Two Quotes - Page 207

The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.

Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.

Clergymen almost necessarily fail in two ways as teachers of morals. They condemn acts which do no harm and they condone acts which do great harm.

Before they go to the race, people want to think four or five guys could win, but now... Normally you'd say, "One of those two, and I think it's going to be Lewis [Hamiltom]," because that's what had been proved up to now - thank God that Nico [Rosberg] has won some races.

We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

I believe there are two periods in life, one for the bike, the other for becoming active on one's work.

When the outlook is steeped in pessimism, I remind myself, "Two and two still make four, and you can't keep humankind down for long."

Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.

The world that is coming toward us out of time is going to be very much richer in a mental sense because (among other freedoms) we are going to get a modicum of freedom from linguistic frameworks, from familiar mental habits. Anyone who really knows two or more tongues realizes that even that small enlargement of liberty . . . gives him new perspectives, exercizes his soul anew.

It is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one, then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and cancelling them out, one against the other, I take the course indicated by what remains.

For us the national flag is a rag to be planted on a dunghill. There are only two fatherlands in the world: that of the exploited and that of the exploiters.

I dreamed one night that I had 17 holes-in-one and one two, and when I woke up I was so goddam mad.

I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.

His finger flicked open a button on my cardigan-then two, three, four. It tumbled off my shoulders, leaving me in my camisole. He pushed up the hem, teasing and stroking his thumb across my stomach. My breath came in a sharp intake of air.

They say that when you're about to die, your life flashes before your eyes. They never tell you that when you watch someone you once loved dying, hovering between this life and the next, it's twice as painful, because you're reliving two lives that traveled one road together.

You only have to bat 1.000 in two things-flying and heart transplants. Everything else, you can go four in five.

You don't like a particular policy or a particular president? Then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election. Push to change it. But don't break it. Don't break what our predecessors spent over two centuries building. That's not being faithful to what this country's about.

Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great deal at the expense of others.

We have only two sources of information about the character of the people around us: we judge them by what they do and by what they say (particularly the first).

Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other.

Regardless, we are a two career household, and it's Dario's season, and I'm really excited about going racing.

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.