#half

During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

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After a sound drubbing followed by half a day's fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever. ↗

— Stijn Streuvels

#after #began #crying #day #ever

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#clever man #commit #crime #ever #half-wits

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

#half #like #nature #reveal #soul

When Medicare was created for senior citizens and America 's disabled in 1965, about half of a senior's health care spending was on doctors and the other half on hospitals. ↗

— Dennis Hastert

#america #care #citizens #created #disabled

He has the deed half done who has made a beginning. ↗

— Horace

#deed #done #half #made #who

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#before #chance #get #gets #halfway

I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year. ↗

— Michael F. Easley

#cent #fast #grow #had #hoped

I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#fantasy #half #i #life #living

There's no way New Orleans will ever be the city it was. I think it will have half the population. They may create a sort of Disneyland at the French Quarter for tourists. The rest I don't know. ↗

— Geraldo Rivera

#create #disneyland #ever #french #half