Half Quotes - page 97

It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted. The charm of adventure sweetens that sensation, the glow of pride warms it; but then the throb of fear disturbs it; and fear with me became predominant when half an hour elapsed, and still I was alone. (Charlotte Brontë)
I was always superthin, too skinny, actually. I felt like someone could break me in half. I realize now that being a bit more curvy and toned is so much more beautiful. View quote
Ashley Tisdale
Half the time on vacation, if I'm in a bikini, I allow myself - I eat, like, waffles and pancakes for breakfast, so that's me after, like, a big meal. I'm not the one that's like, 'Oh my gosh, I'm going to be on the beach.' View quote
Ashley Tisdale
I can take a week's vacation - maybe a week and a half - but after that, I'm itching to go back to work. View quote
Ashley Tisdale
On that fundamental ground Where love's unwilled, unleashed, unbound And half the perfect world is found. View quote
Leonard Cohen
The candles burned The moon went down The polished hill The milky town Transparent, weightless, luminous Uncovering the two of us On that fundamental ground Where love's unwilled, unleashed, unbound And half the perfect world is found. View quote
Leonard Cohen
I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life. View quote
Kinky Friedman
In the twelve months immediately preceding the outbreak; of war, the quantity of spirits, both domestic and imported released for sale in Canada, amounted to over three and a half million proof gallons. View quote
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies. View quote
Irving Berlin
Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies. View quote
Irving Berlin
This is a counter-revolution. After half a century of democratic advance, of social revolution, of rising expectations, the whole process has ground to a halt with a fourteenth Earl. (Alec Douglas-Home)
We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction. View quote
Blaise Pascal
Over half of all AIDS cases involving children are directly related to unclean syringes. View quote
George Soros
I'll very often just start humming my way through a scene. Say, OK the tempo should be about like this, it should pause here, it should pick up here. And very often I'll make up a little melody just to do that. About half of the little melodies in the score for Jonah are those little melodies that I made up just to use to kind of pace a scene and then we got kind of attached to them. View quote
Phil Vischer
The life of a woman is worth half of that of a man [in Iran]. If a terrorist attacks me and my brother on the street and we are both injured the same, the compensation he receives is twice as much as the compensation that I would receive. View quote
Shirin Ebadi
I'm always wondering: Have all these time-saving devices actually saved us any time, or have they just created a million fetishes and obsessions that keep us from the quiet half hour we should be taking to sit and do nothing every day? View quote
Mark Feuerstein
Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs. View quote
George Eliot
The complete emancipation of women from the ties which held them back in the past, during the ages of despotism and ignorance, is a basic aim of the Party and the Revolution. Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated. View quote
Saddam Hussein
Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won: the bravery of my troops hitherto saved me from the greater evil; but to win such a battle as this of Waterloo, at the expens of so many gallant friends, could only be termed a heavy misfortune but for the result to the public. View quote
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. View quote
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. (Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington)
You can’t prevent undernourishment so easily, but famines you can stop with half an effort. Then the question was why don’t the governments stop them? View quote
Amartya Sen
Only a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk With an old horse that stumbles and nods Half asleep as they stalk. View quote
Thomas Hardy
A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality. View quote
Solon
She certainly is a great queen, and were she only a Catholic she would be our dearly beloved. Just look how well she governs; she is only a woman, only mistress of half an island, and yet she makes herself feared by Spain, by France, by the Empire, by all. View quote
Pope Sixtus V