Half Quotes - Page 56

The rich pay more in total taxes now than ever before - ever. It's true. Just like it's true that when the rich are convinced they're going to be taxed more, they spend less. And when the top few percenters don't spend, there goes all your spending, because they account for half of all retail spending.

In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything.

The largest portion of our state budget is Health and Human Services. It will grow by approximately $500 million. A half a billion dollars is a very big number.

I'm a half-demon princess. Sure. What's so hard to grasp about that?

The Red Sox are a curious thing because so much here is media driven. You can't go fire half your scouts here because they are all friends with the local reporters. Your life is going to hell in the papers.

I'm a positive thinker and actor. I look at a glass; a negative person sees the glass and says: too bad it's half empty... I look at the same glass and say: Hallelujah!! It's half full!!!

Women always think that I'm Chandler, so if I don't joke around for half an hour they think that something's wrong. Then I explain that I don't have comedy writers scripting everything I'm saying at this particular dinner.

Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs.

Rule of art: let half-blind purpose lead you.

To me, the glass is half-empty some days and half-full on others. Sometimes it's bone-dry. Or overflowing.

Yet is beauty the pleasing trickery that cheateth half the world.

With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation and you stick in an extra zero, everything just crashes into the ravine.

I like when you watch a film and you feel like you're a part of somebody's life for an hour and a half.

[My half-sister] Ella and I always were much closer as basic types; we're dominant people, and [my other half-sister] Mary has always been mild and quiet, almost shy.

Compliment others on the virtues they have; and they're not half as pleased as being complimented for the ones they don't have.

Ah, when love dies, women lose two and a half inches in height.

The worst criminals are not half so immoral as the creators and perpetrators of the unquestionable hell of Christian theology

There ought to be only one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works and from which he could carry away whatever he needed. As it is one must be half a tradesman.

It is better not to be loved than to be ill-loved or half-loved.

The first half was end-to-end stuff. In contrast, in this second half it's been one end to the other.

I used to sit home with my computer and write. After the Newbery, I probably spend more than half my time on the road.

The painter must be solitary. For if you are alone you are completely yourself, but if you are accompanied by a single companion, you are only half yourself.

You have these crops of poppies that supply something like 90% of the heroin sold in Europe and actually represents more than half of the Afghanistan's GDP.

Of course I'm sure half the people there hate me and half the people like me

The next time someone tells you, "The Church is full of a bunch of hypocrites." You can respond, "You don't even know the half of it."