Top 1200 Double Meaning Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I was running sub-13 minutes for 5,000 when I was still coached by Alan Storey, and I won double gold at the Europeans in 2010.

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

Tyler Perry's movies can double what they do domestically with the right plan for selling them around the world.

I was filling entire school notebooks with stories by Grade 3. Of course, they were double-spaced, and the handwriting was huge.

A long time ago, you couldn't say what you mean in blues. You had to disguise it, and that's where the double entendres and humour comes from and that's where we come from.

In dream yoga we use the etheric double and go beyond the confines of the physical, it's very ecstatic.

Everyone enjoys stories of double lives and secret identities. Children have Superman; intellectuals have Wallace Stevens.

The triple-double is just a stat. It's a test of your strength and stamina and playing ability, really.

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

I am double jointed in my elbow. So I can turn it all the way around and then bend it so it looks like it's broken.

I do feel pressure to look good. But that's just not going to happen, because I have a double chin, and I can't pose. It's such a struggle.

Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

I started becoming an agent and producing before I retired. I was doing double-duty to get my feet wet.

I feel scared of putting on weight or having a double chin as that might stop getting me work.

I think the meaning of the universe is bound up with the egg. ... I am fed up with the meaning of the universe. Everything starts in the egg and ends in death. I think it's called 'the heartbreak at the heart of things.' But then perhaps our very mortality is an egg and at the moment of death our souls will emerge like damp chicks.

New Zealand totally rejects Japan's proposals to double the number of whales slaughtered in the Southern Ocean

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

The Getty family has been fully supportive throughout 'double life' situation, and for that, I am very grateful.

Our fate is something which exists outside ourselves, and which once revealed expresses the meaning of our lives. Apart, however, from soothsayers who claim to have a means of foretelling exactly what will befall us, this kind of fate is only normally revealed after a life has ended. Only then can the meaning of that life be understood.

Double - no, triple - our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth.

And it's true, you hear things in Damascus and, after a few hours, the human double-take stops operating.

There was Shawon Dunston and Mark Grace, and together we were a double play combination for ten years.

For anyone worn down, The Impossible Will Take a Little While is a bracing double cappuccino.

Michael Owen will get double figures this season - or at least 10, possibly more.

If a double-decker bus Crashes into us To die by your side... The pleasure - the privilege is mine.

From the ages of 5 to 17, I was a competitive dancer. I even went to an arts high school and double-majored in dance and theatre.

A good strategy focuses efforts on a target, and that focus can only be achieved by not diffusing energy in other directions - that is the meaning of Michael Porter's dictum of "choosing what not to do." At the same time, a good strategy chooses the right target to focus on, not wasting the focus of energy on a target that cannot be affected or that is unimportant - that is the meaning of Drucker's distinction between efficiency and effectiveness.

It's perfectly clear to me that religion is a myth. It's something we have invented to explain the inexplicable. My religion and the spiritual side of my life come from a sense of connection to the humankind and nature on this planet and in the universe. I am in overwhelming awe of it all: It is so fantastic, so complex, so beyond comprehension. What does it all mean -- if it has any meaning at all? But how can it all exist if it doesn't have some kind of meaning? I think anyone who suggests that they have the answer is motivated by the need to invent answers, because we have no such answers.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

I've got leverage on a guy that's 6-6, and I'm strong enough to push 600-plus pounds off on a double-team.

I can't understand why more people aren't bisexual. It would double your chances for a date on Saturday night.

Technology is, of course, a double edged sword. Fire can cook our food but also burn us.

Waitress!" Hedge called. "Six double espressos, and whatever these guys want. Put it on the girl's tab.

If you can get yourself to read 30 minutes a day, you're going to double your income every year.

It's an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it's very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.

Growing up, I would never have thought that I'd be a double Olympic champion, with a lovely home and beautiful kids.

Caesar's double-bed is warm As an unimportant clerk Writes i do not like my work On a pink official form.

When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty.

They say Ant and Dec are a double act, but they are just presenters. They read off an Autocue and they don't do gags, so that doesn't count.

I hang in there all the time. I'm not afraid to be taken out. I think that's the biggest thing to do-just stay in there on the double play.

If I did everything, I probably wouldn't be here talking to you. There aren't too many people who can actually double me, so I do most of my stunts though.

Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.

The Lord wants double edged artistry, praising God's name and setting things straight.

The death rate among Marines in Iraq has been more than double that of the other services.

For an Indian audience a double role promises twice the entertainment with somebody they enjoy watching on screen.

They used to laugh at me when I refused to ride on all those double decker buses, all because there was no driver on the top.

I have never owned a share of stock in my life, and the only time I've double dipped into anything is at the snack tray.

At times you get the sense that if the batsman is playing with the tailender then he will surely try to run a double.

I don't want to worry anymore thinking about the future. Mi Rae... 'Mi' meaning not yet. 'Rae' meaning coming. Why should I decide on the present, thinking about the future that's not here yet? I won't do that anymore.

I will not calm down! Women are allowed to get angrier than men about double standards.

I am not very good at sticking to outlines, and I double back all the time to revisit scenes and change things.

Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.

In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s.

What is the most important moment in my career? The Champions League final played in Athens in 2007 when I netted a double.

We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship.

If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means to silence one's doubts. It has a function to be compared with that of the Egyptian pyramids or the Christian faith in immortality: it elevates one's individual life from its limitations and instability to the plane of indestructability; if one's name is known to one's contemporaries and if one can hope that it will last for centuries, then one's life has meaning and significance by this very reflection of it in the judgments of others.

My office is just off my master bedroom. One of my theories is I needed to double-door it with three kids at home.

There is nothing in nature wherein there is not good and evil; everything moveth and liveth in this double impulse, working or operation, be it what it will.

We've recorded over our voices once and double the harmonies, make them thick. The Four Freshmen do that.