Other Half Quotes - Page 10

• George Smiley: [quoting an old letter from Bill Haydon about Jim Prideaux] He has that heavy quiet that commands. He's my other half. Between us we'd make one marvelous man. He asks nothing better than to be in my company or that of my wicked, divine friends, and I'm vastly tickled by the compliment. He's virgin, about eight foot tall, and built by the same firm that did Stonehenge

  John le Carre

  Men, Eight, Feet

  "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy". www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• Without a bottle to hold, I feel incomplete, the way Plato says we are each born only half a circle, and we spend out lives seeking out our other half. A drink is my beloved. Without it, I am wanting; I feel half finished.

  Koren Zailckas

  Plato, Circles, Bottles

  Koren Zailckas (2006). “Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood”, p.121, Penguin

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• I got about half the time I wanted to write poetry. I got about half the time I needed to be a father. So there is something in adulthood that has to do with accepting the half of things, allowing a renunciation of the other half, accepting half a basket instead of a full basket.

  Robert Bly

  Father, Writing, Half

  Source: www.utne.com

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• In India many people come to discuss things with me. I sometimes say that half of them come saying, "I have a problem, I want to find a teacher." The other half say, "I have a problem because I have a teacher!" So it's not so simple.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Teacher, Simple, People

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Love, Life, Sad

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• Half the world cries Half the world laughs Half the world tries To be the other half

  Neil Peart

  Laughing, Trying, Half

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• For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life.

  Hugh Hefner

  Live Life, Heart, Magazines

  "28 Questions With Hugh Hefner". Interview with Ricardo Poupada, www.askmen.com.

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• Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Philosophical, Lunch, Paris

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• I love 'Somebody to Love' by Queen and of course 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is one of my favorites, just because it makes everyone in the room go crazy. Everyone tries to sing along with it, and half the room gets it right and the other half gets it wrong.

  Faith Hill

  Queens, Crazy, Trying

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• I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.

  David Schwimmer

  Half, Analyzing, Living My Life

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• When 1:45 came, half the class left, and Danny Hupfer whispered, "If she gives you a cream puff after we leave, I'm going to kill you" - which was not something that someone headed off to prepare for his bar mitzvah should be thinking. When 1:55 came and the other half of the class left, Meryl Lee whispered, "If she gives you one after we leave, I'm going to do Number 408 to you." I didn't remember what Number 408 was, but it was probably pretty close to what Danny Hupfer had promised. Even Mai Thi looked at me with narrowed eyes and said, "I know your home." Which sounded pretty ominous.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Eye, Home, Thinking

  Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He almost danced to the fridge, found the three least hairy things in it, put them on a plate and watched them intently for two minutes. Since they made no attempt to move within that time he called them breakfast and ate them. Between them they killed a virulent space disease he'd picked up without knowing it in the Flargathon Gas Swamps a few days earlier, which otherwise would have killed off half the population of the Western Hemisphere, blinded the other half, and driven everyone else psychotic and sterile, so the Earth was lucky there.

  Douglas Adams

  Moving, Two, Knowing

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.510, Pan Macmillan

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• What I'm getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting people jobs, we could just hire half the people in the country to spy on the other half.

  Jello Biafra

  Country, Jobs, People

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• I just want my child to have security and being looked after by me, by my other half, by my mother and by a nanny. We all share that responsibility equally and I think he is a very well-adjusted little boy.

  Rosamund Pike

  Mother, Children, Responsibility

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Half the trouble in the world arises from men trying to anticipate their time and season, and the other half from their trying to prolong them.

  Arthur Bryant

  Men, Trying, Half

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• Just to make your eyes sparkle, I'd do anything. I could give it all up to know you were my girl. Just being with you and listening to your laugh is what makes up my other half. I was lost and cold inside when your heart called out to mine. Now I know you're the only thing that keeps me hanging on, when the rest of the world seems to come crashing down." -Jax Stone

  Abbi Glines

  Girl, Eye, Heart

  Abbi Glines (2013). “Breathe”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• Methods and conclusions formed by half the race only, must necessarily require revision as the other half of humanity rises into conscious responsibility.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Responsibility, Race, Humanity

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• 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

  Life, Keys, Glasses

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• This is the world. Half of it is lit by the sun and the other half remains in darkness. It is the same with life. There is good and bad and it's our duty to remain in the light, be good.

  Anita Nair

  Light, Darkness, Half

  Anita Nair (2001). “Ladies Coupé: A Novel in Parts”, p.212, Penguin Books India

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• I have to make half of my decision based on what I think my fans will appreciate, and the other half has to be for my personal reasons.

  Joe Lando

  Thinking, Appreciate, Decision

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• When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the noise they make. The other half is the terror at being forced to accept that they exist.

  Noah Cicero

  Pain, Half, Noise

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• At least half of my life's many mistakes can be safely put down to impetuosity: the other half derive from inertia.

  Donald James

  Mistake, Half, Inertia

  "Vadim". Book by Donald James, December 2000.

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• A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

  Emily Bronte

  Running, Work, Sleep

  Emily Bronte “Wuthering Heights”, Lulu.com

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• Half the game is mental, the other half is being mental.

  Jim McKenny

  Inspirational, Hockey, Nhl

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• I spend half my time comforting the afflicated, and the other half afflicting the comfortable.

  Wess Stafford

  Comforting, Half, My Time

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