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"In this world, who can do a thing, will not; And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power — And thus we half-men struggle."
"God turned to speak to me (Don't anybody laugh); God found I wasn't there At least not over half."
"My life is only half full When I receive. My heart is completely full Only when I give."
"Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai had carried the halftruth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts."
"...those little people, my brownies, who do one half of my work for me while I am fast asleep, and in all human likelihood do the rest for me as well, when I am wide awake and fondly suppose I do for myself."
"Performing music is a way to do comedy, but without the obligation to do a solid hour, hour and half of a standup. I could intersperse it with music, so it became a really good format for me."
"A personality is our way of being for others. We hope that others will meet us half way or more, gratify our needs, be our audience, soothe our fears."
"I am a socialist not because I think it is a perfect system, but half a loaf is better than no bread. The other system has been tried and found wanting"
"Caprice is half man. There is something manly about her."
"I'd ridden to school with Link every day since kindergarten, when we became best friends after he gave me half his Twinkie on the bus. I only found out later it had fallen on the floor."
"Yeah 'ear 'ear," said George, with half a glance at Fred, the corner of whose mouth twitched."
"I don't know who Maxime thinks she's kidding. If Hagrid's half-giant, she definitely is. Big bones... the only thing that's got bigger bones than her is a dinosaur."
"Shut your mouth! You dare speak his name with your unworthy lips, you dare besmirch it with your half-blood's tongue, you dare —"
"Andrew hated to see her humiliated and pathetic like this; but he half hated her too for landing herself in it, when any idiot could have seen."
"we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were."
"You can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we don't understand. It can be understood too, but only dimly and in flashes. Not half a dozen men have ever been able to keep the whole equation of pictures in their heads."
"What interests me in [Lincoln in the Bardo] is a slight perverse balance between the sublime and the grotesque. Like you could have landed only on the sublime. But my argument is that the sublime couldn't exist without this other half."
"I don't want to make a half-assed film. It's not my area of expertise."
"If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness."
"Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman."
