Quotes of: One-half Keyword

The paradoxical situation with a vast number of people today is that they are half asleep when awake, and half awake when asleep, or when they want to sleep.

Erich Fromm

For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.

Benjamin Tucker

Human sin is stubborn, but not as stubborn as the grace of God and not half as persistent, not half so ready to suffer to win its way

James MacDonald

A woman's love for a man is half animal passion and half hate. The more a woman loves a man, the more she hates him.

Jed Rubenfeld

Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.

James Richardson

Eighteen and stupid happens to everyone, I guess. If you survive it, it's probably half luck, and half having the right people in your life to watch out for you.

Joe Hill

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.

Alexander Woollcott

Half the time, people will be abusing me on Twitter, and half the time, somebody will be praising me. So either it will go to my head, or I will take it to my heart. So better I stay away from it.

Ranbir Kapoor

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

Christopher Fry

I'm Christian. Growing up in Ethiopia, it's half-Christian and half-Muslim. You grow up with Muslim kids. I'm very much aware of their religion.

Liya Kebede

Felicia: How long have we been on the road? Bernadette: Four and a half hours.

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Give us a world where half our homes are run by men, and half our institutions are run by women. I'm pretty sure that would be a better world.

Sheryl Sandberg

You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.

Yogi Berra

Language is a piss poor attempt at telepathy is what it is. We try to put our thoughts into each other's heads through language...But half the intended meaning gets lost in the transmission, and the other half is filtered through existing assumptions...

Just a Couple of Days

I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcoti...

In Memoriam

Charlotte Palmer: Miss Dashwood, if only Mr Willoughby had gone home to Combe Magna, we could have taken Miss Marianne to see him, for we live but half a mile away. Mr. Palmer: Five and a half. Charlotte Palmer: No, I cannot believe it is that far, f...

Sense and Sensibility

Most people can motivate themselves to do things simply by knowing that those things need to be done. But not me. For me, motivation is this horrible, scary game where I try to make myself do something while I actively avoid doing it. If I win, I hav...

Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

It was Ebon's turn now, and he stepped forward and gave the pegasus' great clarion neigh -- far more like a trumpet than a horse's neigh; hollow bones are wonderful for resonance -- and swept his wings forward to touch, or almost touch, his alula-han...

Pegasus

I was seen spotted with an older woman and a girl half my height in age. A leopard was also spotted. 

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

A part-time worker is fully employed, half the time. In other words, they are part-time unemployees.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

I knew that somewhere God was laughing. He had taken the other half of my heart, the one person who knew me better than I knew myself, and He had done what nothing else could do. By bringing us together, He had set into motion the one thing that coul...

Harvesting the Heart