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Quotes About Half

Sei: The Kudzu snacks were so good I had two and a half bowls but seeing you eat 16 and a half bowls was disgusting. I sriously considered killing you. Okita: You're horrible! Besides then I'd bleed Kudzu snacks! Sei: NOO! STOP!!! I CAN SEE IT!! I'LL HAVE NIGHTMARES!!
~ Taeko Watanabe
general-purpose majestic half smile.
~ Tana French
The inside half of the plate. That's where history's made.
~ Ted Williams
Chemically speaking or biologically, we research things, but we don't know half of them. We only know our half of it - symbolically - and we don't know ourselves more than half.
~ Yoko Ono
A bachelor is only half a man
~ Louisa Lawson
Mr Parkinson told him what was his due. "On your salary scale, the firm gives three months' sick leave on full pay. Then if you are still unfit for work, another three months on half pay.
~ Nevil Shute
She grabbed her jacket, although the weatherman had promised a return to seasonable temperatures. But given his record, she saw no reason to trust him. What other occupation got to retain their jobs when they were right only half the time?
~ Kylie Brant
Remember this when you are queen," said the vintovnik solemnly. "That I went into the dark for, and scared an old woman half to death.
~ Catherine M. Valente
Half a truth is better than no politics.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Some one says it is a lie. Well, I am reminded by that of the remark of the witty Irishman who said, "There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true."
~ Winston Churchill, 1906
Estaban vivos a medias, o quizá menos.
~ Jack London
Half there, and half not, Grimalkin said, having suddenly appeared over Burton's shoulder. Sounds implausible to me.
~ James A. Owen
Pleasing ware is half sold.
~ George Herbert
There's a whole form of literature in India which talks about the quest for the perfect man by a woman, where every woman looks for a perfect man but only ends up with half that.
~ Shahrukh Khan
For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.
~ Khalil Gibran
When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.
~ Elmer Davis
I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self is so great a violation, that it is not to be endured.
~ D. H. Lawrence
But as I remember it, he looked alternately bored and preoccupied throughout the meal, as if, while one part of him was drinking Bordeaux and cutting his food into bite-sized morsels, the other half was engaged with shepherding a herd of goats across a bone-dry plain.
~ Nicole Krauss
God hates a half-devil ten times more than an arch-devil!
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.
~ Chuck Barris
Then the clouds curtsy in, the rain kneels upon the land, and the weather knocks them back a whole day and a half.
~ Colum McCann
This is a silly place. Half the world has no clean water. The other half has so much that they pooh in it.
~ Larry Bird
Our society needs a functional mythology of the Dark. We need a spirituality that reminds us that we have to share one half of our existence with the Dark. We can do this willing or unwillingly. The paradox must be lived in our lives in order for us to be truly enlightened.
~ Laurence Galian
This is because Spirit is as much the Irrational as it is the Rational. Academicians need to show some humility in the face of what will always be Irrational. They only see half the picture.
~ Laurence Galian