Half Quotes - Page 57

Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century.

For me, preparing the canvas takes longer than painting. The actual painting takes about half an hour.

You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.

A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.

You can buy [John McCain's] book, but in a week and a half, he'll have another.

The worst injury I've ever seen in a fight was with Anderson Silva when his leg snapped in half.

Half of Japan still couldn't tell the difference between crime and politics.

About one-half of the members of Congress are seekers for office at the nomination of the President. Of the remainder, at least one-half have some appointment or favor to ask for their relatives.

It being our duty to mortify... we must be at work. He that is appointed to kill an enemy, if he leave striking before the other ceases living, does but half his work.

Part of my soul I seek thee, and claim thee my other half

Half of my heart’s got a grip on the situation, half of my heart takes time.

There is an old saying "well begun is half done"-'tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all 'til half done.

A woman half dressed seemed to have some power, but a man was simply not as handsome as when he was naked, and not as secure as when he was clothed.

It was safe to assume that the rider would be carrying a weapon of some kind. After all, there was no point in wearing half armor and going weaponless.

Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.

It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes; to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place.

Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.

She was a level-headed woman who saw the glass as neither half empty nor half full, but rather a glass with something in it and room to pour in more.

He handed her the other half of his candy bar. She stared at it like it was a brick of gold. "I'm on a diet." But she took it. "A see-food diet, apparently. I see food and I eat it.

Nearly a half-century on from feminism, simply being a woman artist is still a revolutionary act. And getting one's work shown continues to be met by enormous inbuilt resistance.

I'd spent half of my life crying, the other half refusing to cry

Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.

A German psychologist says that women talk more than men because they have a bigger vocabulary. But, it evens out because men only listen half the time.

Actually, I'm probably 99-and-a-half percent plastic now.

This is as 'alone' as I'm likely to get with you - you're not half so fetching as your daughter.