Half Life Quotes:

A man who never sees a bluebird only half lives.

- Edwin Way Teale

topic: Men, Half, Half Life, Bluebird

I wondered about the half-life of regret.

- Lorrie Moore

source: Lorrie Moore (2009). “A Gate at the Stairs”, p.124, Vintage

topic: Regret, Half, Half Life

Do radioactive cats have eighteen half-lives?

- Steven Wright

topic: Cat, Half, Half Life

Gratitude’s got a short half-life, Clarice.

- Thomas Harris

source: Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.122, Macmillan

topic: Gratitude, Half, Half Life

A God. The God. One word can make all the difference in the world.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Differences, World, Half Life, Videogame, Gaming

Half-Life is the finest implementation of a game on rails anybody has ever done

- Warren Spector

topic: Games, Done, Half, Half Life

Half the world does not know how the other half lives.

- Francois Rabelais

source: "Pantagruel". Book by François Rabelais (chapter XXXII), 1532.

topic: Doe, Half, World, Half Life

There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.

- Jeanette Winterson

topic: Half, Alive, Term, Half Life

Don't be obsessed with tactics but with purpose. Tactics have a half life.

- Noam Chomsky

topic: Purpose, Half, Tactics, Half Life

Long ago it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.' That was true then. It did not know because it did not care. The half that was on top cared little for the struggles, and less for the fate, of those who were underneath, so long as it was able to hold them there and keep its own seat.

- Jacob August Riis

source: Jacob August Riis (1914). “How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York”

topic: Struggle, Fate, Long, One Half, Half Life

If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect.

- Salman Rushdie

topic: Fall, Two, Elements, Half Life

Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in revolution.

- George Jackson

source: George Jackson (1970). “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”, p.25, Chicago Review Press

topic: Love, Failure, Reality, Half Life

If the time comes when our culture tires of the endless homicidal feuds, despairs of the use of force and war as a means of bringing peace, becomes discontent with the half-lives that its members are living - only then will our culture seriously look for alternatives.

- Carl Rogers

topic: War, Mean, Despair, Half Life, Bringing Peace

There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium.

- David R. Brower

topic: Different, Half, Safe, Plutonium, Radioactive Waste

I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.

- Douglas Coupland

topic: Thinking, People, Elements, Half Life

Millions who endure poverty and bad government can now know what they are missing. To see how the other half lives all they have to do is switch on their television sets.

- Richard M. Nixon

topic: Government, Missing, Television, Half Life, Bad Government

Let's contemplate this, how many people would die if war breaks out. There are 2.7 billion people in the world. One-third could be lost; or, a little more, it could be half... I say that, taking the extreme situation, half dies, half lives, but imperialism would be razed to the ground and the whole world would become socialist.

- Mao Zedong

topic: War, People, Would Be, Half Life

I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.

- Berkeley Breathed

topic: Writing, Years, Pay, County, Comic Strips

Ketchup left overnight on dinner plates has a longer half-life than radioactive waste.

- Wes Smith

topic: Half, Dinner, Waste, Ketchup, Dinner Plates

Either I'm alive or I'm dying, she said to Daniel. Please don't feel you can't tell me. Which is it? Which does it feel like? said Daniel. He patted her hand. You're not dead yet. You're a lot more alive than many people. This isn't good enough for Rennie. She wants something definite, the real truth, one way or the other. Then she will know what she should do next. It's this suspension, hanging in a void, this half-life she can't bear. She can't bear not knowing. She doesn't want to know.

- Margaret Atwood

topic: Life, Truth, Real, Half Life, Real Truth

The half-life of love is forever.

- Junot Diaz

topic: Love, Forever, Half, Half Life

If the sun is shining, stand in it- yes, yes, yes. Happy times are great, but happy times pass- they have to- because time passes. The pursuit of happiness is more elusive; it is life-long, and it is not goal-centred. What you are pursuing is meaning- a meaningful life... There are times when it will go so wrong that you will be barely alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.

- Jeanette Winterson

topic: Meaningful, Pursuit Of Happiness, Happy Times, Half Life

If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.

- Tom Stoppard

topic: Tuesday, Half, Want, Half Life, Good Journalism

I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island.

- Yann Martel

source: Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.401, Canongate Books

topic: Spiritual, Lonely, Islands, Half Life, Spiritual Death