Quotes about One Half

I love being one half of a romantic couple. Votes: 1

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other. Votes: 1

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing. Votes: 1

One half who graduate from college never read another book. Votes: 1

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. Votes: 1

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave. Votes: 1

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying. Votes: 1

Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites. Votes: 1

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it. Votes: 1

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. Votes: 1

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other. Votes: 1

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. Votes: 1

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone. Votes: 1

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement. Votes: 1

It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential. Votes: 1

One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience. Votes: 1

The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad. Votes: 1

Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.' Votes: 1

And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell. Votes: 1

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world. Votes: 1

I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off. Votes: 1

Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to. Votes: 1

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected. Votes: 1

I was born on the eighteenth of December, 1935, in the town Bourg-en-Bresse, about thirty miles northeast of Lyon, the second of three sons of Jeanne and Jean-Victor Pepin. Weighing only two and one half pounds, I nearly died at birth. Votes: 1

We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever. Votes: 1

World fertility surveys indicate that anywhere from one third to one half of the babies born in the Third World would not be if their mothers had access to cheap, reliable family planning, had enough personal empowerment to stand up to their husbands and relatives, and could choose their own family size. Votes: 1

Loving one another is half of wisdom. Votes: 0

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. Votes: 0

Malice drinks one-half of its own poison. Votes: 0

Free pyramids! Buy one, get one half buried. Votes: 0

...one half leaning in, one half pulling away. Votes: 0

He hears but half who hears one party only. Votes: 0

Half a calamity is better than a whole one. Votes: 0

I am not one for half measures or half-hearted efforts. Votes: 0

One's not half of two; two are halves of one. Votes: 0

One is always half mad when one is shy of people. Votes: 0

Because she is my sister, and therefore one half of me. Votes: 0

A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself. Votes: 0

It was six of a half and one dozen of the other. Votes: 0

I cannot stand for more than half an hour in one place. Votes: 0

Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains. Votes: 0

More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read. Votes: 0

A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home. Votes: 0

One half-conscious thought was burned in my mind: stay on your feet. Votes: 0

A man will turn over half a library to make one book. Votes: 0

Being a daughter is only half the equation; bearing one is the other. Votes: 0

Love one another. Love yourself. Then love will find you whole not half. Votes: 0

When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake. Votes: 0

An intuitionist conception of justice is, one might say, but half a conception. Votes: 0

What if someone comes?" I half-heartedly protest. "No one's coming here but you. Votes: 0

Half of the energy is used by one seventh of the world's population. Votes: 0

It's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half. Votes: 0

One mistake up here and it's half a day out with the undertaker! Votes: 0

I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half. Votes: 0

When you do one thing, people think it's right or wrong. Maybe half-half. Votes: 0

My strength is my distance. I can swim two-and-a-half soccer fields on one breath. Votes: 0

Nationally, the share of mortgages that are underwater fell by about one-half between 2011 and 2014. Votes: 0

A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours. Votes: 0

An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths. Votes: 0

Teamwork is wasting half of one's time explaining to others why they are wrong. Votes: 0

Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n. One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed. Votes: 0

You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect. Votes: 0

History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war. Votes: 0

One half of me is a hopeless romantic. The other half is welljust realistic. Votes: 0

A man in the wrong may more easily be convinced than one half right. Votes: 0

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of work. Votes: 0

Faith, sir, as to that matter, I don't believe one half of it myself. Votes: 0

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself. Votes: 0

I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half. Votes: 0

I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn't come in until half-past five. Votes: 0

One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream. Votes: 0

Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth. Votes: 0

crawling about the floor like half-dead November flies is one thing, and dancing reels another. Votes: 0

No one attacks loose-thinking and folly with half the precision and zest of Thomas Szasz. Votes: 0

One-half plus one-half does not equal one; one whole plus one whole equals relational wholeness. Votes: 0

Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year. Votes: 0

There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves. Votes: 0

One person with the ability of half a person doing the work of four people. Votes: 0

I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell. Votes: 0

I train for one-and-a-half hours every day in order to keep my energy level high. Votes: 0

Ahh, women! I never met one yet that was half as reliable as a horse! Votes: 0

One half of me is a hopeless romantic. The other half is well... just realistic. Votes: 0

Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping. Votes: 0

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Votes: 0

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment. Votes: 0

Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry. Votes: 0

I don't want to be your other half. I believe that one and one make two. Votes: 0

"¦one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half"¦ Votes: 0

. . . I believe one half of the world is born for the convenience of the other half . . . Votes: 0

In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people. Votes: 0

In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people. Votes: 0

I was the one of those students who made the top half of the class possible. Votes: 0

There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one. Votes: 0

Zoomin is a hybrid model. The management and founding team is the one with half.com. Votes: 0

It is hard to hate what one has loved, and a half-extinguished fire is soon relit. Votes: 0

The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race. Votes: 0

I believe in community policing. And, in fact, violent crime is one-half of what it was in 1991. Votes: 0

I was sort of a half-breed of colonization, understanding everyone because I belonged completely to no one. Votes: 0

Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies. Votes: 0

The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women. Votes: 0

And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind. Votes: 0

I used to have six left feet. Now I only have one and a half left feet. Votes: 0

One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion. Votes: 0

Better hold the hand for coin, though small, Than lose, for one half a dang, it all. Votes: 0

One boy's a boy, two boys are half a boy; three boys are no boy at all. Votes: 0

Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us. Votes: 0

Two people cannot be alone together for upwards of half an hour without one emerging as the superior. Votes: 0

When I function in only one mode or the other, I am denying half myself, half my potential. Votes: 0

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands. Votes: 0

For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire, the second half trimming it. Votes: 0

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Votes: 0

One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. Votes: 0

nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn't meant to be. Votes: 0

Over half the world menstruates at one time or another, but you'd never know it. Isn't that strange? Votes: 0

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. Votes: 0

I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound. Votes: 0

The one mistake which is committed habitually by people who have the gift of half-genius, is waiting for inspiration. Votes: 0

I'm tired of saying "How wonderful you are!" to fool men, who haven't got one half sense I've got. Votes: 0

I'm an artist, a designer, a craftsman, interior designer, half-architect. There's no one name that fits me very well. Votes: 0

One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years. Votes: 0

Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor. Votes: 0

Sister, they send you out for one and you bring back two... and a half. Such a clever girl. Votes: 0

The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one. Votes: 0

The first half was end-to-end stuff. In contrast, in this second half it's been one end to the other. Votes: 0

If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner. Votes: 0

Violet, the Dowager Countess: "I mean, one way or another, everyone goes down the aisle with half the story hidden. Votes: 0

One solution might be to impose the duty on admissions officers to arbitrarily admit only half women and half men. Votes: 0

What has three heads, six arms, and half a brain?" Three asked. One and Two answered in unison. "Nate Sutter. Votes: 0

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. Votes: 0

I am against making golf courses obsolete, going to the national Open and playing half the holes with a one-iron. Votes: 0

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing. Votes: 0

The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep. Votes: 0

No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia. Votes: 0

We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal Votes: 0

But the old man would not so, but slew his son,And half the seed of Europe, one by one. Votes: 0

I meet people at book signings. My record now, for signing, is ten and a half hours in one sitting. Votes: 0

I might be half Derek's size, but I was the one who sounded like a two-hundred-pound beast plowing through the woods. Votes: 0

One half was sad because I had damaged my reputation. The other half was happy because I had damaged my reputation. Votes: 0

Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water. Votes: 0

College isn't half as much fun as they told us it was going to be.""It's not one-hundredth as much fun. Votes: 0

The price must be less than one half of the former high and preferably at or near its all time low. Votes: 0

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected. Votes: 0

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it. Votes: 0

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works. Votes: 0

Half of what I write is imaginative reality. The other half is realized impossibilities. Blended into one, these make a fantasy. Votes: 0

Honestly, one-hour drama is the hardest format there is. I think it's harder than movies, and it's harder than half-hour comedy. Votes: 0

Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not. Votes: 0

Never underestimate the power that one good workout can have on your mind. Keeping the dream alive is half the battle. Votes: 0

Half of all people who go bankrupt cite a medical problem as one of the things that drove them into bankruptcy. Votes: 0

The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there. Votes: 0

I am travelling half the year around the world, every year, so coming home is one of the most beautiful things. Votes: 0

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy. Votes: 0

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. Votes: 0

A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes. Votes: 0

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress. Votes: 0

Life has two halves: one patient and one afire. Love is the fiery half. Make me, O Lord, food for the flames. Votes: 0

No man can instruct more than half-a-dozen students at once. The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money. Votes: 0

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. Votes: 0

It's amazing the way one can take a step ten and a half miles long and still always land in a cowpat. Votes: 0

I am certain that I never did grow in grace one-half so much anywhere as I have upon the bed of pain. Votes: 0

For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times. Votes: 0

Hypocrisy is annoying but not evil. Someone who says one thing and does another has doubled their chances of being half right. Votes: 0

I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read. Votes: 0

It's love,' they say. You touch the right one and a whole half of the universe wakes up, a new half. Votes: 0

One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen. Votes: 0

Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors? Votes: 0

She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of time and chance, except perhaps fair play Votes: 0

One thing I can't do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully realized. Votes: 0

Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated. Votes: 0

I would give worlds, could I believe One-half that is profess'd me; Affection! could I think it Thee, When Flattery has caress'd me. Votes: 0

It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes. Votes: 0

One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning. Votes: 0

If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence. Votes: 0

Women are one half of society which gives birth to the other half so it is as if they are the entire society. Votes: 0

We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to. Votes: 0

It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand. Votes: 0

Half the business is done, when one has gained the heart and the affections of those with whom one is to transact it. Votes: 0

My father is Jaime Rodriguez from San Antonio, Texas, and I've got one whole half of my family that's Mexican through and through. Votes: 0

Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor. Votes: 0

There is an old saying "well begun is half done"-'tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all 'til half done. Votes: 0

One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government. Votes: 0

It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life. Votes: 0

The coming week in The Hague may prove to be one of the most important in the three-and-a-half-billion year history of life on earth. Votes: 0

The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world. Votes: 0

One minute you're up half a million in soybeans and the next, boom, your kids don't go to college and they've repossessed your Bentley. Votes: 0

I recognize the fact that I don't have one single drop of Japanese blood in my body. But I've always felt half-Japanese at heart. Votes: 0

I've never seen 'Seinfeld', never seen 'The Cosby Show'; I just don't watch it. I saw half of 'Oprah' one time. I'd rather read. Votes: 0

Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half. Votes: 0

If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one... Votes: 0

Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half Votes: 0

There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. Votes: 0

In 2008, my one-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Sophia, suffered a grand mal seizure. It came from nowhere, for no apparent reason, and took hold of my little fairy-girl. Votes: 0

I am free to confess that I am disappointed with the Yosemite valley. It seems only about one-half as grand as the American Fork canyon. Votes: 0

With all her masculine vigour and glory, Greece fell, gradually atrophied, because one half of her had been, of set purpose, intellectually and politically paralyzed. Votes: 0

To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book Votes: 0

If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child. Votes: 0

I'm falling apart, one part after another. Falling down on the world like snow. Half of me is already on the ground, watching from below. Votes: 0

Black moleskin gloves covered his hands; the right because it was burned, the left because a man felt half a fool wearing only one glove. Votes: 0

Making people uncomfortable is one of my hobbies. I'm always hoping that half the people get the joke and the other half are the joke. Votes: 0

Every one of my positions cuts - out half the country. I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-gay rights, I'm pro-immigration, I'm against guns, I believe in Darwin. Votes: 0

One half of me is yours, the other half is yours, Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so all yours. Votes: 0

I don't often spend more than half an hour in prayer at one time, but I never go more than half an hour without praying. Votes: 0

Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground is very dark... Votes: 0

Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast. Votes: 0

I would love to see a giant squid. Very few people have seen them. And only about half a dozen people have seen one alive. Votes: 0

Some say that one-sided love is better than none, but like half a loaf of bread, it is likely to grow hard and moldy sooner. Votes: 0

The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure. Votes: 0

Let's face it, most of us are not half as smart as we may sometimes think we are-- and for intellectuals, not one-tenth as smart. Votes: 0

I recognize the fact that I don't have one single drop of Japanese blood in my body. But I've always felt half Japanese at heart. Votes: 0

Matthew Lowe is one of the great water men that I know. He's a surfer, a great water polo player. I think he's half fish. Votes: 0

I do one sit up a day. I get up in the morning, that's the first half. I lay down at night, that's the second half. Votes: 0

That's the fun thing about fashion: it changes. One day, we're into short, the next we're into full length for day, or half short and long. Votes: 0

One thing I've noticed about getting older, it takes twice as much work to get half the results one formerly achieved by falling out of bed. Votes: 0

I don't really watch too many movies. I don't have the patience usually to watch one, one and a half or two hours in a row. Votes: 0

The only one benefiting from this, the American taxpayer, almost half of our taxes, our income taxes, are going to the military and to these wars. Votes: 0

I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughter was one of the better roles for women living in patriarchy. Votes: 0

This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience. Votes: 0

Because a poem is not written while running or while answering the phone. It's written in whatever minutes one has. Sometimes you have half an hour. Votes: 0

There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements. Votes: 0

The playful kitten, with its pretty little tigerish gambols, is infinitely more amusing than half the people one is obliged to live with in the world. Votes: 0

I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do. Votes: 0

How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length. Votes: 0

Nine holes of golf will take you one-and-a-half, two hours. I run in 20 minutes, I feel better off. So the cost benefit made me drop golf. Votes: 0

Our first single, 'Ticket To Ride', was a kind of half-hit, half flop: in some places it was number one, in others it was ash-tray material. Votes: 0

For one half second, I wondered what it would feel like to put my hand in the fire. What it would feel like when I burned.... Votes: 0

When it comes to mountains there are two kinds of people; those who walk half way up & quit & those who conquer it which one are you? Votes: 0

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature. Votes: 0

If I played just one song from every album, I would be onstage for two and a half hours. No one wants a show that long. Votes: 0

(I'm) the only one to take out half a brain, although you would think, if you go to Washington, that someone had beat me to it. Votes: 0

Live, it's just the free flow and the energy and the excitement. It's a one-off and you have that adrenaline for an hour and a half. Votes: 0

I'm half Jewish, but no one believes me because my looks lean a little WASP-y... It's sometimes hard for me to get the roles I'm drawn to. Votes: 0

One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing. Votes: 0

One half was like, I hope this doesn't affect it, and the other half was like, it's great that people know I did a Beyoncé record. Votes: 0

I think it's much more natural as a writer to want to tell one story rather than lots of small stories that are half an hour long. Votes: 0

One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck. Votes: 0

He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know which half. Votes: 0

I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one after 'now. Votes: 0

One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing Votes: 0

Mankind are very odd creatures: one half censure what they practice, the other half practice what they censure; the rest always say and do as they ought. Votes: 0

The clever men of Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed but they none of them know one half as much as intelligent Mr. Toad. Votes: 0

I played maybe one and a half games of Little League. The whole atmosphere of anxious parents and more anxious children was just too much for me. Votes: 0

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 he dies. Votes: 0

I know a lot of people that had one cancer that are not alive today. I've had three. So my glass is much more than half full. Votes: 0

Japan has only 100m people. Asia has 4bn. At least one-third, maybe nearly half, will become middle class, and this is a big opportunity for Japanese businessmen. Votes: 0

It seems the only way to write a half decent book is to worry oneself sick on an hourly basis that one is producing a complete disaster. Votes: 0

Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new; One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true. Votes: 0

There's nothing worse than putting two similar shows back-to-back. Viewers don't want to watch one show and then sit through another half-hour of almost the same thing. Votes: 0

We are a one party country. Half of them call themselves Democrats and the other half call themselves Republicans. All the good ideas come from the Libertarians. Votes: 0

I work between my heartbeat. I have one-and-a-half seconds to actually move. And at the same time I have to watch I don't inhale my own work. Votes: 0

Half of teachers leave the profession within their first four years, and kids with behaviour challenges and their parents are cited as one of the major reasons. Votes: 0

For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one is halfheartedly engaged in something else. Votes: 0

If you are ready for the secret, you already possess one half of it,therefore, you will readily recognize the other half the moment it reaches your mind. Votes: 0

Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters. Votes: 0

I am actually 7 foot and and one-half inches tall. I say Seven two because it's easier. Unlike some tall skinny guys I am really 'big' weighing around 350 pounds. Votes: 0

I am actually 7 foot and and one-half inches tall. I say Seven two because it's easier. Unlike some tall skinny guys I am really "big" weighing around 350 pounds. Votes: 0

One of the laws of nature," Gordon said, "is that half the people have got to be below average.""For a Gaussian distribution, yeah," Cooper said. "Sad, though. Votes: 0

One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts. Votes: 0

Giant oak trees... have deep root systems that can extend two-and-one-half times their height. Such trees rarely are blown down regardless of how violent the storms may be. Votes: 0

What a name! Was it love or praise? Speech half-asleep or song half-awake? I must learn Spanish, one of these days, Only for that slow sweet name's sake. Votes: 0

When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already thinking about the ending. Votes: 0

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 of an individual. Votes: 0

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. Votes: 0

For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Anyone with half a mind could see that," said Tiffany.Miss Tick sighed. "Yes. But sometimes it's so hard to find half a mind when you need one. Votes: 0

If I am on a journey where I only have time to read one-and-a-half books, I never know which one-and-a-half I'll feel like reading. So I bring eight. Votes: 0

If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one of the most beautiful of counties. Votes: 0

I've endured quite a bit of physical pain. My mom says that I got my first set of stitches when I was one-and-a-half. A cat got my eye. Votes: 0

I didn't have a stage mom at all. I was the one who planned out my auditions and drove myself an hour and a half into the city. Votes: 0

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say. Votes: 0

We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point, within doors. Votes: 0

In the middle of the woods Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. Two old chairs and half a candle, One old jug without a handle- These were all the worldly goods. Votes: 0

It is my private life which no one knows anything about, nor ever will. It needs more than half my time if it is to be a success. Votes: 0

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. Votes: 0

Nearly a half-century on from feminism, simply being a woman artist is still a revolutionary act. And getting one's work shown continues to be met by enormous inbuilt resistance. Votes: 0

For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria. Votes: 0

What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth. Votes: 0

The misdeeds of ordinary men can be buried with them, and their lives described in half-truths that are really half-lies. But not a public man. Particularly not this one. Votes: 0

We stood there for a full half hour, like so many scarecrows, while they jeered at us from a distance, and one or two of us were shot down. Votes: 0

I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing? Votes: 0

No one who has lived through the second half of the 20th century could possibly be blind to the enormous impact of exchange programs on the future of countries... Votes: 0

Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents. Votes: 0

Half of my family has a deep-rooted connection to the South and Louisiana, and for me, New Orleans is one of our most precious, historic communities: visually, emotionally, artistically. Votes: 0

I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy. Votes: 0

... no community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise incapacitated by law and custom, can be free from great vices. Purity is inconsistent with slavery. Votes: 0

Face the fact that there's only one sure-fire way to erase credit card debt. By picking up a big, shiny pair of scissors and cutting your wife in half. Votes: 0

Three of my children married Jewish people. One did not and that marriage didn't last more than half a dozen years or so. The others are still very close. Votes: 0

I don't go to any sexy places to eat where they give you half a lamb chop and one bean. I like going, 'Uhhh, I'm done' when I eat. Votes: 0

If you're never ridden a fast horse at a dead run across a desert valley at dawn, be of good cheer: You've only missed out on one half of life. Votes: 0

One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially from his belief in their sympathy with him. Votes: 0

You have a billion people who know 'Tribbles' and only half a million who know my novel 'The Man Who Folded Himself,' which is one of my better-known books. Votes: 0

If you had to chose one half of your son, which one would it be?" What kind of a question is that?!" No need to snap. It was just a question. Votes: 0

Giving is only one-half of the law of increase. Receiving is the other half. We can give and give but we may unbalance the law unless we also expect to receive. Votes: 0

I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year. Votes: 0

O Woman, you are not merely the handiwork of God, but also of men; these are ever endowing you with beauty from their own hearts ... You are one-half woman and one-half dream. Votes: 0

I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year. Votes: 0

Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the time. It's time we gave this some thought. Votes: 0

Almost one half of our time is spent in telling and hearing evil of one another ... and every hour brings forth something strange and terrible to fill up our discourse and our astonishment. Votes: 0

About one-half of the members of Congress are seekers for office at the nomination of the President. Of the remainder, at least one-half have some appointment or favor to ask for their relatives. Votes: 0

One half of my head, from the top of my skull to the cleft of my jaw, hammers, bangs, sizzles while the other half, serene and content, looks on at the agony next door. Votes: 0

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world. Votes: 0

In order not to annul our free will, I judge it true that Fortune may be mistress of one half our actions but then even she leaves the other half, or almost, under our control. Votes: 0

No nation, no society, no community can hold its head high and claim to be part of the civilized world if it condones the practice of discriminating against one half of humanity represented by women. Votes: 0

Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of power relations. Masculinity pertains to male dominance as femininity pertains to female subordination. Votes: 0