Half Quotes - Page 12

• Half my family was from the Imperial Japanese Navy, and the other half was U.S. Army, and I was raised on Army posts during my childhood, so I pretty much began my life with a split-brain sort of thing.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Army, Childhood, Brain

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• A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sight, Fake, Kicking

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.222, Penguin

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• This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Harps, One Half

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• I am less affected by their heroism who stood up for half an hour in the front line at Buena Vista, than by the steady and cheerful valor of the men who inhabit the snow-plow for their winter quarters; who have not merely the three-o'-clock-in-the-morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest, but whose courage does not go to rest so early, who go to sleep only when the storm sleeps or the sinews of their iron steed are frozen.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morning, Sleep, Winter

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One has for one's raw material every single thing one has ever seen or heard or felt, and one has to go over that vast, smoldering rubbish-heap of experience, half stifled by fumes and dust, scraping and delving until one finds a few discarded valuables. Then one has to assemble these tarnished and dented fragments, polish them, set them in order, and try to make a coherent and significant arrangement of them.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Writing, Dust, Order

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• Viewers have a way of remembering the celebrity while forgetting the product. I did not know this when I paid Eleanor Roosevelt $35,000 to make a commercial for margarine. She reported that her mail was equally divided. "One half was sad because I had damaged my reputation. The other half was happy because I had damaged my reputation." Not one of my proudest memories.

  David Ogilvy

  Memories, Mail, Way

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• The heaviest of burdens is simultaneously an image of life's most intense fullfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into new heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?

  Milan Kundera

  Real, Men, Air

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• My relationships usually last a few years. When I'm involved with a man, other men are fascinated with me, but the minute I'm single again, half of those men disappear because they don't have the balls to really want me.

  Cher

  Men, Years, Balls

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• I determined to make my peace with Islam, even at the cost of my pride. Those who were surprised and displeased by what I did perhaps failed to see that ... I wanted to make peace between the warring halves of the world, which were also the warring halves of my soul.

  Salman Rushdie

  Pride, Soul, Islam

  "Excerpts From Rushdie's Address: 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor'". Address at Columbia University, www.nytimes.com. December 12, 1991.

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• Religion looks forward to the destruction of the world.... Perhaps half aware that its unsupported arguments are not entirely persuasive, and perhaps uneasy about its own greedy accumulation of temporal power and wealth, religion has never ceased to proclaim the Apocalypse and the day of judgment.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Looks, World, Argument

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.44, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil.... With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good.

  Maimonides

  Men, Views, Evil

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• I have always understood the unbelieving look in the eyes of those whom success touches early - it is a look half fearful, as though the dream were still in the process of being dreamed and to move or to speak would shatter it.

  Moss Hart

  Dream, Moving, Eye

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• Half-truths are like half a brick - they can be thrown farther.

  Hyman Rickover

  Bricks, Half Truth, Thrown

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• It's an honor to be compared with Terry Bradshaw. If I could do half of what he did, I'd be very happy.

  Ben Roethlisberger

  Honor, Very Happy, If I Could

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• I hope by the time that I'm done in this game, I can have half the numbers Stan Musial had in his career.

  Albert Pujols

  Games, Careers, Numbers

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• I'm half Native American and half white so I think I can adjust culturally to anything.

  Jacoby Ellsbury

  Native American, Thinking, White

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• I'm me on the mound. I like to show my emotion, be real aggressive and give everything I've got for one half inning. I don't have to act. What you see on the mound is what I am in real life.

  Eric Gagne

  Real, Giving, Emotion

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• An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.

  Dick Cavett

  Damage, Hours, Minutes

  Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.81, Henry Holt and Company

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• We've got sports scientists who insist it's important for the lads to eat after games to refuel, even if it's 2am. I used to refuel after games at West Ham until half past three in the morning in a different way - but then I'm old school.

  Harry Redknapp

  Sports, Morning, School

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• I guess politicians can be excused for thinking the electorate is stupid because they keep winning reelection. If you were Barbara Boxer or Harry Reid and you kept being reelected, you'd have to think, 'Half of my state is stupid.' But then you wouldn't be smart enough to think that if you had their brains.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Smart, Stupid, Winning

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• I have four daughters, with the two youngest being four years old and a year and a half. When one of my older daughters was in sixth grade, a classmate brought in their talking Winnie the Pooh doll for show and tell, so the next week my daughter one upped her classmates and brought me to school in for show and tell.

  Jim Cummings

  Daughter, School, Next Week

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• I spent 30 minutes each morning rubbing my body with half a lemon to lighten my skin.

  Josephine Baker

  Morning, Skins, Body

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• Half of the people in the world are below average.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Average, People, World

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• Why all this insistence on the senses? Because in order to convince your reader that he is THERE, you must assault each of his senses, in turn, with color, sound, taste, and texture. If your reader feels the sun on his flesh, the wind fluttering his shirt sleeves, half your fight is won. The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his senses, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events. He cannot refuse, then, to participate. The logic of events always gives way to the logic of the senses.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fighting, Order, Color

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• A bachelor, in my opinion, is only half alive.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Alive, Opinion, Bachelors

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Hans Mersmann (1928). “Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart”, p.185, Courier Corporation

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