Quotes by category:Half

The question is whether we're ready to undertake responsibility for overcoming the crisis or will again sink in debates, mutual recriminations and half-steps

Yevgeny Primakov

half responsibility overcoming

Half the game is 90% mental. by Yogi Berra

Half the game is 90% mental.

Ninety percent of the game (baseball) is half mental. by Yogi Berra

Ninety percent of the game (baseball) is half mental.

half baseball games

Art is an effort to make you walk a half an inch above ground. by Yoko Ono

Art is an effort to make you walk a half an inch above ground.

effort half art

For more than half a century... this Union has stood unshaken. Whatever dangers may threaten it, I shall stand by it and maintain it in its integrity to the full extent of the obligations imposed and the powers conferred upon me by the Constitution.

half integrity history

No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness o... by William Shakespeare

No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.

William Shakespeare

envy half bears

It's not terrible, I guess, but if Ricky Gervais was half as talented as me, maybe the show would actually be funny once in a while.

terrible half shows

Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.

female half students

Foul fiend of France and hag of all despite, by William Shakespeare

Foul fiend of France and hag of all despite,

William Shakespeare

Live, it's just the free flow and the energy and the excitement. It's a one-off and you have that adrenaline for an hour and a half.

flow energy half

What interests me in [Lincoln in the Bardo] is a slight perverse balance between the sublime and the grotesque. Like you could have landed only on the sublime. But my argument is that the sublime couldn't exist without this other half.

sublime balance half

Two years ago, if anyone had told me I'd be doing half the stuff I'm doing, I wouldn't have believed it.

The [first] argument asserts the non-existence of motion on the ground that that which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

half goal science

And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, 'Hmm, there's half a page that's good here.' Then you throw out everything else.

the-end-of-the-day half looks

I don't quite understand how a generation and a half after the Second World War we've gotten where we are now.

generations half war

A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time. by Zoe Saldana

A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.

adults half children

want won't kill you half as quick as worry will. by Zora Neale Hurston

want won't kill you half as quick as worry will.

Zora Neale Hurston

half want worry

Ceausescu was mad, and he made half of Romania mad. I'm mad becau... by Herta Muller

Ceausescu was mad, and he made half of Romania mad. I'm mad because of him.

because him mad half

Natural gas emits only half the carbon dioxide of coal when burned, but if methane leaks when oil companies extract it from the ground in a sloppy manner - methane is far more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide - it can wipe out all the advantages of natural gas over coal.

Thomas Friedman

ground more oil half

Most Americans and other Westerners claim to have read all or part of the Bible. However, when asked to identify even four books of the Bible or four of Jesus' disciples or four of the Ten Commandments, fewer than half even attempt to respond and fewer than one in ten respond correctly.

respond books half bible