Half Quotes - Page 7

There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat. A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour. It might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.

Whatever you do, do it completely. Don't do it half-arsed. Do it more than anybody else would.

Let's put it this way: the glass is half-empty, but the fact is, I can always get another drink

This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.

Let the business of the world take care of itself... My business is to get the world saved; if this involves the standing still of the looms and the shutting up of the factories, and the staying of the sailing of the ships, let them all stand still. When we have got everybody converted they can go on again, and we shall be able to keep things going then by working half time and have the rest to spend in loving one another and worshipping God.

Detroit... where 'mother' is half a word.

I was educated in line with the basic premise: work work work. You are only a valuable human being if you work. This is utterly wrong. Half working, half dancing - that is the right mixture. I myself have danced and played too little.

I spent the first half of my life making money and the second half of my life giving it away to do the most good and the least harm.

I intend to live the first half of my life. I don't care about the rest.

Twisting through the thorn-thick underbrush, scratched and exhausted, one turns suddenly to find an unexpected waterfall, not half a mile from the nearest road, a spot so hard to reach that no one comes a hiding place, a shrine for dragonflies and nesting jays, a sign that there is still one piece of property that won't be owned.

When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.

Half of tradition is a lie.

I went into the army worth a million and a half dollars, and came out a beggar.

You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.

Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

Not seeing is half-believing.

If the guidance failed or started to stray or went somewhere we didn't like or the ground didn't like, I could flip a switch, and I could control seven, over seven and a half million pounds of thrust with this handle and fly the thing to the Moon myself.

I had to travel half way across the world to be called an American.

Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.

Winning the prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself.

The best way to economize time is to 'lose' half an hour each day attending Holy Mass.

You are never more than a half-step away from a right note.

Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of power relations. Masculinity pertains to male dominance as femininity pertains to female subordination.

I tried to take heavy metal... and balled it up and chopped it in half and really tried to create a new form of energy. I really tried to re-shape extreme music as I see it through my eyes.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.