Top 100 Takes Two Quotes
#1. As it takes two to make a quarrel, so it takes two to make a disease, the microbe and its host.
Charles V. Chapin
#2. it takes two people to cut you to the heart: an enemy to slander you and a friend to tell you what the enemy said.
Monica Ferris
#3. A musical takes two to five years. You have to love it to put in the years.
Harvey Fierstein
#4. It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
Krishna Das
#5. After him I learned, that sometimes, it takes two men to do, the work of one woman.
Key Ballah
#6. It usually takes two people a little while to learn where the funny buttons are and testy buttons are.
Matt Lauer
#7. Pigpen passes the pan of lasagna in Chevy's direction and he takes two squares for himself, the deposits the corner piece on my plate. I smirk at Pigpen and he scowls back at me.
Katie McGarry
#8. It takes two to create a heaven, but hell can be accomplished by one.
Robert A. Heinlein
#9. The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, sometimes three.
Alexandre Dumas-fils
#10. After all, it takes two to create a relationship, and when you make half the population invisible, the other half suffers as well.
Azar Nafisi
#11. When I last looked, there weren't queues of eager guys under 40 hanging outside single ladies' doors begging them to give up work and have their babies. It takes two to tango and the same number, without medical help, to make a child.
Mariella Frostrup
#13. The real test of your Christianity is not how pious you look at the Lord's table on Sunday, but how you act at the breakfast table at home. If it takes two cups of coffee to make you fit to live with, you had better go to the mourner's bench.
Vance Havner
#14. Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.
Umberto Eco
#15. I love to read. I remember hearing that the average author takes two years to write a book. So when I read a book, I feel like I am getting two years of life experiences.
Mark Batterson
#16. It takes two to tango but just one dance with the devil to bring the house down.
Jason Versey
#17. I personally think going to Mars, if it takes two years or two and a half years, that's doable. Certainly, the first people who go there, that's going to be a big motivator, being first getting to Mars.
Scott Kelly
#18. One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
Elbert Hubbard
#20. In plain proletarian worker's language, it takes two to tango.
Fred Hampton
#21. It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.
Aldous Huxley
#22. It takes two to make every great career: the man who is great, and the man-almost rarer-who is great enough to see greatness and say so.
Ayn Rand
#23. It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel.
Elizabeth Drew
#24. Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time around - it takes two or three goes for the research community to return to the topic.
Martin Fleischmann
#25. It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
Herbert Samuel
#26. Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language - the case with some American Indian languages - the language is dead. Language takes two and their multiples.
Rita Mae Brown
#27. You're a rotten driver," I protested. "Either you ought to be more careful, or you oughtn't to drive at all." "I am careful." "No, you're not." "Well, other people are," she said lightly. "What's that got to do with it?" "They'll keep out of my way," she insisted. "It takes two to make an accident.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#28. Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted ... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
M. Night Shyamalan
#29. It takes two of us to discover truth: one to utter it and one to understand it.
Kahlil Gibran
#30. We tell ourselves that intimacy (and marriage) takes two people who are willing to work at it-but, unfortunately, we rarely have the slightest inkling of our "job" assignments in this project.
David Schnarch
#32. It takes two to make a woman into a sex object.
Elaine Morgan
#33. It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.
William Faulkner
#34. It takes two to get one in trouble.
Mae West
#35. It takes two to tango; one dictates the steps and the other executes them effectively. That is how a great show is made.
Olaotan Fawehinmi
#36. Courage changes things for the better ... [With courage you can] stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.
Earl Nightingale
#37. I think it's very important to get ego out of the room. I think it's important to realize it takes two hands to clap - stop the pointing, stop the blame game. I think we've seen enough of that, I think the country is tired of it. I think they want to see Washington function, they want to see action.
Nikki Haley
#38. The http.HandleFunc() function takes two arguments: a path and a reference to a function to call when that path is requested. The function must have the signature func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request).
Mark Summerfield
#41. It takes two years for the salt to reach the center of a wheel of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.
Mark Kurlansky
#42. There are myriad kisses in a relationship: desperate ones as involuntary as breathing, stolen ones on crowded trains, ceremonial ones at the front door, routine ones as dispassionate as licking an envelope. It takes two to kiss, but does it take two to hold the memory?
Stephanie Ye
#43. It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.
Lewis B. Smedes
#44. It takes two to make a marriage work and two to make it fall apart.
Karen Kingsbury
#45. He's your enemy, Donald!'
'He most certainly is not,' said Trefusis. 'Not unless I say so. He may dearly want to be my enemy, he may beg on bended knee for open hostility of the most violent kind, but it takes two to tangle. I choose my own enemies.
Stephen Fry
#46. It takes two people to get together, but only one person to leave
S.E. Sever
#47. It only takes one person to love, but it takes two to make a relationship work.
Jeaniene Frost
#48. Any relationship is under the control of the person who cares the least, or, while it takes two people to begin a relationship, it only takes one to end it.
Chris Vonada
#49. War is not one-sided. It takes two blades to clash. It matters little who comes out on top, there is still a dead man at the end.
Mitch Rowland
#50. Every time Salim saab comes to Bharatpur,' the Maharaja used to say plaintively, 'he takes two species off my menu.
Zafar Futehally
#51. But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so.
Ann Brashares
#52. It takes two guys on a team to do very well in the end and be successful.
Ed Belfour
#53. How the Idolatry of Christian Same-Sex Marriage Advocates Takes Two General Forms
Joe Carter
#54. This weapon [an ax] is primitive but effective. And it's also guaranteed to be fifty-percent painless. You see, it takes two people to operate, and the person at this end [the handle] doesn't feel a thing.
Alfred Hitchcock
#55. You have to continue to grow and evolve as individuals in order for your marriage to evolve. It takes two pillars to support a structure. If those two pillars become one, you have a structure that teeters.
Tamara Tunie
#56. Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
Henrik Ibsen
#57. It takes two races to mongrelize a race - if that's the right word - and when we white people holler about mongrelizin', isn't that something of a reflection on ourselves as a race?
Harper Lee
#58. It takes two sides to make a deal, two sides to negotiate and two sides to make it go bad.
Gary Bettman
#59. Mostly that it takes two to make a couple. One person can't do it on her own, no matter how hard she tries; In our case, I want to be happily married, but you' don't. So, I'm cutting my losses and moving on in the hope that, someday, I'll find a man willing to share more than just his bed with me.
Catherine Spencer
#60. It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it.
Rick Perlstein
#62. Tiger takes two steps back not due to fear but to attack!
Unknown
#63. It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience.
D.W. Griffith
#64. The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.
Heraclitus
#65. It always takes two. There's the speaker and the listener, you and the audience. You've worked long hours and it comes down to that moment, that performance. The goal isn't just to improve yourself, but to transport people.
Gillian Murphy
#67. It takes two to paint. One to paint, the other to stand by with an axe to kill him before he spoils it.
William Merritt Chase
#68. It takes two to make a thing go right.
Rob Base
#69. It takes two to manage the relationship, but it takes one to begin the change.
Sheri E. Ragland
#70. Any two people can set and jaw all day long, but it takes two people right for each other to set together and just be quiet.
Silas House
#71. Sometimes war takes an arm, or an eye, or it takes two legs from us, but above all the war takes our belief in humanity away from us!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#73. It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it.
Matthew Prior
#75. I only intended to be married one time. But marriages are made; they don't just happen. It takes two.
Betty Wright
#77. She glanced at the horse's stomach. "You got yourself knocked up, girl?"
"Actually, it takes two to tango, in case you haven't heard."
Sadie laughed, the happy noise filling the air. "Horse tango. Sounds like quite the show.
Cindi Madsen
#78. When your kids are their hungriest, put out raw vegetables and dip - simple. It takes two seconds.
Andie MacDowell
#79. Any woman knows that it takes two people to be a good parent.
Greg Wise
#80. It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.
Jodi Picoult
#81. It always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed.
Emily Giffin
#82. It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with a hammer before he or she can ruin it.
Richard Schmid
#84. I'll watch the night turn light blue, it's not the same without you cause it takes two to whisper quietly
Owl City
#86. It takes two to make a relationship, but only one to screw it up.
Nigel Lythgoe
#87. It takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison.
W. Somerset Maugham
#88. It takes two seconds to tell the truth and it costs nothing. A lie takes time and it costs everything.
Randi Rhodes
#89. Well, the cigar I smoke takes two hours."
"When a man loves a woman....O to have such a lover..."
"I gave up a $100,000 lifestyle to take this position!
John Neumann
#90. It takes two to make a quarrel. If I do not want to quarrel with a Mahomedan, the latter will be powerless to foist a quarrel on me; and, similarly, I should be powerless if a Mahomedan refuses his assistance to quarrel with me. An
Mahatma Gandhi
#91. And I knew, then and there, that no matter what happens one should never let the negatives in their life become the manifesto of their whole being. It always takes two to tango. Negatives don't come without positives.
Zainab T. Khan
#92. In magic, it takes two or three years for me to create a 5-minute illusion for me to get it to the level I want.
David Copperfield
#93. Power never takes two weeks off. Power takes long weekends.
Lois Wyse
#94. It takes two people to make a friendship work
Jodi Picoult
#95. Remember, it takes two to make an argument. The one who is wrong is the one who will be doing most of the talking.
Ann Landers
#96. To make a library It takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interest alone will do If logs are few.
Carolyn Wells
#97. Is it not ignorance that we share? A lie takes two. The truth we find alone.
Anthony Marais
#98. You have to think for an email. What's the subject? What's it about? It takes two seconds to think about that. So you have to think, Is this a work thing or a social thing? Which? Then you get into a situation that you don't want to be in, because then people are thinking about it too much.
Biz Stone
#99. He has tears in his eyes now. The sight is more than I can bear. He takes two steps away from me and then turns back like a caged animal. "Do you even love me?" he suddenly asks. He grips both of my shoulders. "I've said it to you before, and I still mean it. But I've never heard it from you.
Marie Lu
#100. The chain of marriage is so heavy that it takes two to bear it; sometimes three.
Alexandre Dumas
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