Top 1200 Double Meaning Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?

Consider God's love for you. Now double it. Now multiply that by 900 trillion. You're still not even close.

If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply, as Diamond explains, becomes medicine.

...but hope seduces like a silver tongue, double-edged like a dagger that cuts both ways.

Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.

The truth is, when you make movies, you have to learn how to lie. You have to convince people to give you money and you pretend they'll get double, triple or 10 times as much.

For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.

To be a woman and a writer is double mischief, for the world will slight her who slights "the servile house," and who would rather make odes than beds.

What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three double espressos.

I like to talk on the cell when I do interviews. That way, I double my chances of getting brain cancer: from the cell phone, and from the questions.

The detail that goes into couture stuff is insane. Everything is handmade - every sequin, every double stitch.

Bitcoin represents the first major breakthrough in economics and finance since double-entry bookkeeping was invented in 1494, and activists need to embrace its power.

In grad school, I led a bit of a double life. I don't mean gender-wise - I just mean intellectually.

The doctrine of the double motion of the earth about its axis and about the sun is false, and entirely contrary to Holy Scripture.

When we look from the bottom of a well, sky shines more beautifully than from the surface! Heaven is a Double-Heaven in the Hell!

From Hillary Clinton, in her own double-talking words, and from others, we understand that our children have been stolen from us by the state and by the psychiatric establishment.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

On our profit margins, honestly on all our products, anything we work on in in the industry, I do not touch it unless it is double digits.

The double bind lowers its boom on women in positions of authority, so those who haven't yet risen to such positions have not yet felt its full weight.

I've had the zeroes since junior high school. We didn't have enough numbered shirts to go around, so my shirt was called double zero. I liked it, so I kept it.

It’s like he has this power over me—like I have an eating disorder and he’s a package of Oreo Double Stuff cookies.

I lay my head on the railroad track, waitin' on the Double E. But the train don't run by here no more, poor, poor, pitiful me.

The violence and double-talk in the Alice books probably does no harm to children, but the novels should not be allowed to circulate indiscriminately among adults who are undergoing analysis.

In my 20s, I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.

I have played quite a few roles almost double my age. I don't regret those decisions and feel proud to have been part of 'Gandhi My Father' and 'Waqt.'

Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You’re looking at double work.

When I went platinum, you know, I had no idea that it was going to go platinum and I would have been happy if it went double glass.

The hibachi is coming to a city near you. I'm cooking chicken and shrimp, but if you want to throw a double team my way, filet mignon gets cooked too.

In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.

The only way to stop Messi is to double mark him. One player to stay on him and the other to help out.

Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression of its subjects and extension of its boundaries.

True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.

A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines. The island of Manhattan is without any doubt the greatest human concentrate on earth, the poem whose magic is comprehensible to millions of permanent residents but whose full meaning will always remain elusive.

If I knew me as somebody else, I would hate me just as much. Why have a double standard?

I tried to double major in Psychology & Theater at Loyola Marymount but felt I needed to concentrate more on theater.

If you really believe that every three years the market will double, then go and buy shares. I don't believe that.

I'm double majoring in social studies - which is sociology, anthropology, economics, and philosophy - and African-American studies.

I've got big hips and a big body. I'm double, triple the size of other models - and I embrace that - I own it.

Republicans and Democrats agree that this should be done, $2.5 trillion. I happen to think it's double that. It's probably $5 trillion that we can't bring into our country.

Thus would I double my life's fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.

You’ve got to guess at worst cases: No model will tell you that. My rule of thumb is double the worst that you have ever seen.

[Charles] Reznikoff was in between faiths, in between worlds... a double, hyphenated American. I think it probably goes deeper than that.

Sure, there's pressure when you have one dart at double top when there's a world 'championship to be won, but real 'pressure is what our troops are doing in 'Afghanistan.

Playing for Arsenal at any level is something to be proud of so being in the squad when they won the double and winning the Cup in 1979 was special. The boys were a terrific bunch.

Guys don't get as many physical compliments as women do. Tell him his CrossFit habit is paying off. He'll work double time to impress you.

Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work.

I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

And there is also the paradox that the dominating culture imbues the Indian past with great meaning and significance; it is valued more because it is seen as part of the past. And it is the romantic past, not the present, that holds meaning and spiritual significance for so many members of the dominating culture. It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of attachment for the land, respects these very things about Indian traditions, without adopting those respected ways themselves.

Fame can be a double-edged sword, and you have to take the bad with the good. The highs are incredibly high, and the lows can be incredibly low.

In undergraduate school, I chose a career path that always leads to certain unemployment: I majored in politics and public affairs with a double-minor in philosophy and history.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at the same time as complex as possible

I only use one mascara and it's actually a drugstore one: the L'Oreal Paris Double Extend Beauty Tubes mascara.

We simply cannot afford to give the reigns of government so someone who will double down on trickle down

Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.

It's really important to me that 'Peaky Blinders' went down so well in Birmingham. Apparently the audience share in the West Midlands was double that of any other region.

People who have theater or sketch-comedy backgrounds seem to be more, you know, our speed. Like Amy Poehler and Will Arnett - we double date.

When I kiss a girl for a part, people think it's sexy. But if two guys kiss, suddenly there's a backlash. It's a double standard.

Because addiction is a developmental problem, the developmental stage is important, things like employment are important, things like having a sense of purpose, meaning and hope are important, and this is why there's been so many spiritual cures for addiction, because those things often give people a sense of meaning and purpose.

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.