If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?
There is nothing more contemptible than half-measures.
You can't halfway disrespect me ever in my life and think we are going to be OK later.
Do as little as necessary to appear to be doing something without actually committing to a cause or course of action.
When you do one thing, people think it's right or wrong. Maybe half-half.
We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.
I'm getting sick and tired of doing anything half-way.
A non-Communist premier with Communist ministers would be like a woman trying to stay half pregnant.
If we are to go only halfway or reduce our sights in the face of difficulty... it would be better to not go at all.
If we settle for half measures, we will get nothing more.
We must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the U.S. has the luxury of assuming that we can skate by on half-measures in Afghanistan and Pakistan and not risk suffering the consequences.
Half the world hates What half the world does every day Half the world waits While half gets on with it anyway
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.
They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They put off the day of settlement, and meanwhile the debt accumulates.
In life nothing is taken to its ultimate conclusion, life is a half-way house, a place of obligatory compromise; and, in dealing in logical conclusions, a man steps out of life -- or so it would be quite legitimate to argue.
I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.
Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.
My life, in some ways, has been a half-measure. I didn't commit myself all the way to my marriage and family, because I would have given up more. And I didn't go all the way with just being completely selfish. I always wonder where my career would be if I was more selfish.
Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
If you aren't going to do something all the way, don't do it.
I do everything halfway, a thing of which adults disapprove, but things done halfway are deceptive, and in a class of their own – for instance, the sun is really twice its size.
We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
