Quotes on Half

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.

It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.

Winning the prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself.

Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist chooses, and then withdrawn, and the curtain falls. And then the sun goes down, and long the afterglow gives light.

I've never done anything half-heartedly; it's a disservice to me and the audience if I do it half-heartedly.

It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women, is a sign of their submerged status.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

Men, to exist, to become complete and mature, need to feel the joy of fatherhood. When a man does not have this desire, something is missing in this man, it is like an incomplete life: a life that stops half way. The grace of fatherhood; of giving life to others, of pastoral paternity, of spiritual paternity is a gift from God.

The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.

We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.

I am certain that I never did grow in grace one-half so much anywhere as I have upon the bed of pain.

We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.

Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us.

Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things.

We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don't spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I have met don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop

More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.