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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt. -- James Northcote
I am travelling half the year around the world, every year, so coming home is one of the most beautiful things. -- Andre Rieu
I tend to write a pretty half and half split of, like, slow, morose things and then sort of more upbeat stuff. -- James Mercer
If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress. -- Will Rogers
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing. -- Alexander Woollcott
Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think they're fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things. -- Benjamin Millepied
Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on. -- Dennis Miller
I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things. -- Vivienne Westwood
I worked out of Hollywood for 10 years and I had my heart broken half a dozen times, so I know all the things that can go wrong. -- George R. R. Martin
Chemically speaking or biologically, we research things, but we don't know half of them. We only know our half of it - symbolically - and we don't know ourselves more than half. -- Yoko Ono
Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they've written in their parents' houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished poems and stories and first paragraphs of novels that never got written. -- Ally Carter
People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done. -- Macaulay Culkin
In taking action we must remember that the things which are happening to the Jews today are but a part of the general disintegration anticipated by philosophers and historians of different schools for almost half a century. -- Louis Finkelstein
The 'Lost' pilot was wide enough and included enough things so that when Season Five came, and we spent half of the year in 1973, nobody cried foul. It felt like it was already a part of the DNA. -- Edward Kitsis
Our goal was to show people a vision of food they hadn't seen before. So, I had this idea of... let's cut all these things in half, and show a picture of the food in the pan, in the oven. -- Nathan Myhrvold
I have rooms full of little dongly things and don't want any more. Half the little dongly things I've got, I don't even know what gizmo they're for. More importantly, half the gizmos I've got, I don't know where their little dongly thing is. -- Douglas Adams
I was able to lean on people for favors and things to help out because their budget was so low. It was half of what John Travolta's perk package is on a film. Our whole budget was half of what his staff makes on a film. -- James Woods
There are lots of things, including changing the kind of inner dialog, that can mitigate anxiety. And yes, there are people who have the glass half full and glass half empty, and I'm afraid the glass is going to break and I'll cut myself on the shards. -- Scott Stossel
I believe if we had half our companies and half our countries run by women, and half our homes run by men, things would be better. We know our companies would be more productive. If you use the full talents of the population, you're more productive. We know our homes would be happier. -- Sheryl Sandberg
When you say 'revolution' when you have only men outside, you know that something is going wrong. I'm not like a hardcore feminist, but I think that one of the things that makes the society advanced is equality between men and women. If half of the society is oppressed by the other half, it's not fine. -- Marjane Satrapi
Better know nothing than half-know many things. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I'm too old to do things by half -- Lou Reed
I never said half the things I said. -- Yogi Berra
I respect scholarship. But I don't like to do things half-heartedly. -- Elie Wiesel
Prevent the things you have been doing and you are half-way home. -- F. Matthias Alexander
A heart will say amazing things if it's given half a chance. -- Joan Bauer
Careful, love. Prices aren't the only things I can cut in half! -- An Na
A doctor who doesn't say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured. -- Marcel Proust
Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
There are always a half-dozen things that make 80%of the difference. Only SIX things! -- Jim Rohn
A lot of good things in my life came form half of my mistakes. -- Radney Foster
Rational people have better things to do than grant unwarranted credibility to every half-assed delusion. -- PZ Myers
Sometimes it's a good thing we don't remember things half as well as books do. -- Cornelia Funke
Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes. -- Alexander Pope
There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably done. -- Sara Teasdale
Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs. -- Hannah More
Things are really weird around here, and most of us don't know everything. Half of everything. -- James Dashner
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Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
I believe half of the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things. -- William John Locke
You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them. -- Isabel Allende
I can't sing half as well as Claudia Lennear. Hats off to her, but somehow, things happened for me. -- Linda Ronstadt
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
I worry about technical details - did I mix the cello half a decibel too high? Things like that. -- Steven Price
Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold. -- Alain de Botton
half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow. -- Maria Edgeworth
I think half of our life is written out for us and things happen the way their supposed to happen. -- Rakim
We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean. -- Fanny Burney
A colleague once nicknamed me - half mocking - the 'magical stranger' because I get people to tell me things. -- Stephen Rodrick
Half of all people who go bankrupt cite a medical problem as one of the things that drove them into bankruptcy. -- Amelia Warren Tyagi
On all things created remaineth the half-effaced signature of God, Somewhat of fair and good, though blotted by the finger of corruption. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
He said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god. -- John Steinbeck
Guys like Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Sacha Baron Cohen, they do things you love to watch. I like to do the other half. -- Jason Bateman
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I have loved colours, and not flowers;Their motion, not the swallows wings;And wasted more than half my hoursWithout the comradeship of things. -- Arthur Symons
With the development of the Christian Lacroix house in Paris and my work notably for the theater, it wasn't serious doing things by half. -- Christian Lacroix
The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle. -- David Mamet
there are things you mustn't even try to explain. They either become trite or they tie you down to something that's only half true. -- Martha Albrand
The difference between living and half living is seeing well, looking for associations between things, seeking the connections, being aware of scale and proportion. -- Alexandra Stoddard
I always look at things half full and definitely see a change in how things are going as far as black actresses and their opportunities. -- Kimberly Elise
If things go right, I'll be there about a week, and if things don't go right, I'll be there about an hour and a half! -- Rodney Dangerfield
My mother loves it when I talk about her. Half the time, I think she says things that she knows will go straight into the act. -- Judy Gold
Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think theyre fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things. -- Benjamin Millepied
From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at last the fight is won, God, keep me still unsatisfied. -- Louis Untermeyer
If things were half as bad as some people persist in believing, I'd have retired with a bottle of Scotch and a pistol a long time ago. -- Robert Maxwell
I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses. -- Sara Paretsky
I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things. -- Jack Vance
What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair. -- Carson McCullers
Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape. -- Khalil Gibran
Most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do. -- Mitch Albom
If the devil walks in and starts pointing out all kinds of things about you, you yawn. And you go, 'You don't even know the half of it.' -- Paul Washer
Things can be funny when people are uneasy. It softens them up and stops them falling asleep on the sofa. I like those moments where people half-smile and half-wince. -- Mark Haddon
In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation. -- Robert South
...Take a half-hour a day to really appreciate the good things you have. And you will feel great. If you want to feel twice as great double that time! -- Mark M. Ford
...short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things... -- Theodore Roosevelt

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