Two Things In Life Quotes

#1. There are two things in life that I really wanted to do: be an actress, and to be in skin care, and I've gotten to do both of them.

Victoria Principal

#2. Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count.

Robert Anthony Kreucher

#3. everyone deserves two things in life: respect and justice.

Jack Silkstone

#4. We do two things in life: We race the clock and everything is a struggle. One way or not, it's a metaphorical battle all of the time.

Sylvester Stallone

#5. There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel of his teeth. Some evils admit of consolations, but there are no comforters for dyspepsia and the toothache.

Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling And Bulwer

#6. There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.

Cormac McCarthy

#7. There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies; the second your family. Sometimes the difference between them is hard to see, but in the end time will show you that the cards you have been dealt could always have been worse.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#8. There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.

Josh Billings

#9. There are only two things in life you can't change - yesterday and tomorrow. But there's nothing you can't do today.

Abigail Strom

#10. There are two things in life that money cannot buy: health and happiness. Aside from that, it does an excellent job.

Perry Brass

#11. The only two things in life that make it worth livin' / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin' women

Waylon Jennings

#12. I am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable
the delights of the flesh and the delights of literature. I have had the good fortune to bring them together and enjoy them together in full quantity.

Peter Greenaway

#13. We can give our children only two things in life which are essential. Strong roots and powerful wings. Then they may fly anywhere and live independently. Of all the luxuries in life, the greatest luxury is getting freedom of the right kind.

Sudha Murty

#14. There are two things in life I never discuss, Religion and Politics. That is the only way one can have a serene life.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#15. Most business mistakes are irreversible setbacks, but you get another chance. There are two things in life that you don't get another chance at - marrying the wrong person and what you do with your children.

Warren Buffett

#16. TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance.

Rebecca Harding Davis

#17. I only know two things in life for certain: I know I love her and I know when her memory of our time together fades, I'll still feel exactly the same as I do today. Time is irrelevant, as I once said to her. And I'm happy wasting every second of it on her.

Kelly Moran

#18. You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.

Tony Blair

#19. Forced relations between two things that superficially appear foreign create a new, instantaneous state. Authentic poetry asks nothing more. A kinship completely nonexistent moments ago was created by the poet's authority, just as it might have been created in life by the authority of chance.

Odysseus Elytis

#20. They have money and position and Ann has none.It's amazing how often you can be right as long as you have those two things working in your favor.

Libba Bray

#21. Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.

Matt Emmons

#22. In my life, I had lost only two things: my favorite pair of gloves and a handful of my favorite people. But now? Now I was starting to lose the ground under my feet.

Orson De Witt

#23. I sat on that crowded bus, I grasped two things: I wasn't as happy as I could be, and my life wasn't going to change unless I made it change. In that single moment, with that realization, I decided to dedicate a year to trying to be happier.

Gretchen Rubin

#24. On Writing About Nora Hawks
I write about a female character to try, in vain, to understand two things: the purpose of life, and women.

Dennis R. Miller

#25. Most of things in life are two way, like sometimes, there are tears of happiness too.

Lovely Goyal

#26. One of the things that I've learned from the Selection so far is that moving forward means joining your life before coming to the palace with the future that lies in front of you. I'm hoping to make another step in joining those two worlds today.

Kiera Cass

#27. In life, you will find two things. The quiet beauty of Darkness, and the bright songs of Light. The choice is yours to decide which will be you, and which will be your shadow.

Taylor Chackowsky

#28. The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

Bob Lemon

#29. I had 53 years of happy marriage and two daughters. These were the best things that happened in my life.

Henry Allingham

#30. I was surprised to find myself in tears. Because these women had trusted me to help as a writer, I began to see a way of bringing together two things - writing and activism - that until then had torn me apart in everyday life.

Gloria Steinem

#31. There is a special mystique to Texas. Texans represent many things to the uninitiated: We are bigger than life in our boots and Stetsons, rugged individualists whose two-steppin' has achieved world-wide acclaim, and we were the first to define hospitality.

Ann Richards

#32. The two most wonderful things in life are money and sex, but the minute you start discussing them, they become b-o-r-i-n-g.

Rosamunde Pilcher

#33. Music is definitely something that I'd like to pursue. It's probably, I mean, the acting and music are the two biggest things in my life.

Nolan Sotillo

#34. In the past two years, I've started the process of becoming a new man. I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful over the reckless and hurtful things I have done in my life, especially those which have brought me before you today.

Jack Abramoff

#35. There are two things that cannot be achieved in life unless you close your eyes a little bit. And that's love and peace. If you want perfection you won't obtain either of them.

Shimon Peres

#36. 'Amazing Grace' is not a book of interviews or onetime snapshots. It's a memoir of a journey that took me into a place I had never been and took over two years of my life. I don't think the people in this book would have said the things to me that they did if they perceived me as a reporter.

Jonathan Kozol

#37. Fact is, knowing what you want and knowing who you are ... those are two separate things. One is complicated. The other isn't. You're trying to take something simple and make it hard, and there's enough hard things in life without you adding more for yourself.

Cora Carmack

#38. It takes six months to get into shape and two weeks to get out of shape. Once you know this you can stop being angry about other things in life and only be angry about this.

Rita Rudner

#39. I've been passionate about two things in my life. One was Christina Alibrandi. The other is Josephine Alibrandi.

Melina Marchetta

#40. I know what the important things are in life. I know that just because I pretend to be someone else for two hours on the silver screen doesn't make me a better person than the next man. So, I mind all those things. Simple things.

Colin Farrell

#41. Two things revolutionised life: moving to the countryside and falling in love.

Nick Love

#42. Whatever happens, there are always things you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have scored a third. That's perfectionism. That's what makes you progress in life.

Eric Cantona

#43. The two most painful things in my life are arthritis and divorce.

Donna McKechnie

#44. There are two ways to taste things in life: the sweet way and the bitter way.

Rawi Hage

#45. It is the subtle things in life that you have to look for because the deepest love speaks at a whisper that only two people can hear.

Shannon L. Alder

#46. We should do three things every day of our life. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is to think, we should spend some time in thought. And, number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears.

Jim Valvano

#47. Why did the two most important things in her life have to require her attention at exactly the same time?

Rachel Spangler

#48. The two hardest things to say in life are hello for the first time and goodbye for the last.

Moira Rogers

#49. I have two amazing things in my life: I'm pain-free and I'm debt-free.

Stephen King

#50. About two million years ago, man appeared. He has become the dominant species on the earth. All other living things, animal and plant, live by his sufferance. He is the custodian of life on earth, and in the solar system. It's a big responsibility.

George Wald

#51. There are two sides to me. One is the writer. That's a savage person who looks at everything as a story and, you know, wants to use real life in his books. The other part is the Midwesterner, who, you know, wants to say nice things about people and be polite.

Walter Kirn

#52. He tried to give his wife pleasure in little ways, because he had come to realize, after nearly two decades together, how often he disappointed her in the big things. It was never intentional. They simply had very different notions of what ought to take up most space in life.

J.K. Rowling

#53. My relationship with religion is very strong because it was my hope, and it gave me two things very important in my life. It gave me the belief and it gave me a point to reach: Don't do something bad to the people next to you.

Riccardo Tisci

#54. But maybe it's wrong of me to complain ... I'm alive after all ... and I lose an enemy or two every day ... cancer, apoplexy, gluttony ... it's a pleasure the number that pass on! ... I'm not hard to please ... a name! ... another! ... there are good things in life ...

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#55. But I have had to give up certain things in my life. One is shopping. Two is lunch with the girls. Three is cocktail parties, and four is studying my lines.

Joan Collins

#56. Playing Xbox for 23 hours straight is cool and all, but I'm going to teach you how to spend time on things in your life that will get you the following two things: paid and laid.

Chris Hardwick

#57. Joining Yes was one of those stupid things that you do sometimes. It was one of the two or three times in my life that I've done something that I knew was wrong.

Trevor Horn

#58. I feel that there's a lot of would-be guardians of the culture who think that high-minded literary purpose and the life that gets chronicled in the gossip columns, that these two things are incompatible.

Jay McInerney

#59. I sometimes think that the very essence of the whole Christian position and the secret of a successful spiritual life is just to realize two things ... I must have complete, absolute confidence in God and no confidence in myself.

David Lloyd-Jones

#60. Overbearing mothers usually give way to one of two things in their children: rebellion or passivity. In your case, the latter.

Tarryn Fisher

#61. If I die tomorrow, I've done the two hardest things anybody can do in this life with the least amount of security - music and acting - and I've had success in both. I can't really complain. I try not to live my life that way.

Yul Vazquez

#62. Not everything needs to be said, some things are just understood. Sometimes one's eyes are enough to express hidden emotions. When two people are truly, madly and deeply in love each other, nature will conspire to bring them together.

Jagdish Joghee

#63. Pause while reading a book only in case of two things:
1. To kiss
2. To sip coffee
Too bad both are a luxury.

Saleem Sharma

#64. Singin' in the Rain (1952) and childbirth were the two hardest things I ever had to do in my life.

Debbie Reynolds

#65. The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist in real life. And two, it allows us to create human characters that we know better than we will ever know anyone in real life.

Octavia E. Butler

#66. I believe there are two things that exist in the world that everyone should read because they teach you pretty much everything you need to know about life: the Bible and Harry Potter.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#67. Jesus envisions that discovering God's kingdom will inspire two things: exhilarating joy, and huge change in your life.

Rick Stinton

#68. There are three things a man must do before his life is done; Write two lines in APL, And make the buggers run.

Stan Kelly-Bootle

#69. Art saved my life in two ways. It made me feel special, because I could do things my friends couldn't, but it also gave me a way to demonstrate to my teacher that, despite the fact that I couldn't write a paper or do math, I was paying attention.

Chuck Close

#70. Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.

Ruth Ann Minner

#71. Remember that there are two things in this life that are never worth crying about: what can be cured and what cannot be cured.

Matthew Pearl

#72. My idea of rich is that you can buy every book you ever want without looking at the price and you're never around assholes. That's the two things to really fight for in life.

John Waters

#73. There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios. For the latter, the studio is the world ... For them, the ordinary doesn't exist: every thing in life is a source of nourishment.

Ernst Haas

#74. You need three things to become a successful novelist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is the one element of those three things that you can control, and so that is the one that you have to focus on controlling, and you just have to hope and trust in the other two.

Michael Chabon

#75. You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.

W. Somerset Maugham

#76. Everything that exists in your life, does so because of two things: something you did or something you didn't do.

Albert Einstein

#77. The two hardest things to contemplate in life ( ... ) are failure and age, and those are one and the same.

Ian Caldwell

#78. There are no two things as important to us in life and in art as being threatened and being saved. What are ideals of form for if we aren't going to be made to fear for them? All our ingenuity is lavished on getting into danger legitimately so that we may be genuinely rescued.

Robert Frost

#79. There are two ways to look at how life works and how people find their paths. One way is you take your time and try different things out. The other is you settle in early. I was into cooking very early.

Michael Mina

#80. I only have two things in my life, my family and work. If there's any time left over, then I play sports.

Mark Zandi

#81. Vacations and friends are the two best things in life.

Haruki Murakami

#82. If my life were like the novels, this would be the dark period in act two after my one true love rejects me, where I reel off to do things I have to apologize for in act three.

Julio Alexi Genao

#83. Life is mostly froth and bubbles, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own. Well,

Emma Burstall

#84. Two came here, Two flew off, - Butterflies. Chora3 In this verse, the ordinary poetical meaning is discarded; what remains is that dark flame of life that burns in all things. It is seen with the belly, not with the eye; with "bowels of compassion.

R.H. Blyth

#85. Energy and invincible determination, these two things will sweep away mighty barriers and will surmount the greatest obstacles

William Walker Atkinson

#86. And so now, under a Colorado sky so blue it hurt my eyes, we arrived at the terrible truth. You can plot your escape, you can ditch your life and your family, and you can race down a two-lane highway in a stolen car. But there are things you can never out run

James Patterson

#87. I cannot forget two things in my whole life; the bad days I have suffered and good days I have enjoyed

M.F. Moonzajer

#88. If nothing else in life, I want to be true to the things I believe in, and quite simply, to what I'm all about. I know I'd better, because it seems whenever I take a false step or two I feel the consequences.

Peyton Manning

#89. Two things define you in this life. Your attitude when you are at your highest and your attitude when you are at your lowest. Sometimes you have to hit rock bottom in order to recognize and define what truly matters.

Tanya Masse

#90. In life you wind up with one of two things - the results or the reason why you don't have the results. Results don't have to be explained. They just are.

Werner Erhard

#91. What I'm resistant to is the 'Walk the Line' biopic, where you have this redemptive life done in two hours. It just doesn't wash with me. I've been there and things don't work out that way.

Nick Cave

#92. We must remember that the mortals prefer plant-life for food, for next time."
The other statue nodded in agreement and replied. "Yes. Every day we learn new things Donkor. These mortals have some funny ways don't they?" - Quest Two: The Cursed Nile

S.W. Lothian

#93. Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.

Rajneesh

#94. I've spent my entire adult life working and climbing side-by-side with men, so trust me when I say that most male stupidity is a result of one of two things. It's either their egos, or it's that junk in their pants.

Pamela Clare

#95. [Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin. In my own experience, everything funny I have written is more terrible than it is funny, or only funny because it is terrible, or only terrible because it is funny.

Flannery O'Connor

#96. Anger and bitterness are two noticeable signs of being focused on self and not trusting God's sovereignty in your life. When you believe that God causes all things to work together for good to those who belong to Him and love Him, you can respond to trials with joy instead of anger or bitterness.

John C. Broger

#97. I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do try to relate to life in a 360 degree and not be one-dimensional. But by all means, manage expectations.

Q-Tip

#98. I think something that's very relevant in real life and that they don't portray enough on TV is that when you think 'Christian,' you think 'goody two shoes' - they have to look a certain way and do certain things - and it's just not true.

Samuel Larsen

#99. In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature.

Sei Shonagon

#100. Don't you think there are two great
things in life that we ought to aim at - truth and kindness? Let's
have both if we can, but let's be sure of having one or the other.

E. M. Forster