Half Quotes - Page 36

You have to be proactive about your destiny and then realize that the other half of it is completely out of your control. I think it's fascinating.

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.

For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.

It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties.

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it.

Production speed is severely slowed down if one works with half-time people who have other obligations as well. This is at least a factor of four; probably it is worse.

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.

There's 67 percent of women that are in this plus-size world that we live in. And that's over half of the women in the world. So why are we not dressing for [them]?

I'm visiting my high school. Every half year I do the exams, and then this year I'm going to graduate.

If you take the best of Wayne Dyer and add it to the best of Anthony Robbins, what you would have would only be half as good as Steve Chandler.

I often get disoriented on stage. Half the time I don't even know where I am.

People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect.

Half of my employees are women.

The world meets nobody half way.

In politics, as in religion, it so happens, that we have less charity for those who believe the half of our creed, than for those that deny the whole of it; since if Servetus had been a Mohammedan, he would not have been burnt by Calvin.

The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours.

If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.

I spent half my life, roughly speaking, doing the study of nature in many aspects and half of my life studying completely artificial shapes. And the two are extraordinarily close; in one way both are fractal.

After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together.

Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.

There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done.

Broke my femur on a cruise with my wife in Italy. I'd walked back to my cabin after dinner with half a plate of spaghetti when I leaned in to open the door. Turns out it was already open, so I fell flat on my face like something from the Keystone Kops.

If you buy a man who is half dead, everybody may be happy off the field, but on the field you'll have major problems

If I find myself half-carelessly taking lapses for granted, "Oh, that's what they always do." "Oh, of course she talks like that, he acts like that," then I know nothing of Calvary love.