Jane Austen Quotes, Ideas Quotes, Two Quotes

I can recollect nothing more to say at present; perhaps breakfast may assist my ideas. I was deceived -- my breakfast supplied only two ideas -- that the rolls were good and the butter bad.

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I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Math Quotes , Two Quotes

He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once; and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Men Quotes , Two Quotes

I don't know anything about this man. Anyhow, I only know two things about him. One is, he has never been in jail, and the other is, I don't know why.

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That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art--panemet Circen.

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Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.

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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.

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Tags : Alan Perlis Quotes , Two Quotes , Purpose Quotes

And woman is the same as horses: two wills act in opposition inside her. With one will she wants to subject herself utterly. With the other she wants to bolt, and pitch her rider to perdition.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Horse Quotes , Two Quotes

Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has seven thousand matches. Each of them is concerned about who's ahead, who's stronger. Well that's the kind of situation we are actually in. The amount of weapons that are available to the United States and the Soviet Union are so bloated, so grossly in excess of what's needed to dissuade the other, that if it weren't so tragic, it would be laughable. What is necessary is to reduce the matches and to clean up the gasoline.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Science Quotes , Two Quotes

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

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He who chases two rabbits, catches none.

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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.

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Tags : Adam Ant Quotes , Sex 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.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Self Quotes , Two Quotes

I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

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Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Circles Quotes , Two Quotes

I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Two Quotes , Stronger Quotes

Next time I'll be braver, I'll be my own savior, Standing on my own two feet.

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Tags : Adele Quotes , Two Quotes , Feet Quotes

Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Years Quotes , Two Quotes

The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Two Quotes , Opinion Quotes

He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had never in his life known but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Two Quotes , Lines Quotes