Coffee in Brazil is always made fresh and, except at breakfast time, drunk jet black from demitasses first filled almost to the brim with the characteristic moist, soft coffee sugar of the country, which melts five times as fast as our hard granulated. For breakfast larger cups are used, and they're more than half filled with cream. This cafe con leite doesn't re-quire so much sugar as cafe preto-black coffee.
There are eyes half defiant, Half meek and compliant; Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm To bring us good or to work with harm.
A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.
The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.
There are plenty of meetings, receptions, dinners, and so if you are [at the U. N. ] any length of time, and I was there for four and a half years, you formed pretty significant relationships with people from all over the world. And that's important to the work you do. If you're trying to rally the General Assembly to vote for something that matters to the United States, those personal relationships count.
I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.
Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect?
More than half of America's rural counties are losing population and with it, political representation.
If you're only happy when the sun is out, you're missing half of your life.
Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale, and wholesale ecological destruction. Half of humanity goes to bed hungry because of all the realistic leaders in the world. I tell people who call me 'unrealistic' to show me what their realism has done. Realism is an outdated, overplayed and wholly exaggerated concept.
I never get used to it, the unknowable mystery of a person so suddenly, totally closed, snapped shut like a half-read novel.
I've lived in California for half of my life. It's weird, everyone thinks of me as this guy who's from the South. . . I'm really a Californian.
I work out two, two and a half hours a day.
To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.
Charity is from person to person; and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not brought into personal relation with those to whom he gives.
On all things created remaineth the half-effaced signature of God, Somewhat of fair and good, though blotted by the finger of corruption.
We had an electrical fault about 500 miles into the trip and lost more than half our fuel. We had a fire on the roof. And missed Los Angeles by 3,500 miles at the end of the trip and ending up in the arctic in a snowstorm.
In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.
Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.
But oh, she dances in such a way! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight.
