Half Quotes - page 9

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Half light, half shade, She stood, a sight to make an old man young. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Today just 400 Americans have more wealth than half of all Americans combined. View quote
Michael Moore
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable. View quote
Raymond Chandler
"When I was a freshman, I fooled around with shooting free throws this way: For some reason, I thought you had to stay within the top half of that free-throw circle, so I would step back to just inside the top of the circle, take off from behind the line and dunk. They outlawed that, but I wouldn't have done it in a game, anyway. I was a good free throw shooter in college." Actually he was a 62% free throw shooter, which is poor except in comparison to his 51% as a pro. View quote
Wilt Chamberlain
O thrush, your song is passing sweet But never a song that you have sung, Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear Love and I were young. View quote
William Morris
There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne - bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive. View quote
Karen Blixen
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Half the trouble about the modern man is that he is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a man. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting. (Thomas Henry Huxley)
The account of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, as the manuscripts are inaccurately designated, and of the half a century of intense research that followed, is in itself a fascinating as well as an exasperating story. View quote
Geza Vermes
I actually am fairly uncomfortable about it, even if our firm stipulation was that they cannot tell us what to do. We are simply doing what we do anyways - securing software - and they have no say in the matter. I try to convince myself that our grant means a half of a cruise missile doesn't get built. View quote
Theo de Raadt
Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people. View quote
Samuel P. Huntington
The wife, or bitter half. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
True, more than a half of the green graves in the Grafton cemetery are marked "Unknown," and sometimes it occurs that one thinks of the contradiction involved in "honoring the memory" of him of whom no memory remains to honor; but the attempt seems to do no great harm to the living, even to the logical. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
The Hindu religion appears ... as a cathedral temple, half in ruins, noble in the mass, often fantastic in detail but always fantastic with a significance - crumbling or badly outworn in places, but a cathedral temple in which service is still done to the Unseen and its real presence can be felt by those who enter with the right spirit. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world. View quote
Ted Turner
What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots. View quote
Emil Cioran
What happens if you get scared half to death twice. View quote
Steven Wright
Viewers have a way of remembering the celebrity while forgetting the product. I did not know this when I paid Eleanor Roosevelt $35,000 to make a commercial for margarine. She reported that her mail was equally divided. "One half was sad because I had damaged my reputation. The other half was happy because I had damaged my reputation." (David Ogilvy)
I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws. View quote
S. J. Perelman
The first objection to Darwinism is that it is only a guess and was never anything more. It is called a "hypothesis,” but the word "hypothesis,” though euphonioous, dignified and high-sounding, is merely a scientific synonym for the old-fashioned word "guess.” If Darwin had advanced his views as a guess they would not have survived for a year, but they have floated for half a century, buoyed up by the inflated word "hypothesis.” When it is understood that "hypothesis” means "guess,” people will inspect it more carefully before accepting it. View quote
William Jennings Bryan
The most spectacular event of the past half century is one that did not occur. We have enjoyed sixty years without nuclear weapons exploded in anger. View quote
Thomas Schelling
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. View quote
Omar Bradley