Half Quotes - Page 43

Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean abomination. It is a quack bolus to reduce masculinity even by the obliteration of femininity.

Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court.

Experience is only half of experience.

Half talent is no talent.

A century and a half after its birth, the modern business corporation, an artificial person made in the image of a human psychopath, now is seeking to remake real people in its image.

Since September 11th, federal terrorism investigations have resulted in charges against more than 400 suspects, and more than half of them have been convicted.

It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.

You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship!

You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so.

The best reason to abolish it, in my opinion, is that everyone should deal with his time in the best way; there is no good reason why you should get half a minute extra with each move, except that it's a bit easier for the arbiter.

I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.

People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.

Half-way through any big project, everyone forgets what they're doing.

I speak to the broken halves of all our selves and tell them to embrace, loving the worst in us equally with the best.

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

Half the time I don't even think about it, I just throw something on because I'm so late or so busy.

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.

In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.

I might be in a bit of a Skoda garage rather than a Mercedes garage, but I am telling you some old bangers don't half polish up great.

Who's started has half finished.

Solar bursts typically last from half a minute to a couple of minutes and often sound like a rapid hissing noise followed by a gradual decrease back to the original audio level.

Did the priest you mentioned tell you about them? Or did he send you out to blunder along on your own?They're an odd lot. Half of them are soldiers, or priests in disgui- Ah.Is your priest with them?" "No!" He snapped. Ping. He jumped. He'd forgotten the bell. "I mean, I don't know". Ping. "There is no particular priest."Ping. He bit his lip and fell silent.

The half is greater than the whole.

I rejoice in my spine, as in the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the world.