All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes. – Hunter S. Thompson
Historically, the 19th century is defined by annexations and internal turmoil. For instance, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 gave more than half of Mexican territory to the United States. – Ilan Stavans
Since September 11th, federal terrorism investigations have resulted in charges against more than 400 suspects, and more than half of them have been convicted. – Jim Sensenbrenner
I started to put on weight when I was about four and a half and it got really bad when I was around nine. I ballooned. I was about 110 pounds. – Carnie Wilson
I’m a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in the closet. – Andrew Wylie
Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable. – Charles Baudelaire
The cup of Ireland’s misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full. – Boyle Roche
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming. – Arthur Balfour
Acting, I started when I was six and a half years-old, on Broadway with Kurt Weill. – Billy Dee Williams
There’s a need to reform Medicare, but not a need to cut a half trillion dollars out of Medicare. – Charlie Dent
Half a psychiatrist’s patients see him because they are married – the other half because they’re not. – Arnold H. Glasow
