Half Quotes - page 10

And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind. (John Dryden)
I knew the stars, the flowers, and the birds, The gray and wintry sides of many glens, And did but half remember human words, In converse with the mountains, moors, and fens. View quote
John Millington Synge
At a time when politics deals in distortions and half truths, truth is to be found in the liberal arts. There's something afoot in this country and you are very much a part of it. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
Frankfurt, discussing a stuntman: He missed being killed in that shot be literally half an inch. View quote
Guillermo del Toro
A theme that appears repeatedly in the writings of the social critics of the second half of the 20th century is the sense of purposelessness that afflicts many people in modern society. View quote
Theodore Kaczynski
I don't know. I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them. In those simple relationships of loving husband and wife, affectionate sisters, children and grandmother, there are innumerable shades of sweetness and anguish which make up the pattern of our lives day by day, though they are not down in the list of subjects from which the conventional novelist works. View quote
Willa Cather
A fly was very close to being called a "land," cause that's what they do half the time. View quote
Mitch Hedberg
O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire. View quote
Robert Browning
The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
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? (Jodi Picoult)
Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. View quote
Amy Tan
If you were half as funny as you thought you were, my boy, you'd be twice as funny as you are. View quote
Cassandra Clare
I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide. View quote
Larry David
The Dutch at close proximity looked much like Americans, apart from their peculiar uniforms, and so it was their uniforms I fired at, half convinced that I was killing, not human beings, but enemy costumes, which had borne their contents here from a distant land; and if some living man suffered for his enslavement to the uniform, or was penetrated by the bullets aimed at it-well, that was unavoidable, and the fault couldn't be placed at my feet. The private charade was not equivalent to Courage, but it enabled a Callousness that served a similar purpose. View quote
Robert Charles Wilson
I was feeling a bit down, I went to a therapist a few times, at a hundred bucks a pop. But then I realized that no therapy session would ever cheer me up half as much as if I was just strolling along and found a hundred dollar bill. View quote
Emo Philips
The film studios learned to our dismay but to their pleasure that if they spent $200 million making a film they could make half a billion on it. So they were not interested anymore in quality films... They can't afford to be that risky at those prices. Consequently you're getting a lot of remakes, sequels, dopey comedies full of toilet jokes... View quote
Woody Allen
There ought to be but one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works, and from which he could carry away whatever he needed. As it is, one must be half a tradesman. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs. View quote
Hannah More
If liberals were prevented from ever again calling Republicans dumb, they would be robbed of half their arguments. To be sure, they would still have "racist," "fascist," "homophobe," "ugly," and a few other highly nuanced arguments in the quiver. But the loss of "dumb" would nearly cripple them. View quote
Ann Coulter
If you're not drunk and half naked by this point, you're not paying attention. (Chuck Palahniuk)
The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle. View quote
David Mamet
But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart. View quote
Edith Wharton
It was precisely this notion of infinite series which in the sixth century BC led the Greek philosopher Zeno to conclude that since an arrow shot towards a target first had to cover half the distance, and then half the remainder, and then half the remainder after that, and so on ad infinitum, the result was, as I will now demonstrate, that though an arrow is always approaching its target, it never quite gets there, and Saint Sebastian died of fright. View quote
Tom Stoppard
One's not half of two; two are halves of one. View quote
E. E. Cummings