Quotes of Half - somelinesforyou

“ I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. ”

- J. R. R. Tolkien

“ Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. ”

- Gore Vidal

“ It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor. ”

- Neil Gaiman

“ Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. ”

- Gore Vidal

“ One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, Is it half full or half empty? So I drank the water. No more problem. ”

- Alexander Jodorowsky

“ Faith is something we grow into; doubt is something we grow out of. Gradually. And the movement is not always forward — out of doubt into faith. It is a line that wavers. As the picture a partially filled cup, we sometimes speculate: is the cup half full, or half empty? If we see faith as the contents of the cup, is it half full of faith, or half full of doubt? And if we look at the cup — our experience — and see one-half doubt, is doubt all we see? As God looks at the half-full, half-empty cup, what does He see? The doubt? Or the faith? Or, if faith is nearly a tiny seed — say, a mustard seed — can God see it? Is He moved by it? Or is He too busy gazing at the ample doubt that may surround that speck of faith? We know the answer: God sees such faith… ”

- James Long

“ We travel together as passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed for our safety to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and I'll say the love we give our fragile craft… ”

- Adlai Stevenson

“ Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time. ”

- E. B. White

“ I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me. ”

- Althea Gibson

“ Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. ”

- John Wanamaker

“ In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements. ”

- Norman Mailer

“ Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them. ”

- Walter Kerr

“ Begin — to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. ”

- Ausonius

“ The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result. ”

- Sadaharu Oh

“ Politeness is one half good nature and the other half good lying. ”

- Mary Wilson Little

“ Politeness is half good manners and half good lying. ”

- Mary Wilson Little

“ Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf ;is better than a whole loaf. ”

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“ We're half the people; we should be half the Congress. ”

- Jeanette Rankin

“ Whether a glass is half full or half empty depends on the attitude of the person looking at it. ”

- Unknown

“ The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency-half tiger, half poet. ”

- Yehudi Menuhin

“ To begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. ”

- Decimus Magnus Ausonius

“ The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. ”

- Clarence Darrow

“ The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. ”

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“ Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. ”

- Alfred Tennyson

“ Half the world is composed of those who have something to say but can't; the other half is of those who have nothing to say and keep on saying it. ”

- Robert Frost

“ Our first single, 'Ticket To Ride', was a kind of half-hit, half flop: in some places it was number one, in others it was ash-tray material. ”

- Karen Carpenter

“ I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half. ”

- Jay Gould

“ Compromise? That's when you give away half the things you want. That's when you give the other guy half of what's rightfully yours. ”

- Sue Grafton

“ When a man marries, he has fulfilled half of faith. So let him remain conscious of God regarding the remaining half. ”

- Mohammed
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