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Quotes About Half

You've read half the books in this house? This whole house?" "Well, approximately half." Sticky said. "To be more accurate, I suppose I've read more like" - his eyes went up as he calculated - "three sevenths? Yes, three sevenths." "Only three sevenths?" said Kate, pretending to look disappointed. "And here I was prepared to be impressed.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
Partly because teenagers are still half children, and many children are just intrinsically cruel.
~ Paul Graham
Who was the blundering idiot who said that 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Caesar, Now be still, I killed not thee with half so good a will?
~ William Shakespeare
Not to say surprise no. Too smooth by half I've always thought him.
~ Unknown
Fools, they do not even know how much more is the half than the whole.
~ Hesiod
There are so few children in Faerie that I've never seen one of us twinned. Is it like being doubled or more like being divided in half?
~ Holly Black
Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The strangest creatures are always found on the border lines of species.
~ Unknown
Memory takes root only half in the folds of the brain: half's in the concrete streets we have lived along.
~ Unknown
Opening for Mr. Sinatra in 1991 enabled me to do Vegas more as an opening act. I did the Superdome with him, probably nine arenas over a year and a half, and his second-to-last appearance at the Desert Inn in Vegas.
~ John Pinette
One boy is worth half a man Two boys are worth half a boy Three boys are no help at all.
~ Unknown
There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.
~ Ouida
One half of the world glows with reflected sunlight. The other half is dark, speckled with little city lights.
~ David Gerrold
I thought about the word profile and what a weird double meaning it had. we say we're looking at a person's profile online... and we assume it's the whole them we're seeing. But when a photographer takes a picture of a profile, you're only seeing half the face... It's never the way you would remember seeing them.
~ David Levithan
So, how was your flight? This, as if there are interesting variations and you might answer, The live orchestra was a nice touch, or The first half was great, but then they let a baby take over the controls and it got all bumpy.
~ David Sedaris
When we tell people about salvation but say nothing about the Kingdom we are not preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ.  If we present Christ without His Kingdom then we are sharing only half of the gospel.  Likewise if we present the Kingdom without Christ then again we are only sharing half of the gospel.  Jesus and His Kingdom are inseparable
~ Unknown
Marriage," said Butscha, "is like a lawsuit; there's always one side discontented. If one dupes the other, certainly half the husbands in the world are playing a comedy at the expense of the other half." "From which you conclude, Sieur Butscha?" inquired Modeste. "To pay the utmost attention to the manoeuvres of the enemy," answered the clerk.
~ Honore de Balzac
ralph macchio: it's gonna be incr.. wait for it... and I hope you're hungry, cause the second half of that word is edible! incredible!
~ Unknown
When a Hathaway caused a scandal, they never did it by half measures
~ Lisa Kleypas
When I function in only one mode or the other, I am denying half myself, half my potential.
~ Dean Koontz
The Malus Codicum. It was an infernal book, thrice damned. I knew of no other copy in existence. One half of the Inquisition would kill me to get their hands on it, the other half would burn me for having it in my possession.
~ Dan Abnett
You need some place to work in. That's the door half open.
~ Louise Bogan
I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric.
~ Trey Anastasio
It's the novelist who understand the secret life, the rage that underlies all obscurity and neglect. You're half murderers, most of you.
~ Don DeLillo