Two Quotes

• There is no end and no beginning. There is only we two, alone in the dark, for always.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Alone
  • Always
  • No End

• John Marks Templeton has achieved exemplary success in both business and philanthropy. For Looking Forward he has assembled a diverse and remarkable group of experts in their fields-including the environment, medicine, the physical sciences, religion, the family, and international relations-and contributed two stellar pieces as well. Together these essays dispel fashionable pessimism and show how the world can progress-and is progressing-toward a better future.

  

  Rupert Murdoch
  • Two
  • Wells
  • Exemplary

• If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him.

  

  William Penn
  • Men
  • Two

• Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Trying
  • Photography
  • Doctors

• Isn't this more about how two people can read a situation in two completely different ways? I've been resisting the urge to build castles in the air, like I always do, and you just saw whatever it was that you wanted to see.

  

  Catherine Sanderson
  • Different
  • Situation
  • Read

• Someone once said that the two most important things in developing taste were sensitivity and intelligence. I don't think this is so; I'd rather call them curiosity and courage. Curiosity to look for the new and the hidden; courage to develop your own tastes regardless of what others might say or think.

  

  R. Murray Schafer
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Courage

• And He [God] and you are two things of such a kind that if you really get into any kind of touch with Him you will, in fact, be humble--delightedly humble, feeling the infinite relief of having for once got rid of all the silly nonsense about your own dignity which has made you restless and unhappy all your life.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • God
  • Feeling

• If you think you're too far from Allah to return, and your 'past' continues to own you, just remember that Malik ibn Dinar (RA) was an alcoholic, and Omar (RA) was on his way to assassinate the Prophet (pbuh) before they became two of the greatest souls to walk the earth!

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Past

• My own perception is that there are two tiers of countries, one, the original ASEAN, and then the new members. The new members are in various stages of development.

  

  S. R. Nathan
  • Country
  • Perception
  • Two

• There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • God
  • Done

• When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Men
  • Two
  • Going Away

• Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • Good
  • Different
  • Country

• It really doesn't matter how long. If you practice with your (body), no amount is enough. If you practice with your head, two hours is plenty.

  

  K. Anders Ericsson
  • Long
  • Practice
  • Volleyball

• Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Moving
  • Two
  • Talking

• I changed those things that were in direct - my direct control. I mean, I - look, I'm proud of the fact that, with two weeks to go, we're probably the first administration in modern history that hasn't had a major scandal in the White House.

  

  Barack Obama
  • History
  • House
  • Control

• There are two areas where you can't stop people misbehaving: eating and sex

  

  John Travolta
  • People
  • Stop
  • Sex

• You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Money
  • Want
  • Making Money

• A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • She
  • Hand
  • Hands

• When two close kindred meet What better than call a dance?.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Dance
  • Two
  • Kindred

• True love is not a potion one person can swallow and another refuse to drink. It happens only when the souls of two join together to form one

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Together
  • True
  • Love Is

• Two rules: You enter without breaking. And you remember that nobody misses what you don't take.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Remember
  • Missing
  • Two

• Torture is something that happens between two people, the torturer and the victim. The victim is made to taste death without actually dying. He is subjected to atrocious pain and begs his torturer to kill him. He's even ready to forgive the torturer as long as he kills him.

  

  Saadi Yacef
  • People
  • Long
  • Death

• There are two sorts of sick consciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Sick
  • Sin
  • Two

• At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Life
  • Eyes
  • Waiting

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