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If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves. -- George Bernard Shaw
They were two halves that together formed a magical whole. -- Dick Button
I am a very extreme sort of character, as I don't do things by halves. -- Rick Wakeman
Richie and Eddie couldn't exist without each other. They're two halves of the same person. -- Adrian Edmondson
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For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain. -- Sara Shepard
I once stayed in a roach-infested hotel in Istanbul for a work trip. I had to share my room with a male model, and pointedly all we talked about was our other halves. -- Jasmine Guinness
For a modern woman it is important to be supported and that there is equality in every aspect, and that it's not two halves that make a whole - it's two wholes that make a whole. -- Katy Perry
Two halves don't make a whole. Two wholes make a whole. In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn't doing better by doing that. I became less of a man. -- Jason Mraz
The seeded draw came into being. This means that the two best players of the tournament are placed in opposite halves in the draw, and cannot possibly meet until the finals, if they come through successfully against all the rest of the participants. -- Helen Wills Moody
Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves. -- Jackson Browne
I always have a rule that acting is acting and truth is truth and you just go out there and you do it. But what happens in each medium is that you have other responsibilities. The acting remains the same, but each medium dictates assuming other halves to make the acting work. -- James Woods
I couldn't be 'Johnny' in front of a camera in acting jobs and behind the camera I like to be 'Michael.' With directing, you can't do it by halves. There's a lot of reflection, and I have found that I, as 'Michael,' thrive on it. It's lovely coming home and feeling that stuff from a day's work as myself. -- Johnny Vegas
The more real I got on 'The Bourne Identity,' the more interesting it got. So 'Fair Game' was the chance to go a few more steps in that direction. In fact, I discovered this whole other world that I had ignored in the 'Bourne' franchise, which is the domestic life of a spy, and how you make the two halves of your life coexist. -- Doug Liman
I've never done anything by halves. -- Coco Chanel
Writers' lives break into two halves, -- John Updike
Women are the twin halves of men. -- Muhammad
One does not make revolutions by halves. -- Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Saying of the ProphetWomenWomen are the twin-halves of men. -- Idries Shah
One's not half of two; two are halves of one. -- e. e. cummings
Do nothing by halves which can be done by quarters. -- F. R. Scott
When we walk, the two halves of our brains converse. -- Julia Cameron
Don't imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon. -- Matsuo Basho
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Two halves don't make a whole. Two wholes make a whole. -- Jason Mraz
One thing about Kane - he never did anything by halves. -- Christine Feehan
To do nothing by halves is the way of noble spirits. -- Christoph Martin Wieland
a woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves. -- George Sand
Vicksburg is the nail head that holds the South's two halves together. -- Jefferson Davis
We're all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The world is split into two halves: the bacon, and the bacon eaters. -- Nick Offerman
Two halves won't make a wholeIf the whole Is a holeIn a person's heart. -- The Book of Deliberations
Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves. -- Matsuo Basho
I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly. -- Bernard Gilpin
Imaan is of two halves; half is patience (Sabr) and half is being thankful (Shukr). -- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
we are two like-minded creatures too well-matched, both equal halves of a whole not altogether wholesome -- Beatriz Fitzgerald Fernandez
Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not. -- Honore de Balzac
We all have other halves, and when they're feeling bad, we get a little piece of the pain -- Paulo Coelho
Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it takes two wholes. -- Patricia L. Fry
The 'creator' and the 'editor' - two halves of the writer whole - should sleep in separate rooms. -- Judith Guest
A relationship is not two halves coming together to make a whole. Each of you is already complete. -- Nancy Kline
Patch was in my life for a reason. I needed him. We were two halves of the same whole. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
And after I played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song. -- Amy Tan
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I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people. -- Che Guevara
Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole. -- Carl Jung
Life has two halves: one patient and one afire. Love is the fiery half. Make me, O Lord, food for the flames. -- Khalil Gibran
United by their clasped hands, they became again the two halves, the light and the dark. The Destroyer and the Savior. A whole. -- J.R. Ward
When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves. -- Carl Jung
Someone once said that two halves make a whole. And when two halves move in together, it makes a whole lot of stuff. -- Sarah Jessica Parker
The French selectors never do anything by halves; for the first international of the season against Ireland they dropped half the three-quarter line. -- Nigel Starmer-Smith
I speak to the broken halves of all our selves and tell them to embrace, loving the worst in us equally with the best. -- J. M. Coetzee
I didn't appear to need anyone: I could do it all myself. I could do everything. I was both halves: did that mean I was whole? -- Rachel Cusk
Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one and go halves with t'other. -- William Congreve
When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is morbid and unhealthy. -- Mark Steyn
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. -- Jane Austen
Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on end waiting to fall. -- Barbara Kingsolver
No question about it: potential is wrapped in great mystery. Like rainbows, which are really circles-we see only the upper halves, the horizon hides the rest-potential never reveals its entirety. -- Max de Pree
Linda and I aren't one and one. We are two halves that make a whole -- two halves fitted together are more efficient than either half would ever be alone! -- Bruce Lee
A man is in one piece until love finds its way to his heart it splits him in half vital to have both halves, yet excruciating to keep them glued together -- A.M.M Alusi
Women are all so far Machiavellians that they are never either good or bad by halves; their passions are too strong, and their reason too weak, to do anything with moderation. -- Lord Chesterfield
And I saw then and there you take a man half-bad and a women half-bad and put their two good halves together and you got one human all good to share between. -- Ray Bradbury
Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature. -- Plato
Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable... -- Roald Dahl
It is very much easier to divide your outlook on the world into two halves, to say that you know this belongs to the daily half and this belongs to the Sunday half. -- Jacob Bronowski
The unsound convert takes Christ by halves. He is all for the salvation of Christ, but is not for sanctification. He is for the privileges, but does not appropriate the person of Christ. -- Joseph Alleine

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