Half Quotes - Page 44

Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?

A bird in a cage is not half a bird.

Half of life is up - the other half is dealing with it.

I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it.

An optimist is a man who sees everything half as bad and twice as good as it is.

Man is more than half of nature's treasure.

I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.

Everyone has a mad half-hour once a month.

Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.

And I tell you truly, Danaerys, there is no man in all the world who will ever be half so true to you as me.

I ain't one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience that when a fellow has that half knowledge he finds it's the other half which would really come in handy.

It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

A crumb is a great thing: If you break a crumb in half, you don't get two half-crumbs, you get two crumbs. Doesn't that violate some law of physics?

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

It's horrible, horrible, horrible. It took a year and a half until I found out that I had post-natal depression.

To your care and recommendation am I indebted for having replaced a half-blind mathematician with a mathematician with both eyes, which will especially please the anatomical members of my Academy.

To call it a crime against Mankind is to miss at least half its significance, it is also the punishment of a crime.

An anarchist does not want to rule others and does not want others to rule him. Nothing is so despicable as half-an-anarchist.

Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.

I am completely half afraid to think.

We've consistently seen, since the late 1990s, that more than half of women believe that abortion should be severely restricted or abolished altogether.

Do nothing by halves which can be done by quarters.

A life is not meant to be half lived. It is meant to be fully, wholly embraced. If you want to make a change in the world you have to be strong. You have to take chances. You have to persevere. Sometimes you must blindly go in a direction that you may be unsure of, but one that you have faith will lead you to the right place.

If I waited for a proper occasion to get dressed up I'd never wear half of these clothes. Put on the clothes and you make things happen to match them. It doesn't work the other way around.