Alan Ryan Quotes, Book Quotes, Two Quotes

A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; after half a century of grappling with Mill's essay On Liberty, or Hobbes's Leviathan, I have sometimes thought two dozen might be a little on the high side.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Ryan Quotes , Book Quotes , Two Quotes

I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Al Pacino Quotes , Two Quotes , Shy Quotes

Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Two Quotes , Alice In Wonderland Book Quotes

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Writing Quotes , Two Quotes

There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Two Quotes

Let's just say that back in the old days, sex was available every two feet. But I never made love to anybody that did not want me to.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Ant Quotes , Sex Quotes , Two Quotes

When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted, To sever for years.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Years Quotes , Two Quotes

There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Years Quotes , Two Quotes

It requires two indiscreet persons to institute a quarrel; one individual cannot quarrel alone.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aime Martin Quotes , Two Quotes , Individual Quotes

Once in a while it vanishes - in the sense that I become deaf to beauty for a week or two or three. This coming and going of the inner life - because this is what it is - is a curse and a blessing. I don't need to explain why it's a curse. A blessing because it brings about a movement, an energy which, when it peaks, creates a poem. Or a moment of happiness.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Zagajewski Quotes , Blessing Quotes , Two Quotes

There are two things necessary to Salvation.... Money and gunpowder.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Two Quotes , Gunpowder Quotes

I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aimee Bender Quotes , Two Quotes , Space Quotes

The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Intelligent Quotes , Two Quotes

Philosophy's work is finding the shortest path between two points.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Two Quotes

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Heart Quotes , Two Quotes

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Nature Quotes , Two Quotes

There are two kinds of satisfaction or happiness: one mainly through mental peace; another physical comfort

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Happiness Quotes , Two Quotes

Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science. The early warnings about technological dangers also come from science.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Two Quotes

...Whatever dies was not mixed equally, If our two loves be one Or thou and I love so alike That none can slacken, none can die.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Donne Quotes , Love Is Quotes , Two Quotes

. . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Two Quotes