Half Quotes - Page 13

A man receives only what he is ready to receive, whether physically or intellectually or morally, as animals conceive at certain seasons their kind only. We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.

Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil.

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.

Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.

Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls.

In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.

After half an hour the drug hit me like a sensuous tidal wave. I turned into a tactile temptress and wanted to stroke the whole world. It gave me untold confidence.

What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract?

A thorough knowledge of the elements takes us more than half the road to mastership

Trouble that is easily recognized is half-cured.

That in all these worldly Things, that a Man pursues with the greatest Eagerness and Intention of Mind imaginable, he finds not half the Pleasure in the actual Possession of them, that he proposed to himself in the Expectation.

If competitors don't like our two to one advantage, dominating market share with both SP and DS, well, I've got bad news. Because we just made it two and a half to one.

More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.

Love is a desire for that lost half of ourselves.

The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.

While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior.

It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy straw.

I'm half Hawaiian and the haka is a very sacred thing, something your family teaches you - my father taught me.

All of Hollywood is run on one assumption: That women will watch stories about men, but men won't watch stories about women. It is a horrible indictment of our society of we assume that one half of our population is just not interested in the other half.

A problem is often half-solved when it is clearly stated.

Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.

A lot of chefs don't have a natural sense of economy. I was with one guy the other day and I had to show him how to peel a turnip, because the way he was peeling turnips, he was throwing half of it in the garbage. It's not about being cheap. It's about being proper.

The ungodly are not half so restrained in their blasphemy as we are in our praise.

It's an honor to be compared with Terry Bradshaw. If I could do half of what he did, I'd be very happy.