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The half-life of love is forever. -- Junot Diaz
Do radioactive cats have eighteen half-lives? -- Steven Wright
I wondered about the half-life of regret. -- Lorrie Moore
A man who never sees a bluebird only half lives. -- Edwin Way Teale
Half the world does not know how the other half lives. -- Francois Rabelais
Don't be obsessed with tactics but with purpose. Tactics have a half life. -- Noam Chomsky
Ketchup left overnight on dinner plates has a longer half-life than radioactive waste. -- Wes Smith
Half-Life is the finest implementation of a game on rails anybody has ever done -- Warren Spector
I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements. -- Douglas Coupland
If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect. -- Salman Rushdie
I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island. -- Yann Martel
Millions who endure poverty and bad government can now know what they are missing. To see how the other half lives all they have to do is switch on their television sets. -- Richard M. Nixon
If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life. -- Tom Stoppard
There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium. -- David R. Brower
There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms. -- Jeanette Winterson
I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. -- Berkeley Breathed
If the time comes when our culture tires of the endless homicidal feuds, despairs of the use of force and war as a means of bringing peace, becomes discontent with the half-lives that its members are living - only then will our culture seriously look for alternatives. -- Carl Rogers
Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in revolution. -- George Jackson
Let's contemplate this, how many people would die if war breaks out. There are 2.7 billion people in the world. One-third could be lost; or, a little more, it could be half... I say that, taking the extreme situation, half dies, half lives, but imperialism would be razed to the ground and the whole world would become socialist. -- Mao Zedong
This will remain so after Hurricane Katrina disappears from the front pages of our newspapers. Long ago. it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. '... It did not know because it did not care... until some flagrant outrage on decency and the health of the community aroused it to noisy but ephemeral indignation. -- Jacob August Riis
Long ago it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.' That was true then. It did not know because it did not care. The half that was on top cared little for the struggles, and less for the fate, of those who were underneath, so long as it was able to hold them there and keep its own seat. -- Jacob August Riis
Gratitude's got a short half-life, Clarice. -- Thomas Harris
I've spent half my life on planes. -- Alice Englert
Life is too short for a half-rack. -- Mike Mills
Half my life is an act of revision. -- John Irving
Don't waste your death on a half assed life -- Nikki Sixx
To live a life half dead, a living death. -- John Milton
What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death. -- Kahlil Gibran
A life lived in fear is a life half lived. -- Baz Luhrmann
Life is half spent before we know what it is. -- George Herbert
I worked in restaurants the first half of my life. -- Bradley Cooper
Life is too short for half-hearted connections and meaningless run-throughs. -- Karen Kingsbury
Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death. -- Khalil Gibran
Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion. -- Langston Hughes
You have to trust or you're only living half a life. -- Nora Roberts
Night is the other half of life, and the better half. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You have to trust or you're only living half a life. -- Nora Roberts
He who sleeps half a day has won half a life. -- Karl Kraus
No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream. -- Thomas Moore
For me, the backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music. -- Amy Grant
Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any. -- Edith Wharton
I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. -- Lady Gaga
For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat. -- Alphonso Jackson
Do not be afraid of death. Be afraid of the half-lived life! -- Laird Hamilton
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project. -- Napoleon Hill
One half of my life has put the other half in the grave. -- Pierre Corneille
I'd spent half of my life crying, the other half refusing to cry -- Jean-Claude Izzo
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The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down, half-finished loves. -- Ralph Washington Sockman
There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year. -- William Shakespeare
My guitar is half my life and my wife is the other half. -- Huddie William Ledbetter
Sometimes in life situations develop that only the half-crazy can get out of. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Half of life is up - the other half is dealing with it. -- Henry Rollins
With life as short as a half-taken breath, don't plant anything but love. -- Rumi
The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life. -- Carl Jung
The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves. -- Ralph W. Sockman
I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone. -- Vincent Van Gogh
A life lived at less than its full potential is a life half wasted. -- Tony Clark
The man spends half of his life trying, and the other half is preventing. -- Davi Oliveira
We spend the second half of our life making up for the first half. -- Richard Jeni
A lot of good things in my life came form half of my mistakes. -- Radney Foster
I don't know why I've spent over half of My life talking about dying -- Wesley Eisold
If you're only happy when the sun is out, you're missing half of your life. -- Gloria Jones
I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it. -- David Schwimmer
There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably done. -- Sara Teasdale
Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. -- Elbert Hubbard
With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself. -- Seth MacFarlane
Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping. -- Thomas Hood
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment. -- George Edward Woodberry
There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened. -- Mark Twain
I've been in a Speedo half my life. So I am really comfortable with my body. -- Eric Shanteau
Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages. -- Steven Tyler
When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself. -- Richard Rohr
It is always so, every pleasure comes exactly half an hour too late - Life! Life! -- Emily Eden
When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life. -- Richard Lewis
If my real life was half as exciting as what is reported, I would be thrilled. -- Gabrielle Union
A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half. -- Ann Landers
I intend to live the first half of my life. I don't care about the rest. -- Errol Flynn
I have lived in the United States for half of my life, my entire adult life. -- Sheena Easton
You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure. -- Henry David Thoreau
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion. -- Stendhal
Why don't you learn from my mistakes? It takes half your life to learn from your own. -- Shelagh Delaney
Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day. -- Robert Hass
I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise. -- Jessica Savitch
Blue Plate Special' is the autobiography of my first half-century of life, with food as the subject. -- Kate Christensen
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. -- Robert Southey
Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too? -- Edgar Degas
I've spent over half my life at NBC. This is the only place I have ever worked. -- Jeff Zucker
Half the spiritual life consists of remembering what we are up against and where we are going. -- Ayya Khema
Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes. -- John Irving
I believe half of the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things. -- William John Locke
Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had -- Raymond Chandler
You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half. -- Saul Bellow
You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them. -- Isabel Allende
My life is only half full When I receive. My heart is completely full Only when I give. -- Sri Chinmoy
A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life. -- Giorgio Morandi
I always see the glass as half full and prefer to look on the bright side of life. -- Alli Simpson
Due to a life of training and playing, I seem to spend half my time in the shower. -- Jonny Wilkinson
I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun. -- Paris Hilton
Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century. -- Lord Mountbatten
Recently, a six-year-old boy said to me, 'I've been waiting to meet you for half my life.' -- Fay Wray
Beyond doubt, the most salient characteristic of life in this latter half of the 19th Century is its SPEED -- William Rathbone Greg
economy is half the battle of life; it is notso hard to earn money as to spend it well. -- Charles Spurgeon
The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one. -- Emily Bronte
The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child. -- Pablo Picasso
Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt. -- Scott Adams
All I do is work out, oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating. -- Tom Brady
Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep. -- E. B. White
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose. -- Carl Jung
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose. -- Carl Jung
Learning to earn a living is only half the job. The other half is to make life worthwhile and meaningful. -- Sai Baba
Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel. -- John Churton Collins
ATLANTA NIGHTS not only changed my life, it changed my mind. An astonishing read, worth it at half the price. -- Robin Wayne Bailey
I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates. -- Oleg Cassini
I want to encourage people to make healthy life choices, whether it's training for a half-marathon, or eating more vegetables. -- Kina Grannis
half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow. -- Maria Edgeworth
A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to. -- Wyclef Jean
The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive. -- Ralph Waite

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