1.
I'm a person of my own opinions, that's how I was raised. I speak what I feel... A lot of people feel the same way but they're scared to talk. They're really scared of the truth - they only want half of the truth. I've been living like that - forever in fear - but I know what to say and how to say it now. I ain't scared of myself. Y'all may be scared; I'm not scared.
Kendrick Lamar
2.
All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. You can do any thing and everything, without even the guidance of any one. Stand up and express the divinity within you.
Swami Vivekananda
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I don't often spend more than half an hour in prayer at one time, but I never go more than half an hour without praying.
Smith Wigglesworth
'I rarely take more than a half-hour to commune with the divine, yet I never go for too long without praying.'
4.
For my hustlers, here's some motivation: He who has begun is half done.
Nas
'For my hard workers, here's some inspiration: Starting is half the battle.'
5.
He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
Isaac Newton
He who ponders superficially will not be convinced of the existence of a higher power; however, he who truly contemplates must accept the presence of a divine being.
6.
Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.
Benjamin Franklin
Trust little of what is spoken and accept some of what you observe.
7.
We woman suffragists have a great mission - the greatest mission the world has ever known. It is to free half the human race, and through that freedom to save the rest.
Emmeline Pankhurst
We female advocates of voting rights have a colossal purpose - the mightiest mission ever experienced. It is to liberate one-half of humanity, and by that liberation to rescue the remainder.
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Don't believe everything you hear, don't believe everything you read and only believe half of what you see
DMX
'Be discerning with what you accept as truth; question the validity of information which you are exposed to.'
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Islam cannot accept or agree to a situation which is half-Islam and half-Jahiliyya [separated from God].
Sayyid Qutb
Islam rejects any situation in which a disconnect from God is present.
10.
Women hold up the other half of the sky.
Thomas Sankara
Females prop up the alternate half of the firmament.
11.
Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.
Amartya Sen
Human struggles are strengthened by unawareness. To comprehend an issue with lucidity is already halfway to resolving it.
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Imaan is of two halves; half is patience (Sabr) and half is being thankful (Shukr).
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Imaan is composed of two components; one is forbearance (Sabr) and the other is gratitude (Shukr).
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Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is
William Osler
'Gentlemen, I must reveal to you that a considerable portion of the material we have imparted is inaccurate and unfortunately we cannot identify which pieces are incorrect.'
14.
I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
David Attenborough
I desire that the planet was twice its size and half of it remained undiscovered.
15.
It doesn't matter if the glass is half empty or half full. Be grateful you have a glass - your the only person that can decide what's in it.
Gurbaksh Chahal
No matter the amount, be thankful for what you possess and only you can determine its contents.
16.
Simply from greening our energy system and eliminating fossil fuel pollution, we get so much healthier that the savings in health care alone are enough to pay the costs of the green energy transition and would repay those costs in approximately a decade and a half in savings.
Jill Stein
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It [prejudice] is such a waste. It makes you logy and half-alive. It gives you nothing. It takes away.
Dorothy Dandridge
'Prejudice is a tragedy; it saps your strength and dulls your spirit, providing naught in return.'
18.
It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.
James A. Baldwin
It took numerous years of expelling all the poison I had been taught about myself, and partially accepted, before I was able to traverse the planet as if I had a privilege to be here.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
Socrates
Comprehending a query is half of a response.
20.
It takes great effort to follow the rules of a pull system ... thus a half-hearted introduction of a pull system brings a hundred harms and not a single gain.
Taiichi Ohno
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The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.
Mark Twain
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Churches don't need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over.
Billy Sunday
23.
To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.
Carl Jung
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I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed
Marco Polo
25.
I have not told the half of what I saw.
Marco Polo
26.
According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.
Plato
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Certainly, I signed a statement that I killed two and a half million Jews. But I could just as well have said that it was five million Jews. There are certain methods by which any confession can be obtained, whether it is true or not.
Rudolf Hess
28.
Think what the world could look like if we took care of the poor even half as well as we do our Bibles!
Dorothy Day
29.
I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.
W. C. Fields
30.
The half moon on the bank of the river's devotion. That's the stab wound, born from the killer emotion
Vinnie Paz
31.
There is only a half step difference between the champions and those who finish on the bottom. And much of that half step is mental.
Tom Landry
32.
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
Will Durant
33.
If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you're half-way to a dictatorship.
Clement Attlee
34.
I'm an artist, a designer, a craftsman, interior designer, half-architect. There's no one name that fits me very well.
Dale Chihuly
35.
The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It's simply larger than it needs to be. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission
Grace Hopper
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A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.
Solon
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The word in language is half someone else’s… it exists in other people’s mouths, in other people’s contexts, serving other people’s intentions: it is from there that one must take the word, and make it one’s own.
Mikhail Bakhtin
38.
As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process.
Margaret Carlson
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You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.
Paddy Chayefsky
40.
I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess!
Audrey Hepburn
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Because God wants to take you in ever-increasing measures to know Him. And the only way you can know Him is by experiencing Him. So He's going to ask you to go with Him in dimensions that require more faith and more activity than you have ever used before. Otherwise you will never grow in your faith in Him. The only way you can grow in your faith in Him is to accept the next assignment which is always greater than the previous one. Don't ever feel that you will get to the place where you'll never be scared half to death.
Henry Blackaby
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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!
Mikhail Bulgakov
44.
You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half.
Robert Crippen
45.
Another ten points from Gryffindor,” said Snape. “I would expect nothing more sophisticated from you, Ronald Weasley, the boy so solid he cannot Apparate half an inch across a room.
J. K. Rowling
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It's very far away/It takes about a half a day to get there/ If we travel by-dragonfly.
Jimi Hendrix
49.
I look back and half of Ramadan is over in the blink of an eye. Before I know I'll be saying that about my entire life
Nouman Ali Khan
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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.
Irena Sendler