Top 100 The Two Quotes
#1. From 1965 to 1973, more munitions fell on Cambodia than on all of World War II Japan, including the two nuclear bombs of August 1945.
Sophal Ear
#2. The two stallions, the silver and the black, represent the equine god (whomsoever horses pray to) in this ritual so ancient that no one knows what god to thank.
Janet Morris
#3. Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.
Benjamin Disraeli
#4. seems to have been somewhat glowing white (ionizing the atmosphere directly next to it), but was close enough to the lunar surface to cast its equally elongated shadow. (NASA photo No. 16-19238.) Even after the two Earthside superpowers did not return to the
Ingo Swann
#5. Somehow, always, everything is okay when it's just the two of us alone together. It's when we have to deal with the rest of the world that everything gets fucked up.
Nina Lane
#6. The two families, sundered in the ruin of a friendship, were united again first in new friendship and then in mariage. My grandfather made a peace here that has joined many who would otherwise have been divided. I am the child of his forgiveness.
Wendell Berry
#7. We must admit that he had eyes like drenched violets, so large that the water seemed to have brimmed in them and widened them; and a brow like the swelling of a marble dome pressed between the two blank medallions which were his temples.
Virginia Woolf
#8. It occurred to Graham that here, finally, was the similarity between the two women he'd chosen to marry: they were both totally unrufflable, one out of iciness, the other out of obliviousness.
Katherine Heiny
#9. Know how to drive safely when it's raining or when it's snowing. The two conditions are different.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#10. A straight line can readily be drawn among each of the two series of points corresponding to maxima and minima, thus showing that there is a simple relation between the brightness of the variables and their periods.
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
#11. Then the two friends leaned back and watched the sun rise clear of the trees.
"Best time of day," said Will.
Yes," Horace agreed. "What's for breakfast?
John Flanagan
#12. Upon this a question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may be answered that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person, is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#13. Pop, pop, sounded in the air, and the two wild geese fell dead among the rushes, and the water was tinged with blood.
Hans Christian Andersen
#14. Everything human must have in it both joy and sorrow; the only matter of interest is the manner in which the two things are balanced or divided.
G.K. Chesterton
#15. As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgement and decision.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#16. As children we were bombarded by competing answers. Church says one thing, school another. Now as adults it's no surprise that if we discuss the nature of it all, we generally spout some combination of the two, depending on our individual inclination and mood.
Robert Lanza
#17. In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder.
Fulton J. Sheen
#18. So, what are you going to do about it?"
"Watch this!"
"Oh, that's just freaking great. 'Watch this!' The two most dangerous words in the English language. I'm getting out of here before lightning strikes.
Theodore Jerome Cohen
#19. The more aware of your intentions and your experiences you become, the more you will be able to connect the two, and the more you will be able to create the experiences of your life consciously. This is the development of mastery. It is the creation of authentic power.
Gary Zukav
#20. I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
Edgar Winter
#21. We often mistake letting go for giving up. Knowing the difference between
the two can make all the difference in the end.
Gina Greenlee
#22. Irish nationalists can never be the assenting parties to the mutilation of the Irish nation. The two nation theory is to us an abomination and a blasphemy.
John Redmond
#23. There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#24. There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.
Robert Frank
#25. Our ego never wants to die and it will do anything to prolong its life. But the truth is, we are both spirit and ego and you have to have a balance between the two. Your spirit never dies, but the ego is all about beginnings and ends.
RuPaul
#26. Men need to be aware of the health of their bodies, as well - prostate cancer and breast cancer are almost on the same level. It's fascinating to me that the correlation between the two is almost the same - people don't talk about it so much, but they are almost equal in numbers.
Olivia Newton-John
#27. The gap between a dumb and a clever person may appear large from an anthropocentric perspective, yet in a less parochial view the two have nearly indistinguishable minds.
Nick Bostrom
#28. The keel-mounted rail gun pushed the whole ship backward in a solid mathematical relationship to the mass of the two-kilo tungsten round moving at a measurable fraction of c. Newton's third law expressed as violence. Holden's
James S.A. Corey
#29. There is but one reality; that is true - but the two of you experience it in slightly different ways. The older you get, I should think, the more you will come to understand that the universe is very much a looking glass.
Jim Butcher
#30. Classic Recipe for Roast Beef: 1 large Roast of beef 1 small Roast of beef Take the two roasts and put them in the oven. When the little one burns, the big one is done.
Gracie Allen
#31. The destination of love in two hearts joining love marries the two the instance they fall in love
Bradley Ellis
#32. The question of whether women should be made bishops once they had been ordained is absolutely pivotal. It seems to me absolute nonsense for women to be ordained to the priesthood but not to the episcopacy because the two are inextricably linked.
David Hope, Baron Hope Of Thornes
#33. sharing information would help build relationships and the two together would kindle a new, coherent, adaptive entity that could win the fight.
Stanley McChrystal
#34. When you're placed in a world where survival is the main focus, a lot of that other stuff, like wrongdoings in the past, become obsolete. You have to focus on the here and now. Yes, there is tension between the two of them.
Alycia Debnam Carey
#35. Who's the clown in life, the one with the two faces and characters or the persons who Laugh about them?
Jan Jansen
#36. Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like.
Randy Bachman
#37. Stillness fell upon them, as weighty as a promise. The two of them walked in silence, along the still,
moonlit landscape, and through the drowsing trees.
Debotri Dhar
#38. Jesus Christ, Noah, it's like you want it to be complicated. Win the girl. Then keep her. Don't let her go. Get it straight. One of us needs to get it right and, out of the two of us, you're the one who has a shot.
Katie McGarry
#39. If my body was cold in the night mist, I didn't feel it. If the sea roared in my ears, I didn't hear it. If the rock I sat on was sharp and jagged, I hardly noticed. Everything outside the two of us was a distraction.
Ransom Riggs
#40. The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.
Carl Clinton Van Doren
#41. I like it that you have no clue how to kiss but still, the two kisses I've shared with you are the best I've ever had. By far.
Kristen Ashley
#42. He felt his body divide itself into a hotness and a coldness, a softness and a hardness, a trembling and a hot trembling, the two halves grinding one upon the other
Ray Bradbury
#43. The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#44. 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.
Gilbert Burnet
#45. Barack Obama is like the old joke about boats. The two best days of owning a boat are the day you buy it and the day you sell it.
Howie Carr
#46. The firm has two cats, one for the warehouse and one for the attic. Now it occasionally happen that the two cats met; and the result was always a terrific fight. The aggressor was always the warehouse cat yet it was always the attic cat who managed to win - just like among nations.
Anne Frank
#47. Decision: I refuse to achieve "success" at the expense of my life. The two - life success and genuine fulfillment - will have to go hand in hand, because I will not keep my head down for the next forty years only to look up at the end and say, "Now I can finally start living!
Richie Norton
#48. We were the two unlikeliest people to charm information out of someone. Stunted human beings who got awkward every time we tried to express ourselves.
Gillian Flynn
#49. It's not enough to hate your enemy. You have to understand how the two of you bring each other to deep completion.
Don DeLillo
#50. I think, along with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks will go down as one of the two most well-known and remembered figures out of the Civil Rights Movement.
Douglas Brinkley
#51. There was a period of time when they estimated the two biggest stars in Hollywood were Charlie Chaplin and Mickey Mouse.
John Lasseter
#52. In the midst of these fine gentlemen with their great names and their ancient traditions of respectability, the two women sat face to face, exchanging tender glances, triumphant and supreme in the tranquil abuse of their sex, and their open contempt for the male. And the gentlemen applauded them.
Emile Zola
#53. I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.
Jodie Foster
#54. ... Something isn't right with you and this property. Strange things happen around it. I don't know what is going on, but I will find out. You could make it easier on yourself by coming clean."
"Sure. This is a magic bed-and-breakfast and the two guys in my kitchen are aliens from outerspace.
Ilona Andrews
#55. Varzo looked with shame at her boots. "Look, I wasn't serious, alright? It was just a thought."
Mercy shook her head. "Shitty thoughts become shitty actions, kid. You really gone your entire life without recognizing there's ah link between the two?
Ash Gray
#56. The preservation of our national security and the laws that define us as the United States of America demand that we understand the intersection of the two - indeed, how they reinforce one another.
John O. Brennan
#57. Count Duchamps: It's a wonder he didn't clank when he [Jim West] when he walked. (referring to all of Jim's gadgets and weaponry)
Wild Wild West (TV) Season 1
Night of the Two-Legged Buffalo
Wild Wild West TV
#58. We need to stop using fossil fuels as soon as possible. Unfortunately, the two leading replacements of wind and solar have emerging health and environmental problems.
Steven Magee
#59. I cannot stand the company of men. They flatter or they judge. I can stand neither of the two.
Albert Camus
#61. Kung fu and soccer are the two things that I was most interested in as a child.
Stephen Chow
#62. The two best experiences are the heady days when the boat is bought - and the day it's sold. Everything between is expenditure.
Jack Owen
#63. I'll do this to you till there's something to take the place of your vows - until you see the two of us together as your religion. (Garreth)
Kresley Cole
#64. Recognizing isn't at all like seeing; the two often don't even agree.
Sten Nadolny
#65. I inspected the crowd. Honey was snapchatting, the two cops were texting, and the Banger sisters had planted themselves at a table with a good view of the entire area, just in case someone else died. They didn't want to miss a thing.
Suzanne M. Trauth
#66. You can make up your mind to do one of two things: You can have a good time in life, or you can have a successful life, but you can't have both. You have got to make up your mind at the start which of the two you are going to have.
Charles M. Schwab
#67. And yet the two young people had never declared their affection; they had grown together like two trees whose roots are mingled, whose branches intertwine and whose intermingled perfume rises to the heavens.
Alexandre Dumas
#68. I listen to the Mars Volta and Fiona Apple every day. I feel if you do write music, you write what you listen to, and you couldn't possibly write in another genre. So those are the two that I usually use.
Christian Serratos
#69. Art alone develops weaklings, science alone, monsters. Somewhere, somehow, we must combine the two.
Alfred Kinsey
#70. The two-year note has become the Treasury market's gauge of expectations regarding when and how quickly the Fed will raise rates.
Anonymous
#71. The two women worked easily together, but I soon sensed that, though Belle was in charge of the kitchen, Mama Mae was in charge of Belle.
Lalita Tademy
#74. Liberty is precious. But so is life. It should not be so difficult for men and women of good will and good heart and sound mind to find the right balance between the two.
Jon Meacham
#75. It always circled back around to Marco Polo and Kublai Khan. That always fascinated me because so few people make the connection between the two.
John Fusco
#76. It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized.
Asa Gray
#77. Facebook and other social networking sites are bringing together spheres that used to be separate. People no longer have private and public lives; the line between the two is becoming blurred.
Paul Achleitner
#78. He liked I expect the idea of effortless excellence, and being unable to combine the two has settled for the one he could be sure of ...
Helen DeWitt
#79. As passion goes, wrath - or rage - is nearly indistinguishable from love in its intensity, the two epic ends of the maelstrom that makes us human.
Corey Taylor
#80. You can be critical and not judgmental. The two are synonyms, but no the same. The critical man analyzes people, things, and issues, very carefully. The judgmental man presents the results of his careful analysis in a manner that condemns.
Kingsley C. Okei
#81. The two plants had a gentleman's agreement going, like the railroad companies and the real-estate speculators in the old days, whereby they progressed together up the hill and into the yard.
Nicholson Baker
#82. They learned each other's darkest secrets, their sensual intimate yearnings shared by only the two of them as they talked about the fetishes
Ella Dominguez
#83. Think she could have told us we were going to fight the NFL?"
"Would that have stopped you?"
"No"
"Me either."
The laughter between the two of us echoed into the night.
Katie McGarry
#84. The hand that guides the brush has already caught and executed what floated before the mind at the same moment the mind began to form it, and in the end the pupil no longer knows which of the two-mind or hand -was responsible for the work.
Eugen Herrigel
#85. The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it.
Jonathan Coe
#86. I've heard that the two plants that make Ayahuasca (Banisteriopsis caapi and Psychotria viridis) in the Amazon, are increasingly difficult to find in the wild.
Zoe Helene
#87. Cultivate the habit of attention and try to gain opportunities to hear wise men and women talk. Indifference and inattention are the two most dangerous monsters that you ever meet. Interest and attention will insure to you an education.
Robert Andrews Millikan
#88. Every star has its own orbit; and between it and its nearest neighbor there is not only a powerful attraction but an infinite distance. When the attraction becomes stronger than the distance the two do not embrace: they crash together in ruin.
George Bernard Shaw
#89. Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other." "And between the two is the lump in the throat,
Louise Penny
#90. In A Man With a Pipe, my brother observed that although my father had been seen as intellectual and my mother more a creature of temperament, she had often been the more levelheaded of the two. In sum, we miss them as we love them, equally and always.
Madeleine K. Albright
#91. Once I was lost in a forest. I was so afraid. My blood pounded in my chest and I knew my heart's strength would soon be exhausted. I saved myself without thinking. I grasped the two syllables closest to me, and replaced my heartbeat with your name.
Anne Michaels
#92. Because we're sponsored by competing breweries there is always competition. When we were both fighting for ninth or 10th place, nobody really cared except the two companies.
Larry Dixon
#93. The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.
William H. Seward
#94. When I was nine - before I grew up and became a scientist - I thought I knew everything, or at least I wanted to know everything, and in my mind there was no difference between the two. At
Jodi Picoult
#95. The CIA's offices in London were no secret to the MI6. In fact, the two agencies were practically kissing cousins.
Kenneth Eade
#96. I often find human behavior amusing. Like having a full refrigerator of food to eat yet buying fast food instead. If you learn to conquer the two big "N" words. Niceties vs Necessities. You might actually have some funds for the hard times that come.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#97. Metal. In some ways, that was the true mark of mankind. Man tamed the stones, the bones of the earth below. Man tamed the fire, that ephemeral, consuming soul of life. And combining the two, he drew forth the marrow of the rocks themselves, then made molten tools.
Brandon Sanderson
#98. REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original. It is so called to distinguish it from a "copy," which is made by another artist. When the two are mae with equal skill the replica is the more valuable, for it is suppose
Ambrose Bierce
#99. The two world wars boosted American power and devastated potential rivals to an extent that could not have lasted more than a few decades.
Ian Bremmer
#100. And, together, the two soft forms, overlapping yet distinct, were like misty wings of silence, exquisitely-spun and spread full, surrounding our Lord in graceful symphony.
Gina Marinello-Sweeney
