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The kingdom of birds is divided into two departments - birds and House Sparrows. House Sparrows are not real birds - they are little beasts!
It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century.
If you are out in two races and someone else has a good couple of races, it could change. So all we do is try to get the optimum every time.
There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.
In France, they make you feel that you cannot be two things at the same time. You can't be French and Arabic; you can't be French and Muslim.
If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.
All I know is that I have two choices – stay wrapped in blankets and get on with dying, or get the list back together and get on with living.
Look inside your soul and find your tools. We all have tools and have to live with the help of them. I have two tools—my words and my images.
Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
I was picking up surfing, which I also fell in love with. Then I was like, man, to combine the two [free ride and surfing ] would be perfect.
If I could make a record in two minutes and thirty seconds, I'd do it. I want the creativity, and I don't give a f - k about the snare sound.
In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on his shoulders.
They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind.
There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.
There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other, a vice.
Im like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, Im still going to be asking for more time two days before its due.
All merchandize has the two essential properties of money, to measure and to represent all value: and in this sense all merchandize is money.
If I had been born one or two hundred years ago, I might have been a sculptor, but photography is a very quick way to see, to make sculpture.
My sister gave me a big bucket of Cool Whip. Isn't that awesome? For two weeks I basically watched Emergency! and ate cool whip with a spoon.
From the very second that two people sat together around a fire in the forest, there was another human out there who felt better in the dark.
Don't you dare try to apologize." His voice shakes. "This is not something you can bandage with a word or two and some hugging, or something.
The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance.
The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges : the pox and Christianity.
Bring the buds of the hazel-copse, Where two lovers kissed at noon; Bring the crushed red wild-thyme tops Where they murmured under the moon.
Two women at a resort discussed dinner: "The food here is lousy," the first noted. "You're right! And such small portions!!" the second added
Two things you need to know about taxes. They've extended the deadline to April 18, and when you write your check, just make it out to China.
Motorsport is very expensive. No one cares if you had a good season two years ago and then you have an injury. It is a very dodgy investment.
I feel a special kinship with our military personnel, veterans, and their families. After all, two of my decisions sent them into harm's way.
I live in a bad neighborhood. Why, I saw two complete strangers share a taxi - yeah, one guy took the radio and the other guy took the tires.
A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.
A man must be in sympathy with society around him, or else, not wish to be in sympathy with it. If neither of these two, he must be wretched.
You're supposed to look a certain way when you're a celebrity, but I want to take care of my baby, and those two things don't mesh very well.
I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.
True love is not a potion one person can swallow and another refuse to drink. It happens only when the souls of two join together to form one
No two persons think alike, even if they outwardly profess the same faith, so we have as many religions in Christianity as we have believers.
Chirren [children] is the most dangerous creatures on the earth, with the exception of young girls between the ages of fifteen and forty-two.
A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens.
There's only two types of people who are against drugs: the people who have never done drugs and the people who really sucked at doing drugs.
In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.
Cynic: an idealist whose rose-colored glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediately improving his vision
Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion.
There are two things: 1) what things one does in the world, and 2) what family one has. There's the two really tangible things that can stay.
Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.
A powerful connection between two people is a potent psychic factor that exists regardless of either person's opinion about the relationship.
People will say, 'There are a million ways to shoot a scene,' but I don't think so. I think there are two, maybe. And the other one is wrong.
If we go on as we are, we will destroy in the next century everything that the poets have been singing about for the past two thousand years.
Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.
I think the Canadian sense of humor is dryer than America's and juicier than Britain's. I think it's a cross between the two of them, really.
Karma moves in two directions. If we act virtuously, the seed we plant will result in happiness. If we act non-virtuously, suffering results.
Once there were two brothers: one ran away to sea, the other was elected Vice-President-and nothing was ever heard from either of them again.