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Yeah 'ear 'ear," said George, with half a glance at Fred, the corner of whose mouth twitched.

Ron's indignation on his behalf was worth about a hundred points to him.

Andrew hated to see her humiliated and pathetic like this; but he half hated her too for landing herself in it, when any idiot could have seen.

Knowing is half the battle. Explaining it is the other half.

The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity . I was a painter before I was a writer and a painter never wants the subject right under his nose; he wants to stand back and study a landscape with half-closed eyes.

You’re the most experienced investigator I’ve got who’s not tied up in something, and I can’t ask the Consort to look look into it, because A) she and Curran are working on something else and B) when the Consort gets involved, half of the world blows up.

Our standard rate. A doubloon a day." It was generous. More than generous--some families would put him up for a week for a single coin. "Half a doubloon a day," she said. "No, you see, the idea behind bargaining is that you ask for a larger amount.

I've got a gig," Jim said. I sat up in my bed, wide-awake. A gig was good- I needed the money. "Half." "Third." "Half." "Thirty-five percent." Jim's voice hardened. "Half." The phone went silent as my former Guild partner mulled it over. "Okay, forty." I hung up.(...) The phone rang. I let it ring twice before I picked it up. "Fine." Jim's voice had a hint of a snarl in it. "Half.

Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp.

I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.

My guitar is half my life and my wife is the other half.

For me, it's the reactions from the audiences that are golden. If they enjoy it, then half the battle has been won.

To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.

For, once begun, Your task is easy; half the work is done.

How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene. 'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to go there in my own carriage, have my own box, and come back in comfort. All or nothing, that's my motto.' 'And a very good one,' said Madame Vauquer.

I believe in community policing. And, in fact, violent crime is one-half of what it was in 1991.

You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic - you name it.

I spent four and a half hours debating Donald Trump in three debates, which I think should put to rest any questions about my stamina.

We can deploy a half a billion more solar panels.

No society can thrive when half its people are left behind.

Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep.

For no one, in our long decline, So dusty, spiteful and divided, Had quite such pleasant friends as mine, Or loved them half as much as I did.

Fools, they do not even know how much more is the half than the whole.

One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.

I have been listening to the Stooges' self-titled first album for well over half my life, and it remains one of the most exciting and essential records I have ever had the good fortune to come into contact with.