Two Chairs Quotes

#1. You could offer her a seat," Arin said.
"Ah, but I have only two chairs in my tent, little Herrani, and we are three. I suppose she could always sit on your lap.

Marie Rutkoski

#2. Every home should have a room, or at least a nook with two chairs, where it is a sin punishable by immediate expulsion to speak of money, business, politics or the state of one's teeth.

Robert Grudin

#3. Our two chairs were drawn up to the fire; a stack of scholarly books beside his and the latest volume of The Casebook of Simon Feximal by mine. Our cat Saul curled on the couch; he opened one sleepy eye at our entrance, then closed it again. The

Jordan L. Hawk

#4. Here are two chairs; let us sit down and see the smart people go by.

Oscar Wilde

#5. Being a venture capitalist to me is like being more of a psychologist. So if you come to my office we have two chairs with a table in the middle. And we sit down and it's like, Tell me your problems.

Keith Rabois

#6. Time was away and somewhere else,
There were two glasses and two chairs
And two people with one pulse.

Louis MacNeice

#7. You can't sit on two chairs at once.

Andrei Sakharov

#8. Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?

Larry Wall

#9. In the middle of the woods Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. Two old chairs and half a candle, One old jug without a handle- These were all the worldly goods.

Edward Lear

#10. The primary dues a writer or any artist pays is to remain sentient, and to forfeit the illusionary luxury of such anesthetics as avoidance, numbness, and denials.

Vanna Bonta

#11. If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.

George Orwell

#12. I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Henry David Thoreau

#13. I want to grow old with you," he whispers. "I want to let you win at bingo, I want you to help me find my dentures, and I want to spend the evening watching the sunset with you every night from our two rocking chairs."


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Ashley Jade

#14. But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.

Timothy Ferriss

#15. I'm coming to believe that there are two kinds of people ... those who choose to be masters of their own fate and those who wait in chairs while other dance. I would rather be one of the former than the latter.

Lisa Kleypas

#16. We come to a house and walk down the small walkway to its backyard. In the yard there are two screens and a slide projector. People are seated in lawn chairs, watching slides of trees.

Audrey Niffenegger

#17. Just as I sat on the fence between two civilizations, so would I now find myself between two classes; and I realized that, in trying to sit on several chairs, one generally lands on the floor.

Albert Memmi

#18. There were maybe eighty chairs set up in the room, and it was two-thirds full but felt one-third empty.

John Green

#19. The two weary but still talkative wizards sat in a pair of fan-backed chairs and pitched pebbles at the drunken satyr in the fountain. They talked about wars, enchantments, and obscure facts until the sky above the forest began to be fringed with pale blue.

John Bellairs

#20. Although we may deplore the film's scatological language, sexual explicitness and gratuitous gore as seemingly designed only to shock, in the manner of an angry, attention-craving child, we must remember that this movie was actually made by an angry, attention-craving child.

Mark Leyner

#21. We must take care that globalization does not become something people become afraid of.

Gerhard Schroder

#22. The soft chanting envelops us like a membrane. A

Margaret Atwood

#23. I think it would be charitable to believe that he was mistaken about

L.M. Montgomery

#24. It felt right, seeing them joined as a mated couple. A partnership that had been tested more than most, and hard-won. Lucan

Lara Adrian

#25. Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.

George Bernard Shaw

#26. You should own stuff, but make sure they are indispensable stuff. A family of three can simplify to the point of owning just three beds, two couches, three dressers, one table, few chairs, one desk, eight plates, eight glasses, eight bowls and some toys and books for the kids.

George Lucas

#27. So that left me. To save my hatchlings and my underground, even if I couldn't be there anymore.

Julie Kagawa

#28. I didn't want to be left alone with Timothy, not because I was afraid of him but because I was afraid that somebody would come into the office and see us sitting there, two matching rejects in matching orange chairs.

Michael Chabon

#29. Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.

Clay Shirky

#30. If God did not wish us to understand the book of Revelation, He would not have given it to us at all.

D.L. Moody

#31. If there had been a door within reach that led straight to death, he wouldn't have hesitated to push it open, without a second thought.

Haruki Murakami

#32. I had but three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized the room by standing up.

Henry David Thoreau

#33. A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.

Eileen Caddy

#34. By now the two men were tied securely to their chairs. Powerscourt found he could just about move his arms. If there was a deus out there somewhere, he said to himself, he wished he would hurry up and get out of his machina.

David Dickinson