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Courtship is like simmering mutton. You cook for hours and hours to taste the soft meat. It doesn't happen in two seconds!
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Two things are necessary, the development of individuality and the participation of the individual in a truly social life.
Sarah Palin gave a speech in South Korea. Just what the Koreans needed: Two crazy dictators in fashionable lady's glasses.
I, of course, meditate for two hours every morning. It's part of my schedule; I wake up at 4 a.m. every day and I love it.
The United States is for a two-state solution. The United States wants to see the Israelis and Palestinians come together.
When the dream is right for the person and the person is right for the dream, the two cannot be separated from each other.
There are much better ways to handle the delicate male ego. With a two-by-four? Only as a last resort and never in public.
there are two kinds of humanity, those who dream and those who don't, and both tend to despise, or to tolerate, the other.
Deux me' tresou un peu plusse parent donc l'homme de la femme. Two metres, or a little more, separates a man from a woman.
Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.
My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.
Finding love is a two-part process. The first part is to find the right person. The second part is to be the right person.
So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.
First of all I can only focus on one creative project at a time. I wish I could focus on two, because I really only write.
There are two types of people in the world, those who say 'there are two types of people in the world' and those who don't.
There are two types of depreciation. There is one where you're manipulating currencies. And that's not what Japan is doing.
Each year in Africa about two and a half million people go blind...and they just go blind... they sit around in their huts.
I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.(IAGO,ActI,SceneI)
I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.
It's a good thing god doesn't let you look a year or two into the future, or you might be sorely tempted to shoot yourself.
When I'm up for an award, there are usually two or three other things on the ballot that I like better than my own fiction.
Man has here two and a half minutes-one to smile, one to sigh, and a half to love: for in the midst of this minute he dies.
Statement earrings and statement necklaces each deserve their own moment. I never wear the two together; it looks overdone.
You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different.
When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism.
We said we'd never tour ... and we'll never do a tour, I don't think - or if we do it won't be longer than about two weeks.
I'll bring what I bring to the tale, but it's good to know you have two guys with the experience and know-how in big games.
Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.
Yup, gardening and laughing are two of the best things in life you can do to promote good health and a sense of well being.
To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius-the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
There are two kinds of climbers: those who climb because their heart sings when they're in the mountains, and all the rest.
It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.
People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two.
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
If it wasn't for golf, I don't know what I'd be doing. If my IQ had been two points lower, I'd have been a plant somewhere.
I always wanted to have children - if it had been up to me, I would have had eleven. It was my husband who wanted only two.
The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.
I want you, I need you, but there ain't no way I'm EVER gonna love you. Now don't be sad, cause two out of three ain't bad.
Your business is never really good or bad 'out there.' Your business is either good or bad right between your own two ears.
If there's an energy between two people it doesn't matter what you look like or what you do for a living or where you live.
I'm 45 and I don't have time to spend two years of my life bringing in producers and dragging the record around the planet.
I don't think one parent can raise a child. I don't think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
We were always able to sing and blend well together; that's our gift. But aside from that, we're really two different guys.
In a sense it's a one-man show... except there are two men involved, Hartson and Berkovic, and a third man, the goalkeeper.
I don't really watch too many movies. I don't have the patience usually to watch one, one and a half or two hours in a row.
After you've learned two or three basic rules of cinema grammar, you can do what you like - including breaking those rules.
Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose.
No one can really pull you up very high - you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.