Top 100 Two Kinds Quotes
#1. I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.
Bill Bruford
#2. For Captain Aubrey, as for the rest of brute creation, there were only two kinds of birds, the edible and the inedible.
Patrick O'Brian
#3. Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. 'The Spirit is a garden,' said he
Victor Hugo
#4. Education should therefore include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by practical experience that these two kinds complete each other and are equally essential to a civilized existence.
Maria Montessori
#5. Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind.
John Masefield
#6. There are two kinds of opportunities: one which we chance upon, the other which we create.
Ruth Benedict
#7. Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.
Terry Tempest Williams
#8. There are two kinds of characters in all fiction, the born and the synthetic. If the writer has to ask himself questions - is he tall, is he short? - he had better quit.
Rex Stout
#9. There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one. The first is the quack who cures you; the second is the highly qualified person who doesn't.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#10. You have two kinds of secrets. The ones only you know. The ones only you don't.
James Richardson
#11. There are two kinds of people we meet in our lives who make a difference: those who remain in our lives and those we only meet once. Each kind has a different type of impact, but both are important.
Kenneth Eade
#12. Because the rich are generally few in number, while the poor are many, they appear to be antagonistic, and as the one or the other prevails they form the government. Hence arises the common opinion that there are two kinds of government - democracy and oligarchy.
Aristotle.
#13. There are two kinds of fascists: fascists and anti-fascists.
Ennio Flaiano
#14. We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
John Ruskin
#15. There are only two kinds of women in the world, those who love shoes and those who had the misfortune to be born without the ability to experience total bliss on finding a pair of perfectly designed pumps in the right size at half price.
Jane Eldershaw
#16. There are two kinds of airplanes - those you fly and those that fly you ... You must have a distinct understanding at the very start as to who is the boss.
Ernest K. Gann
#17. There are two kinds of special events: planned and unplanned.
Laurie Nadel
#19. Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses
a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.
Charles Dickens
#20. There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living - cook books and detective stories.
Rex Stout
#21. They say there are only two kinds of people on St. Patrick's Day: the Irish, and the people that drive them home.
Conan O'Brien
#22. The thing about living in a village at the foot of a mountain is that the world for you becomes, without thinking about it, self-contained. People are of two kinds, really: from the Valley, and from Elsewhere.
Henry Louis Gates
#23. (Actually, there are two kinds of people in this world: those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.
Tom Robbins
#24. There are two kinds of sorry. There is the sorry imbued with regret. And a pure sorry. The kind that is merely asking for forgiveness, nothing more.
Emily Giffin
#25. There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man's law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
Henrik Ibsen
#26. There are only two kinds of math books: Those you cannot read beyond the first sentence, and those you cannot read beyond the first page.
Chen-Ning Yang
#27. There are two kinds of terrorism. Rational terrorism such as Palestinian terrorism and apocalyptic terrorism like Sept. 11. You have to distinguish between the two.
Alan Dershowitz
#28. In our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought is divinely classified into two kinds - that which is their own and that which is false and dangerous.
Robert H. Jackson
#29. There are two kinds of brave men: those who are brave by the grace of nature, and those who are brave by an act of will.
Norman Mailer
#30. I'm only interested in two kinds of people, those who can entertain me and those who can advance my career.
Ingrid Bergman
#31. Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great deal at the expense of others.
Baltasar Gracian
#32. Two kinds of clarity support habit formation: clarity of values and clarity of action. The clearer I am about what I value, and what action I expect from myself - not what other people value, or expect from me - the more likely I am to stick to my habits.
Gretchen Rubin
#33. There are two kinds of fidelity, that of dogs and that of cats; you, gentleman, have the fidelity of cats who never leave the house.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#34. There are two kinds of people in the world - only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.
Leonard Ravenhill
#35. High office, is like a pyramid; only two kinds of animals reach the summit - reptiles and eagles.
Jean Le Rond D'Alembert
#36. There are these two kinds of patriotism. There's blind patriotism, unflagging patriotism. And then there's the patriotism that says I live in a democracy and it's very important for the health and the life of this democracy that it get better all the time, not get worse.
Norman Mailer
#37. We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.
Bertrand Russell
#38. There's two kinds of pain in sports: the pain of discipline and the pain of regret.
Jeff Blatnick
#39. There are two kinds of authors - subjective and objective. Introverts are more inward looking.
Ruskin Bond
#40. it's like I have two kinds of students now. Kids who write their homework and thought papers on their phones. Kids who just sound like they do.
James Browning
#41. There are only two kinds of songs; there's the blues, and there's zip-a-dee-doo-dah,
Townes Van Zandt
#42. Two kinds of people live a life without care: one kind are extremely worthy of praise, the other kind are extremely worthy of criticism. The first are those who care nothing for the pleasures of the world and the second (i.e. those who are deserving of criticism) care nothing for haya or modesty.
Ibn Hazm
#43. I'm a member of that half of the human race which is inclined to divide the human race into two kinds of people. My dividing line runs between the people who crave certainty and the people who trust chance.
John Perry Barlow
#44. 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
#46. There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.
Brian W. Aldiss
#47. There are two kinds of humble people: (1) Humble people; and (2) broke people.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#48. There are two kinds of folks who sit around thinking about how to kill people: psychopaths and mystery writers.
Richard Castle
#49. Rightness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines; and there can no more be two kinds of right action than there can be two kinds of straight lines.
Herbert Spencer
#50. There's two kinds of folk in the world, just like there's two kinds of life in a seed. Something sends one kind up to hunt its food in the light and air, and sends the other kind down into the earth to make the roots.
Pearl S. Buck
#51. There are two kinds of hot girls: Evil Hot Girls, and Hot Girls Who Are Also Sympathetic Good-Hearted People and Will Not Intentionally Destroy Your Life (HGWAASGHPAWNIDYL).
Jesse Andrews
#52. I tend to connect most easily with two kinds of people, those who are creating something and those who are easily vulnerable. Both trees grow from the same root, I think, and that's the willingness to take risks.
Donald Miller
#53. Dysphagia is the medical term for not being able to swallow, and I know that there are two kinds of dysphagia: oropharyngeal and esophageal.
But maybe there is also a third kind of dysphagia that comes when your heart breaks into pieces.
I can't swallow because I have that kind.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#54. Dennis Thatcher, husband of Margaret Thatcher, when asked who wore the pants in his house, said "I do, and I also wash and iron them." I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign.
Mae West
#55. There are two kinds of directors in the theater. Those who think they are God and those who are certain of it.
Rhetta Hughes
#56. There are two kinds of science: The black science and the white science. The science of weapon production is the black one. Working in this category of science is a great betrayal to humanity!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#57. The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
Honore De Balzac
#58. There are two kinds of truth. There are real truths, and there are made up truths.
Marion Barry
#59. She wondered why there were only two kinds of weather: hardship in the morning, and tribulation at night.
Colson Whitehead
#60. Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.
Ahmet Ertegun
#61. I only know two kinds of audiences - one coughing, and one not coughing.
Artur Schnabel
#62. There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
Josh Billings
#63. THE SEX & CASH THEORY - The creative person basically has two kinds of jobs: One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Sometimes the task in hand covers both bases, but not often. This tense duality will always play center stage. It will never be transcended.
Hugh MacLeod
#64. There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
Jeff Bezos
#65. Well, I don't know," said the Story Girl thoughtfully. "I think there are two kinds of true thing - true things that are, and true things that are not, but might be.
L.M. Montgomery
#66. There are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.
Jeanette Winterson
#67. We must stand firm between two kinds of madness: the belief that we can do anything; and the belief that we can do nothing.
Alain
#68. There are basically two kinds of people: those who have empathy and care about others and those who don't. The ones who don't are creating most of the problems in the world.
Laurence Overmire
#69. There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured.
Oscar Wilde
#70. Paxton
If happiness is the end result, if it's that single want that matters, if we had to through that to get here, I'd do it all over again. If it's the love that matters, then why does it matter how we got there? We were the perfect storm of two kinds of crazy.
Jettie Woodruff
#71. Men ought not to labor at the same time with their minds and with their bodies; for the two kinds of labor are opposed to one another; the labor of the body impedes the mind, and the labor of the mind the body.
Aristotle.
#72. You act like there are two kinds of girls,' she said. 'The smart ones and the ones that boys like.
Rainbow Rowell
#73. What I do know is that there are two kinds of pain in this life: risk and regret. I'd rather live with the first than the second.
Holley Gerth
#74. There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.
Bruce Schneier
#75. The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
Lao-Tzu
#76. There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.
Amelia Earhart
#77. There are two kinds of ham: raw and cooked. Raw ham is cured with salt and/or smoke over time; cooked ham is boiled. Every culture that makes ham has its own unique and various methods.
Kate Christensen
#78. The work involved can be broadly divided into two kinds: deciding whether or not to dispose of something and deciding where to put it. If you can do these two things, you can achieve perfection.
Marie Kondo
#79. There are only two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired, and those who will be fired.
Ken Loeffler
#80. We sort of understood abstractly the idea that there are only two kinds of software projects: failures and future legacy horrors.
Peter Weinberger
#81. As Duke Ellington once said, "There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind." In that sense, jazz and classical music are fundamentally the same. The pure joy one experiences listening to "good" music transcends questions of genre.
Haruki Murakami
#82. Our world has always had two kinds of changers, the social changers and the money changers.
Saul Alinsky
#83. There are two kinds of sins:
those that affect an individual,
and those that affect the nation.
The latter the king must take seriously;
the former is between God and the individual.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#84. All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.
Rudyard Kipling
#85. There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.
Helen Rowland
#86. There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.
Ernest Hemingway,
#88. If I was a criminal, stationery stores and bakeries would be the two kinds of places I would concentrate on.
John Turturro
#89. In Scripture we read of two kinds of men-the spiritual man controlled by the Holy Spirit, and the "carnal" man who is ruled by his passions.
David Jeremiah
#90. There are only two kinds of people who do not commit any sins: Unborn human beings and dead human beings!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#91. There are two kinds of paradises in our universe: The ones which have been created by the evolutionary processes and the ones which have been created by the living beings! There exists no other paradise!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#92. I hate two kinds of sentences you hear in workshops, the ones beginning "I really like ... " and the ones beginning "My problem with this poem is ... "
Denis Johnson
#93. There are only two kinds of thoughts you can have, memories and imaginings.
Deepak Chopra
#94. There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told, and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.
Tom Clancy
#95. There are two kinds of people in this world who never learn: those who always talk, and those who never listen.
T.A. Uner
#97. There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence J. Peter
#98. There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind ... the only yardstick by which the result should be judged is simply that of how it sounds. If it sounds good it's successful; if it doesn't it has failed.
Duke Ellington
#99. The are two kinds of people in this modern society. First and the majority are those fools who think they are wise, and second are the few wise individuals who know that they are fools.
Abhijit Naskar
#100. There are two kinds of people who lose money: those who know nothing and those who know everything.
Henry Kaufman
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