Two Quotes - Page 80

The lives of individuals of the human race form a constant plot, in which every attempt to isolate one piece of living that has a meaning separate from the rest-for example, the meeting of two people, which will become decisive for both-must bear in mind that each of the two brings with himself a texture of events, environments, other people, and that from the meeting, in turn, other stories will be derived which will break off from their common story.

The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.

Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.

What is needed is a marriage of two impulses, a coupling of the urge to do something positive with the willingness to constantly re-evaluate how effectively our actions lead to our goal - that of ending world hunger.

once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.

I don't know what I'm going to be doing in two years or even in two weeks. I have to live for today.

It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.

There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.

I love the way she projects two facets: a visible persona and a subterranean one. She keeps her thoughts to herself; she seems to suggest that her secret, inner life is at least as significant as the appearance she gives.

There are two kinds of leaders: those who are interested in the flock, and those who are interested in the fleece.

When I was banned for nine months I had an opportunity to focus on something else and I needed to focus on something else. It's who I am. I admire Miles Davis and Chet Baker a lot and I like this instrument, so I tried and I learned and practised for two months. But I stopped after that.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

I think finals are there to be won, you know the feeling of losing a final is really bad. I prefer to lose a semi-final, quarter-final because I know I will forget... But the feeling of losing a final stays here forever. Even if you win two, three, four, five it stays. You know, I’m too scared to lose, so I give everything to win.

Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging.

There are two kinds of people in this world, and I am one of them.

I'm just trying not to get run over. That's number one. Number two is you gotta catch the guy in front of ya.

For a thorough use of ice cream cones, buy two; eat one and drop the other.

We should never forget the two axioms: 'Jesus is with me' and whatever happens, happens by the will of God.

Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.

I'm interested in the moment when two objects collide and generate a third. The third object is where the interesting work is.

There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.

Husband and wife are like the two equal parts of a soybean. If the two parts are put under the earth separately, they will not grow. The soybean will grow only when the parts are covered by the skin. Marriage is the skin which covers each of them and makes them one.

A rabbi told me that when you have two problems - one near, one not so near - concentrate on the immediate one.

In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions. Nor is it necessary to portray many main characters. Let two people be the center of gravity in your story: he and she.

Islam takes advantage of two structural flaws that exist in the Western society. One is political correctness and other is the decline of morality.