Half Quotes - Page 41

I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place.

I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.

What would have become of Ohio State if I said everything? Half the team would have been suspended, and it would have been worse for everybody. I was like, 'Why don't I just take it?'

Music is half the film.

Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths.

I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy.

Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.

When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is morbid and unhealthy.

No half measures. Some things can’t be cut in half. You can’t half-love someone. You can’t half-betray, or half-lie.

He could say nothing. He had no right to be there, he had already been profoundly changed, he was no good at small talk, she was half naked, it was dawn and he loved her.

I am a stranger to half measures. With life I am on the attack, restlessly ferreting out each pleasure, foraging for answers, wringing from it even the pain. I ransack life, hunt it down. I am the hungry peasants storming the palace gates. I will have my share. No matter how it tastes.

No one is above the law and that I would pursue justice on their behalf.

half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.

Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand.

The best way to save face is not to use the lower half.

I wondered about the half-life of regret.

Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.

We are in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. The great point is to choose good models and to study them with care.

We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation.

Cynicism is more than a pose; it's also a handy time saver. By deflating your companion's enthusiasm, you can cut conversations in half.

If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner.

A garden is half made when it is well planned.

You would have to be half-mad to dream me up.