Woodrow Wilson Quotes, Writing Quotes, Two Quotes

Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak 10 minutes, I need a week for preparation. If 15 minutes, 3 days. If half hour, two days. If an hour, I am ready now.'

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Writing Quotes , Two Quotes

Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories: the story of our quest for sexual love and the story of our quest for love from the world.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Love Quotes , Two Quotes

There are two kinds of freedom: one is the freedom from something, which is a reaction; and the other is not a reaction, it is "being free."

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Freedom Quotes , Two Quotes

I find it so funny that for the first time in history, people have access to this great equalizer in the Internet, which grants everyone the same knowledge base, and we use it to read album reviews and watch kitten videos... not to put those two things in the same light!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Palomo Quotes , Light Quotes , Two Quotes

Every human being should know two languages: the language of society and the language of signs. One serves to communicate with other people, the other serves to understand God's messages.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Life Quotes , Two Quotes

He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men tobacco and leave the women alone

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Men Quotes , Two Quotes

I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five is sometimes a most charming little thing as well.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Two Quotes , Four Quotes

In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Two Quotes , People Quotes

Everything I loved had been dead for two centuries - or, as in the case of Graeco-Roman classicism, for two milenniums. I am never a part of anything around me - in everything I am an outsider. Should I find it possible to crawl backward through the Halls of Time to that age which is nearest my own fancy, I should doubtless be bawled out of the coffee-houses for heresy in religion, or else lampooned by John Dennis till I found refuge in the deep, silent Thames, that covers many another unfortunate.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Coffee Quotes , Two Quotes

He who has annexed them, if he wishes to hold them, has only to bear in mind two considerations: the one, that the family of their former lord is extinguished; the other, that neither their laws nor their taxes are altered, so that in a very short time they will become entirely one body with the old principality.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Law Quotes , Two Quotes

I've argued with the senators and congressmen I've talked to. You don't want to be too little too late. If you buy them at the right price, you may be buying two trillion of face value.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Two Quotes , Too Late Quotes

Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Men Quotes , Two Quotes

What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Moving Quotes , Two Quotes

To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Fate Quotes , Two Quotes

No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a scene or two, advise the prince.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Two Quotes , Progress Quotes

Keep a mid course between two extremes.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ovid Quotes , Two Quotes , Moderation Quotes

Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Men Quotes , Two Quotes

A friend is simply one soul in two bodies.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Two Quotes , Soul Quotes

Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Eight Quotes , Two Quotes

What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Two Quotes