Two Quotes - Page 194

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.

Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.

[On plastic surgery:] When I die, God won't know me. There are no two parts of my body the same age.

Whether we consider Nazi Germany or Abu Ghraib prison, there were many people who observed what was happening and said nothing. At Abu Ghraib, one photo shows two soldiers smiling before a pyramid of naked prisoners while a dozen other soldiers stand around watching passively. If you observe such abuses and don't say, "This is wrong! Stop it!" you give tacit approval to continue. You are part of the silent majority that makes evil deeds more acceptable.

The will to believe chases out the rational mind, whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.

For every new mouth to feed, there are two hands to produce.

Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.

Dividing an elephant in half does not produce two small elephants.

Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity.

Is it unprecedented for two goalkeepers employed in a match comprising seven goals to be the fixture's most competent protagonists?

Then there is the way that was taught two thousand years ago - of overcoming evil with good, which is my way, the way Jesus taught. Never loose faith: God's way is bound to prevail in the end.

If I lost weight, I'd be two-dimensional!

Order always weighs on the individual. Disorder makes him wish for the police or for death. These are two extreme circumstances in which human nature is not at ease.

Two-thirds of a century after [The Road to Serfdom] got written, hindsight confirms how inaccurate its innuendo about the future turned out to be.

The human being is constantly torn from calm and peace of simple existence by two things; wanting what you don't have, or disliking what you have.

If anybody had that cure out there like so many people swear to me they do, you'd be two things: you'd be very rich, and you'd be very famous. Otherwise, shut up.

Dan Quayle thinks Roe v. Wade is two ways to cross the Potomac.

I found it really disturbing to see a novelist writing a diatribe about Islam and Muslim radical extremists, blurring the distinction between the two.

Will our life not be a tunnel between two vague clarities? Or will it not be a clarity between two dark triangles?

To love is to tilt with the lightning, two bodies routed by a single honey's sweet.

Energy and patience in business are two indispensable elements of success.

If you spend seventy-two hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter.

Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

The shortest distance between two jokes makes a perfect speech.