Half Quotes - page 41

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable. (Gloria Steinem)
Now here I was, half Jane Wyman, half Shirley Temple, and people began to stop me in the street and say, 'Don't worry, Barbara, it's all right, you won't lose your job.' It was really very touching. View quote
Barbara Walters
So I begged, half way into season two, for them to let me cut my hair. View quote
Charisma Carpenter
So, I'm happy to do that because it's a wonderful working relationship but I will be going out for pilot season for half hour work and that's the gamble I'm taking. View quote
Charisma Carpenter
Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles. View quote
Tracy Chevalier
We're half the people; we should be half the Congress. View quote
Jeannette Rankin
We discovered we are both pleasantly furious half of the time, When we're not just toeing the line. View quote
Ani DiFranco
O infinitely human, yet divine! Half clinging childlike to the mother found, Yet half repelling - as the soft eyes say, "How is it that ye sought me? Wist ye not That I must be about my Father's business?" View quote
Dinah Craik
Drink, my jolly lads, drink with discerning, Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning; Never was owl more blind than a lover, Drink and be merry, lads, half seas over. View quote
Dinah Craik
"Believe only half of what you see, and nothing that you hear," is a cynical saying, and yet less bitter than at first appears. It does not argue that human nature is false, but simply that it is human nature. How can any fallible human being with two eyes, two ears, one judgment, and one brain - all more or less limited in their apprehensions of things external, and biased by a thousand internal impressions, purely individual - how can we possibly decide on even the plainest actions of another, to say nothing of the words, which may have gone through half-a-dozen different translations and modifications, or the motives, which can only be known to the Omniscient Himself? View quote
Dinah Craik
Our times are in his hand Who saith, "A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!" (Robert Browning)
Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light; But oh, she dances such a way! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight. View quote
John Suckling
The adverse economic events following the First World War turned me toward economics... I learned during my youth how hard it was for farm families to stay solvent. Farm product prices fell abruptly by more than half. Banks went bankrupt and many farmers suffered foreclosures. Was politics or economics to blame? I opted for economics. View quote
Theodore Schultz
Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant. View quote
Marilyn vos Savant
No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time. View quote
Marilyn vos Savant
Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already? View quote
Ernest Hemingway
How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury? View quote
Jodi Picoult
I live and work with three basic assumptions, 1) There is no problem in science that can be solved by a man that cannot be solved by a woman. 2) Worldwide, half of all brains are in women. 3) We all need permission to do science, but, for reasons that are deeply ingrained in history, this permission is more often given to men than to women. View quote
Vera Rubin
And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose. View quote
Amy Tan
I think now that fate is half shaped by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. You have to pay attention to what you lost. You have to undo the expectation. View quote
Amy Tan
Any man can face death but to be committed to bring it as close as possible while performing certain classic movements and do this again and again and again and then deal it out yourself with a sword to an animal weighing half a ton which you love is more complicated than just facing death. It is facing your performance as a creative artist each day and your necessity to function as a skillful killer. Antonio had to kill quickly and mercifully and still give the bull one full chance at him when he crossed over the horn at least twice a day. Everyone in bullfighting helps everyone else in bullfighting in the ring. In spite of all rivalries and hatreds it is the closest brotherhood there is. Only bullfighters know the risks they run and what the bull can do with his horns to their bodies and their minds. (Ernest Hemingway)
I was not allowed to take notes but my friend and I memorised those two and a half pages. Most people talked to me because of the warning. They knew this book was not going to be the official line. View quote
Jung Chang
You may keep your ten thousand talents; I am not in want of money, I have taken enough. Why only the half of your kingdom to the Euphrates? You offer me the part in exchange for the whole. Your daughter whom you speak of, I shall marry if I choose, whether given by you or not. Your family is safe; no ransom is required of you; come here yourself and make your suit to me, you shall have them free. If you desire our friendship, you have only to ask. View quote
Mary Renault
He kept telling me I was queer, and I didn't like it. The word, I mean. Shutting you away, somehow; roping you off with a lot of people you don't feel much in common with, half of whom hate the other half anyway, and just keep together so that they can lean up against each other for support. View quote
Mary Renault
It's too late," she said. "Don't say that." His voice was half a whisper. "I love you, Tessa. I love you. View quote
Cassandra Clare