Maxims are sharp-edged half-truths.
— Mason Cooley
You're welcome. I love the bargain book section. I always find some good deals at more than half off the cover price.
— Amy Clipston
Don't underestimate Camp Half-Blood.
— Rick Riordan
I like to read I"m ten and a half.
— Jack Carter
The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.
— Henry Tillman
We are about half a century away from being ecologically and economically bankrupt because of global warming
— Andrew Simms
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We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.
— Orison Swett Marden
The light that filled my house was deep and livid, half magnolia, half rainwater. Things sat in it, dark and very still.
— Helen Macdonald
Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.
— Bum Phillips
U201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.
— Glenn Gould
Oh, to be half as wonderful as my children thought I was when he was small, and only half as stupid as my teenager now thinks I am.
— Rebecca Richards
When people kill themselves, they think they're ending the pain, but all they're doing is passing it on to those they leave behind.
— Jeannette Walls
You can't tag,remember? Which makes me the other half of our fabulous bagging-and-tagging duo.
— Kiersten White
We've got facts, they say. But facts aren't everything; at least half the battle consists in how one makes use of them!
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A half-hour walk is the most beneficial thing you can do for your ailments.
— Ernie J Zelinski
To do nothing by halves is the way of noble spirits.
— Christoph Martin Wieland
Lucy constituted only 28 per cent of a half skeleton (and only about 20 per cent of a full one).
— Bill Bryson
Many lose through never starting. A job well begun is half done. — Orrin Woodward
People are able to live with only half a heart, to live without real compassion, because they are able to use words that are only forms. — Angus Wilson
Cake is the only thing that matters. — Allie Brosh
If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect. — Salman Rushdie
Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think they're fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things. — Benjamin Millepied
I go to bed at 2 A.M. and get up at 7 A.M. - I've never been a sleeper. But I definitely get sick every month-and-a-half. — Alexa Von Tobel
They'd reached St Thomas's and climbed the half-dozen wooden steps to the small veranda. Gamache — Louise Penny
But I need to wake up somehow. Or maybe not. Maybe it's best to get through the day half-asleep. Maybe that's the only way to get through today. — Jay Asher
You must learn how to become a deeply disciplined half-ass. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Some day, you'll really love me, and if it's even half as much as I love you, we'll set the world on fire. — Stylo Fantome
It scares me to speak my mind, it might sound self-absorbed, I don't say half of what I think, I wonder what I'm thinking for — Chantal Kreviazuk
You Just scared me half to death," I said."You should be thrilled you're halfway there. — Rae Hachton
I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true. — Mark Twain
For some people, "the point of no return" begins at the very moment their souls become aware of each others' existence. — C. JoyBell C.
{I'm partial to anyone who looks half blind) — Gary Shteyngart
Only half the story is true. The rest is necessary. — John Yau
people say things meant to rip you in half
but you hold the power to not
turn their words into a knife
and cut yourself — Rupi Kaur
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[My mum] was always like that: grateful for life itself. Her glass was not only half full, it was gold plated with a permanent refill. — Sarah Winman
What has three heads, six arms, and half a brain?" Three asked. One and Two answered in unison. "Nate Sutter. — Brandon Mull
I would say I live half in New York and half in Claridge's. How decadent! How hysterical! — Erin O'Connor
Do you know what makes a movie work? Moments. Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember, and they'll leave the theatre happy. — Rosalind Russell
The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds. — Khalil Gibran
God will not be a half husband. He will not be comforted by the fact that we call him "Savior" when we refuse to follow him as Lord. — Randy Alcorn
Half the things in this life I wish I could remember and the other half I wish I could forget. — Ann Patchett
No one with a thirst for knowledge goes to the university now. Half of the faculty has resigned, the other half gives courses in advanced ignorance — Douglas Adams
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. — Will Durant
The average asteroid actually will be about one and a half million kilometres from its nearest neighbour. — Bill Bryson
Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear. — Emma Thompson
Hypocrisy is annoying but not evil. Someone who says one thing and does another has doubled their chances of being half right. — Penn Jillette
It's difficult to be at events with a room full of women who weigh half as much as you do. — Lindsey Vonn
Everyone has a mad half-hour once a month. — Geri Halliwell
Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn,Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute,
Are half so sweet as tender human words. — Bryan Procter
I half hoped he would be shirtless, but then wanted to smack myself at the ridiculous secret confession. — Alex Rosa
(I'm) the only one to take out half a brain, although you would think, if you go to Washington, that someone had beat me to it. — Benjamin Carson
It is always exciting when you find someone who is really enthusiastic about being half of a comedy team. — Seth Rogen
Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings. — Walter Bagehot
When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked. — Robbie Robertson
Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others. — John Petit-Senn
There's something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can't help getting in sync. — Bjork
I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It's half-British, half-Indian. — Kunal Nayyar
A life lived at less than its full potential is a life half wasted. — Tony Clark
When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune. — Pete Seeger
Half of golf is fun; the other half is putting. — Peter Dobereiner
It's easy to just go out and buy a $200 piece of clothing. The real challenge is finding it for half that. — Tim Howard
The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive. — Ralph Waite
I don't even know half the time what I'm nominated for. — Shania Twain
I'm already half-dust, Hayley, and I'm tired of trying to hold together what's left. — Katie McGarry
I had a lumpectomy. It wasn't that bad. Six and a half weeks of radiation. — Cynthia Nixon
The absolute minimum for effective exercise is three times a week on alternate days for at least half an hour. — Jane Fonda
I can tolerate his company for about half an hour. After that I am not responsible for the things I say! — Arthur Golden
Sometimes you run away by yourself purely so someone who cares will come to find you. Half the time nobody does. That's the tragedy of life. — Lindsey Davis
I have sold 120 million records. Half of those could be in Europe. — Slim Whitman
Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs. — Matt Mullenweg
A phantom fish, half beaten to death, wriggled in my stomach. — Mike Mehalek
Selling the presidency like cereal! How can you talk seriously about issues with half-minute spots? — Adlai Ewing Stevenson
I'm always exhausted after a show, even if it's just half an hour. — Tove Lo
Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millenia away. — Daniel Taylor
I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century. — Tom Wolfe
If I am on a journey where I only have time to read one-and-a-half books, I never know which one-and-a-half I'll feel like reading. So I bring eight. — Tom Stoppard
Allow your head to be quiet. Allow it to be still. Just for an hour and half. Just deal with your body & your breath. — Colin Farrell
Every sleuth ought to have a tame half-wit, to make him feel clever. — Anonymous
Ninety percent of the game (baseball) is half mental. — Yogi Berra
Here there be monster." Bob whispered, half hysterically. "Run! Run already! — Jim Butcher
She was not a poet. She was a poem. She was about to snap in half. He thought his own poetry had made her la la la la love him. It was unbearable. — Deborah Levy
She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend. — William Penn
Marriage is not 50-50. Divorce is 50-50. Marriage has to be 100-100. It isn't dividing everything in half, but giving everything you've got! — Dave Willis
If you can smile at your troubles then honey, you are half way saved. - Louise from Adventures with Max and Louise — Ellyn Oaksmith
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. — George Eliot
How is it that we have over 6 billion people in the world and half of them feel alone? — Nikki Rowe
When I used to put an album out, I knew everyone on the charts. There weren't that many bands. Now, I couldn't even name half the new groups. — Joe Cocker