Half Quotes - Page 51

The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily be buried, or half-buried, by the life.

Half a loaf is better than no bread.

Fuss is half-sister to hurry, and neither of them can do anything without getting in their own way.

You always hear people saying, 'I hope I'm not turning into my dad', but I'd be honoured if I became half as decent a bloke as he is.

The great barrier to worship among God's people is not that we are always seeking our own satisfaction, but that our seeking is so weak and half-hearted that we settle for little sips at broken cisterns when the fountain of life is just over the next hill.

Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes.

Half a loaf is better than none.

There are no half-hearted champions.

Before Medicare, nearly half of American seniors were forced to go without coverage because insurance companies were reluctant to insure them - making the chances of having health insurance as a senior the same as getting tails on a coin flip.

"I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else"

If you're working as secretary of state but half of your emails are about your own private business, since when is secretary of state such a leisurely job that half of your time and half of your email are spent on your own private business? There's something really wrong with that picture.

I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I’m half ground, that I don’t want to be a sausage after all.

The world, a tired performer, offers us another half-assed season.

I never boxed until 17 and a half, I was in the Olympics at 19, and I was world champion when I was 20. I never watched a boxing match life in my life. The only boxer I had ever heard of was Muhammad Ali.

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.

A new study says that over half of all Californians are obese. In fact, half of Californians are really two-thirds of Californians.

there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.

Well, I was living it, but a shared dream half-lived is a hollow thing

Half-man, half-beast, all nightmare. The shapeshifter warrior form.

The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.

If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out of someone.

He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.

Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.