Famous Quotes & Sayings

Georges Bataille

We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die.

George Will

When a politician says the debate is over, you can be sure of two things; the debate is raging; and he's losing it.

George S. Patton

In the space of two days I had evolved two plans, wholly distinct, both of which were equally feasible. The point I am trying to bring out is that one does not plan and then try to make circumstances fit those plans. One tries to make plans fit the circumstances.

Jeffery Deaver

In the shaded portions where the two spheres of different lives meet, certain fundamentals- moods, loves, fears, angers- can't be hidden. That's the contract.

Jeffrey Archer

I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know.

Jefferson Davis

Vicksburg is the nail head that holds the South’s two halves together.

Emma Bonino

The two great cultural and political currents of Italy have always only been concerned with the masses.

Elton Gallegly

President Reagan achieved such successes because when you sat in a room with him, there could be over 1,000 people in the room, yet you felt like there was only the two of you, and his wonderful wit would put you at ease. That was a tremendous gift.

Elon Musk

The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it's going to become multiplanetary, or it's going to remain confined to one planet and eventually there's going to be an extinction event.

Jay Asher

Could be my soul mate / two kindred spirits / Maybe we're not / I guess we'll never / know

Jay Asher

They were like two magnets who couldn't decide whether to attract or repel.

Jason Wu

You're always in the mode of creating the next season. It's so fast, and in two months, the collection you just did is already old, and it's always next, next, next.

Jasper Fforde

Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.

Jason Segel

I have always felt like romantic comedies are incredibly predictable. You look at the poster and you know those two are ending up together at the end of the movie.

Jason Silva

If you could download the entire universe in two minutes, would you?

Jason Reitman

Yeah, I was born in Montreal and I go back to Vancouver and Toronto a lot, so I have a sense of being Canadian, and I was raised by two Canadians, and my wife is Canadian, so yeah, I feel it.

Jason Mraz

Two halves don't make a whole. Two wholes make a whole.

Hillary Scott

You learn how to compromise and you learn how to read each other. Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it's time for me to get married!

Hippocrates

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

Hillary Clinton

We are here to advance the cause of women and to advance the cause of democracy and to make it absolutely clear that the two are inseparable.

Herbert Simon

The simplest scheme of evolution is one that depends on two processes; a generator and a test. The task of the generator is to produce variety, new forms that have not existed previously, whereas the task of the test is to cull out the newly generated forms so that only those that are well fitted to the environment will survive.

Herbert Read

The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane, the illusion of space, but it is space itself as a perceived quantity that becomes the peculiar concern of the sculptor. We may say that for the painter space is a luxury; for the sculptor it is a necessity.

Herbert Marcuse

The ontological concept of truth is in the centre of a logic which may serve as a model of pre- technological rationality. It is the rationality of a two-dimensional universe of discourse which, contrasts with the of thought and behavior that develop in the execution of the technological project.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

It takes two to make an accident.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind

Evan Bayh

Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a filibuster is enough to stop a vote; senators are rarely asked to pull all-nighters like Jimmy Stewart in 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.'

Evan Davis

The two questions that anyone ever asks me are: 'Are house prices going to go down?' and 'Is it a good time to fix my mortgage rate?'

Eva Longoria

You can't walk two steps without seeing a pregnant teen.

Evan Esar

Las Vegas is a resort whose two chief sources of income are seven and eleven.

Eugene Delacroix

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.

Eugene Ionesco

A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

Estelle

Don't forget the prices are so high in theater; it isn't really where a young person can go on a date and buy two tickets and take someone out anymore.

Esther Hicks

If there is something that you have to do, resist the temptation to do it under duress. Ask yourself, "What's the worst thing that would happen if I didn't do this?" And if you can get away with not doing it at all, don't do it. And then imagine what would it feel like to have this done. Spend a day or two, if you can, just 15 minutes here, 5 minutes here, 2 minutes here, here and here, imagining it completed in a way that pleases you! And then, the next time you decide that you're going to take action about it, the action is going to be a whole lot easier.