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“I am a stranger to half measures. With life I am on the attack, restlessly ferreting out each pleasure, foraging for answers, wringing from it even the pain. I ransack life, hunt it down. I am the hungry peasants storming the palace gates. I will have my share. No matter how it tastes.”

Matter Pain Answers Pleasure Half Share Taste Stranger Hungry Gates Intensity Aggression Hunts Palaces Peasants Foraging Half Measures

Book:Migrations of the Heart: An Autobiography

Source: Migrations of the Heart: An Autobiography

“Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.”

People Writing Two Half Careers Talent Draws Come Up

Author:Matt Groening

“I suppose the half-breeds in Manitoba, in 1870, did not fight for two hundred forty acres of land, but it is to be understood there were two societies who treated together. One was small, but in its smallness it had its rights. The other was great, but in its greatness it had no greater rights than the rights of the small, because the right is the same for everyone.”

Two Together Fighting Half Greater Rights Land Greatness Understood Hundred Treated Forty Acres Smallness

Author:Louis Riel

“A culture that doesn't respect half its population will never prosper.”

Culture Women Half Population

Author:Wafa Sultan

“For without love we will lose the will to live. Our mental and physical vitality is impaired, our resistance is lowered, and we succumb to illnesses that often prove fatal. We may escape actual death, but what remains is a meager and barren existence, emotionally so impoverished that we can only be called half alive.”

May Loses Existence Half Alive Prove Remains Illness Resistance Vitality Without Love Barren Will To Live

Book:Love or perish

Source: Love or perish

“Frankly, the trouble with winter is, it is all backbone. It is fleshless, insensate, with neither a breast to be leaned on nor a heart to love and ache and, if need be, break, nor any kindly hand to fondle and caress like a sea-wave on a sunny shore half asleep.”

Ifs Needs Heart Hands Half Break Trouble Sea Winter Wave Breasts Shore Ache Sunny Backbone Caress

Author:William Alfred Quayle

“The Kantian philosophy is no more than at best a half-secularized version of such a theocratic ethics, with "Reason" in the place of God. This does not amount to much more than a change of names.”

Doe Reason Philosophy Names Half Amount Ethics Versions

Book:Outside Ethics

Source: Outside Ethics

“Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.”

People Half Wickedness Making People Happy

Author:Lydia M. Child

“For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire, the second half trimming it.”

Firsts Half Music Careers Singers Extending Trimming

Author:Ethan Mordden

“Satirical writers and speakers are not half so clever as they think themselves, nor as they are thought to be. They do winnow the corn, it is true, but it is to feed upon the chaff. I am sorry to add that they who are always speaking ill of others are also very apt to be doing ill to them. It requires some talent and some generosity to find out talent and generosity in others, though nothing but self-conceit and malice are needed to discover or to imagine faults. It is much easier for an ill-natured man than for a good-natured man to be smart and witty.”

Thinking Men Self Half Imagine Talent Needed Easier Smart Add Faults Sorry Ill Witty Clever Generosity Satire Speakers Corn Malice Conceit Being Smart Satirical I Am Sorry Am Sorry

Author:James Sharp

“people say churches are half empty, they're not, they're too big”

People Bigs Church Half Empty Half Empty

Author:Sean Lock

“a trouble shared is a trouble half endured.”

Book:The Keeper of the Bees

Source: The Keeper of the Bees

“A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.”

Lying Fighting Half Truth Is Hardest

Author:Patricia Wentworth

“Half magic is no magic at all.”

Author:Sharyn McCrumb

“there are things you mustn't even try to explain. They either become trite or they tie you down to something that's only half true.”

Trying Half Ties

Book:A door fell shut

Source: A door fell shut

“In the second half of life, the questions become: 'Who, apart from the roles you play, are you? What does the soul ask of you? Do you have the wherewithal to shift course, to deconstruct your painfully achieved identity, risking failure, marginalization and loss of collective approval?' No small task.”

Doe Soul Play Courses Asks Loss Half Roles Identity Tasks Collectives Approval Marginalization

Author:James Hollis

“The technique's many benefits for actors include minimized tension, centeredness, vocal relaxation, and responsiveness, mind/body connection and about an inch and a half of additional height.”

Mind Body Actors Half Benefits Connections Technique Height Tension Inches Relaxation Vocal Mind Body Centeredness Mind Body Connection Responsiveness

Author:Kevin Kline

“I am never going to please all 100 million people who read the book. I'll be lucky if half that number are happy with me playing Christian Grey. I know there are campaigns of hate against me already.”

People Ifs Knows Book Christian Hate Numbers Half Millions Please Lucky Campaigns Grey

Author:Jamie Dornan

“When I die I have visions of fags singing 'Over the Rainbow' and the flag at Fire Island being flown at half mast.”

Dies Half Vision Fire Singing Islands Flags Rainbow Masts

Author:Judy Garland

“I think you gotta look at stuff half-full as opposed to half-empty.”

Thinking Looks Stuff Half Empty Half Full Half Empty

Author:Pauly Shore

“With the Internet, if you erase something it just means you have to spend another half-minute to find it.”

Ifs Mean Half Minutes Internet Erase

Author:Gilbert Gottfried

“I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.”

Years Half Four Army Soldier Accidents Broke Rehabilitation Half A Year

Author:Bear Grylls

“You have to break in half to love somebody.”

Author:Robin Williams

“My dad loves to cook. I'm half Thai, and growing up that's all we ate in my house. My dad was very big on the idea that dinnertime and cooking time was also family time.”

Ideas Bigs House Half Growing Up Growing Dad Cooking My Dad Cooks Thai Family Time Dad Love

Author:Brenda Song

“My life, in some ways, has been a half-measure. I didn't commit myself all the way to my marriage and family, because I would have given up more. And I didn't go all the way with just being completely selfish. I always wonder where my career would be if I was more selfish.”

Ifs Way Has Beens Would Be Given Half Wonder Careers Selfish Commit Just Being Given Up Marriage And Family Half Measures

Author:Alec Baldwin

“My mum said she remembers me asking her if she'd take me to ballet lessons when I was about two and a half. She said I could barely speak, and yet was asking for ballet lessons.”

Ifs Said Two Remember Speak Half Lessons Asking Take Me Ballet Mum Remember Me

Author:Joanne Froggatt

“Its quite pretentious, really, isnt it? The notion the audience is going to be interested in you for an hour and a half. Think too much about that and anxiety takes over.”

Thinking Hours Half Audience Too Much Anxiety Notion Pretentious

Author:Jean Dujardin

“I pride myself on being the type of artist who can work half in the R&B world and half in the pop world.”

World Artist Half Pride Type Pops

Author:Ne-Yo

“It's all very hazy to me now. I'm glad I made it through that stage. It got a little dicey. There were some drugs going on. I remember singing one song for about a day and a half.”

Littles Made Remember Song Half Stage Drug Singing Glad Made It Hazy

Author:Neil Young

“The best imitation in the world is not half as good as a poor original.”

World Poor Half Originals Imitation

Author:Luise Rainer

“Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.”

Way Two Lying Half Virtue Opposites Vices Half Way Two Opposites

Author:Horace

“What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good purpose! It was that sort of despair that sucked away the sap of half the hours which might have been filled by energetic youthful activity: and the same demon tries to get hold of me again whenever an old work is dismissed and a new one is being meditated.”

Trying Has Beens Made Moments Might Purpose Hours Half Consciousness Activity Despair Filled Demon Might Have Been Energetic Being Me Sap

Book:George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus

Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus

“I know them, yea, And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple; Scambling, out-facing, fashion-mong'ring boys, That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave, and slander, Go antickly, and show outward hideousness, And speak off half a dozen dangerous words, How they might hurt their enemies, if they durst; And this is all.”

Ifs Knows Shows Might Lying Speak Hurt Half Enemy Boys Fashion Dangerous Rings Dozen Boast Slander Scruples Cogs

Book:Much ado about nothing. Love's labour's lost. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming of the shrew. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night

Source: Much ado about nothing. Love's labour's lost. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming of the shrew. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night

“Like one who draws the model of a house beyond his power to build it who, half through, gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost a naked subject to the weeping clouds.”

Giving House Half Subjects Building Cost Models Draws Clouds Naked Weeping

Book:Henry IV

Source: Henry IV

“My prophecy is but half his journey yet, For yonder walls, that pertly front your town, Yon towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds, Must kiss their own feet.”

Half Journey Feet Fronts Wall Kissing Towns Clouds Towers Prophecy Wanton Our Town

Book:The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Timon of Athens. Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. King Lear. Vol. 8

Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Timon of Athens. Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. King Lear. Vol. 8

“Foul fiend of France and hag of all despite, Encompassed with thy lustful paramours, Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age And twit with cowardice a man half dead?”

Men Age Half Despite Thee France Cowardice Foul Valiant Taunting Lustful Twits

Book:The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works

Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works

“Social sorrow loses half its pain.”

Pain Social Loses Half Sorrow

Book:The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with his life, and notes on his Lives of the poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In eleven volumes ...

Source: The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with his life, and notes on his Lives of the poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In eleven volumes ...

“Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.”

Shows Women Half Charm

Book:Letters of Alexander Pope Works and Arranged Expresly for the Use Young People

Source: Letters of Alexander Pope Works and Arranged Expresly for the Use Young People

“I've spent half my life on planes. I have a lot of love for New Zealand, though. That is where the really arty, whimsical side of the family resided - in Hobbitland.”

Sides Half Planes New Zealand Whimsical

Author:Alice Englert

“My mother is very wise and intelligent. If I have children and can do half as good a job as she did in keeping me in line, I'll be very happy.”

Ifs Children Jobs Mother Can Do Lines Half Wise Intelligent Very Happy Very Wise

Author:Brandon Lee

“With little knowledge of what it meant to be a Jew, I found myself passionately defending the Jewish people. Now, half a century later, I have to defend my son. Anti-Semitism, I've seen, is like a disease that goes dormant, flaring up with the next political trigger.”

People Littles Political Next Found Half Century Son Disease Jew My Son Meant To Be Triggers Anti Semitism Dormant Half A Century Little Knowledge

Author:Michael Douglas

“I'm pretty cautious and not very athletic, so I've only had really dumb injuries, like sprained ankles and allergic reactions. I did have to go to the hospital after slicing my finger while trying to cut a Kaiser roll in half.”

Trying Half Cutting Fingers Reactions Dumb Injury Hospitals Athletic Cautious Ankles Allergic Really Dumb Allergic Reactions

Author:Mara Wilson

“I graduated from Brown in 2001, moved to New York, and spent a year and a half just looking up Backstage magazine auditions and grinding.”

Years Half New York Moved Magazines Brown Auditions

Author:David Walton

“I run a lot. I love running. I try to run at least half an hour a day.”

Trying Running Hours Half

Author:Elisabeth Harnois

“I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.”

People Thinking Two Play Hours Dark Half Jokes Manners Invites Retired Half Hours Bad Manners

Author:Bill Nighy

“I've never had my heart broken. And I don't want to have my heart broken. I'm afraid of it. Even when I break someone else's heart, I'm really upset about it. And I'm not even feeling half of what they are.”

Want Heart Feelings Half Break Broken My Heart Upset Heart Broke

Author:Ashley Benson

“Recently, a six-year-old boy said to me, "I've been waiting to meet you for half my life."”

Years Said Waiting Half Boys Six Six Year Olds

Author:Fay Wray

“My first job ever was working a ski lift when I was 16. I also worked at a garden center, which I loved. I did that for two and a half years.”

Years Firsts Two Jobs Half Garden Lifts Skis Half A Year

Author:Sara Canning

“I think half of what a trainer does is make you feel shame if you dont show up.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Doe Shows Half Shame Trainers

Author:Stephen Moyer

“I don't play polo anymore because I am too old. But we still have a half a dozen horses - a couple of young horses we are teaching how to play polo and older horses that are real trustworthy when you get them up in the mountains.”

Stills Real Play Young Half Teaching Couple Mountain Horse Dozen Trustworthy Polo

Author:William Devane