Top Half Quotes Collection - Page 5

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Image of James Hillman
It's better to go into the world half-cocked than not to go into the world at all.
- James Hillman
Collection: Half
Image of John Heywood
Half a loaf is better than none.
- John Heywood
Collection: Half
Image of Werner Herzog
In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel.
- Werner Herzog
Collection: Half
Image of Jane Austen
Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)
- Jane Austen
Collection: Half
Image of Heidi Julavits
I like playing with a popular cliché and making it my own by half-embracing it, half-disemboweling it.
- Heidi Julavits
Collection: Half
Image of Carl Jung
The judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth.
- Carl Jung
Collection: Half
Image of Randall Jarrell
One of the most puzzling things about a novel is that "the way it really was" half the time is, and half the time isn't, the way it ought to be in the novel.
- Randall Jarrell
Collection: Half
Image of John Keats
Many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death.
- John Keats
Collection: Half
Image of Carl Jung
The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs. (on being 36 yrs old)
- Carl Jung
Collection: Half
Image of Wyclef Jean
A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.
- Wyclef Jean
Collection: Half
Image of Jon Bon Jovi
A friend of mine, a friend of yours. My better half, Richard Stephen Sambora
- Jon Bon Jovi
Collection: Half
Image of John Keats
There is an old saying "well begun is half done"-'tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all 'til half done.
- John Keats
Collection: Half
Image of Samuel P. Huntington
There has been an Irish lobby that has impacted U.S. foreign policy for a century and a half, and at times made our relations with Great Britain very difficult. Other comparable lobbies exist.
- Samuel P. Huntington
Collection: Half
Image of Russell Baker
Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.
- Russell Baker
Collection: Half
Image of John Banville
Ian McEwan is a very good writer; the first half of Atonement alone would ensure him a lasting place in English letters.
- John Banville
Collection: Half
Image of Honore de Balzac
Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
- Honore de Balzac
Collection: Half
Image of Charles Lamb
As half in shade and half in sun This world along its path advances, May that side the sun 's upon Be all that e'er shall meet thy glances!
- Charles Lamb
Collection: Half
Image of Honore de Balzac
How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene. 'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to go there in my own carriage, have my own box, and come back in comfort. All or nothing, that's my motto.' 'And a very good one,' said Madame Vauquer.
- Honore de Balzac
Collection: Half
Image of Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
An apt aphorism half kills, half immortalizes.
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Collection: Half
Image of Karl Kraus
It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.
- Karl Kraus
Collection: Half
Image of Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are always those who say legislation can't solve the problem. There is a half-truth involved here. It is true that legislation cannot solve the whole problem. It can solve some of the problem. It may be true that morality can't be legislated, but behavior can be regulated.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Collection: Half
Image of Charles Lamb
The world meets nobody half way.
- Charles Lamb
Collection: Half
Image of Diogenes Laertius
Pittacus said that half was more than the whole.
- Diogenes Laertius
Collection: Half
Image of Julian Barnes
The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily be buried, or half-buried, by the life.
- Julian Barnes
Collection: Half
Image of Steve Martin
Performing music is a way to do comedy, but without the obligation to do a solid hour, hour and half of a standup. I could intersperse it with music, so it became a really good format for me.
- Steve Martin
Collection: Half
Image of H. L. Mencken
If all the lawyers were hanged tomorrow, and their bones were sold to a mah jong factory, we'd all be freer and safer, and our taxes would be reduced by almost a half.
- H. L. Mencken
Collection: Half
Image of Cormac McCarthy
Hell ain't half full.
- Cormac McCarthy
Collection: Half