Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Richardson

They say productivity is the key to confidence, and confidence ... to productivity. And they're happy walking back and forth between these two rooms, each the excuse for the other.

James Richardson

You have two kinds of secrets. The ones only you know. The ones only you don't.

James Russell Lowell

Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.

James Redfield

Each of us is the next step in evolution along the lineage created by our two parents. Our higher purpose on earth can be found by recognizing what our parents accomplished and where they left off. By reconciling what they gave us with what they left us to resolve, we can get a clear picture of who we are and what we are meant to do.

James Harvey Robinson

Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.

James Green

You never know how bad a situation is going to be until you come out of it. But the nation has had two major hurricanes in [several] weeks, and we will be stronger because of it.

James Fallows

I have relentlessly beat the drum for Google's 'two-step' authentication systems for Gmail and other services, which radically reduce the likelihood that your account can be hacked from afar.

James Fenton

It normally happens that if you put two words together, or two syllables together, one of them will attract more weight, more emphasis, than the other. In other words, most so-called spondees can be read as either iambs or trochees.

The moral person contemplates evil, the evil person commits it. And a person without a sense of humor can't distinguish between the two.... I know a lot of people who live in Marin County and contemplate spirituality and never get out of the hot tub.

Libby Trickett

I really would like to start a family as well. Whether I can balance the two or have to decide one or the other way, I'm not sure what will happen.

Liam Payne

I had a test on my kidneys a few weeks back and found out I have two.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done.

Liev Schreiber

I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian.

Liev Schreiber

There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet

Libba Bray

They have money and position and Ann has none.It's amazing how often you can be right as long as you have those two things working in your favor.

Gary Chapman

Ask yourself: Does the action I am considering have any potential for dealing with the wrong and helping the relationship? And is it best for the person at whom I am angry? The two most constructive options are either to confront the person in a helpful way, or to consciously decide to overlook the matter.

Friedrich Schleiermacher

Belief must be something different from a mixture of opinions about God and the world, and of precepts for one life or for two. Piety cannot be an instinct craving for a mess of metaphysical and ethical crumbs.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Once you've spent two years trying to wiggle one toe, everything is in proportion.

George Galloway

As for Gordon Brown - I've described him and Blair as two cheeks of the same arse.

Jon Meacham

I've been accused of being old before my time more than once. It's true that I've always felt an affinity for, and been comfortable around, older people. I attribute this to a childhood spent around my grandparents - and even a great-grandparent or two. I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything.

Jojo Moyes

I could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn't really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything. My nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else, I had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.

Jojo Moyes

...I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn't have met, and who didn't like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other.

Johnny Carson

As you all know by now, this is the 51st annual Academy Awards. Two hours of sparkling entertainment spread out over a four-hour show.

Johnny Carson

The good news is that the president gets another chance. The bad news is that he'll be two weeks older.

Johnny Carson

We have two kinds of air: regular and chunky style.

Johnny Carson

I hated my last boss. He asked, Why are you two hours late? I said, I fell downstairs. He said, That doesn't take two hours.

Johnny Carson

Happiness is.....finding two olives in your martini when youre hungry.

Lynn Samuels

I avoid my neighbors - luckily, my building has two exits.

Luis de Guindos

Let nobody be fooled, the next two quarters are not going to be easy either in terms of growth or employment.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

My work consists of two parts: of the one which is here, and of everything which I have not written. And precisely this second part is the important one.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Asmodeus! You don’t see her, do you hear me? (Jericho) Completely blind, Minor Master. Hearing is intact. Is there anyone here besides the two of us? No? Good. I’m leaving now unless Minor Master has another preferably nonpainful task for me. (Asmodeus) You're dismissed. (Jericho) Cool beaners. (Asmodeus)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

When you first take someone’s life, two people die. The person you just killed and the human being you used to be. You’re never the same after that—it changes you forever and not in a good way —and no matter how hard you try, you can’t go back to the innocence you had. Ever.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Here I am! Now what are your other two wishes