Two Quotes - Page 13

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.

You can have the courage to climb the mountain, swim the lakes, go on a raft to the other side of the Atlantic or Pacific. That any fool can do, but the courage to be on your own, to stand on your two solid feet, is something which cannot be given by somebody.

You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.

If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.

Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.

Collage is the noble conquest of the irrational, the coupling of two realities, irreconcilable in appearance, upon a plane which apparently does not suit them.

If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower.

I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.

The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act. There are two aspects to action. One is to overcome the distortions and afflictions of your own mind, that is, in terms of calming and eventually dispelling anger. This is action out of compassion. The other is more social, more public. When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefitting others, one needs to be engaged, involved.

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

Minneapolis has two seasons: Road Removal and Snow Repair.

However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a " buzz " about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US.

To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see.

Anyone who has two shirts when someone has none is not a christian.

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

Why do I wear tennis shoes? That's two questions. Do I wear tennis shoes? The answer to that question is, "Yes." "Why?" That's a question philosophers have been pondering for centuries.

There's only two things you can start without a plan: a riot and a family, for everything else you need a plan.

My eyes are too big, my nose is too flat, my ears stick out, my mouth is too big and my face is too small... my body is thin as a clarinet and my ankles are so skinny that I wear two pairs of bobby socks because I don't want people to see how thin they are.

There's only two types of people who are against drugs: the people who have never done drugs and the people who really sucked at doing drugs.

The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its promise.

There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.

There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they didn't.