Two Quotes - Page 239

The 22nd Amendment should probably be modified to say two consecutive terms instead of two terms for a lifetime.

A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.

Never were two people more opposite in sentiment than my companions.

They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.

It is absurd to expect the inclinations and wishes of two human beings to coincide, through any long period of time. To oblige them to act and live together is to subject them to some inevitable potion of thwarting, bickering, and unhappiness.

To me, the art of movies is to take a two-dimensional image and give the illusion of depth.

On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor.

The bravery of Stanley Kramer's 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' amounted to two Hollywood legends - Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy - telling the world that a black son-in-law is something they can live with, and so should you, especially if he looks like Sidney Poitier and has degrees.

If you don’t have a deal in two days, you won’t have a deal in two years.

Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.

The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy — seem close to fulfillment.

When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.

Whereas a good player might do something really good in a game, a great player might do something two or three times in a row. That's what great players do, but they also work incredibly hard off the field in terms of the extra effort they've put into making sure their own performance gets better.

It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to discover a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.

In our view, though, investment students need only two well-taught courses-How to Value a Business, and How to Think about Market Prices. Your goal as an investor should simply be to purchase, at a rational price, a part interest in an easily-understandable business who's earnings are virtually certain to be materially higher five, ten and twenty years from now.

We basically followed the idea of buying comapnies selling below working-capital - at two thirds of working-capital.

I could not tell Himmler everything because he was too false and two-faced.

You'll do what you think you want to do, or what you think you ought to do. If you're very lucky, luckier than anybody I know, the two will coincide.

In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required.

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.

There are only two real ways to get ahead today - sell liquor or drink it.

A merry Christmas to all my friends except two.

I'd rather have two girls at 21 each than one girl at 42.

Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.