Half Quotes - Page 58

I think if you're half-hearted you shouldn't go into acting.

I half cherish the hope that the end of history will be Swissness.

It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it.

[The] taste [of the French] is too timid to be true taste--or is but half taste.

Day by day. No yesterdays and no tomorrows. The barometer never changes, the flag is always at half-mast.

The human race cannot forever exist half-exploiters and half-exploited.

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.

I am free to confess that I am disappointed with the Yosemite valley. It seems only about one-half as grand as the American Fork canyon.

Self-pity is the worst poverty. When a person says, 'I am...' with pity, before he has said anything more he has diminished himself to half of what he is; and what is said further, diminishes him totally; nothing more of him is left afterwards.

I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.

We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it.

The glasses were half full, which meant that the guests were completely so

The voice, Afghan matchmakers say, is more than half of love.

nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.

My solo albums were each like a half-finished puzzle; they represented only the beginning of a full picture. Simply put, they were inadequate and incomplete.

I once performed The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to about 15 sea captains. The song was about a ship that broke in half and sank.

The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

Well, I'm half Italian, so last year on Warped Tour I got this really good tan and I was like, bummer.

Docility is the observable half of reason.

I never lifted a weight in my life. Why am I going to do steroids? That's not going to do me any good. We didn't have any weights in our clubhouse. We had one exercise bike and that was for the guy who tweaked his hamstring. And that thing didn't even work half the time.

People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs.

If the paintings are too large, cut them in half!

Prevent the things you have been doing and you are half-way home.

It would be about as easy for an American to become a Chinaman or a Hindoo as for him to acquire an Englishness or a Frenchness or a European-ness that is more than half skin deep.

Of all the excellent copyedits I've received over the years, Marie-Lynn Hammond's was by far the best. Her work on Half Blood Blues was incredibly sensitive and astute.