Browsing Topic Best Half Quotes

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.

I cured myself of shyness when it finally occurred to me that people didn’t think about me half as much as I gave them credit for. The truth was, nobody gave a damn. Like most teenagers, I was far too self-centered. When I stopped being prisoner to what I worried was others’ opinions of me, I became more confident and free.

A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.

Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci, are being answered at about the same 50% rate. Half the time I get what I want, half the time I don’t… Same as the four-leaf clover and the horseshoe…same as the Voodoo Lady who tells you your fortune by squeezing the goat’s testicles, it’s all the same: 50-50. So just pick your superstition, sit back, make a wish, and enjoy yourself.

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

But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.

Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you’ve depended on more than half of the world.

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.

It takes great effort to follow the rules of a pull system … thus a half-hearted introduction of a pull system brings a hundred harms and not a single gain.

Abortion kills twice. It kills the body of the baby and it kills the conscience of the mother. Abortion is profoundly anti-women. Three quarters of its victims are women: Half the babies and all the mothers.

To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.

It [prejudice] is such a waste. It makes you logy and half-alive. It gives you nothing. It takes away.

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god’s throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach

A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie.

A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.

When people ask for time, it’s always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn’t take half as long to say.

Dachshund: A half-a-dog high and a dog-and-a-half long.

Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.

Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience – visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible.

Probably over half of America does not have a passport. If young people could spend two weeks of their life in India or pick an African country to go to for 2-3 weeks and really see how life can be. That might be a real good thing because I think they would see things even if the trip was a nightmare. I think they might understand more of the mechanics of the world.

I never see the glass half empty because I drink out the bottle

Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

If the time comes when our culture tires of the endless homicidal feuds, despairs of the use of force and war as a means of bringing peace, becomes discontent with the half-lives that its members are living – only then will our culture seriously look for alternatives.

For a woman to get half as much credit as a man, she has to work twice as hard, and be twice as smart. Fortunately, that isn’t difficult.

Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.