Half Quotes

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Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of… — William James
I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more. — Henry Ward Beecher
In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half… — Michael Pollan
Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it. — Andy Rooney
We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread. — C.S. Lewis
If I find myself half-carelessly taking lapses for granted, "Oh, that's what they always do." "Oh, of course she talks like that, he acts like… — Amy Carmichael
It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either… — H. L. Mencken
Secret thoughts are only half free: they fly undisturbed in the skies of the inner freedom, but they can never leave them. — Fausto Cercignani
Ninety percent of this game is half mental. — Yogi Berra
The motto stated a lie. If this nation has ever trusted in God, that time has gone by; for nearly half a century almost its… — Mark Twain
Last but not least, I would say you should have big dreams, full dreams, not half dreams. You know, it's very simple. You can't put… — Elias Zerhouni
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing; they… — Robert Southey
What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention; so… — Samuel Johnson
Maybe the reason my memory is so bad is that I always do at least two things at once. It's easier to forget something you… — Andy Warhol
The wish for healing has always been half of health. — Seneca the Younger
When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is morbid… — Mark Steyn
There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service… — Woodrow Wilson
Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too… — George Carlin
I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it. — Woodrow Wilson
To ask the proper question is half of knowing — Roger Bacon
A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop. — Thomas B. Macaulay
All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded… — Mark Twain
Man has here two and a half minutes-one to smile, one to sigh, and a half to love: for in the midst of this minute… — Jean Paul
God help us! it is a foolish little thing, this human life, at the best; and it is half ridiculous and half pitiful to see… — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war,… — Daniel Berrigan

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