H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence, and humanity.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)
“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.”
“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.”
“Half the night I waste in sighs, Half in dreams I sorrow after The delight of early skies; In a wakeful dose I sorrow For the hand, the lips, the eyes, For the meeting of the morrow, The delight of happy laughter, The delight of low replies.”
“Half the people I know want to be writers.
Why do you say want? If you’re already doing it, then it’s not about the future. It already exists in the present.”
Source: Invisible
“Half the people I look who are health food addicts look sickly to me. Let's start taxing health food. Somebody force a burger down some of these people's jaw because they look a little pale and wan to me.”
“Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.”
“Half the people in Lucky Harbor were in love with him. The other half were men and didn't count. -Tara on Ford”
“Half the people in the world have never made a phone call... half.”
“Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.”
Source: Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
“Half the people on the internet are bored and they have no life.”
“Half the people said that their lives had become better after a life crisis as a result of changes they made; some said the benefits and downsides balanced each other out; a smaller proportion said they never really recovered.”
“Half the people who snuff people, that's what they want: recognition. Get their picture in the paper.”
“Half the people you know are below average.”
“Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.”
“Half the point in reading novels and seeing plays and films is to exercise the faculty of sympathy with our own kind, so often obliterated in the multifarious controls and compulsions of actual social existence.”
“Half the population hold that the government is run by a few big interests looking out for themselves, as polls regularly show.”
“Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.”
“Half the published articles on Gaza contain a standard reference to its resemblance to a vast open-air prison (and when I last saw it under Israeli occupation it certainly did deserve this metaphor). The problem is that, given its ideology and its allies, Hamas qualifies rather too well in the capacity of guard and warder.”
“Half the reason I turned into a writer is you didn't have to show up anywhere. You could work naked.”
“Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp.”
“Half the Sky: Turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide”
Source: The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence
“Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.”
“Half the spiritual life consists of remembering what we are up against and where we are going.”
“Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.”
“Half the stuff I've written was written when I was half asleep watching the David Letterman show when some boring actress was on talking about herself. I would just mute the TV, look over to the computer and start plugging in notes. Then the next morning you go "Wow, I like this". I'd almost forget what I did, and then it would inspire me to go on and do the next thing. That's what I do. Just kind of follow my own little thing.”
“Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly anybody to love.”
Source: Persuasion
“Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)”
“Half the things I've done are wrong, mistakes [unintelligible]. The moratorium on pot and LSD a year ago is ridiculous. I shouldn't have done that. I make a blunder at least one out of two times I come to bat.”
“Half the time he felt entirely out of control. Half the time he threw up walls out of fear. And half the time he opted out of life before anyone had the chance to discard him. No matter that the math didn’t add up, it was just how he felt.”
Source: Ride Dirty
“Half the time he seems autistic, the rest of the time he's like a lizard jacked full of lithium and speed. These things do not promote love in most of us.”
Source: Transmetropolitan, Vol. 3: Year of the Bastard
“Half the time I don't even think about it, I just throw something on because I'm so late or so busy.”
“Half the time I don't know what I'm trying to say.”
“Half the time I feel like I'm appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something; let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks, and I'm an upper.”
“Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.”
“Half the time I read Hayek's The Sensory Order with amazement at the extent of his reading and comprehension. He is right most of the time.”
“Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.”
“Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.”
Source: Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition
“Half the time when brothers wrestle, it's just an excuse to hug each other.”
“Half the time you refuse to even acknowledge that I have a fucking mental illness, and the other half you try as hard as possible to make me feel like I'm the last person you ever wanted as a child!”
Source: This Winter
“Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening”
“Half the time your kids end up hating you for at least 5 of their teenage years[.] And don't ever expect anything so mundane as a thank you”
“Half the time, my job is basically to talk people off the ledge. It's more psychological than just me picking up some sticks and counting, "1, 2, 3, 4."”
“Half the time, you go on any one of these news sites, whether it be a Yahoo or a Google, and one of the top headlines is always, "Did a comedian go too far?" or "Comedian offends." It's like, "Really? Comedian?" A person that's supposed to make funny and make silly and historically was the only person who was allowed to make fun of the king? We're the ones that you're taking seriously?”
“Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.”
Source: House of Mirth and the Age of Innocence
“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.”
“Half the truth is often a great lie.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality.”
“Half the useful work in the world consists of combating the harmful work.”
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half”