Half Quotes - Page 9

Are we not wasps who spend all day in a fruitless attempt to traverse a window-pane - while the other half of the window is wide open?

We rise to a challenge and set a course. We take a decision. You put your mind to something. Just deciding to do it gets you halfway there. Daring to try.

Probably the greatest writer of westerns himself was Homer. His character were never all good or all bad. They're half and half, these characters, as all human beings are.

A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being.

Do not be afraid of death. Be afraid of the half-lived life!

Work only a half a day. It makes no difference which half-the first 12 hours or the last 12 hours.

History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war.

Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided - not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.

Am I the Irish comedian with half a finger? No, I'm the Irish comedian with nine and a half fingers.

A problem defined, is a problem half solved.

I have had no real gratification or enjoyment of any sort more than my neighbour on the next block who is worth only half a million.

You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.

I went to Princeton in the fall of 1930 as a half-time instructor.

To deny the darkness of the soul is to be but half a human being. But we had both sides.

A postcard. Neat handwriting fills the rectangle. Half my days I cannot bear to touch you. The rest of my time I feel like it doesn’t matter if I will ever see you again. It isn’t the morality, it’s how much you can bear. No date. No name attached.

Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker.

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

We cannot succeed when half of us are held back. We call upon our sisters around the world to be brave, to embrace the strength within themselves and realize their full potential.

One does not make revolutions by halves.

Half-caf, double-tall, non fat, whole-milk foam, bone-dry, half-pump mocha, half sugar in the raw, double cup, no lid, capp - to go.

The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.

Come back and wake me up.....half past May! (the Toad)

It's hard to be depressed around a ukulele. You just pick it up and you're halfway home.

If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anything and everything.

The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.