Top 1200 Two-Dimensional Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

We have long had death and taxes as the two standards of inevitability. But there are those who believe that death is the preferable of the two.

Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")

Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves; their carcases collide with one another and creak.

There are wonders in true affection. It is a body of enigmas, mysteries, and riddles, wherein two so become one, as they both become two.

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.

The English have no imagination: and yet they do show imagination in two things - two only. In the evening-clothes worn by old ladies, and in their cafés.

No, it is a very interesting number, it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways.

Given a choice between two bald political candidates, the American people will vote for the less bald of the two.

In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.

I think fully, that an independent candidate can't win in this country. The Constitution is structured for basically a two-party government, a two-party race.

Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self; the heavenly by the love of God.

I have two false hips, a wired-up right knee, two crushed discs and scoliosis. If I don't dance, I seize up.

Being a able to work with Reid [Corneilus] one on one those two seasons were great he taught me the ins and outs of pitching and what I needed to do to be successfull. My first Two years of pro ball I was under the instruction of John Duffy who was excellent as well. With out those two helping me through out the way I dont think I would have been able to excel as much as i did.

The difference between helping and selling is just two letters. But those two letters are critically important to the success of business today.

I've been at two different high schools, two different colleges, so I've learned some new playbooks, and that always helps me.

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.

I had a big fight about how to make something come into the real, to make it physical. It sounds really antique, but it's a question of, how do I make this idea happen? You can't just will it into existence. You have to educate, you have to persuade, you have to seduce, you have to do all this stuff to make something three-dimensional and happen. It's not just a concept. It's actually a reality.

The two things I use the most are the MacBook Air and my iPhone. Those are my two most-used gadgets that are dented, scratched and smashed.

What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together.

It's harder to write two people happy and in love than two people fighting and driving each other crazy.

I believe being a good senator requires two things. Number one, acumen. Number two, interest.

Love, acceptance, friends, two kids that I love. I have to take care of myself for them. I've also been a vegetarian for two years.

The Chili Peppers have a real strict two-week on/two-week off policy - aside from me, everybody has families.

There's a thing with genre movies and science fiction movies that number two is the charmed; two seems to be the best. I loved 'Terminator 2.'

Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports.

I would rather be seated between any two women than any two men at a dinner party.

I'd kill to be 'Doctor Who.' Maybe they could make the Doctor two people? He has got two hearts, after all.

My God, but what do I care about the laws of nature and arithmatic if for some reason these laws and two times two is four are not to my liking?

I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?

I am a registered Democrat (there are only two Republicans in Maryland and they're both in office) and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office myself.

If every school would hire two more music teachers, we would need two fewer police officers.

There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.

To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.

The 22nd Amendment should probably be modified to say two consecutive terms instead of two terms for a lifetime.

I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.

The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices.

Today, we don't talk about history. The past is two weeks ago, and the future is two weeks after.

I won player of the year and players' player, two cups and two championship medals, had a great time.

My grandfather was a polygamous man, and he had two wives, and between him and his two wives, we are about 200 or so in our family.

Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.

I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked me two months ago or two days ago.

Music has a lot in com­mon with math­e­mat­ics. But in music, two and two need not make four: they add up to what­ever you wish.

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.

There are two things that I cannot resist: one is musicals and the other is a spaceship in trouble. But I am smart enough not to combine the two things.

This sounds crazy, but I was born in the fashion industry. So, I probably wore heels by the age of two. When I was two, I would steal my mom's heels.

There cannot be two absolutely free beings in the universe, for sooner or later two completely free wills must collide.

There are only two qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency; and only two sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient.

She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.

Sometimes two people stay together for the sake of the kids - two kids who sat under a full moon and pledged to be forever true.

You know those bumpers in the two lanes when you go bowling? I go out there with two of them, metaphorically, every day.

Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.

I always say that, like a scientist or anyone, you always want to be the problem-solver. You feel like, if you solve the greatest mystery or the greatest problem, then that makes you brilliant. It's the same thing with an actress. You want to be able to really tackle a character and make it a fully-dimensional human being who is complicated, funny and all the things that a person could be.

I'm enjoying my retirement, enjoying my life. I have two kids and a lot of my time is spent chasing these two animals.

Two negatives make a positive but only in Scotland do two positives make a negative: aye right.

Senator Kerry says he sees two Americas. It makes the whole thing mutual - America sees two John Kerrys.

The hardest decisions in life are not between good and bad or right and wrong, but between two goods or two rights.

I was commuting between Hollywood and Phoenix. It wasn't unusual for me to fly between the two cities two or three times a week.

In poetry there are two giants, rough Homer and fine Shakespere. In music likewise we have two giants, Beethoven, the thinker, and the superthinker Berlioz.

We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We forget that we still have to make a study of 'and.'

I read two to three books a day anyway (I only sleep about two hours a night, and I read really fast).