Half Quotes - Page 15

Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose heads are filled with half-truths and lies.

There is a ban on Indian films in Pakistan, so that's half of our market gone.

I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the past - a combination of both.

A relationship is not two halves coming together to make a whole. Each of you is already complete.

The unsound convert takes Christ by halves. He is all for the salvation of Christ, but is not for sanctification. He is for the privileges, but does not appropriate the person of Christ.

I am not one for half measures or half-hearted efforts.

I've got a friend who is half-Jewish and half-Italian. If he can't buy it wholesale, he steals it!

A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie.

No matter how good you are, at top pf your game, always remember that you're a half a step away from the street.

'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.

Do you know the story of the scorpion and the frog? You know, the frog agrees to carry the scorpion across the river, because the scorpion promises not to sting him. And then the scorpion stings the frog, half way across the river. The drowning frog asks him why he did it, when they'll both drown, and the scorpion says that he's a scorpion, and it's his nature to sting.

About half the practice of a decent lawyer is telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should shut up.

Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.

No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before.

Linda and I aren't one and one. We are two halves that make a whole -- two halves fitted together are more efficient than either half would ever be alone!

I've never been swimming, and that's because it's never been more than half an hour since I last ate.

At your next breath each of you will probably inhale half a dozen or so of the molecules of Caesar’s last breath.

When a woman writes you a poem, she spends time with the gods on your behalf.

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

A well begun is half ended.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

Wednesdays were the best thing about Atlantis. The middle of the week was a traditional holiday there. Everyone stopped work and celebrated the fact that half the week was over.

Its haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.

The great thing in hitting is, not to be half-hearted about it; but when you make up your mind to hit, to do it as if the whole match depended upon that particular stroke.