Half Quotes - page 16

Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost. (Milan Kundera)
The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound. View quote
Adam Smith
Why should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die? Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh. View quote
John Keble
All comedians are a bit attention-seeking and I'm no different. Anyone with the audacity to want to be listened to for an hour and a half must be. View quote
Jimmy Carr
I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that. View quote
Diana, Princess of Wales
Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect. View quote
Nicholas D. Kristof
One of the most puzzling things about a novel is that "the way it really was” half the time is, and half the time isn't, the way it ought to be in the novel. View quote
Randall Jarrell
Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo-shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance, superstition, poverty, eccentricity, unrecognized anachronism, passion and ignorance and the little boy's misery. Yeats was treated well but was bitterly unhappy; he prayed that he would die, and used often to say to himself: "When you are grown up, never talk as grown-up people do of the happiness of childhood.”. View quote
Randall Jarrell
Both in verse and in prose [Karl] Shapiro loves, partly out of indignation and partly out of sheer mischievousness, to tell the naked truths or half-truths or quarter-truths that will make anybody's hair stand on end; he is always crying: "But he hasn't any clothes on!” about an emperor who is half the time surprisingly well-dressed. View quote
Randall Jarrell
What is the spiritual battle? Well, the soul is a garden divided into two parts. On one half are planted thorny bushes, and on the other half flowers. We also have a water pump with two taps and two channels. The one guides the water to the thorns and the other to the flowers. I always have the choice to open one or the other tap. I leave the thorns without water and they dry up, I water the flowers and they blossom. (Porphyrios of Kafsokalyvia)
A postcard. Neat handwriting fills the rectangle. Half my days I cannot bear to touch you. The rest of my time I feel like it doesn't matter if I will ever see you again. It isn't the morality, it's how much you can bear. No date. No name attached. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
When people look you in the eye and call you stupid, dont look away, but tell them that half of the world is stupid and they are one of them because they are dening their own stupidity. View quote
Meg Cabot
For the first half of your life each minute feels like a year, but for the second half, each year feels like a minute. View quote
Melanie Gideon
Your waist size should not be more than half your height. View quote
Mehmet Oz
If you are unable to change many aspects of your work, you must alter your mindset – learning to stop thinking about your work as boring or dull; viewing the glass as half full rather than half empty; finding the positives in your daily work and career. View quote
Nigel Cumberland
It's tough to get out of bed; I know that myself. You can lie there for an hour and a half without thinking anything, just worrying about what the day holds and knowing that you won't be able to deal with it. View quote
Ned Vizzini
We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive. View quote
Neale Donald Walsch
Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us. View quote
Neal Shusterman
A novel is a relationship, you know? When you read a book, the writer has done half the work, and you're doing half the work. You're providing the imagination, the words are turning into pictures in your mind, there's an active relationship that's going on. View quote
Noah Hawley
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. (Noah Hawley)
There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake. View quote
Orison Swett Marden
The morning meal was served in traditional socialist fashion- very slowly, with the courses out of order so that the jelly arrived half an hour after the toast and the coffee didn't come until we'd called for the check. However, it was hard to be angry at a place that had ice cream, beer, and cigarettes on its breakfast menu. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
There is a fine line in the Third World between half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe and half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe so they can throw you in jail. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step. View quote
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