Two Quotes - Page 54

High office, is like a pyramid; only two kinds of animals reach the summit — reptiles and eagles.

I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.

There are two devices which can help the sculptor to judge his work: one is not to see it for a while. The other... is to look at his work through spectacles which will change its color and magnify or diminish it, so as to disguise it somehow to his eye, and make it look as though it were the work of another.

It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.

God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.

Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time anyone else has been so caught up and so pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before. Then we learn our trade, well or less well, and we tell our two or three stories - each time in a new disguise - maybe ten times, maybe a hundred, as long as people will listen.

I like to compare the two to a quarterback and a lineman. Being a brakeman is very physical and success is mostly determined by how fast you can push a sled for about 30 meters. Your position is won or lost by the hundredths of seconds you are faster than another individual. It's like the lineman who is there mostly for their athleticism and physicality. The driver, like the quarterback, possesses a unique skill that takes a lot longer to learn.

How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion, when I cannot make two timepieces agree.

There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.

I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.

I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.

It is likely that America will be more important during the next century or two, but after that it may well be the turn of China.

A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.

Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.

Art alone develops weaklings, science alone, monsters. Somewhere, somehow, we must combine the two.

There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know where their high school yearbook is and those who do not.

You are a sinner married to a sinner...and the happiest marriage is the union of two forgivers.

Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.

Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.

Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, I want to tie the two arms together, And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags.

Jason muttered "And I saw something...Really terrible." "That was Hera," Thalia grumbled, "Her Majesty, the Loose Cannon." "That's it, Thalia Grace," Said the goddess. "I will turn you into and aardvark, so help me-" "Stop it, you two," Piper said. Amazingly, they both shut up.

You cannot have a boundary-less existence, because your neighbor has his own boundaries, and who is going to give you the ethics between the two boundaries? If there is no objective moral law, relativism will take hold, and relativism ultimately will lead to self-destruction.

I'm just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits.

Regardless of what crisis or complexity may be threatening to engulf your life, God is at work. You may not see it, but you need to know it’s true. And He’s not just doing one or two or a few things in that situation. He is doing a thousand or more things.