Half Quotes
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It's love,' they say. You touch the right one and a whole half of the universe wakes up, a new half.
William Stafford
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What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to do.
William J. H. Boetcker
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Shut your mouth! You dare speak his name with your unworthy lips, you dare besmirch it with your half-blood's tongue, you dare —
Joanne Rowling
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When you have a half like that, nine times out of 10, you're going to have a good lead.
Allen Iverson
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My heart is half Puerto Rican, half Canadian. That is how I feel.
Roberto Alomar
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Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today's half-baked ideas have been tried, again and again - and have repeatedly led to disaster. Most of these ideas are not new. They are just being recycled with re-treaded rhetoric.
Thomas Sowell
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Of all forms of visible otherworldliness, it seems to me, the Gothic is at once the most logical and the most beautiful. It reaches up magnificently-and a good half of it is palpably useless.
H. L. Mencken
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Half the audience gets where I'm coming from and half the audience is like, "Wait a minute. What does that mean?"
Malcolm D. Lee
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Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration; an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I'm sure there's a hell of a party in Ireland now and I know I don't have anything to do for two-and-a-half days so I'm going to party on
Padraig Harrington
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
Henry Ward Beecher
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There's also the issue of tech titans throwing their weight around in Washington and lobbying. There was just a Reuters poll that reported that more than half of Americans are concerned that tech companies are "encroaching too much on their lives." That's pretty major, considering these companies were universally loved not that long ago.
Astra Taylor
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I went to Princeton in the fall of 1930 as a half-time instructor.
Stephen Cole Kleene
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Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.
William Mathews
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The horror of knowing someone and living with them and even thinking you're lucky and then wham and now you know that every person is really two people and how can you ever know what the other half is up to.
Michelle Tea
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Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half of the same bed.
Willa Cather
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I graduated from CUNY College of Staten Island with a 3.9 GPA in three and a half years.
Vinny Guadagnino
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We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.
C. S. Lewis
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If a Snickers chocolate bar has 50% sugar, wouldn't it be safe to eat the other half?
Wakas Mir
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The official toxicity limit for humans is between one and one and half grams of cocaine depending on body weight. I was averaging five grams a day, maybe more. I snorted ten grams in ten minutes once. I guess I had a high tolerance.
George Jung
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I work between my heartbeat. I have one-and-a-half seconds to actually move. And at the same time I have to watch I don’t inhale my own work.
Willard Wigan
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Custer is said to have boasted that he could ride through the entire Sioux Nation with his Seventh Cavalry, and he was half right. He got half-way through.
Vine Deloria, Jr.
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I always had plenty of ideas. I didn’t exactly have them. They grew—little by little, a half an idea at a time. First, part of a phrase and then a person to go with it. After a person, then a little corner of a place for the person to be in.
Carol Emshwiller