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The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.
My parents sold my childhood home, and I literally was 35 years old, but I cried for, like, two and a half weeks. Like, openly wailed.
I hate that number. I hate the number four. I just wanna, like, cut it in half and kill it. I hate it. I've been fourth so many times.
More than half the G League is going to be high school kids that are trying to make it. I hope I'm wrong. I absolutely hope I'm wrong.
I see myself as half country boy and half city boy, so I need both to balance me out. I couldn't spend all of my time in either place.
The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.
It occurred to me that a lot of beauty has to do with believing it yourself. That half of what we see is just the way it is presented.
Are we not wasps who spend all day in a fruitless attempt to traverse a window-pane - while the other half of the window is wide open?
You won't often find me in a pair of killer heels: my heel height doesn't rise above two and a half inches, as I would just fall over!
The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It's simply larger than it needs to be. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission
Making people uncomfortable is one of my hobbies. I'm always hoping that half the people get the joke and the other half are the joke.
Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.
I love the creation of these things — I love the sculpting, I love the coloring. Half the joy is fabricating the world, the creatures.
If the boxers are a little more colorful, talk a little like I did and just do half as much as I did for boxing, it will be all right.
I did 'Othello' at the Oregon Shakes - I was at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for two and a half years. That's where my training is.
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
I'm an owl; I'm up. I probably go to sleep during the time when most people wake up. The first half of the day, you might not catch me.
She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.
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.
I am probably more critical of myself than anyone else, I am very tiny - 5'1 and a half inches - so there's nowhere for weight to hide.
If I got a flight to catch and I just bought a half o-z, I'll smoke it all - I can't get weed on a plane, 'cause I've been red-flagged.
Most salespeople are half prepared. They know everything about their company and their product. They know nothing about their prospect.
The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own.
Sing lustily and with a good courage. Beware of singing as if you were half dead, or half asleep; but lift up your voice with strength.
What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract?
Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.
The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.
Half the population of the entire world is women, and people are somehow shocked that this entire half is as capable as the other half.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
In the past, when you were just starting out, you had a day and a half of studio time - maybe two, if your buddy's uncle lets you stay.
The whole world is absolutely brought up on lies. We are fed nothing but lies. It begins with lies and half our lives we live with lies.
I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.
My mom taught me this really great beauty tip. She used to put oil or mayonnaise on the bottom half of her hair before she would shower.
Here's the thing - if you want to do good things in the world, there's just only so much time that one can spend being glass half empty.
If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.
After all the throwing up, I would starve myself. Which meant eating lettuce and water for two and a half months. I almost lost my life.
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.'
Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is
I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.
The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.
There are eyes half defiant, Half meek and compliant; Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm To bring us good or to work with harm.
When I was at university in Birmingham, I used to spend half my grant betting on horse racing. Seven terms out of nine, I made a profit.
I am free to confess that I am disappointed with the Yosemite valley. It seems only about one-half as grand as the American Fork canyon.
I like to tell old jokes on stage after about an hour, or an hour and a half. I'll bring those old ones back because the fans love them.
Cynicism is more than a pose; it's also a handy time saver. By deflating your companion's enthusiasm, you can cut conversations in half.
When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked.
I sound like a damn commercial, but half the crap in this house is from Wal-mart. The big deal about Wal-mart is that its open 24 hours.
Diversity is not one in the room. Diversity is not two in the room. Diversity is not three in the room. True diversity is half the room.
For over half a century the automobile has brought death, injury, and the most inestimable sorrow and deprivation to millions of people.