Half Quotes - Page 22

Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.

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.

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.

Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy , looking for the philosopher's stone. That was the pebble by the seashore he really wanted to find.

I live in my own place - have never copied anyone even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh.

Sometimes in life situations develop that only the half-crazy can get out of.

When you sit for an hour and a half in front of somebody, he or she shows about twenty faces. And so it's this crazy chase of, Which face? Which one is the one?

I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.

My drawings have to be quick. If they don't happen in 20 minutes or a half hour, then they're no good.

She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour.

What do you call a stock that's down 90%? A stock that was down 80% and then got cut in half.

If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

For me, it's always been the initial business - just getting a word down, any words down, on a blank piece of paper. Once I've done that, I'm away. Beginning is one half of the deed.

Dude, the place is filling up," I say. "It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass." Like somehow we're running out of time.

Half our fears arise from neglect of the Bible.

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

We were once getting married. And I have loved you all this time- a century and a half. -Jem

If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you are now.

It's a big responsibility to be the main part of a film because if you don't like me, you have a problem for two-and-a-half hours.

Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.

Instead of facing a crisis as I approached middle age, I discovered that a new and better life lay before me. I called the process of discovery 'halftime,' and the outcome led to my second half.

Half the spiritual life consists of remembering what we are up against and where we are going.

I'm falling apart, one part after another. Falling down on the world like snow. Half of me is already on the ground, watching from below.