In this post, you will find great Two Quotes from famous people, such as Rainer Maria Rilke, Fawad Khan, James Bovard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Novalis. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
There are three lessons in philanthropy – one, involve the family, especially the spouse. She can be a remarkable driver of your initiative. Two, you need to build an institution, and you need to scale it up. Choose a leader for philanthropy whom you trust. Three, philanthropy needs patience, tenacity and time.
Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.
Everyone goes down a road that they’re not supposed to go down. You can do two things from it. You can keep going down that road and go to a dark place. Or you can turn and go up the hill and go to the top – try to go to the top.
Some guys, first pitch of the at-bat gets called a strike – maybe it’s a ball off or below their knees, and it gets called a strike – and then the next two pitches, they swing at balls in the dirt, and all of a sudden, they’re yelling at the umpire about that first pitch. You just swung at two balls in the dirt, buddy.
Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.
There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love.
With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother‘s recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations?
You can’t grow long-term if you can’t eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.
One today is worth two tomorrows.
When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis‘ is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
I don’t believe there’s two sides to every story. It’s black and white. There’s right and wrong.
Success to me is only two things: happiness and stability.
I don’t have two different personalities. I am what I am.
The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don’t mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.
I started in junior high doing the splits and flips and that kind of stuff. It was kind of the acceptable thing to do. But I had two older brothers, so I was a tomboy. I was the cute tomboy who could put on the skirt but then go tackle you or something. I was a little rough around the edges for a pretty woman!
Trump represented a movement of dissatisfaction, the dissent, unhappiness, division cultivated by years of identity politics and the bullying of arrogant, insufferable, intolerant social justice warriors who used the last two terms to punish anyone who reminded them of Daddy.
A social life is just as important to me as my work life because I think if you have a healthy balance of the two, you’ll be really happy.
The two words ‘information‘ and ‘communication‘ are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.
Like all women, my path to womanhood is unique. No two paths are the same. Each of us travel with different privileges, challenges, and perspectives – some limiting, others illuminating.
Snoop Dogg eats terrible. That’s another reason I had to leave him. I would have been dead of a heart attack. He literally eats at 7-11. That’s where he does his grocery shopping or it’s Roscoe’s Chicken & Waffles, or it’s Denny’s delivery. There’s not a piece of salad or vegetable within two miles of this dude.
I think that I was raised by two of the best people ever. My mother and father are just the definition of hard work, like what hard work brings to you. They’ve taught me and my brothers and sisters to set your goals high and to give everything to reach them.
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
I attack ideas. I don’t attack people. And some very good people have some very bad ideas. And if you can’t separate the two, you gotta get another day job. You don’t want to be a judge. At least not a judge on a multi-member panel.
I live by two words: tenacity and gratitude.
The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
You don’t have to fight against being placed in a box any more than the number two has to fight against being the number three. I mean, two is not going to be the number three, ever.
When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn’t think about, that doesn’t exist.
I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: ‘Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.’
State-sanctioned marriage is a civil contract, period. A contract is not a judgment of moral value. It is a legal agreement between two parties that testifies to a meeting of minds between those consenting entities. It is not a religious act or rite and so has nothing to do with Adam and Eve or Steve or even Harvey.
I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it.
I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges.
Every town has the same two malls: the one white people go to and the one white people used to go to.
There are only two guidelines in good sex, don’t do anything you don’t really enjoy and find out what are your partner needs and don’t balk them if you can help it.
Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.
A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that’s just not what the founders intended.
I studied German at school. I lived in Berlin for two years and had a German girlfriend for five years, so I don’t find speaking German particularly difficult. Singing was slightly more difficult.
Well, I think that – I think leadership‘s always been about two main things: imagination and courage.
Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.
Kissing – and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing – is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down.
There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword – two jackets, one that’s driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.
It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
With Romeo and Juliet, you’re talking about two people who meet one night, and get married the same night. I believe in love at first sight-but it hasn’t happened to me yet.
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.
Our culture has created two almost irreconcilable descriptions of a ‘good woman.’ The first is the individual achiever; the second, the self-sacrificing domestic goddess.
I bet taxpayers remember providing more than $812 billion to Citigroup and Bank of America, two Wall Street banks, in 2009 to bail them out during the 2008 financial crisis. Taxpayers remember that generosity; big banks evidently don’t.
You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.
I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.
A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
I’m interested in two things. I’m interested in truth and I’m interested in fairness.
We’re always in the middle of two energies. Gravity is sinking you down; inspiration is pulling you up.
I’m left-handed, and it’s not very easy to find reasonably priced, high-quality left-handed guitars. But out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. I’ve only owned two of them.
I am not a politician. I’m an American businessman and entrepreneur that have built two businesses, and I try to play it straight with people.
I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and the other, the conviction that such equal opportunity will most advance civilization.
Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That’s what I look for.
Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
There’s an alternative. There’s always a third way, and it’s not a combination of the other two ways. It’s a different way.
I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five people that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department.
Two things form the bedrock of any open society – freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free country.
To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.
Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.
I know what the important things are in life. I know that just because I pretend to be someone else for two hours on the silver screen doesn’t make me a better person than the next man. So, I mind all those things. Simple things.
One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
Love is a strange emotion. It is ever evolving. Lust is transient. With time, one realizes that love and togetherness are two different things. Very few people are lucky enough to experience the two emotions simultaneously.
Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
My second divorce was the worst kind of divorce. There were two children; one had just been born. My husband was in love with someone else.
You will only be remembered for two things: the problems you solve or the ones you create.
All great chefs have two things in common. First, they respect nature as the true artist, and they are just cooks. Second, everything that they do is an extension of them as a person.
If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.
One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.
It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it.
Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue.
My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.
On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilized nations will recoil with horror and disband their troops.
We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
I was nice to the people in the Philippines for the two and a half years I was there, because I knew eventually I’d have to kiss up to them so my grandchildren could have toys.
It takes two to get one in trouble.
I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
There are only two races on this planet – the intelligent and the stupid.
Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
I used to own two homes in Atlanta. But it was a lot of trouble. There are leaky roofs; you have to call people. It takes up too much time to own property everywhere. Now I stay at the St. Regis. I used to like cars a lot, too. I had 25 of them: Porsches, Ferraris.
When one teaches, two learn.
Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You’ll see the difference it makes.
I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn’t matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.
I am a biological female. I have two children. I’ve been married for 16 years. I’ve never been a man.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.
To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
I’m a married man and I’ve got two children, and you have to do sacrifices.
I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows – except us – that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.
There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
I was an unplanned pregnancy between two teenagers in Reading, Pennsylvania, and they ended up getting married. They started out struggling.
Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Of two evils we must always choose the least.
You can control two things: your work ethic and your attitude about anything.
In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils – mass unemployment and the threat of war.
Those two are a fastidious couple. She’s fast and he’s hideous.
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.
Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he’s got it all.
There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
I don’t know if I believe in love at first sight, but of course I believe in two people having chemistry right away. A girl should be really easy to talk to. When I lose track of time because we’ve been talking, I think that’s really fun.
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs.
I learned two basic lessons on Everest. First, just because something has worked in the past does not mean it will work today. Second, different challenges require different mindsets.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Can I jump over two or three guys like I used to? No. Am I as fast as I used to be? No, but I still have the fundamentals and smarts. That’s what enables me to still be a dominant player. As a kid growing up, I never skipped steps. I always worked on fundamentals because I know athleticism is fleeting.
No two persons ever read the same book.
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.
Invention requires two things: One, the ability to try a lot of experiments, and two, not having to live with the collateral damage of failed experiments.
The most significant moment in the course of intellectual development, which gives birth to the purely human forms of practical and abstract intelligence, occurs when speech and practical activity, two previously completely independent lines of development, converge.
The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
Real laughter is spontaneous. Like water from the spring it bubbles forth a creation of mingled action and spontaneity – two magic potions in themselves – the very essence of laughter – the unrestrained emotion within us!
Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.
Comfortable shoes and the freedom to leave are the two most important things in life.
I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
It’s a very slow process – two steps forward, one step back – but I’m inching in the right direction.
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.
Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.
It isn’t necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.
You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you’re decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.
Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.
Hate speech and freedom of speech are two different things.
Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you’re two steps ahead!
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.
I’m going to play with one goalkeeper, obviously, one defender, one midfielder and two attackers, very offensive because we need to score goals.
The spread of computers and the Internet will put jobs in two categories. People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.
In high school I wore No. 8, in college I wore No. 5, and five plus three is eight and five minus three is two, you know? Addition and subtraction.
Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
It’s great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today. So learning to enjoy today has two benefits: it gives me happiness right now, and it becomes a good memory later.
Most of us have two lives: the life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.
There are two different types of leader. A person can either be like a thermometer or a thermostat. A thermometer will tell you what the temperature is. A thermostat will not only tell you what the temperature is, but it’ll move you to the temperature you need to get to.
Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror.
There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the challenges facing our cities or to the housing crisis, but the two issues need to be considered together. From an urban design and planning point of view, the well-connected open city is a powerful paradigm and an engine for integration and inclusivity.
If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.
There are always two forces warring against each other within us.
Elimination of child labour and access to education are like two sides of one coin. One cannot be achieved without the other.
Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Open your refrigerator, your freezer, your kitchen cupboards, and look at the labels on your food. You’ll find ‘natural flavor‘ or ‘artificial flavor’ in just about every list of ingredients. The similarities between these two broad categories are far more significant than the differences.
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
Traditionally, life has been divided into two main parts: a period of learning followed by a period of working. Very soon, this traditional model will become utterly obsolete, and the only way for humans to stay in the game will be to keep learning throughout their lives and to reinvent themselves repeatedly.
There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. ‘Good pride’ represents our dignity and self-respect. ‘Bad pride’ is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.
From my close observation of writers… they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.
There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.
There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.
A building has at least two lives – the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward – and they are never the same.
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations – one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it – you will regret both.
Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
Cars and cameras are the two things I let myself be materialistic about. I don’t care about other stuff.
God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.
Four legs good, two legs bad.
There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough – there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.
At every party there are two kinds of people – those who want to go home and those who don’t. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.
Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
Everyone has their own different life experiences which make them who they are. No two people’s life experiences are the same. And mine are just unique to me.
Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
If two people were exactly alike, one of them would be unnecessary.
Money and women. They’re two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn’t do for anything else. Same with money.
Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game’s two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
The world is wide. No two days are alike, nor even two hours, neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of all the world; and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from each other.
It is clear I was never the Pretty Girl. I had my two front teeth knocked out when I was 10 and didn’t fix them until I was 19. I have a crooked smile and a nose that looks like it’s been broken 12 times but never has been. My nose was always red, so people called me Rudolph. My whole face is off-center.
For time is the longest distance between two places.
There are only two rules for being successful: one, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.
I’m not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust.
We have two lives the one we learn with and the life we live after that.
Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.
My father, Beric, ran a joinery business and owned two factories.
A point makes you happy; an assist makes you and your teammate happy. An assist makes two people happy.
It takes two hands to clap! I cannot be solely blamed for what happened in my relationships! If things soured, it happened because of both parties. Not just me!
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
That’s what’s so great about television. You’re able to tell this long story, where you couldn’t really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.
My philosophy is: Life is hard, but God is good. Try not to confuse the two.
The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it’s going to become multiplanetary, or it’s going to remain confined to one planet and eventually there’s going to be an extinction event.
God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.
To me, God comes first, my family come second. If I fail at those two, I’m just playing games.
To sing opera, one needs two things: the voice and the passion – and above all, the passion.
Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
If you don’t mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
My kids are my No. 1 priority. They’re the light in my everyday life. The sunshine. The miracle. Those eyes. Those smiles. At the same time, I have an extended, amazing family that is my audience. All these people have been with me for such a long time. I have these two responsibilities.
The British are coming. One if by land, two if by sea.
My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.
Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.
Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.
We will not take Arsenal lightly for one minute, as they showed in the two matches against us last season that they can be dangerous opponents if we lose our concentration for a moment.
In America there are two classes of travel – first class, and with children.
You know what the Englishman‘s idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.
There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.
There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just as important.
Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.
Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.
Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.
In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead, he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself… By giving me this height to reach people, he has also given me great responsibilities.
I have two hands: one for me, one for other people.
I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend.
Nothing beats a jog, and perhaps a push-up or two, by the ocean on a beautiful day.
I was in ‘Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,’ and I like my bad boy movie movies.
Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.
As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.
Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
I have six brothers and sisters. My mother has six kids from two different marriages. And we would just sit around making fun of each other’s dad, and all our dads had real problems.
From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.
With two thousand years of Christianity behind him… a man can’t see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that’s subtraction.
As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?
To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.
You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
I have an extraordinary attention span. I manage to juggle two or three different ideas at the same time, and that’s probably – if I have a gift, that’s probably the best gift that’s given me.
Remember these two things: play hard and have fun.
You know, we have two families: the one we’re born into, and the one that we make for ourselves afterwards.
Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.
How can you create a team and bring all these egos together? The main goal for Manchester United is for them to play well – and not have a player saying, ‘I play well; I scored two goals’. Because if I score two goals, but three goals go into our net, then we lose.
The only two things that scare me are God and the IRS.
I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Fear is when we’re thinking about the past or thinking about the future, two things that do not exist. If we stay in the moment, do our best in the moment, enjoy the moment, there is no fear.
A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
A lasting marriage, they say, is one where the two reach for different sections of the Sunday paper. Me, I go right for the obituaries, just like those very elderly characters in Muriel Spark‘s spooky novel, ‘Memento Mori.’
Two things revolutionised life: moving to the countryside and falling in love.
Rock ‘n’ roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.
Give me love and work – these two only.
There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions.
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.
Of two evils, choose neither.
Saying and doing are two things.
Two old Bachelors were living in one house; One caught a Muffin, the other caught a Mouse.
In Korean, the word ‘future’ is made up of two parts. The first part means ‘not,’ and the second means ‘to come.’ In that sense, ‘future’ means something that will not come. This is to say the future is now, and our now is us living our future.
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I’ve never tried before.
There are two types of companies: those that have been hacked, and those who don’t know they have been hacked.
Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.
There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.
What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
The two times I have cut my hair shorter, I’ve ended up out of work – so short hair is not an option.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.
In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that’s probably the biggest key to success.
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men – the man he is and the man he wants to be.
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn’t work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.
The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.
I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.
Wherever I go with my life, even the good times and the bad parts, only two people are with me: God and my music.
Your butt and back are two of the strongest parts of your body.
My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.
I started ‘Outer Banks,’ because there’s so much hype around it. I saw one episode and I didn’t really continue, but I got to keep going at it. Two of the actors on there were also in ‘Stranger Things,’ and all my friends always ask, ‘Oh my God, you know Madelyn Cline. She was in ‘Stranger Things’ too.’
Women’s rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
I speak two languages, Body and English.
There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.
My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.
I was born in Orange County – in Santa Ana. My dad is from California. I was raised on the East Coast. My first two years were in California, but I claim East Coast. I’m sorry, I don’t rep California.
As far as practicing is concerned, I usually try to do one to two hours a day. It isn’t good to practice too much, or your playing becomes too mechanical.
People used to complain that selling a president was like selling a bar of soap. But when you buy soap, at least you get the soap. In this campaign you just get two guys telling you they really value cleanliness.
There are not two sides to a story when one side is a lie. Journalists – and the rest of us – must stop giving equal time to things that don’t have an opposing side.
When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you? The two are so, so different. One is an infinite consciousness capable of being and creating whatever it chooses, the other is an illusion imprisoned by its own perceived and programmed limitations.
Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.
Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.
A penny saved is two pence clear.
I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven‘t put it down since.
I honestly think what skyrocketed me into professionalism was learning how to play two people and still live through the day.
Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.
Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people, ‘I am deaf.’ If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity; but in my profession, it is a terrible handicap.
If two people always agree, one of them is redundant.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
What is right and what is practicable are two different things.
A man’s got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on and off than a wedding ring.
Growing up in America, I experienced two puberties. The first opened me up to the possibilities of adulthood. The second reinforced that for someone like me – an immigrant, a minority, an Asian-American – there were limits.
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
It takes two men to make one brother.
If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.
I’ve trained my whole life to be a winner and if I know two things it’s that to be the best takes passion and persistence.
It is a curious historical fact that modern quantum mechanics began with two quite different mathematical formulations: the differential equation of Schroedinger and the matrix algebra of Heisenberg. The two apparently dissimilar approaches were proved to be mathematically equivalent.
I don’t know much about creative writing programs. But they’re not telling the truth if they don’t teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
Conflict is good in a negotiation process… it’s the clash of two ideas, which then, all being well, produces a third idea.
It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for – the whole thing – rather than just one or two stars.
Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
Having one child makes you a parent; having two, you are a referee.
It’s odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will stick in your mind forever. You’ll have a nice time, then two years later you’ll be like, ‘There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?’
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
It takes two flints to make a fire.
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
I feel lucky. I grew up in an open-minded, multi-cultural community in West Vancouver in Canada. There were people who had escaped some kind of oppression. Some of them were first-generation immigrants, others were one or two generations back.
Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It’s impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.
China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance. Even my slightest, most innocuous move can – and often is – censored by Chinese authorities.
There’s two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season.
For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.
The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.
What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.
The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.
I had a friend who was a plastic surgeon, so he would do little things. I never had, like, a full thing. So I would go in maybe once every two or three years, and he’d do a little here, a little there; tweak you, like you tweak your car. Then I became the plastic surgery poster girl.
Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.
Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
Give me any two pages of the Bible and I’ll give you a picture.
There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who’ve been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don’t know they’ve been hacked by the Chinese.
I don’t believe in an eye for an eye. I believe in two eyes for an eye.
If it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.
A person who can go out and get 40 is going to get a lot more respect than somebody who goes out and holds somebody to two points. It’s just the nature of the game. It doesn’t bother me.
Maybe there’s two types of people in the world: those people who favor humans over ideology, and those people who favor ideology over humans.
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
There are two types of friends: actual friends, and the other kind.
If two wrongs don’t make a right, try three.
Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.
For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing early. In graduate school, I submitted my dissertation two years in advance. In college, I wrote my papers weeks early and finished my thesis four months before the due date. My roommates joked that I had a productive form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity.
There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.
I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
