Half Quotes - Page 66

The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to break his head and he picks it up and buy victuals with it, the physical effect is good. But with respect to me the action is very wrong.

My kid is a year and a half old, and I just want to roll around on the floor with him for a little bit and have a normal relationship with my family.

You rich people are all the same. You couldn't care less about the other half of the world. They can all starve to death for all you care!

Pardon me for finding the glass half full.

Your new-caught, sullen peoples, / Half-devil and half child.

One man in a thousand, Solomon says. Will stick more close than a brother. And it's worth while seeking him half your days If you find him before the other. ---The Thousandth Man

They've come out at half time and gone bang.

You half fancied that to go in as it was rising and dipping at the same time.

It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light.

In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses.

[on 8/24/04, before entering a Los Angeles hospital for heart valve replacement surgery] If things go right, I'll be there about a week, and if things don't go right, I'll be there about an hour and a half.

As the tragic writer rids us of what is petty and ignoble in our nature, so also the humorist rids us of what is cautious, calculating, and priggish--about half of our social conscience, indeed. Both of them permit us, in blessed moments of revelation, to soar above the common level of our lives.

You know, a left-winger, the barrier to success if you're on the left in commercial radio is a mile and a half higher than it is if you're on the right.

I definitely want to produce more because I have a bunch of projects that I've either written or half written and I want to continue developing them and if cant direct one right away cause I'm doing something else I will love to still see it get made.

I get a lot done considering I spend half my day sleeping.

I went to do my first big movie when I was 17. I was in South Africa for three and half months, and I was by myself.

We share half our genes with the banana. [After the announcement Jun 2000 that a working draft of the genetic sequence of humans had been completed by the Human Genome Project.]

...those little people, my brownies, who do one half of my work for me while I am fast asleep, and in all human likelihood do the rest for me as well, when I am wide awake and fondly suppose I do for myself.

Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai had carried the halftruth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.

Dance well with a woman, and she's halfway yours.

I've never seen a woman half as beautiful as Jennifer Love Hewitt.

God turned to speak to me (Don't anybody laugh); God found I wasn't there At least not over half.

In this world, who can do a thing, will not; And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power — And thus we half-men struggle.

Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right.

A blogger is an average person who happens to have a need to count his friends every half hour.