Half Quotes - Page 28

If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.

As for food, half of my friends have dug their graves with their teeth.

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

The apparently unendurable conflict is proof of the rightness of your life. A life without contradiction is only half a life; or else a life in the Beyond, which is destined only for angels. But God loves human beings more than the angels.

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later.

There's something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can't help getting in sync.

Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.

Some people might only recognize me half naked in my bikini and bra!

The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.

A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree - or even, occasionally, the careless - may turn out to be half a life.

After four and a half intense and wonderful years as CEO of Groupon, I've decided that I'd like to spend more time with my family. Just kidding - I was fired today.

I spent the first half of my career learning what to put into my work, and the second half learning what to leave out.

Life is too brief and too rich to tiptoe through half-heartedly, rather than galloping at it with whooping excitement and ambition.

For a film I shot on the most difficult mountain on God's wide earth in Patagonia for a sequence where there was high probability some digital effects were needed, somebody made storyboards and I quickly ignored them, after half an hour I ignored them and I never used any digital effect.

There's not many businesses where someone can come in and offer to cut the price in half and somebody doesn't think about shifting. But that's the nature of the ratings business.

Take, for example, Lithuania. Do you know, what was its population in the Soviet times? It was 3.4 mln people. It was a small country, a small republic. And what is it now? I have looked though the recent statistics, today the population of this country is 1.4 mln people. Where are the people? More than half of the citizens have left the country.

Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold holds you.

Let's face it, most of us are not half as smart as we may sometimes think we are-- and for intellectuals, not one-tenth as smart.

You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.

The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.

The playful kitten, with its pretty little tigerish gambols, is infinitely more amusing than half the people one is obliged to live with in the world.

We should recognize that on the day that we are born, our glass is half full. In America your chance to fill your glass the rest of the way up is greater than it is anyplace else on this planet.

Thirty years ago I was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, and given two and a half years to live. I have always wondered how they could be so precise about the half.

Half-truths are the devil's IOUs.