Two Quotes
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When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.
William of Occam
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Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
Bette Midler
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Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...
Alexandru C. Cuza
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Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters.
Pablo Picasso
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Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.
Saint Augustine
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There are two things that you have to do in life: You have to die, and you have to live until you die. The rest is up to you.
Urijah Christopher Faber
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Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'.
C. S. Lewis
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Whenever you see, in an official lectionary, the command to omit two or three verses, you can normally be sure that they contain words of judgment. Unless, of course, they are about sex.
N. T. Wright
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There are two unknowns in the World. The Poles and the Turks!
Albert Sorel
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The ways I could hurt her and hurt myself. Those two things were intertwined somehow. It's hard to explain, but when you were as closed off as I was the past few months, opening felt as wrong as stripping naked in church.
Kami Garcia
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The conclusion, therefore, is that there are two major forces in society: love, which multiplies the species, and the nose, which subordinates it to the individual. Procreation, equilibrium.
Machado de Assis
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Have I seen The Commitments? I was obsessed with that movie. I just watched it again about two weeks ago.
Lara Flynn Boyle
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There are two sides of the Velvet Rope. Those who want to be on the other side and those who are on the other side.
Janet Jackson
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Do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty.
William James
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Darwin found out that when you took horses up to the high country in the Middle East, they would then grow long hair after a season or two. But when you took them - these long-haired horses - back into the low, hot country, they wouldn't get rid of the long hair, just in case, for about four generations.
L. Ron Hubbard
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It's a very different show because of the elements that we're putting in. There's so many different styles of comedy, but Mr. Show was unique to Bob and David - two of the most brilliant performers and writers there are. Their show was based on them. Our show is a bit more broad. We have a cast of 7, we have guests. We can be slightly more topical.
B. J. Porter
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People have two sides, a good side and a bad side, a past, a future. We must embrace both in someone we love.
Angelina Jolie
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On every dishonest man, there are two watchmen, his possessions, and his way of living.
Umar
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People break down into two groups. When they experience something lucky, group number one sees it as more than luck, more than coincidence. They see it as a sign, evidence, that there is someone up there, watching out for them. Group number two sees it as just pure luck. Just a happy turn of chance.
M. Night Shyamalan
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Two seconds are a thousand years.
Andre Kertesz
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The good news for Nigeria is that they're two-nil down very early in the game.
Kevin Keegan
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My boyfriend suggested I write two pages a day. He wouldn't take me out if I hadn't done my two pages. That's how I wrote my second novel.
S. E. Hinton
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Speak but little, and that little only when thy own purposes require it. Heaven has given thee two ears but only one tongue, which means: listen to two things, but be not the first to propose one.
Hafez
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There are two things I wear. One is a Curvation undergarment over my whole body, and then maybe I'll also put on some Spanx. They're so great. They have a way of smoothing everything out, and then you can just put on whatever you want. It accents you and makes you feel pretty.
Queen Latifah