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.

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

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

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.

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

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

Who knows if this other half of life where we think we’re awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.

In a good marriage each is the others better half.

I love Bono. I really respect what he has done for Africa and how he has used his fame to do good in the world. I hope I can do half as much in my life.

Flourishing goes beyond happiness, or satisfaction with life. True, people who flourish are happy. But that’s not the half of it. Beyond feeling good, they’re also doing good-adding value to the world.

Half the spiritual life consists of remembering what we are up against and where we are going.

I used to, like, hit for a half hour and then go eat Cheetos the rest of the day, come out and drill forehands. Now I’m really trying to make it happen, being professional, really going for it, and I miss my Cheetos.

I don’t quite recollect how many tumblers of whiskey toddy each man drank after supper; but this I know, that about one o’clock in the morning, the baillie’s grown-up son became insensible while attempting the first verse of ‘Willie brewed a peck o’ maut’; and he having been, for half an hour before, the only other man visible above the mahogany, it occurred to my uncle that it was almost time to think about going.

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.

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.

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

Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

The score is high and very brutal but does not reflect what we saw on the pitch. The first shot on goal was a goal. The second was an own goal. The third was straight after half-time. They defend like mad and they catch us on the break.

Well I’ve made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it’s probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I’ve known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we’ve been friends. About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.

Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.

What drivel it all is!… A string of words called religion. Another string of words called philosophy. Half a dozen other stringscalled political ideals. And all the words either ambiguous or meaningless. And people getting so excited about them they’ll murder their neighbours for using a word they don’t happen to like. A word that probably doesn’t mean as much as a good belch. Just a noise without even the excuse of gas on the stomach.

Finding the tool is often half the battle.