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I am a stranger to half measures. -- Marita Golden
I am not one for half measures or half-hearted efforts. -- Jay Inslee
I believe that alternative healing methods are much more than just temporary or half measures. -- Andrew Saul
This will not be a campaign of half measures, and we will accept no outcome except victory. -- George W. Bush
The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact. -- Leslie Stephen
If my cup won't hold but a pint and yourn holds a quart, wouldn't ye be mean not to let me have my little half-measure full? -- Sojourner Truth
The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences. -- Winston Churchill
To venture into space we must be strong-willed and determined. We must be fully committed to its exploration and discovery; space permits no half measures and is unforgiving of mistakes. -- Henry Joy McCracken
We must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the U.S. has the luxury of assuming that we can skate by on half-measures in Afghanistan and Pakistan and not risk suffering the consequences. -- Susan Rice
Pakistan's political leadership needs to make a clear choice to fight the Taliban decisively, not with half measures, the burden is on Prime Minister Sharif to show he can unite the country to defend its children. -- Bruce Riedel
Hannibal Lecter: We live in a primitive time - don't we, Will? - neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse of it. Any rational society would either kill me or give me my books. -- Thomas Harris
They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They put off the day of settlement, and meanwhile the debt accumulates. -- Henry David Thoreau
The essence of liberalism is negotiation, a cautious half measure, in the hope that the definitive dispute, the decisive bloody battle, can be transformed into a parliamentary debate and permit the decision to be suspended forever in an everlasting discussion. -- Carl Schmitt
My life, in some ways, has been a half-measure. I didn't commit myself all the way to my marriage and family, because I would have given up more. And I didn't go all the way with just being completely selfish. I always wonder where my career would be if I was more selfish. -- Alec Baldwin
I am a stranger to half measures. With life I am on the attack, restlessly ferreting out each pleasure, foraging for answers, wringing from it even the pain. I ransack life, hunt it down. I am the hungry peasants storming the palace gates. I will have my share. No matter how it tastes. -- Marita Golden
I can at once refute the statement that the people of the West object to conservation of oil resources. They know that there is a limit to oil supplies and that the time will come when they and the Nation will need this oil much more than it is needed now. There are no half measures in conservation of oil. -- Herbert Hoover
In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality. -- Glenn Gould
No half measures. Some things can't be cut in half. You can't half-love someone. You can't half-betray, or half-lie. -- Mark Lawrence
The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences. -- Winston Churchill

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