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If you pursue an evenhanded policy between a cat and a mouse, do you help the mouse to survive - or allow the cat to eat half the mouse?
Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.
If you're going to do something, strive to do it better than anyone else. Do it all the way. If you're going to half-ass it, why bother?
If I get married in the future, I want to have a relationship like friends with my other half. It'd be best if we can communicate often.
Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.
On all things created remaineth the half-effaced signature of God, Somewhat of fair and good, though blotted by the finger of corruption.
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.
The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.
It was an incredible effort by the Irish down in Tallahassee. Jameis Winston was too tough in the second half; congrats to the Seminoles.
I'm sure there's a hell of a party in Ireland now and I know I don't have anything to do for two-and-a-half days so I'm going to party on
An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.
I'm falling apart, one part after another. Falling down on the world like snow. Half of me is already on the ground, watching from below.
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.
I was 30 when 9/11 happened and I had lived exactly 15 years of life in America, so I was half American. I was a full-fledged New Yorker.
There are many that despise half the world; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because the other half despises them.
Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.
Gak encompasses so many things, like, 'Tonight is going to be a gak and a half.' If it's going to be a 'big gak,' it's going to be major.
Let discernment in matters of fashion and entertainment determine who should get the vote, and half the country would be disenfranchised.
I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times.
If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one of the most beautiful of counties.
I'm a nervous wreck. If it's a 20-day shoot, at lunchtime on the first day, I'm thinking "Only 19 and a half days to go... I can make it!"
Right now I'm looking at a liger out my bedroom window. He's half lion and half tiger. And he's absolutely beautiful. His name is Patrick.
Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but its spectre still hangs over the world and doesn't allow us to forget.
Her chin lifted. "Very well. Here is my best offer. Half of my nakedness for all of yours." He pretended to think on it. " It's a bargain.
My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing
You rich people are all the same. You couldn't care less about the other half of the world. They can all starve to death for all you care!
I'm half Jewish, but no one believes me because my looks lean a little WASP-y... It's sometimes hard for me to get the roles I'm drawn to.
Everything said, you couldn't hope for a nicer day to have a half dozen ex-soldiers with hunting bows relieve you of everything you owned.
I tell you, I'm half tempted to break into CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon out of CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon.
It may be that even if half consciously, we choose our personalities to maintain a certain saving balance in the family's little universe.
I'm bored way too easily. I'm staring at screens half the day. I need to be overstimulated. And how will that express itself artistically?
I was asked by a golfer how to lower his scores. I replied start playing 9 holes instead of 18. I worked for me, it cut my scores in half.
We think highly of men when we do not know the extent of their capabilities, for we always suppose that more exists when we only see half.
Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal—there's the trick!
Half the time I read Hayek's The Sensory Order with amazement at the extent of his reading and comprehension. He is right most of the time.
An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing.
When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.
If we worried half as much what others are doing for us and spent twice as much time helping others, we would all be exponentially happier.
Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.
I always say believe for a bunch, and even if you only get half of it you are better off than believing for a little and getting all of it.
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.
Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.
There's this other half of him I don't know of, it's like he is trying to keep it a secret... if he would just let me inside so I can help.
I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
What would I have done if my coya had been captured or killed? My mate, Sharone. The other half of everything I am. What would I have done?
The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.
In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.
As half in shade and half in sun This world along its path advances, May that side the sun 's upon Be all that e'er shall meet thy glances!
Some see the glass half full, some see it half empty, and some see it crawling with toxic alien parasites who want to devour your pancreas.