Pairs Quotes

• I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

  Imelda Marcos

  Funny, Witty, Fashion

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

  Mother Jones

  Men, Shoes, Economic Inequality

  "Autobiography of Mother Jones" by Mary Harris Jones, edited by Mary Field Parton, (p. 46), 2004.

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• Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

  Hermann Hesse

  Opposites, Mind, Literature

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• They looked at each other like a pair of parentheses.

  Daniel Handler

  Parentheses

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• Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Eye, Creating, Originality

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• There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Home, Secret Love

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• True love is like a pair of socks: you gotta have two and they've gotta match.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Two, Secret

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• Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

  Sydney Smith

  Anniversary, Marriage, Moving

  Quoted in Lady Holland, Memoir (1855)

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• Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.

  Henri Poincare

  Business, Clouds, Ideas

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• I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens.

  John James Audubon

  Eight, Hands, Wish

  John James Audubon (1899). “Audubon and His Journals”

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• I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs.

  David Beckham

  Inspirational, Obsessive Compulsive, Lines

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• The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.

  Paul Samuelson

  Hands, Survival, Elbows

  Paul Anthony Samuelson (1973). “The Samuelson sampler”

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• A fresh pair of eyes can often find problems.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Eye, Air, Problem

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• There is definitely something sexy about a girl with an attitude and a pair of leather pants.

  Eliza Dushku

  Girl, Sexy, Attitude

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• The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different things from each other all through the whole piece.

  Elliott Carter

  Two, Different, Pieces

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• I love fast cars, loud guns and classic rock 'n' roll, but I'd never do any of it in
  flats. I love me a nice, big uncomfortable pair of heels and some big hair! Maybe
  it's a Southern thing, but I love dressing up. It's everything I can do not to leave
  the house in a goddamn prom dress every day.

  Amber Heard

  Nice, Gun, Hair

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• I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.

  Imelda Marcos

  Gratitude, Shoes, Great Love

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?

  Aeschylus

  Strength, Justice, Literature

  "Fragments". Book by Aeschylus (Fragment 298),

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• A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Two, Weight, Arms

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.25, Univ of California Press

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• We've been asked to do 'Playboy' together, me and Victoria, as a pair. I don't think I'll ever go naked, but I'll never say never.

  David Beckham

  Inspirational, Thinking, Together

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• I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card.

  Victoria Beckham

  Real, Men, Shoes

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• For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.

  Wernher von Braun

  Mother, Boys, Technology

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• A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

  Thomas Carlyle, Brendan King (1993). “The Sayings of Thomas Carlyle”, p.53, Lulu.com

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• Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

  Iris Murdoch

  Italian, Shoes, Boots

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• A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Marriage, Powerful

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.179, Courier Corporation

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