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"The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it."
"I felt very bad in Washington. . . I didn't like my job, and I didn't know what was going to happen to me, and I was cold and half-hungry, so I wrote a great many poems."
"Always half an hour a day where it's just me and my yoga mat."
"want won't kill you half as quick as worry will."
"Gods, religions and national boundaries are absolutely imaginary. They don't tend to exist. As soon as you pull back half a mile and look down at the Earth there are no national boundaries. There aren't even national boundaries when you get down and walk around. They're just imaginary lines we draw on maps. I just get fascinated by people who assume that things that are imaginary have no relevance to their lives."
"A crumb is a great thing: If you break a crumb in half, you don't get two half-crumbs, you get two crumbs. Doesn't that violate some law of physics?"
"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."
"Half the world knows not how the other half lies."
"And I tell you truly, Danaerys, there is no man in all the world who will ever be half so true to you as me."
"I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour."
"I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it."
"To your care and recommendation am I indebted for having replaced a half-blind mathematician with a mathematician with both eyes, which will especially please the anatomical members of my Academy."
"No half measures. Some things can’t be cut in half. You can’t half-love someone. You can’t half-betray, or half-lie."
"You would have to be half-mad to dream me up."
"Half of life is up - the other half is dealing with it."
"Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other."
"Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it."
"Experience is only half of experience."
"I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment."