Half Quotes - Page 23

Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.

In the game of life, nothing is less important than the score at halftime.

I've always juggled a lot of projects because at least half the projects you do get shelved. So you have to do a lot of things in order for things to move forward.

In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel.

If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.

Half a calamity is better than a whole one.

As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.

Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome.

To a police officer, a sawed off shotgun is the ultimate nightmare. You can blow someone in half!

No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.

I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.

people say churches are half empty, they're not, they're too big

But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.

The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.

Kristin Bauer is so funny. Half the time I'm working with her I'm just trying to keep a straight face.

Getting there isn't half the fun - it's all the fun.

That 'change makes us uncomfortable' is now one of the most widely promoted, widely accepted, and under-considered half-truths around. [I]t is not change by itself that makes us uncomfortable; it is not even change that involves taking on something very difficult. Rather, it is change that leaves us feeling defenseless before the dangers we 'know' to be present that causes us anxiety.

The man who tells lies hides the truth, but the man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.

Sophistry, like poison, is at once detected and nauseated, when presented to us in a concentrated form; but a fallacy which, when stated barely in a few sentences, would not deceive a child, may deceive half the world, if diluted in a quarto volume.

Once God and grace move us to the second half of life, religion becomes a mystical matter, rather than a moral matter.

Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

The beginning is half of the whole.

I hope I have given back half the joy music has given me.

Character is half the reason we read. We're excited because of the plot, but we care because of the characters.

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.