Quotes about Other Half

Half the world does not know how the other half lives. Votes: 6

Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half. Votes: 6

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave. Votes: 6

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable. Votes: 6

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it. Votes: 6

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half. Votes: 4

Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical. Votes: 4

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical. Votes: 4

Half the world's starving; the other half is trying to lose weight. Votes: 4

I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half. Votes: 4

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying. Votes: 4

Half of what creates psychopaths is genetic, but the other half is conditioning. Votes: 4

Half of life is up - the other half is dealing with it. Votes: 4

I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half. Votes: 4

I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it. Votes: 4

Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married - the other half because they're not. Votes: 4

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it. Votes: 4

Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be. Votes: 4

We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half. Votes: 4

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them. Votes: 4

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable. Votes: 4

Women are one half of society which gives birth to the other half so it is as if they are the entire society. Votes: 4

When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune. Votes: 4

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: 4

I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses. Votes: 4

It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half Votes: 4

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone? Votes: 4

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: 4

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: 4

25 States allow anyone to buy a gun, strap it on, and walk down the street with no permit of any kind: some say it's crazy. However, four out of five US murders are committed in the other half of the country: so who's crazy? Votes: 4

Occasionally, once a speaker is on his feet, it is difficult to get him to sit down. ... If and when he returns to earth, he notices half of the room is paging the other half and a few are playing with the melted candles. Votes: 4

Women hold up the other half of the sky ... Votes: 3

Who sees the other half of Self, sees Truth. Votes: 3

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half. Votes: 3

Half of golf is fun; the other half is putting. Votes: 3

Half the world knows not how the other half lies. Votes: 3

Half the world is wandering, the other half is lost. Votes: 3

Baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical. Votes: 3

Long distance running is 90% mental and the other half is physical. Votes: 3

Half the game is mental, the other half is being mental. Votes: 3

Night is the other half of life, and the better half. Votes: 3

Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning. Votes: 3

Books are only half our job ; the other half is human nature. Votes: 3

The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression. Votes: 3

Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical. Votes: 3

Part of my soul I seek thee, and claim thee my other half Votes: 3

Got a new pup. He is half griffon. The other half is mistake. Votes: 3

I'd spent half of my life crying, the other half refusing to cry Votes: 3

It's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half. Votes: 3

My guitar is half my life and my wife is the other half. Votes: 3

Half of Louisiana is under water and the other half is under indictment. Votes: 3

Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding. Votes: 3

The man spends half of his life trying, and the other half is preventing. Votes: 3

One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream. Votes: 3

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears Votes: 3

There are no rules that can bind you when you find your other half. Votes: 3

One half of me is a hopeless romantic. The other half is welljust realistic. Votes: 3

Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race. Votes: 3

One half of me is a hopeless romantic. The other half is well... just realistic. Votes: 3

I spend half my time comforting the afflicated, and the other half afflicting the comfortable. Votes: 3

Religion made half of us afraid to die, and the other half afraid to live. Votes: 3

The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader. Votes: 3

Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right. Votes: 3

"¦one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half"¦ Votes: 3

the missing piece my breath my heart my memory me the other half the missing half Votes: 3

I don't want to be your other half. I believe that one and one make two. Votes: 3

I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted. Votes: 3

A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half. Votes: 3

If a Snickers chocolate bar has 50% sugar, wouldn't it be safe to eat the other half? Votes: 3

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves. Votes: 3

. . . I believe one half of the world is born for the convenience of the other half . . . Votes: 3

Half of San Antonio's population is of Mexican descent; the other half just eats that way. Votes: 3

Everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaized, and the other half negrified. Votes: 3

When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness. Votes: 3

Creating something is only half the battle. The other half is finding people who care about it. Votes: 3

Half of your power lies in your sameness with others. The other half lies in your uniqueness. Votes: 3

An epigram is a half-truth so stated as to irritate the person who believes the other half. Votes: 3

I am the mermaid of desire. Half man, half aquatic creature, I fish for my other half. Votes: 3

People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half. Votes: 3

Half the world cries Half the world laughs Half the world tries To be the other half Votes: 3

Don't complain to others about your troubles. Half of them don't care and the other half are glad. Votes: 3

I think I'm less gloomy than I used to be - I've got a very supportive other half. Votes: 3

Some people use half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it. Votes: 3

Half of me knows too much to be carefree. But the other half knows enough to be grateful. Votes: 3

The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still "are" human beings, now. Or can be. Votes: 3

Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you. Votes: 3

Half of spiritual growth is learning what we don't know. The other half is unlearning what we do know. Votes: 3

Only the victor gets to write history; where half of the facts are distorted and the other half invented. Votes: 3

...the other half of rising—the very half that makes rising necessary—is having been nailed to the cross. Votes: 3

Words only reveal half of your heart. Service defines the other half. Character is the combination of the two. Votes: 3

Learning to earn a living is only half the job. The other half is to make life worthwhile and meaningful. Votes: 3

You know what a wifey means? It's like your other half. Like when you get married, like, that's your wife! Votes: 3

I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half. Votes: 3

It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half. Votes: 3

It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half. Votes: 3

At least half of my life's many mistakes can be safely put down to impetuosity: the other half derive from inertia. Votes: 3

One half was sad because I had damaged my reputation. The other half was happy because I had damaged my reputation. Votes: 3

Half of us is easy, the other half is hard. Even though we do our best, we end up being scarred. Votes: 3

Half of what I write is imaginative reality. The other half is realized impossibilities. Blended into one, these make a fantasy. Votes: 3

My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting. Votes: 3

Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it. Votes: 3

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns. Votes: 3

When you discover you've been leading only half a life, the other half is going to haunt you until you develop it. Votes: 3

Women were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business of the world ... Votes: 3

Thirty-five is half a life. I can't lose the other half. I've lost so much living as a shadow of a person. Votes: 3

Half the people in Lucky Harbor were in love with him. The other half were men and didn't count. -Tara on Ford Votes: 3

Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self. Votes: 3

Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean. Votes: 3

Methods and conclusions formed by half the race only, must necessarily require revision as the other half of humanity rises into conscious responsibility. Votes: 3

I think you're always gonna have half the generation that's lazy. But I think it makes the other half work that much harder. Votes: 3

Guys like Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Sacha Baron Cohen, they do things you love to watch. I like to do the other half. Votes: 3

Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first. Votes: 3

What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow. Votes: 3

What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half. Votes: 3

For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life. Votes: 3

We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other half. Votes: 3

We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to. Votes: 3

I love my music so much, and I love what I'm doing so much that that has become my other half-rather than another person. Votes: 3

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: 3

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: 3

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: 3

In my twenties, my dad was paying half my rent and my ex boyfriend was paying the other half. I wasn't in a good place! Votes: 3

I'm frozen in time, it's more than just you being a dyme I see the other half of me when I look in your eyes Votes: 3

Half condemn him and write him off as useless like him dad. The other half just shrug and indulge him and say, "˜Well, that's Adrian. Votes: 3

HALF of America pays NO taxes. Zero. So they're happy for tax rates to be raised on the other half that DOES pay any taxes. Votes: 3

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: 3

Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half of the same bed. Votes: 3

Half the trouble in the world arises from men trying to anticipate their time and season, and the other half from their trying to prolong them. Votes: 3

It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival. Votes: 3

Are we not wasps who spend all day in a fruitless attempt to traverse a window-pane - while the other half of the window is wide open? Votes: 3

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 has power. Votes: 3

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: 3

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: 3

Half of the people in this room are more dressed up than on any other day in the year, and the other half are more dressed down. Votes: 3

There are many that despise half the world; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because the other half despises them. Votes: 3

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: 3

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: 3

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: 3

You have to be proactive about your destiny and then realize that the other half of it is completely out of your control. I think it's fascinating. Votes: 3

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: 3

[My half-sister] Ella and I always were much closer as basic types; we're dominant people, and [my other half-sister] Mary has always been mild and quiet, almost shy. Votes: 3

I have to make half of my decision based on what I think my fans will appreciate, and the other half has to be for my personal reasons. Votes: 3

What would I have done if my coya had been captured or killed? My mate, Sharone. The other half of everything I am. What would I have done? Votes: 3

You rich people are all the same. You couldn't care less about the other half of the world. They can all starve to death for all you care! Votes: 3

In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of people's wrath. Votes: 3

When Medicare was created for senior citizens and America 's disabled in 1965, about half of a senior's health care spending was on doctors and the other half on hospitals. Votes: 3

I started caddying when I was nine years old at a very exclusive country club in Dayton, Ohio. And I saw how the other half lived, if you will. Votes: 3

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 the other half on hospitals. Votes: 3

From now on, nothing is impossible for Israel, which is a normal country like any other. We won't wait another half a century to sit on the Security Council. Votes: 3

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: 3

The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never happen--a greater part of the other half. Votes: 3

I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy. Votes: 3

Man is more miserable, more restless and unsatisfied than ever before, simply because half his nature--the spiritual--is starving for true food, and the other half--the material--is fed with bad food. Votes: 3

Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am-a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. Votes: 3

The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half. Votes: 3

I.Don't trace out your profile--forget your side view--all that is outer stuff.II.Look for your other halfwho walks always next to youand tends to be who you aren't. Votes: 3

There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half. They will give up possessions, friends and honors, but it touches them to closely to disown themselves. Votes: 3

When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill. Votes: 3

I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don't dare tell me the truth, and the other half can't find it. Votes: 3

When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the noise they make. The other half is the terror at being forced to accept that they exist. Votes: 3

Theres this other half of him i dont know of, its like he is trying it keep it a secret.... if he would just let me inside so i can help Votes: 3

It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it. Votes: 3

I feel like I come from a smaller off shoot of black people because I am mixed. People say I'm African American but that doesn't include the other half of me. Votes: 3

Women ... I mean, they are the other half of the sky, and without them there is nothing. And without us there's nothing. There's only the two together creating children, creating society. Votes: 3

It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones! Votes: 3

I don't know how to live in the world as a Shadowhunter without Will. I don't think i even want to. I am still a parabatai, but my other half is gone. Votes: 3

When we started the show, there were mixed responses. Half of the people said, 'That show doesn't have a chance.' The other half said, 'That show doesn't have a prayer.' Votes: 3

And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering. Votes: 3

Millions who endure poverty and bad government can now know what they are missing. To see how the other half lives all they have to do is switch on their television sets. Votes: 3

People spend their lives searching for their one true love, their other half. I found mine in college, dancing in a fraternity house driveway. Lucky for me, she found me right back. Votes: 3

People spend their lives searching for their one true love, their other half. I found mine in college, dancing in a fraternity house driveway. Lucky for me, she found me right back." Votes: 3

I think there's always interest in how the other half live - I see myself as a down-to-earth Essex mum who just happens to be living this very glamorous life in Beverly Hills. Votes: 3

There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point. Votes: 3

The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result. Votes: 3

Burton, though an infidel, made it his business to investigate thoroughly every religion. Know a man's faith , and you knew at least half the man. Know his wife, and you knew the other half. Votes: 3

Your deceit smells like a fake mustache. Nobody stole my facial hair. I shaved this morning and donated half of it to the Humane Society. The other half I kept for sentimental petting reasons. Votes: 3

I might have to wait. I'll never give up. I guess it's half timing, and the other half's luck. Wherever you are, whenever it's right, you'll come out of nowhere and into my life. Votes: 3

Someday, my love, you're going to understand just how much I care for you. You're my light, my warmth, my other half. I only feel alive when I'm with you. I love you." Caine Votes: 3

I spend half my time in Montana, the other half in New York City. In unique ways, both places help me unwind, and both are the most satisfying places to live I can imagine. Votes: 3

Someday, my love, you're going to understand just how much I care for you. You're my light, my warmth, my other half. I only feel alive when I'm with you. I love you." Caine" Votes: 3

It's hot tonight and half the neighborhood is drunk. the other half is dead. if I have any advice about writing poetry it's - don't. I'm going to send out for some fried chicken. Votes: 3

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: 3

I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus. Votes: 3

Saw him where?" "While I was sitting outside with one of my half aunts." This seemed to satisfy Ronan was well, because he asked, "What's the other half of her?" "God, Ronan," Adam said. "Enough. Votes: 3

An education that teaches you to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is to teach you to do something about making the world a better place. Votes: 3

I couldn't imagine that I'd ever fall in love again like I had with Gideon. For better or worse, he was my soulmate. The other half of me. In many ways, he was my reflection. Votes: 3

It's not an anti-sex trip. Like, we're taking sex, which is probably another half of American entertainment, sex and violence, and we're projecting it, and we're saying this is the way everything is right now. Votes: 3

I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius. Votes: 3

I know two L.A.s. Half my life was around the house my folks had for 46 years at 3rd and Norton. The other half was in Boyle Heights on the Eastside, working with gang members. Votes: 3

She [Mme des Laumes] belonged to that half of the human race in whom the curiosity the other half feels about the people it does not know is replaced by an interest in the people it does. Votes: 3

If bearing a reputation as a weirdo is all it takes to be a genius, I'm a shoo-in. Come to think of it, half the people I know are geniuses - the other half, peculiarly enough, idiots. Votes: 3

Half of my life I've had people staring at me because they think I'm funny-looking and ugly. The other half 
of my life I've had people staring at me because they think I'm fascinating. Everything neutralises Votes: 3

I'd been told that he had been created-literally created-just for me,as my "perfect other half." Let me tell you-if Dylan was my perfect other half, then i needed to give my first half a seriouis look-see. Votes: 3

So often the woman forgets her own greatness and she goes a little bat sh-- crazy sometimes. So its up to the other half to love that person back into the person we know them to be. Votes: 3

Half the world wants to be like Thoreau worrying about the noise of traffic on the way up to Boston; the other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half. Votes: 3

The Secret Service said there have been 40 fence-jumping incidents at the White House in the past five years. Half of them were intruders trying to get in. The other half was President Obama trying to get out. Votes: 3

Each American embassy comes with two permanent features - a giant anti-American demonstration and a giant line for American visas. Most demonstrators spend half their time burning Old Glory and the other half waiting for green cards. Votes: 3

This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation. Votes: 3

I had a dream about you. You suggested to split the profits, so I did. I threw one half in the furnace to power the steam engine, and the other half in the air to distract our pursuers. Votes: 3

Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo. Votes: 3

Be sure that if you are unhappily celebrated for either beauty, wit, intellect, or all three together, half society wishes you dead already, and the other half tries to make you as wretched as possible while you are alive. Votes: 3

Capitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually easily able to array one half of them against the other half, and thus dispose of both. Votes: 3

Half of a broadcast show, in my experience, is things happening, and the other half is people talking about how they feel about the things that happened. And so there's this sense of everyone saying their subtext out loud. Votes: 3

What's more, you're loads better than you think you are." "So why is it I get to thinking that way?" I puzzled. "That's because you're only half-living." she said briskly. "The other half is still untapped somewhere. Votes: 3

We are going in the direction of artificial intelligence or hybrid intelligence where a part of our brain will get information from the cloud and the other half is from you, so all this stuff will happen in the future. Votes: 3

being chic not only takes a great deal of money but an enormous amount of time. It practically precludes everything else, even being on charity committees. Half of one's time goes getting chic, the other half being seen that way. Votes: 3

Half my family was from the Imperial Japanese Navy, and the other half was U.S. Army, and I was raised on Army posts during my childhood, so I pretty much began my life with a split-brain sort of thing. Votes: 3

And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak. Votes: 3

He handed her the other half of his candy bar. She stared at it like it was a brick of gold. "I'm on a diet." But she took it. "A see-food diet, apparently. I see food and I eat it. Votes: 3

The horror of knowing someone and living with them and even thinking you're lucky and then wham and now you know that every person is really two people and how can you ever know what the other half is up to. Votes: 3

Stop expecting the world to affirm you as a person. Half of the world will like you and the other half will hate you, despite what you say or do. Christ knew this truth, but he did his life mission anyways. Votes: 3

This is the world. Half of it is lit by the sun and the other half remains in darkness. It is the same with life. There is good and bad and it's our duty to remain in the light, be good. Votes: 3

Every election, roughly half the population votes Democrat and the other half votes Republican. Now, I understand why the Republicans get one percent of the vote - the richest one percent.That other percent, someone will have to explain to me. Votes: 3

I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria - it always will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who is comfortable in the world. I look at it through Nigerian eyes. Votes: 3

But fear is confusing. It tears you in two. Half of you wants to run far, far away, but the other half is paralyzed, frozen, immovable. And the hard part is that you never know which half is going to win. Votes: 3

I just want my child to have security and being looked after by me, by my other half, by my mother and by a nanny. We all share that responsibility equally and I think he is a very well-adjusted little boy. Votes: 3

About 100 firefighters a year die in the line of duty in the U.S. Heart attacks on the job and vehicle accidents on the way to the fires account for about half. The other half are traumatic deaths while fighting fires. Votes: 3

It's actually a good thing if you do reference checks on somebody and half the people you call say they are a micromanager and the other half say they actually give me a lot of responsibility. That's a feature not a bug. Votes: 3

These diagnostic profiles like depression, ADHD, autism, dyslexia, it's half science and the other half is a committee of doctors bickering over what it should be, and it has changed. It's not precise like a diagnosis of tuberculosis would be very precise. Votes: 3

I've discovered that half the people would love to go into space and there's no need to explain it to them. The other half can't understand and I couldn't explain it to them. If someone doesn't know why, I can't explain it. Votes: 3

I ain't one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience that when a fellow has that half knowledge he finds it's the other half which would really come in handy. Votes: 3

I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do. Votes: 3

What I'm getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting people jobs, we could just hire half the people in the country to spy on the other half. Votes: 3

For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we study to utter our painful secret. The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression. Votes: 3

You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the other half the same way the priests and teachers do. You won't succeed. No one succeeds in this once he has begun to think. Votes: 3

As I grow older, I have a growing curiosity about my other half. My dad did a wonderful job raising me, and I wouldn't change it for the world, but at the same time there is a growing curiosity about my other half. Votes: 3

When you're on stage, the audience becomes your other half. It's the ultimate high you can reach as a musician - an incredible feeling. And no matter where I am it's still the same; there's a reason we call music the universal language. Votes: 3

There are over 30 doctors running for the US Congress this year. That's going to be rather strange. Half the time these folks will be playing God and asking women to take their clothes off and the other half the time they will be doctors. Votes: 3

I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and i do not find our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all founded on fables and mythology. Christianity has made one-half of the world fools and the other half Hypocrites Votes: 3

Of course none of those men was suitable. Half were after your fortune, and as for the other half"”well, you would have reduced them to tears within a month." "Such tenderness for your youngest child," Hyacinth muttered. "It quite undoes me. Votes: 3

...I don't see myself as a documentary photographer. I am more drawn to the image itself, rather than to the description of a scene. And, anyway, every image only halfway represents reality, whereas the other half is rather, more or less, fulfilling our imagination. Votes: 3

Without a bottle to hold, I feel incomplete, the way Plato says we are each born only half a circle, and we spend out lives seeking out our other half. A drink is my beloved. Without it, I am wanting; I feel half finished." Votes: 3

Without a bottle to hold, I feel incomplete, the way Plato says we are each born only half a circle, and we spend out lives seeking out our other half. A drink is my beloved. Without it, I am wanting; I feel half finished. Votes: 3

The Secretary of Labor is in charge of finding you a job, the Secretary of the Treasury is in charge of taking half the money you make away from you, and the Attorney General is in charge of suing you for the other half. Votes: 3

Women, if I understood them half as well as I understand fractions, I'd have said a third. But I don't have time for a third, or even my other half, because I spend all my time trying to stretch a quarter into a buck. Votes: 3

Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a lie.” “No. It’s just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war. Votes: 3

It sometimes seemed to him that for love to work, it had to be fair, that he should tell only half the joke, and she the other half. Otherwise, it would not be love, but something completely else–pity or entertainment, or stand-up comedy. Votes: 3

I thought if the climate was heating that CO2 was the only forcing, and it would be late in the century before we had trouble. Now that we know about the other half of the forcing, it's obvious that the trouble is coming much sooner. Votes: 3

My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows, and broken birdcages. The other half is very Aztec. Neon ikat fabric pillows, vintage books piled up to the ceiling, and shutters from Bali. Votes: 3

My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows, and broken birdcages. The other half is very Aztec. Neon ikat fabric pillows, vintage books piled up to the ceiling, and shutters from Bali." Votes: 3

The revolution and women's liberation go together. We do not talk of women's emancipation as an act of charity or out of a surge of human compassion. It is a basic necessity for the revolution to triumph. Women hold up the other half of the sky. Votes: 3

I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first. Votes: 3

I know a lot of you believe that most people in the news business are liberal. Let me tell you, I know a lot of them, and they were almost evenly divided this time. Half of them liked Senator Kerry; the other half hated President Bush. Votes: 3

Half of me is very excited and the other half is 'Haven't we seen this stuff before?' But I'm very impressed. I almost couldn't picture it when it was being put together. I couldn't picture it being in my hand, what it would look like. Votes: 3

We have not found it difficult to deal with the Bush administration in light of the resemblance that it bears to the regimes in our countries, half of which are ruled by the military and the other half which are ruled by the sons of kings. Votes: 3

The TV said you should ignore bullies and they would stop harassing you. In practice this worked about half the time. The other half, you ended up with two tall boys shadowing you through a trailer park, their fingers taking little nips at your clothes, like dogs. Votes: 3

I inherited my weight problem from my mum. She was always on diets. If there was a box of chocolates in the house, she'd eat half a chocolate, then put the other half back. She loved me, but she did encourage me to diet in my teens. Votes: 3

In India many people come to discuss things with me. I sometimes say that half of them come saying, "I have a problem, I want to find a teacher." The other half say, "I have a problem because I have a teacher!" So it's not so simple. Votes: 3

All of Hollywood is run on one assumption: That women will watch stories about men, but men won't watch stories about women. It is a horrible indictment of our society of we assume that one half of our population is just not interested in the other half. Votes: 3

There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants. Votes: 3

Half of my life, I've had people staring at me because they think I'm funny-looking and ugly. The other half of my life, I've had people staring at me because they think I'm fascinating. Everything neutralises. It's more of a statement on society and how weird it is. Votes: 3

I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light. Votes: 3

The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind and to be blown up in our turn. Votes: 3

I love 'Somebody to Love' by Queen and of course 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is one of my favorites, just because it makes everyone in the room go crazy. Everyone tries to sing along with it, and half the room gets it right and the other half gets it wrong. Votes: 3

It's true that writing can give new forms to concepts that existed previously with far less clarity, but in terms of the other half of a story's story - the way a story is received and interpreted and used - the audience plays a part in that too. Votes: 3

Surviving a loss and letting go is only half of the story. The other half is the secret belief that we will find, in one form or another, what we have lost. And it is that potential, shimmery as a star on a clear night that helps us survives. Votes: 3

Contrary to what we read in romance novels or see in Disney movies, the purpose of marriage is not to complete you or to find your other half. If your goal in seeking marriage is to fill a void in yourself, you are only setting yourself up for disappointment. Votes: 3

I went to a British Council event a while back and there were lots of German professors of literature. About half of them were convinced I had a German sense of humour and the other half were sure it was British. They are probably still arguing about it now. Votes: 3

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other. Votes: 2

Human kind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies? Votes: 2

Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth. Votes: 2

And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment... Votes: 2

Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies. Votes: 2

When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation Votes: 2

Long ago it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.' That was true then. It did not know because it did not care. The half that was on top cared little for the struggles, and less for the fate, of those who were underneath, so long as it was able to hold them there and keep its own seat. Votes: 2

People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to. Votes: 2

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

A half-truth is 90% of the story. The other 10% is tithed to God. Votes: 0

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. Votes: 0

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

You do not adequately protect yourself by being half awake when other are sleeping. Votes: 0

Half the time when brothers wrestle, it's just an excuse to hug each other. Votes: 0

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other. Votes: 0

I probably tweet every other day, which I know isn't half as much as some people. Votes: 0

I'm a keen runner, so I try to fit in a half hour every other day. Votes: 0

A wise man's question contains half the answer. Unfortunately the other 50% is harder to come by! Votes: 0

The hell with "love" anyway, and with every other phony, time-wasting, half-assed emotion in the world. Votes: 0

Cats like to cuddle more than any other living creature, including zombies, which are only half dead. Votes: 0

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

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

Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant. Votes: 0

You have half our gifts. I the other. Together we make a whole. Together we are much more powerful. 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

I hate going through this when we just found...," his voice trailed off."Found what?""Each other," he finished, half-smiling. Votes: 0

I hate going through this when we just found, his voice trailed off.Found what?Each other, he finished, half-smiling. 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

It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation. Votes: 0

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but would not cost half as much during the winter months. Votes: 0

Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp. Votes: 0

Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other. Votes: 0

Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane. Votes: 0

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other. Votes: 0

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. Votes: 0

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form. Votes: 0

When you say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can understand the other fellow's side. Votes: 0

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved. Votes: 0

Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half. Votes: 0

I've done a lot of work other than sci-fi, and between half-hour comedy, stage, and various movie roles, I've really tried to avoid being typecast. 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

In brief, I spend half my time trying to learn the secrets of other writers - to apply them to the expression of my own thoughts. Votes: 0

Service or giving is the other side of receiving. Giving and receiving is a full circle: a full circle feels more natural than a half circle. Votes: 0

Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce. Votes: 0

I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things. 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

I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things. 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 want to take back at least half of the “I love you”s, because I didn’t mean them as much as the other ones. Votes: 0

Without the public support, we cannot withstand two years and a half. Look at the other countries, look what happened in Libya, in Tunisia and in Egypt. 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

Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half. Votes: 0

During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant from each other. Votes: 0

People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour. Votes: 0