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  • I can look back . . . at two distinct periods of opinion whose foundations I have successively come to distrust - a period before 1919 or so, when the weight of classic authority unduly influenced me, and another period from 1919 to about 1925, when I placed too high a value on the elements of revolt, florid colour, and emotional extravagance or intensity.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Emotional Quotes , Two Quotes
  • That goes back to 1932, although it was really implemented in '33 under Jesse Jones, and it invested in mostly banks initially and preferred stock and that sort of thing. So there are two things needed in the system, the one that's needed overwhelmingly is liquidity. I mean, when people are trying to [unintelligible], there has to be somebody there to buy.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Mean Quotes , Two Quotes
  • To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock rurality, ugly but odd, and partaking of two natures, which surrounds certain large cities, particularly Paris.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Cities Quotes , Two Quotes
  • Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Self Quotes , Two Quotes
  • According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Two Quotes , Greek Quotes