Half Quotes - Page 38

If by believing you mean praying to an anthropomorphic deity who created the world and half controls it and half observes it, then I am probably not a believer. But if you mean that it is not all accidental, that there is a mystery to existence, a deeper meaning, that I do believe in.

Finding out the truth is only half of it. It's what you do with it that matters.

I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.

And almost half of American oil consumption is for motor vehicles.

Half the fun is plan to plan

For my part, getting up seems not so easy By half as lying.

Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business.

If it were not for a goodly supply of rumors, half true and half false, what would the gossips do?

Great thoughts in crude, unshapely verse set forth lose half their preciousness, and ever must, unless the diamond with its own rich dust be cut and polished, it seems little worth.

Over half a billion dollars a day is being spent by FEMA.

I did an internship with Mike (Shanahan) and the Redskins last summer and I knew after a week and a half that it wasn't for me. I think I knew that going in, but I wanted to make sure.

Go to meet destiny halfway and destiny will come to your assistance.

Someone told me that each equation I included in my book would halve the sales. I did put in one equation, Einstein's famous equation, E = MC squared. I hope that this will not scare off half of my potential readers.

A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he

Some poems present themselves as cliffs that need to be climbed. Others are so defensive that when you approach their enclosure you half expect to be met by a snarling dog at the gate. Still others want to smother you with their sticky charms.

I only listen to my own music when I'm playing an hour-and-half set each night. I don't put it on recreationally.

Oh, I'm not English, I cannot talk on behalf of an English person. I'm French. I can say about French. They are quite emotional, though, and they talk about their emotions

He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.

I have lived in the United States for half of my life, my entire adult life.

In gymnastics, the longest routine you do is a minute and a half, and that's pretty tough to get through.

There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably done.

Many leave the labours of half their life to their executors and to chance, because they will not send them abroad unfinished, and are unable to finish them, having prescribed to themselves such a degree of exactness as human diligence can scarcely ontain.

Women are more than half of our globe, more than half of our promise and potential. And we have been not only underusing that resource but suppressing it.

George W. Bush attended the intelligence briefing every day. Obama has not even attended half of them. He sends surrogates. That to me is significant.

Half-heartedness doesn't reach into majesty. You set out to find God, but then you keep stopping for long periods at meanspirited roadhouses.