Halves Quotes
81 quotes by 73 authors
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I must conquer my loneliness alone. I must be happy with myself or I have nothing to offer you. Two halves have little choice but…
— Peter McWilliams
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To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The world is split into two halves: the bacon, and the bacon eaters.
— Nick Offerman
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Do nothing by halves which can be done by quarters.
— F. R. Scott
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Often when I walked alone in the mountains, I tried to make sense out of the two halves of my life. What went on in…
— Galen Rowell
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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
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Vicksburg is the nail head that holds the South’s two halves together.
— Jefferson Davis
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An intimate relationship does not banish loneliness. Only when we are comfortable with who we are can we truly function independently in a healthy way,…
— Patricia L. Fry
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Women are the twin halves of men.
— Muhammad
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According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them…
— Plato
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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves - sometimes split into quarters…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I have learned that those who engage in family history research and then perform the temple ordinance work for those whose names they have found…
— Howard W. Hunter
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If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.
— George Bernard Shaw
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No question about it: potential is wrapped in great mystery. Like rainbows, which are really circles-we see only the upper halves, the horizon hides the…
— Max De Pree
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Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect halves.…
— Helen Garner
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I've never done anything by halves.
— Coco Chanel
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If the Holy Bible was printed as an Ace Double it would be cut down to two 20,000-word halves with the Old Testament retitled as…
— Terry Carr
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Yet just as the day has two halves, one governed by the sun and the other by the moon, so there are many who are…
— Aino Kallas
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Don't imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
— Matsuo Basho
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The identity cannot be compartmentalized; it cannot be split in halves or thirds, nor have any clearly defined set of boundaries. I do not have…
— Amin Maalouf
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