Half Quotes - page 11

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun. (Flip Wilson)
Let the business of the world take care of itself ... My business is to get the world saved; if this involves the standing still of the looms and the shutting up of the factories, and the staying of the sailing of the ships, let them all stand still. When we have got everybody converted they can go on again, and we shall be able to keep things going then by working half time and have the rest to spend in loving one another and worshipping God. View quote
William Booth
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations. View quote
Horace Walpole
A cross borne in simplicity, without the interference of self-love to augment it, is only half a cross. Suffering in this simplicity of love, we are not only happy in spile of the cross, but because of it; for love is pleased in suffering for the Well Beloved, and the cross which forms us into His image is a consoling bond of love. View quote
François Fénelon
I took the position of organizing 126 Democrats who voted against the Iraq war resolution. And I happen to think it was the right position.Today we're faced with over 500 casualties, a cost of over $200 billion, and it could rise - the casualties could go into the thousands and the costs could go over a half trillion if we stay there for years, as a number of people on this stage intend to see happen. View quote
Dennis Kucinich
A young man's ambition - to get along in the world and make a place for himself - half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released. View quote
Robert Penn Warren
By the early seventies I had become an Englishman - that is to say, I hated England just as much as half my compatriots seemed to do. View quote
Nick Hornby
Ian McEwan is a very good writer; the first half of Atonement alone would ensure him a lasting place in English letters. View quote
John Banville
Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy, looking for the philosopher's stone. That was the pebble by the seashore he really wanted to find. View quote
Fritz Leiber
A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment. View quote
Michael Chabon
Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives. (Thomas Browne)
Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
When Time who steals our years away Shall steal our pleasures too, The mem'ry of the past will stay, And half our joys renew. View quote
Thomas Moore
We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Parlette spoke slowly and evenly. "I am trying to prevent a bloodbath. Is that clear enough for you? I'm trying to prevent a civil war that could kill half the people in this world." View quote
Larry Niven
Pleasing ware is half sold. View quote
George Herbert
Greetings, conversationalists across the fruited plain, this is Rush Limbaugh, the most dangerous man in America, with the largest hypothalamus in North America, serving humanity simply by opening my mouth, destined for my own wing in the Museum of Broadcasting, executing everything I do flawlessly with zero mistakes, doing this show with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair because I have talent on loan from... God. Rush Limbaugh. A man. A legend. A way of life. View quote
Rush Limbaugh
Were I laid on Greenland's Coast, And in my Arms embrac'd my Lass; Warm amidst eternal Frost, Too soon the Half Year's Night would pass. View quote
John Gay
We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back. View quote
Malala Yousafzai
The general election of 1983 has produced one important result that has passed virtually without comment in the media. It is that, for the first time since 1945, a political party with an openly socialist policy has received the support of over eight and a half million people. This is a remarkable development by any standards and it deserves some analysis ... the 1983 Labour manifesto commanded the loyalty of millions of voters and a democratic socialist bridge-head in public understanding and support can be made. View quote
Tony Benn
But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half. (Richard Cobden)
Let us imagine that the aboriginal-original human specimen was one of two brother apes, A and B; they were alike in every respect; both were animal space-binders; but something strange happened to B; he became the first time-binder, a human. ... He had thus a new faculty, he belonged to a new dimension; but, of course, he did not realize it; and because he had this new capacity he was able to analyze his brother "A"; he observed "A is my brother; he is an animal; but he is my brother; therefore, I AM AN ANIMAL." This fatal first conclusion, reached by false analogy, by neglecting a fact, has been the chief source of human woe for half a million years and it still survives. ... He [then] said to himself, "If I am an animal there is also in me something higher, a spark of some thing supernatural." View quote
Alfred Korzybski
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. View quote
Will Durant
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation if fifteen minutes, three days if half an hour, two days if an hour, I am ready now. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
I've actually become much, much dumber through being married and having these children. I find that I'm not half as sharp that I once was. I can't even help them with their 4th and 5th grade vocabulary and math work at this point. View quote
Patrick Warburton