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Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.
Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.
Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on.
Man is confronted with two obvious facts: The existence of the world in which he lives; and the existence of psychic life in himself.
As soon as the boss decides he wants his workers to do something, he has two problems: making them do it and monitoring what they do.
I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20 pounds.
Steve Morse is a very good guitar player, but he's American, and he's using humbucker pickups. If you ask me, those two are not good.
The first company to produce a certified two seat electric aircraft with a 1.5 hour range will dominate the aviation training market.
Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud
Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.
The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.
When the two that share destiny part and reunite, beyond the frame of time, the ceased clock will awake and start to tick once again.
In thigh-high yellow leather boots Plump Saphonisba strides. Too bad that, just to hide her calves, Two calves have lost their hides.
She cried like a person whose heart is broken and wondered how, when two people loved each other, there could be such a broken heart.
And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.
There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.
Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together, otherwise it is off. Work is in itself a form of love.
There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
It is not good enough to say, "Well, hey, I vote every two years. I vote every four years." That's fine, but that is not good enough.
The things two people do to each other they remember. If they stay together, it's not because they forget; it's because they forgive.
When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I'd get so panicked that I would stutter.
I may just release all the interviews as Part Two and then write a larger summary later on. That way we do not suffer further delays.
You wanna build your IQ higher in the next two years? Be uncomfortable. That means, learn something where you have a beginner's mind.
Yet everything that touches us, me and you, takes us together like a violin's bow, which draws one voice out of two separate strings.
I've got two shirts still missing from the Bahamas. I'm sure they are part of a youth camping programme somewhere in Tanzania by now.
Really in all my years on Tour, in the U.S. Open I probably played great golf in two of them, out of maybe 20, so it's a lot of work.
Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.
Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.
You wanna have laughs? Do what I do. When I go through a tollbooth, I keep going. I tell the guy, The car behind me is paying for two.
You can't blame a victim for being under the influence when there is a violent act [happening to them]. These are two separate things.
Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic
The power of every dictator has two main sources: His psychopathic mind and the support of the very easily deceivable ignorant masses!
I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.
I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then, it's like watching preseason football.
I always tell people it's funny that they think I'm a relationship expert because my two books are about getting out of relationships.
Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.
The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not.
Happiness is sitting down to watch some slides of your neighbor's vacation and finding out that he spent two weeks in a nudist colony.
There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.
Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.
Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.
You were born with two things: existence and opportunity, and these are the raw materials out of which you can make a successful life.
God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her.
All normal human beings have soi-disant mixed-up glands. The race is divided into two parts: those who know this and those who do not.
The world is large when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide; But the world is small when your enemy is loose on the other side.
I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not.
I don't want to sound arrogant, but the defense might shut me down on one or two out of five plays, but I'll make them pay eventually.
The thing that's great about those guys at Miramax is the Weinstein brothers. They are the two funniest guys I've ever met in my life.
Sustaining silence and circumspection are two behaviors that lead to better, healthier outcomes. They are powerful without dominating.