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  • 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 (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.401, Canongate Books
  • 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.

    Half   Alive   Term  
  • A God. The God. One word can make all the difference in the world.

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

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

    Love   Failure   Reality  
    George Jackson (1970). “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”, p.25, Chicago Review Press
  • Ketchup left overnight on dinner plates has a longer half-life than radioactive waste.

    Food   Cooking   Half  
  • Don't be obsessed with tactics but with purpose. Tactics have a half life.

    Purpose   Half   Tactics  
  • 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.

    Safe   Matter   Waste  
  • 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.

    Tuesday   Doe   Half  
  • 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.

  • Do radioactive cats have eighteen half-lives?

    Cat   Half   Half Life  
  • The half-life of love is forever.

    Love   Forever   Half  
    Junot Diaz (2012). “This Is How You Lose Her”, p.123, Faber & Faber
  • 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.

    Life   Truth   Real  
    Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bodily Harm”, p.56, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

    Writing   Years   Paper  
  • 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.

    War   Mean   Despair  
    Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Half the world does not know how the other half lives.

    Doe   Half   World  
    "Pantagruel". Book by François Rabelais (chapter XXXII), 1532.
  • A man who never sees a bluebird only half lives.

    Men   Half   Half Life  
  • 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.

    War   People   Would Be  
  • Half-Life is the finest implementation of a game on rails anybody has ever done

    Games   Done   Half  
  • I wondered about the half-life of regret.

    Regret   Half   Half Life  
    Lorrie Moore (2009). “A Gate at the Stairs”, p.124, Vintage
  • 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 (1914). “How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York”
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Fall   Two   Elements  
    Salman Rushdie (1995). “The Moor's last sigh”
  • I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.

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