Top 1200 Two Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The only thing that stands between you and grand success in living are these two things: getting started and never quitting!

I used to feel that I wouldn't be able to marry, since I am not a responsible person. I love two things - my work and music.

We are entering a world where there won't be one but two realities, just like we have two eyes or hear bass and treble tones, just like we now have stereoscopy and stereophony: there will be two realities: the actual, and the virtual. Thus there is no simulation, but substitution. Reality has become symmetrical. The splitting of reality in two parts is a considerable event which goes far beyond simulation.

Two things are as big as the man who possesses them - neither bigger nor smaller. One is a minute, the other a dollar.

I work alone. Humans are incredible, because when you come alone, they will receive you, they accept you, they protect you, they give you all things that you need, and they teach you all things you must know. When you come with two persons or three persons, you have a group in front of them. They don't discuss with the new persons what is important to them.

I think when a man first discovers that two and two is four, there is 'beauty' in that; and we can see why. But if people stand and look at the moon and one says 'I think it's just beautiful tonight' and the other says 'The moon makes me feel awful' we are both 'clear'. A geometric shape - we know why we like it; and an unreasonable shape; it has a certain mystery that we recognize as real; but it is difficult to put these things in an objective way.

Truth and love are two of the most powerful things in the world; and when they both go together they cannot easily be withstood.

How was it possible to be afraid and in love... The two things did not go together. How was it possible to be afraid, when the two of them grew stronger together every day? And every night. Every night was different, and every morning. Together they possessed a miracle.

Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures.

The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.

Yup, gardening and laughing are two of the best things in life you can do to promote good health and a sense of well being.

I'm a businessperson. I did really well. But I have common sense. And I said, well, I'll tell you. I haven't given lots of thought to NATO. But two things.Number one, the 28 countries of NATO, many of them aren't paying their fair share. Number two - and that bothers me, because we should be asking - we're defending them, and they should at least be paying us what they're supposed to be paying by treaty and contract.

There are only two things a manager needs to know: When to change pitchers and how to get along with your players.

I was an economist now turning into a human being - as if these are two different things. I don't know but I did that and then I had no vision.

I really like 'Come Dine With Me' and 'Eating With My Ex.' Both shows have my two favourite things: people and food.

Sex is two plus two making five, rather than four. Sex is the X ingredient that you can't define, and it's that X ingredient between two people that make both a man and a woman good in bed. It's all relative. There are no rules.

I look at two things while angel investing. Are you solving an important problem? Do you care about the end users.

There are two things that come very easily to me: rooting for New York sports teams and making mistakes.

People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremony are two things.

The Duke of Buckingham gave me once a short but severe character of the two brothers. It was the more severe, because it was true: the King (he said) could see things if he would, and the Duke would see things if he could.

The only thing you can do as an artist is to come to the world, see what no one is doing, and leave behind one or two things that wouldn’t have happened without you.

Well, I would say that Shake It Up was a chance for me to do two things I really love: acting and dancing.

As an adult I discovered that I was a pretty good autodidact, and can teach myself all kind of things. And developed a great interest in a number of different things from how to build a street hot rod from the ground up to quantum mechanics, and those two different kinds of mechanics, and it was really in the sciences, quantum mechanics, molecular biology, I would begin looking at these things looking for ideas, but in fact you don't read it for ideas you read it for curiosity and interest in the subject.

I'd like to promote lots of things. I'd like to promote elimination of drug prohibition. I'd like to promote parental choice in education through vouchers. Those are two things I think are very urgent and important. They're both more important than the harm which Social Security will do.

And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is.

The problem with time, I've learned, whether it's those first two weeks I got to spend with you, or the final two months I got to spend with him, eventually time always runs out. I have no idea where you are out there in the world, John. But I understand that I lost the right to know these things long ago. No matter how many years go by, I know one thing to be as true as ever was - I'll see you soon then.

Silicon Valley tends to be very myopic - to be focused on one or two things - which has some strengths as well as weaknesses.

Our bodies are given life from the midst of nothingness. Existing where there is nothing is the meaning of the phrase, "Form is emptiness." That all things are provided for by nothingness is the meaning of the phrase, "Emptiness is form." One should not think that these are two seperate things.

It's joyful in that there's another point of view on all things, you know, not just mine. That's why I like to write and collaborate with people. There's another point of view, and when those two things come together, and people work at it really hard, they get something that is the whole is more than the sum of - is that how you say that?

Just because you're working does not mean you're making money. That's two very different things in show business.

Four things to think about. 1. Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. 2. Let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred. 3. Keep three chairs in your house. One for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. 4. To preserve your relationship to nature, make your life more moral, more pure, more innocent.

There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.

Give yourself a healthy bit of distance between your fame and reality because they are two different things.

I only have two things in my life, my family and work. If there's any time left over, then I play sports.

There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.

I love Thanksgiving because it's a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.

When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his work fit in with the explanation.

The first time I had disposable income, the two things I cared most about were a television and a couch.

The two things that are going to make you a better baker without even trying are a scale and a thermometer in your oven.

You were born with two things: existence and opportunity, and these are the raw materials out of which you can make a successful life.

Thoughts are wonderful things, that they can bring two people, so far apart, into harmony and understanding for even a little while.

Both are two different things. As a VJ, you are yourself. But as an actor, you are playing a character that you want people to fall in love with.

Only two things are real to me: my love and my death. In between them, I merely exist as a scatter of senses.

I think strong rhetoric and strong action are two separate things. Anyone can use tough words. Anyone can go over the top and say things that sound strong. But sounding strong is not enough. You have to know exactly how you're going to do it. And if you look at some of the policies he's talked about, they would not make America stronger.

I learned mainly through television, but I learned how to do mosaic, where you can buy stones or things of that nature. But also where you bust the tile to decorate pots for flowers or table tops. Lots of different things. Wherever you want it, you can mosaic just about anything. It took me about two weeks to do a big birdbath.

One thing about other people, when they come to the gym, they might waste time wrapping hands, doing stretching and things. I don't like that. If I come to the gym, if one hour - all work. If two hours - all. I don't want to do this stuff so I can stay like two hours in the gym training only one hour. I want to do my own - quick, quick.

Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.

You only have to bat 1.000 in two things-flying and heart transplants. Everything else, you can go four in five.

One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain--rigor and recklessness--simultaneously.

Nature doth thus kindly heal every wound. By the mediation of a thousand little mosses and fungi, the most unsightly objects become radiant of beauty. There seem to be two sides of this world, presented us at different times, as we see things in growth or dissolution, in life or death. And seen with the eye of the poet, as God sees them, all things are alive and beautiful.

There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.

An actor knows two important things - to be honest in what he is doing and to be in touch with the audience. That's not bad advice for a politician either.

The only two things in life that make it worth livin' / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin' women

The two things that I wanted in my life were to have a movie career and to be married, to have a family. And it's an embarrassment of riches that I've got both.

The two things that I miss most when living out of Australia are the bush and the Pacific coast, especially fishing in the surf at night!

You just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do, you do not have two human beings; you have a corpse.

It is utterly and irrevocably possible to empty all hurts and therefore to love, to have compassion. To have compassion means to have passion for all things, not just between two people, but for all human beings, for all things of the earth, the animals, the trees - everything the earth contains. When we have such compassion we will not despoil the earth as we are doing now and we will have no wars.

Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.

A DJ draws a connection between two seemingly disparate things and says, 'Look, they are alike. You can dance to them.'

If you look at little kids and wild animals, these are two groups of things that whenever I'm with them forces me to be in the moment.