Half Quotes - page 3

Desire is half of life indifference is half of death. (Kahlil Gibran)
Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
By night an atheist half believes in a God. View quote
Edward Young
The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series. View quote
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician. View quote
Gottlob Frege
He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin. View quote
Horace
I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good. View quote
Mark Twain
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. View quote
Mark Twain
I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true. (Mark Twain)
One half of my life has put the other half in the grave. View quote
Pierre Corneille
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true. View quote
Winston Churchill
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. View quote
C. S. Lewis
Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking. View quote
Bill Cosby
During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms. View quote
Johannes V. Jensen
It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken. View quote
Margaret of Valois
Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life. View quote
Nam June Paik
Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Knowing that you possess a talent is half the battle in mastering it. View quote
Lin Carter
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. (Henry David Thoreau)
In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole. View quote
George Eliot
I am an Egyptian Muslim, educated in Cairo and New York, and now living in Vienna. My wife and I have spent half our lives in the North, half in the South. And we have experienced first hand the unique nature of the human family and the common values we all share. View quote
Mohamed ElBaradei
Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half. View quote
Jan Timman
Alas it is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life to light the fires of passion with from day to day, that man begins to see that the leaves which remain are few in number. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow