(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.
Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had
With all her masculine vigour and glory, Greece fell, gradually atrophied, because one half of her had been, of set purpose, intellectually and politically paralyzed.
If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one of the most beautiful of counties.
Sudden conversion. . . is particularly attractive to the half-baked mind.
When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.
I love my boys so much I fear my heart will explode. I wonder if this love will crack open my chest and split me in half. It is scary, this love.
I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
Because of some defect in my motor skill, I can never COMPLETELY wrap [gifts]. . . . If I had been an ancient Egyptian in the field of mummies, the lower half of the Pharaoh's body would be covered only by scotch tape.
And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.
I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.
A three-year-old is not half a six-year-old.
There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.
A parabatai. Like he was. And Jace knew, too, what that faded rune meant: a parabatai whose other half was dead. He felt his sympathy leap toward Brother Zachariah, as he imagined himself without Alec, with only that faded rune to remind him where once he had been bonded to someone who knew all the best and worst parts of his soul.
We run enormous risks and we know what kind of reductions of greenhouse gases are necessary to drastically reduce risks. Reducing emissions by half by 2050 is roughly in the right ballpark. It would bring us below 550 ppm.
I ain't one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience that when a fellow has that half knowledge he finds it's the other half which would really come in handy.
Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.
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.
If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.
I suppose half the time Shakespeare just shoved down anything that came into his head.