Two Quotes
Put a man and a girl on stage and there is already a story; a man and two girls, there's already a plot.
Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
Island of Hispaniola once so populous (having a population that I estimated to be more than three million), has now a population of barely two hundred persons.
Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.
If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two good thoughts
When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.
An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength.
I never look forward. I live for today. If you think about what's going to happen in a year, in two years, then you begin to plan. And plans never come true.
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who have fallen from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.
Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.
Patience is of two kinds: patience over what pains you, and patience against what you covet.
In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.
Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will.
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.
Very often, you know, you stop walking because you say, 'Well, I'm tired of climbing this hill. I'm never going to get to the top.' And you're only two steps from the top.
We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.
THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.
There are 6.6 billion people on the planet today. With organic farming we could only feed four billion of them. Which two billion would volunteer to die?
The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon.
If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.
There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.
Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.
There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard.
A Jewish woman had two chickens. One got sick, so the woman made chicken soup out of the other one to help the sick one get well.
I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.
I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.
Collage is the noble conquest of the irrational, the coupling of two realities, irreconcilable in appearance, upon a plane which apparently does not suit them.
There's only two types of people who are against drugs: the people who have never done drugs and the people who really sucked at doing drugs.
The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its promise.
Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush.
My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower.
There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they didn't.
Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more.
It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain.
There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, 'Good morning, God,' and the other is to say, 'Good God, morning'!
Always be looking for that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together — man, you got it.
Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.