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For one half second, I wondered what it would feel like to put my hand in the fire. What it would feel like when I burned.
If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Sometimes for an afternoon snack, I'll get some tortilla chips and half an avocado, and I'll just eat that like guacamole.
Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.
I got my boobs done because I wanted to even out my lower half, and I thought that would take the focus away from my hips.
Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?
I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked?
The only good thing about being frightened half to death, she thought, is that it makes me forget all about being seasick.
The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century.
Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.
But young hearts mend easily, and hearts that own half of England have something better to do than to beat faster for love.
I don't really watch too many movies. I don't have the patience usually to watch one, one and a half or two hours in a row.
Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.
You can do pretty much anything you want in Dubai. In terms of getting around, everywhere's within half an hour in the car.
HALF of America pays NO taxes. Zero. So they're happy for tax rates to be raised on the other half that DOES pay any taxes.
A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree - or even, occasionally, the careless - may turn out to be half a life.
My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.
I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.
You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.
Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.
We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it.
If my cup won't hold but a pint and yourn holds a quart, wouldn't ye be mean not to let me have my little half-measure full?
I never get used to it, the unknowable mystery of a person so suddenly, totally closed, snapped shut like a half-read novel.
In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.
Here and there are worms, evidence of the fertility of the soil, caught by the sun, half dead; flexible and pink, like lips.
I haven't seen about half the movies I've done. You know, you've got to make a living, but some I don't get a good vibe with.
What's the difference between Lindsay Lohan and Rick Perry? It only takes Lindsay four and a half hours to finish a sentence.
If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way.
When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.
It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.
I'm the female equivalent of a counterfeit $20 bill. Half of what you see is a pretty good reproduction, the rest is a fraud.
If Pizza sizes were given in area not diameter, you'd see instantly that a 7 inch is less than half the size of a 10 inch pie
I'm curious by individuals that embrace half a story so they can justify how incomplete they feel about their own self worth.
Mystery is part of each life, and maybe it is healthier to uphold it than to spend a lifetime in search of half-made answers.
Stop asking if the glass is half full or half empty. Instead ask "What's in it? How did it get there? What can I do with it?"
The worst criminals are not half so immoral as the creators and perpetrators of the unquestionable hell of Christian theology
The movement toward gratitude, authenticity, and union is the natural and organic inner work of the second half of our lives.
No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
If the orchestra's not enjoying itself, the concerto will not succeed, with the players confined to using half an inch of bow.
An anarchist does not want to rule others and does not want others to rule him. Nothing is so despicable as half-an-anarchist.
"I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else"
I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things.
His father's made us paint half this town and if we stick around any longer he'll make us paint the rest of it." -Jonah Griggs
Cuba has not accepted the domain and imposition of an empire that has wanted to dominate us for over half a century [America].
There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.
We are in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. The great point is to choose good models and to study them with care.
Hearing other peoples' interpretations of your lyrics, to me, is just a total kick in the pants. Half the time, they're better.