Half Quotes

• A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Trust, Travel, Truth

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• When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness.

  Andrew Cohen

  Together, Completeness, Wholeness

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• A life lived in fear is a life half lived.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Ballroom

  "Strictly Ballroom". www.imdb.com. 1992.

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• The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Men, Expression

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.222, Harvard University Press

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• Life is half spent before we know what it is.

  George Herbert

  Life, Bad Ass, Reality

  George Herbert (1841). “The remains of ... George Herbert”, p.177

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• A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

  Francis Bacon

  Wisdom, Educational, Creativity

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• I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Family, Party, Book

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Nature, Soul

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 5

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• Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

  Novalis

  Faith, One Half

  Novalis, Arthur Versluis (1989). “Pollen and fragments: selected poetry and prose of Novalis”, Phanes Pr

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• Well begun is half done.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Philosophical

  Aristotle (2012). “Politics”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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• Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Life, Witty

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• Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul.

  Henry Rollins

  Unconditional Love, Soul, If You Love Someone

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• I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead.

  Jewel

  Feelings, Alive, Feels

  Song: You Were Meant for Me, Album: Pieces Of You, 1995

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• Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Pain, Divorce

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Women hold up half the sky.

  Mao Zedong

  Attitude, Sky, Inspire Women

  Zedong Mao, Michael Y. M. Kau, John K. Leung (1992). “The Writings of Mao Zedong, 1949-1976: January 1956-December 1957”, p.558, M.E. Sharpe

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• The judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth.

  Carl Jung

  Judgment, Intellect, Feelings Of Inadequacy

  "Psychological Types, or, The Psychology of Individuation". Book by Carl Jung. Conclusion, p. 628, 1921.

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• Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'

  Nathan Fillion

  Kings, Reading, Kids

  "Nathan Fillion Reveals Why He's Hooked on Books" by David Hochman, parade.com. June 8, 2012.

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• Half the truth is often a great lie.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Truth, Lying

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.90, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A painting that is well composed is half finished.

  Pierre Bonnard

  Art, Architecture, Painting

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• Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Family, Marriage, Funny Love

  Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1738

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• Women are one half of society which gives birth to the other half so it is as if they are the entire society.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Women, Giving, Society

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• The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Century, Twentieth Century

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• Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Life, Wisdom

  Letter in New York Times 29 Apr. 1930

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• Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.

  Anne Stevenson

  Suicide, Sorry, Months

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• How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Soccer, Sports

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