H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Half of San Antonio's population is of Mexican descent; the other half just eats that way.”
“Half of science is putting forth the right questions.”
“Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two
“Half of Silicon Valley's got a little bit of autism.”
“Half of spiritual growth is learning what we don't know. The other half is unlearning what we do know.”
Source: In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars
“Half of teachers leave the profession within their first four years, and kids with behaviour challenges and their parents are cited as one of the major reasons.”
Source: Lost at School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them
“Half of the [USA] population, roughly, thinks the world was created a couple thousand years ago. Two thirds of the country is expecting the second coming of Christ. They've also had to turn to nativists. The gun culture in the United States, which is out of control, is party fueled by people who think 'we've got to have our guns to protect ourselves.'”
“Half of the acting I do is actually done by the hair.”
“Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.”
“Half of the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need.”
“Half of the dead are killed by their friends. Maybe that's the history of everything.”
Source: The Mere Wife
“Half of the devices that we encounter in terrorism cases, in counterintelligence cases, in gang cases, in child pornography cases, cannot be opened with any technique. That is a big problem. And so the shadow continues to fall.”
“Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.”
“Half of the future is buried in the past. That was the prevailing Service culture.”
Source: Slow Horses
“Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.”
“Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.”
Source: The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot
“Half of the human population has been shaped by selection to live fast and die young. I mean, of course, the fragile sex. On the average, men die seven years sooner than women do.”
Source: Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
“Half of the ills we hoard within our hearts
Are ills because we hoard them.”
“Half of the interview is substantive and half of it I think is sizing the person up.”
“Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not.”
Source: The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more
“Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But they need to go back further. They have to go back to the '50s and '60s, where things started. That's how you get to be your own personality, by studying the masters. Rock and roll was white kids trying to make black music and failing, gloriously!”
“Half of the people can be part right all of the time, Some of the people can be all right part of the time. I think Abraham Lincoln said that. 'I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours,' I said that.”
“Half of the people in the world are below average.”
“Half of the people in this room are more dressed up than on any other day in the year, and the other half are more dressed down.”
“Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears”
Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile
“Half of the pleasure of painting and feeling the joy of the creative act is sharing it with others and the feeling of connection. It could just be the colour. But it is something that someone other than you has seen and felt. It is momentous. It is magic.”
“Half of the popcorn sh-t that's out there, we know it's popcorn. But we're like, "It's my guilty pleasure." I feel like we have more guilty pleasure than actual f - kin' pleasure.”
“Half of the reason why people aren't able to succeed in life is because they hypnotize themselves into believing that they can't accomplish their goals, it's a mind game they play with themselves.”
“Half of the receipts in our cookbooks are mere murder to such constitutions and stomachs as we grow here. ...in America, owing to our brighter skies and more fervid climate, we have developed an acute, nervous delicacy of temperament far more akin to that of France than of England.”
Source: American Woman's Home
“Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.”
“Half of the time I don’t know what I’m doing. The other half I think I know what I’m doing (which means half of that time I don’t know what I’m doing either). And sadly, whatever bit of me actually knows what it’s doing is often plagued by the doubt that it actually does.”
“Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.”
“Half of the time, the Holy Ghost tries to warn us about certain people that come into our life. The other half of the time he tries to tell us that the sick feeling we get in a situation is not the other person’s fault, rather it is our own hang-ups. A life filled with bias, hatred, judgment, insecurity, fear, delusion and self-righteousness can cloud the soul of anyone you meet. Our job is never to assume,instead it is to listen, communicate, ask questions then ask more, until we know the true depth of someone’s spirit.”
“Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.”
“Half of the world lives on [about] $2 a day. If there is a hungry kid in the world, we shouldn't consider ourselves more evolved than homo habilis.”
“Half of them kept repeating my name, trying to get it right, while the other half laughed. But they were harmless. Fun drunks make a nice addition to any party: Not looking to fight. Not looking to score. Just looking to get drunk and laugh. I remember those guys. Like the mascots of the party. "Clay! Whatcha doon here? Bah-ha-ha-ha!”
Source: Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition
“Half of these aren't even Machiavelli. Some are Plato, Thucydides etc....doesnt anyone check these?”
“Half of this story is true and the other half might very well have happened.”
Source: The Twenty-One Balloons
“Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.”
“Half of tradition is a lie.”
“Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.”
Source: The Quotable Osler
“Half of us is easy, the other half is hard. Even though we do our best, we end up being scarred.”
“Half of what I know I do not believe. Half of what I believe I cannot prove. For the rest, I hope to muddle through and my mistakes go without comment.”
Source: Gnomon
“Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it just to reach you.”
“Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.”
Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam
“Half of what we know is wrong, the purpose of science is to determine which half.”
“Half of what's wrong with people today is that they ain't got no place to go that makes them peaceful.”
“Half of Wisconsinites are considered alcoholics. It's part of the culture of Wisconsin... if self-deprecation is their survival instinct, alcohol is their coping mechanism.”
“Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.”
“Half of writing history is hiding the truth.”