Quotes on Half

I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long... Looking back on it, I feel I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three city districts. We Marines operated on three continents.

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.

I am Charles Mingus, half black man, not even white enough to pass for nothing but black. I am Charles Mingus, a famed jazzman, but not famed enough to make a living in this society.

Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician.

When I was in fact a child, six and seven and eight years old, I was utterly baffled by the enthusiasm with which my cousin Brenda, a year and a half younger, accepted her mother's definition of her as someone who needed to go to bed at six-thirty and finish every bite of three vegetables, one of them yellow, with every meal.

Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.

The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet.

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)

I don't want to be your other half. I believe that one and one make two.

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance.

Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up half the planet, which we do.

We are in effect enculturating kids from the very beginning to see women and girls as not taking up half of the space.

It's really important for boys to see that girls take up half of the planet - which we do.

One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.

Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides; it is when they attend to only one that errors harden into prejudices, and truth itself ceases to have the effect of truth, by being exaggerated into falsehood.

The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.