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I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time. — Babe Ruth
Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction. — C J Cherryh
I might believe I had unusual talent if I did not know what good music was; I might enjoy half an hour's practice a day… — Jane Addams
I think that the vice president is a person reflecting a half-glass-full mentality. — George W. Bush
Please don't look at the part of the glass that is only half full. — George W. Bush
I want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP [gross national product] over the next 25 years. We want… — Grover Norquist
When Medicare was created for senior citizens and America s disabled in 1965, about half of a seniors health care spending was on doctors and… — Dennis Hastert
Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers,… — Lucretia Mott
Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering â€” at least half! All women! — Jean Giraudoux
The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: "Do not turn away a poor man...even if all you can give is half a date. If you love the… — Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi
Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. — Philip Greenspun
Smokin' at the Half Note is the absolute greatest jazz-guitar album ever made. It is also the record that taught me how to play. — Pat Metheny
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing… — Stendhal
You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure. — Henry David Thoreau
The fossil reserves that have already been discovered exceed what can ever be safely used. Yet companies spend half a trillion dollars each year searching… — Desmond Tutu
My dog is half pit bull, half poodle. Not much of a watchdog, but a vicious gossip! — Craig Shoemaker
I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess! — Audrey Hepburn
A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd… — Benjamin Franklin
The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole. — Aristotle
A bold onset is half the battle. — Giuseppe Garibaldi

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