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.

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.

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

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.

And there’s always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past, you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears-that’s what soma is.

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

We spend the early years feeding our brains with information and the latter half trying not to think about it all.

Doesn’t matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water.

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.

Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.

Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

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.

I’m late to everything. I’ve always wanted to have it written in my will that when I die, the coffin shows up a half hour late and says on the side, like in gold, ‘Sorry I’m Late’.

Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

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

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

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

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

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second half refusing to let black people define me.

The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.

Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it takes two wholes.

Stop asking if the glass is half full or half empty. Instead ask What’s in it? How did it get there? What can I do with it?

I’d rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon

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.

A problem defined, is a problem half solved.

More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.

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.