Top 100 Twice The Quotes
#1. Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.
Xavier Becerra
#2. I don't think I ever sing the same way twice. The blues is sort of a mixed-up thing. You just have to feel it. Anything I do sing is part of my life.
Billie Holiday
#3. A man convinced against his will, stands opposed ever still. A man convinced he is right, gives the effort twice the fight.
Jeffrey Fry
#4. If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am.
Charles Yu
#5. I can knit. I knit all year, day in, day out. It is my passion, and I rarely knit the same thing twice the same way.
Elizabeth Zimmermann
#6. Rainbow Cloud strode forward like a hunting cat with the same strength of height and broad shoulders, the same rolling gait as First Light's father. They were indeed the same man, split in two at birth, so the family might be rewarded by twice the skill in hunting each brother possessed.
P.J. Parker
#8. The health care system in the United States, I'm sure you know, is a total international scandal. It's twice the per capita cost of comparable countries and one of the worst outcomes, with a huge number of people uninsured altogether. And it's going to get worse.
Noam Chomsky
#9. Business analytics or predictive modelling is a $100 billion industry, and $41 billion is spent on outsourced business analytics every year. I think that's about twice the size of the movie industry - it's really big.
Anthony Goldbloom
#10. Astronomers have discovered a planet that is twice the size of earth and made of diamonds. President Obama says the planet may be inhabited by aliens not paying their fair share.
Jay Leno
#11. Uh- If you could put the universe into a tube, you'd end up with a-uh-very long tube. Uuum probably extending uh twice the size of the universe because because when you... collapse the universe, it expands, and it would be uh... You wouldn't wanna put it into a tube.
Eric Wareheim
#12. You never make the same mistake twice. the second time you make it, it is no longer a mistake. it is a choice
Lauren Conrad
#13. once or twice the two of them shared a glimpse of meaning that felt as if a shaft of sunlight had struck through clouds to light up a majestic line of great hills in the distance - something far beyond, and never suspected.
Philip Pullman
#14. To do something right it must be done twice. The first time instructs the second.
Simon Bolivar
#15. One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow.
Michael Caine
#16. Well, being 6' 5', pull-ups are my nemesis. I have really long arms so I have to do twice the work of someone with short arms to get the weight up there.
Joe Manganiello
#17. Women are opening businesses at twice the rate of men ... Forty percent of businesses will be owned by women. Women are saying, I don't belong in this company. I'm sick of fighting this battle.
Faith Popcorn
#18. It is not about never doubting, it is about coming out on the other side with twice the faith you had going into your doubt.
Beth Moore
#19. Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
Douglas William Jerrold
#20. Twice and twice shall he be marked
twice to live, and twice to die.
Once the heron, to set his path.
Twice the heron, to name him true.
Once the Dragon, for remembrance lost.
Twice the Dragon, for the price he must pay.
Robert Jordan
#21. Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
Gary Wolf
#22. I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.
Daphne Du Maurier
#23. If you are the type who truly longs to be a Southern Belle at all times, regardless of taking twice the space available in bus, subway or elsewhere, you had best remove yourself to a large estate replete with servants.
Elizabeth Hawes
#24. I only met Margaret Thatcher twice. The thing that I thought about meeting her was how extraordinarily intelligent she was. You really had to be on your game; otherwise, she'd make mincemeat of you.
Salman Rushdie
#25. In the 1950s, when I was hanging around Sullivan's Gym and the Gramercy Gym, there were fixed fights. Mob guys like Frankie Carbo and Blinky Palermo had taken over the sport; one lightweight champion loaned his title to others at least twice; the welterweight division was a slag heap.
Pete Hamill
#26. A German produces on average twice the feces of a Frenchman. Hyperactivity of the bowel at the expense of the brain, which demonstrates their physiological inferiority.
Umberto Eco
#27. A British Institute of Psychiatry study revealed that reading digital messages while performing another creative task decreases your IQ in the moment by 10 points. This decrease is the same as not sleeping for 36 hours - more than twice the impact of smoking marijuana.
Erik Qualman
#28. How could you justify giving Holland twice the amount of money that you gave Belgium? Well, finally, I put it up to them. They said that they couldn't do it; it would destroy them. I said they had to do it. And I finally got support from Hoffman on it.
W. Averell Harriman
#29. First rule in government spending: Why build one, when you can have two at twice the price?
Carl Sagan
#30. Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don't live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile.
John Hersey
#31. Dietary fat is the densest energy source available to your body, with each gram of fat containing more than twice the calories of a gram of carbohydrate or protein (9 versus 4, respectively). Healthy
Michael Matthews
#32. You did so, two evers.Twice the ever is, like, the obnoxiousness squared.
Emma Mills
#33. Give people, including yourself, clear permission to make mistakes ... and to fix the problems. Since nobody's perfect, mistakes should be allowed. Cover-ups shouldn't. Cover-ups create twice the trouble.
Price Pritchett
#34. In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.
Bill Gates
#35. One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#36. I believe an artist dies twice. The first time, it's just terrible - I've been there when the phone isn't ringing for years.
Sylvester Stallone
#37. It fires .50 cal at twice the speed of sound. It will hit him before he ever hears the shot." My mother crossed her arms. "I'd like to see him bounce that off his chest.
Ilona Andrews
#38. Try everything twice; the first time is never the best.
Robin Peacock
#40. Thomas: Wow, that treehouse is like twice the size of our actual house.
Pam (whispering): Don't say 'like.'
Me: Oh, ha ha, let him say what he wants, let's not be
Thomas: That treehouse is twice the size of our actual house.
George Saunders
#41. All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#42. The same river can never be crossed twice. The flowing water has no memory of footprints.
Robert McCammon
#43. Current / is the cure for both a stopped heart / and one that beats too much. / And if it must be shocked twice, / the surgeons call it a reluctant heart.
Robin Beth Schaer
#44. Twice the size of a full grown man, with four muscular arms, it was his worst nightmare on steroids. -The Hyperscape Project
Donald Swan
#45. In LA, I'm twice the size- height and everything else- of most of the other actresses who are going for an audition.
Keira Knightley
#46. If thou thinkest twice, before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.
Benjamin Franklin
#47. Although we had been led to believe our mission was suicidal, Russia's intrigue was irresistible. Almost twice the size of Australia, it spans 11 time zones from the Baltic to the Pacific.
Tim Cope
#48. Say what you will about Leona Helmsley, when it comes to standing trial, she's twice the man Jim Bakker is.
David Letterman
#49. But after being fired at once or twice, The ear becomes more Irish, and less nice.
Robert Byron
#50. Typically, only about 2 percent of the American populace tunes in to PBS's 'Nova' series - the most successful science show on the tube. 'Survivor' and 'X Factor' get twice the ratings.
Seth Shostak
#51. We've the new hard-steel, though why they're all so hot to pay twice the price when men're soft as clay and even wood will pierce the boldest belly, I can't say.
Janet Morris
#52. When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.
Chi Chi Rodriguez
#53. Why should the Eisenhower memorial be over twice the size of WWII Memorial? Why should it be so vast as to comfortably house two Lincoln Memorials, two Washington Monuments, and two Jefferson Memorials - all six at once?
Leon Krier
#54. Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.
Tom Hayden
#56. But in school I remember hearing that for the second Quarter Quell, the Capitol demanded that twice the number of tributes be provided for the arena. The teachers didn't go into much more detail, which is surprising, because that was the year District 12's very own Haymitch Abernathy won the crown.
Suzanne Collins
#57. But of course you can have your cake and eat it, too - if you decide to to bake a second cake. And you may well find that baking two cakes does not take twice the work of baking one.
Robert Kuttner
#59. You talk too easily,' the Boy said.
'Talk?' Mr Prewitt said. 'I could shake the world. Let them put me in the dock if they like. I'll give them - revelation. I've sunk so deep I carry - ' he was shaken by an enormous windy self-esteem - he hiccupped twice - 'the secrets of the sewer.
Graham Greene
#60. Let God have your failures. Surrender to Him your most dreadful moments of captivity, your most humiliating defeats. God and God alone can use them to make you twice the warrior you ever dreamed you'd be.
Beth Moore
#61. The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It's on a scale never seen before.
Jill Abramson
#62. In the United States women develop MS at approximately twice the rate men do, and no one can explain why women are affected most often from the waist down.
Annette Funicello
#63. I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time for my second first novel.
Martin Amis
#64. If you don't have the confidence in baking, commit to making the recipe three times. The first two, do it exactly the way I've told you to make it. Twice. The first time you'll screw it up. The second time it will come out pretty good, and then the third time, make your adjustments.
Tom Douglas
#65. And besides, the thing about committing yourself to a lie is that mostly you end up in twice the trouble, 'cause truth is like a whirlwind and you can't keep it in a box.
Sarah Monette
#66. What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.
Robert Browning
#67. Two brains are better than one. You've twice the brain capacity and you have two sets of experiences and genes to bring to any challenge.
Philippa Perry
#68. Torpedoes were expensive, and heavy. Each cost up to $ 5,000 - over $ 100,000 today - and weighed over three thousand pounds, twice the weight of a Ford Model T.
Erik Larson
#69. Children now log about twenty-two thousand hours watching television by age nineteen, more than twice the time spent in school.3
John C. Maxwell
#70. I've trusted human women before. Twice. The first died, and the second paid a terrible price and despises me. Never, ever again.
Alyssa Day
#71. Vacation: a period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need.
Jerry Smith
#72. I've never violated any woman." "Have you killed?" He paused at that, before reaching into the wardrobe to move aside her spare day gown. "Once or twice. The men deserved it, I assure you.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#73. A course never quite looks the same way twice. The combinations of weather, season, light, feelings and thoughts that you find there are ever-changing.
Joe Henderson
#74. The true leader makes each team member twice the person they were before.
Leonard Sweet
#75. You always used to comfort us by saying you had everything in life because you had twice the hands to hold.
Louis Stevens
#76. turned out that the only difference between children and adults was that children were prepared to put twice the energy into the project of not being sad.
Chris Cleave
#77. The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.
Orson Scott Card
#78. The U.S. has the most dysfunctional healthcare system in the industrial world, has about twice the per capita costs, and some of the worst outcomes. It's also the only privatized system.
Noam Chomsky
#79. Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.
Christopher Fry
#80. It is with our entire past ... that we desire, will and act ... from this survival of the past it follows that consciousness cannot go through the same state twice. The circumstances may still be the same, but they will act no longer on the same person ... that is why our duration is irreversible.
Henri Bergson
#81. It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.
Ayumi Hamasaki
#82. Yep, it's revolutionary. We made a new I pad at twice the price and half the size , and durability. Also, if you break it, it's okay. We'll have six more models by next month
Jack Wynn
#84. Night on the way here, and he has twice the brains of my father.
Eloisa James
#85. When you're playing upside down, it takes twice the strength.
Tommy Lee
#86. What I love most about rivers is you can't step in the same river twice. The water's always changing, always flowing.
Pocahontas
#87. cross-national studies show that the U.S. poverty rate, which stands persistently above 12 percent, is not only the highest poverty rate of any advanced industrial nation, but is more than twice the average for that group.
Pursuing the American Dream, 9, 276
Calvin C. Jillson
#88. An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.
Oscar Wilde
#89. I might fall, but I'll come back again and again. I might falter, but I'll return with twice the fury.
Wildbow
#91. I feel like I'm stuck in a bad movie, with a little devil sitting on one shoulder and an angel on the other. But the goddamn devil is twice the size and my angel is a fucking mute. Great, I have a fucking mute angel.
Vi Keeland
#92. I am a Californian, and we have twice the individuality and originality of any people in the United States. We always get quite huffy when we are spoken of as merely Americans.
Gertrude Atherton
#93. Maybe there is a law after all. Of nature. Like gravity. An unwritten axiom that governs our emotional dealings. What you do comes back to you with twice the force, fuck it, three times the force. We are not punished for our sins we are punished by them.
Anonymous
#94. That's something that drives me crazy. When people say something twice that way, after you admit it the first time.
J.D. Salinger
#95. She comes to naught, my dear one, she comes to naught, all that there business. What the hell, maybe twice in your life you have yourself a whore of a good time, and then you spend every night of the rest of your life trying to get that good time back. But she comes to naught.
Lynn Coady
#96. Well, yes, Dustpaw, launching an attack and knocking me back across the border is one option. But is it wise to take on a cat twice your size?
Erin Hunter
#97. And Jasmine, royal princess and daughter of the sultan..." the little old religious man trailed off, confused. "I'm sorry, daughter. I don't remember all of your names. Rose of Agrabah? Twice Great-Granddaughter of Elisheba the Wise?"
"I think it was Elisheba," Jasmine said thoughtfully.
Liz Braswell
#98. Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice.
[Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
Horace
#99. Over the past decade, child care costs have risen twice as fast as the median income of families with children.
Sheryl Sandberg
#100. Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
Floyd Skloot
