Half Quotes - page 4

To ignore the true God is in fact only half an evil; atheism is worth more than the piety bestowed on mythical gods. (Emmanuel Levinas)
Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness. View quote
Edmund Burke
Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray, to not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field that, of course, they are many in number or that, after all, they are other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour. View quote
Edmund Burke
Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear. View quote
Emma Thompson
Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you'll never make it explode. You hit it once with a hammer: Bang! Get serious. Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and half of nonsense. It's so much more rewarding. View quote
Jason Statham
When you're forty, half of you belongs to the past - and when you're seventy, nearly all of you. View quote
Jean Anouilh
A man will turn over half a library to make one book. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Sir, he Bolingbroke was a scoundrel and a coward a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death. View quote
Samuel Johnson
I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. View quote
David Attenborough
Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time. View quote
Malcolm Forbes
I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense... (Beatrix Potter)
Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible; and when you strike and overcome him, never let up in the pursuit so long as your men have strength to follow; for an army routed, if hotly pursued, becomes panic-stricken, and can then be destroyed by half their number. The other rule is, never fight against heavy odds, if by any possible maneuvering you can hurl your own force on only a part, and that the weakest part, of your enemy and crush it. Such tactics will win every time, and a small army may thus destroy a large one in detail, and repeated victory will make it invincible. View quote
Stonewall Jackson
It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour. View quote
G. I. Gurdjieff
Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl? View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction. View quote
C. J. Cherryh
Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth! View quote
Anne Tyler
A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world. View quote
Mary McCarthy
Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make. View quote
Gaston Bachelard
Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any. View quote
Edith Wharton
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half. (François Fénelon)
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project. View quote
Napoleon Hill
There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
The clever men of Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed but they none of them know one half as much as intelligent Mr. Toad. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn. View quote
Larry Niven