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Quotes About Half

this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world.
~ Charles Dickens
So I dreamed. Aye one remembers With a sigh those dear Septembers; And I start, as well I may: I have wasted half a day.
~ Alexander Smith, "Autumn"
I've a thirst on me I wouldn't sell for half a crown. - Give it a name, citizen, says Joe. - Wine of the country, says he. - What's yours? says Joe. - Ditto MacAnaspey, says I. - Three pints, Terry, says Joe. And how's the old heart, citizen? says he.
~ James Joyce
Man has made some machines that can answer questions provided the facts are profusely stored in them, but we will never be able to make a machine that will ask questions. The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer.
~ Thomas J. Watson
I had an obsession with underarm shields - pointy ones, round ones, full ones, half ones.
~ Dawn Steel
According to the strange mathematics of the god of mutual affinity, the shadows that clouded their pasts when united became only half as dense instead of darker. - The World And The Door
~ o.henry
You talk so sweet I bet you have to suck on salt for half and hour to get the taste of sugar out of your mouth.
~ Orson Scott Card
got to my feet and stretched. This sitting at a desk for half a day was worse than anything I'd ever done. "O.K., I'll go right up." McAllister
~ Harold Robbins
A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials.
~ Lee Pace
And if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.
~ Jane Austen
but they must long feel that to flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
~ Jane Austen
It was very well known that no affection was ever supposed to exist between the children of any man by different marriages; and why was he to ruin himself, and their poor little Harry, by giving away all his money to his half sisters?
~ Jane Austen
Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together; and yet for the advantage ofsome, conversation ought to be so arranged, as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible.
~ Jane Austen
the Klan birthed in Indiana—a state that had lost 25,000 men fighting the Confederacy just a half century earlier—would soon have more Klansmen than any other state.
~ Timothy Egan
I'm half italian Which half asked Tessa From the waist down
~ Pamela Clare
So it is the old meat after all, no matter how old. Because if memory exists outside of the flesh it wont be memory because it wont know what it remembers so when she became not then half of memory became not and if I become not then all of remembering will cease to be. --Yes he thought Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
~ William Faulkner
I don't have to tell you, once you get a corpse really caught up in conversation, your battle's half over.
~ William Goldman
Though I'm old and blind, I promise to put up a worthy fight. Probably kill half of you. No matter how harmless I may seem, you better know the blood running in my veins is that of a Nephite.
~ Chris Heimerdinger
In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Hello," he said, not missing a beat. "Glad you could make it. Alice, I understand you burned our door in half." "Quentin helped.
~ Lev Grossman
We're half an hour from Toronto, which offers everything you could want from a city, and a couple of hours from beautiful vacation country. We have it all here, plus George W. Bush is not our president.
~ Linwood Barclay
half of its carbon 14 content decays into nitrogen 14 every 5,700 years, until
~ Jared Diamond
As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century.
~ Li Peng
Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.
~ Fritz Kreisler