A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
Emily Bronte

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
Charles Baudelaire

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
Charles Baudelaire

Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.
Richard Pryor

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
George Eliot

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
George Eliot

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
Bill Vaughan

There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.
Norman Mailer

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
Will Durant

Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.
Marilyn vos Savant

No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.
Marilyn vos Savant

Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.
Muhammad Yunus

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
Dorothy Day

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.
Agatha Christie

The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still "are" human beings, now. Or can be.
David Foster Wallace

No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.
Thomas Moore

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
John Updike

Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we acknowledge our need for their different insights and perspectives, the more they will be magnetized to join us.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
John Milton

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.