Half Quotes - Page 85

What defines patriotism, for me, is the idea that one rises to act on behalf of one's country.

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.

I was lonelier than I should be, for a woman in love, or half in love.

An illuminating read for every classical scholar engaged with the current quest for the subject's roots, and the excavation of the way that it has evolved over the past century and a half.

For a time Jack was angry; but when he had been without the jacket for a short while he began to realize that being half-clothed is infinitely more uncomfortable than being entirely naked. Soon he did not miss his clothing in the least, and from that he came to revel in the freedom of his unhampered state.

We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal

We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man.

There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence in the supernatural, by coincidences of so seemingly marvellous a character that, as mere coincidences, the intellect has been unable to receive them.

I don’t do coupons or Reeboks. Life is too short to half-step.

Kewell should have been yanked off the pitch at half time and put in a hot bath, a boiling hot bath.

If we lose half the species, which could happen by the end of the century if we don't do anything, that's going to create a big difference down the line in the stability and even the economic potential in the living world. Irreversibly.

I swear these niggas gassed up, even though the price is high. I could own half as much clothing and be twice as fly.

He sniggered. He didn't like to think of himself as the sort of person who giggled or sniggered, but he had to admit that he had been giggling and sniggering almost continuously for well over half an hour now.

When Barbara Walters called , she said, "Donald, I want to put you on as one of the top 10 most fascinating people." I could say no. And then, I could advertise a project that I`m doing, like doral or something. And spend half a million dollars on it or a million dollars, or I can do the show and spend nothing, and be on for a lot longer."

Last year [2015] alone nearly half a million individuals overstayed their temporary visas. Removing these overstays will be a top priority of my administration.

Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.

Half the time I don't know what I'm trying to say.

Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us.

The right question to ask from a Darwinian prospective is what was it about bipedalism that was so advantageous? Why did it lead to a - why did that adaptation ultimately lead to a species Homo sapiens that has come to dominate the planet today with six and a half billion people?

Set your goals to paper and you are halfway there!

I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times.

We know we only have about half of our population that's voting.

Pittacus said that half was more than the whole.

I don't race a lot, half a dozen (races) a year maybe.