Half Quotes - Page 50

It occurred to me that a lot of beauty has to do with believing it yourself. That half of what we see is just the way it is presented.

When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the noise they make. The other half is the terror at being forced to accept that they exist.

Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.

It's wrong - everyone's concentrating on the wrong thing. There's 130 million people in crisis in this world at the moment, in humanitarian crisis, and most of them are women, more than half of them are women. So can we all stop slinging mud at each other about definition?

What I am arguing, in effect, is that the full democratic system of the second half of the fifth century B.C. would not have been introduced had there been no Athenian empire.

But even creeps deserve to live someplace halfway decent.

Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.

If you cut me in half, I'm a footballer.

So I'm leaving Sony, a free agent, owning half of Sony. I own half of Sony's Publishing. I'm leaving them, and they're very angry at me, because I just did good business, you know.

I really like the half-hour comedy. I really do. I know people that are in movies all the time and they, you know, they don't see their families as much. And that takes its toll over time.

...we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves - such a friend ought to be - do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures.

We are fashioned creatures, but half made up. - Victor Frankenstein

Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world.

...Take a half-hour a day to really appreciate the good things you have. And you will feel great. If you want to feel twice as great double that time!

Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne.

I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know what was going to happen they wouldn't bother to do it.

Half the business is done, when one has gained the heart and the affections of those with whom one is to transact it.

What would I have done if my coya had been captured or killed? My mate, Sharone. The other half of everything I am. What would I have done?

It was that surrender he needed. That complete feminine submission to every stroke, every caress, ever naughty act. Only in that submission would the subconscious trust, the bond he needed between them, come. He wanted her to trust, to know, to instinctively understand that he was more than just her lover; he was her other half. The one she told her secrets to. The one, she made secrets with.

[On children:] Being built closer to the floor, they can dust the baseboards in half the time.

Everyone knows that a lot of memoirs have made-up scenes; it's obvious. And everyone knows that half the time at least fictions contain literal autobiographical truths. So how do we decide what's what, and does it even matter?

Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.

I like to work half a day. I don't care if it is the first 12 hours or the second 12 hours.

The half-life of love is forever.

A person like me... isn't even worth the tip of a toe. I can't even compare to half.