Definition of Halfway

Halfway

In the middle; at half the distance; imperfectly; partially; as, he halfway yielded.

Equally distant from the extremes; situated at an intermediate point; midway.

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Halfway Quotations

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill

Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt

A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Zig Ziglar

My sister wanted to be an actress, but she never made it. She does live in a trailer. She got halfway. She's an actress, she just never gets called to the set.
Mitch Hedberg

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.
Lady Gaga

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
Plutarch

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
Pearl S. Buck

For, behind the scenes, halfway around the world in Mexico, were two decades of aggressive research on wheat that not only enabled Mexico to become self-sufficient with respect to wheat production but also paved the way to rapid increase in its production in other countries.
Norman Borlaug

A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
James Callaghan

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
Miguel de Cervantes

I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.
Tom Cruise

Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
Wislawa Szymborska

Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I thought, This is it! This is what Walt was waiting for! But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at the time was even halfway interested in it.
John Lasseter

You can't be halfway in this business. If you don't meet the fans, you lose all you've got.
Loretta Lynn

The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.
Wilson Mizner

That's why I felt so at home when I went to Africa. It didn't matter that I was halfway around the world in a foreign country, because all those elements are universal. And I think that's one thing about my work: It's universal.
Herb Ritts

Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.
Douglas William Jerrold

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?
Antonin Scalia

As the number of available jobs has decreased in border states like Texas, cities halfway across America have begun to see an influx of illegal immigrants in search of employment.
Spencer Bachus

Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous.
John Bonham

I left halfway through my third year to start Lipstick On Your Collar, which was the first thing I ever did.
Ewan McGregor

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
Laurence J. Peter

The reason I didn't fly over from Maui at their beck and call is my wife was about to have a baby at any time. Those guys knew that. These guys would not compromise and meet me halfway.
Sammy Hagar

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
Edward R. Murrow

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
Michael Pollan

I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.
Fiona Shaw

I'm not going to tell you the movies, but I remember getting halfway through the thing and everything sort of tunnel-visioned on me and I couldn't read the script anymore. I looked at the people and I just turned and ran out in a cold sweat. It took me about a year to study it and feel comfortable going in and reading for people.
John Corbett

I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist.
Clarence Thomas

Keep in my mind my dad didn't become a huge, huge mega actor until I was halfway through high school - so right around the time he's going through his big renaissance is right when I'm starting to do my high school revolting.
Colin Hanks

America has global trade with plenty of nations that provide inexpensive labor, but it's better for us when they're in our own hemisphere, rather than sending that business halfway around the world.
Ernest Istook

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Halfway Translations

halfway in German is teilweise
halfway in Spanish is a medio camino

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