Pairs Quotes - Page 18

• She was wearing a pair of my pajamas with the sleeves rolled up. When she laughed I wanted her again. A minute later she asked me if I loved her. I told her it didn't mean anything but that I didn't think so. She looked sad. But as we were fixing lunch, and for no apparent reason, she laughed in such a way that I kissed her.

  Albert Camus

  Mean, Thinking, Lunch

  5 Copy quote

• Life is a system of recurrent pairs, the poison and the antidote being eternally packaged together by some considerate heavenly druggist.

  Mary McCarthy

  Together, Poison, Life Is

  Mary McCarthy (1981). “The hounds of summer and other stories: Mary McCarthy's short fiction”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'd begun to realize that there was an unspoken predjudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seemed to share, that life as we know it is an imperfect vision of reality, and that only art, like a pair of reading glasses can correct it.

  Ian Caldwell

  Art, Book, Reading

  Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason (2005). “The rule of four”, Egully.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• At that moment, it seemed to him that time stood still, and the Soul of the World surged within him. When he looked into her dark eyes, and saw that her lips were poised between a laugh and silence, he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke — the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love. Something older than humanity, more ancient than the desert. Something that exerted the same force whenever two pairs of eyes met, as had theirs here at the well.

  Paulo Coelho

  Eye, Heart, Dark

  "The Alchemist". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1988.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Shoes, Earth, Easier

  12 Copy quote

• He (the devil) always sends errors into the world in pairs--pairs of opposites...He relies on your extra dislike of one to draw you gradually into the opposite one. But do not let us be fooled. We have to keep our eyes on the goal and go straight through between both errors. We have no other concern than that with either of them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Religious, Couple, Eye

  208 Copy quote

• In the work of art the truth of an entity has set itself to work. ‘To set’ means here: to bring to a stand. Some particular entity, a pair of peasant shoes, comes in the work to stand in the light of its being. The being of the being comes into the steadiness of its shining. The nature of art would then be this: the truth of being setting itself to work.

  Martin Heidegger

  Art, Mean, Shoes

  4 Copy quote

• I believe every woman should own at least one pair of red shoes.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Believe, Shoes, Red

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.116, Vintage

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• People think six is a great many, when it's children. ...they don't mind six pairs of boots, or six pounds of apples, or six oranges, especially in equations, but they seem to think that you ought not to have five brothers and sisters.

  E. Nesbit

  Brother, Children, Thinking

  E. Nesbit (2013). “Delphi Complete Novels of E. Nesbit”, p.77, Delphi Classics

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt like taking a pair of scissors and cutting it up.

  Cornelia Funke

  Father, Book, Cutting

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.231, Scholastic Inc.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face. What folly will not a pair of bright eyes make pardonable? What dullness may not red lips are sweet accents render pleasant? And so, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Wise, Sweet, Eye

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2017). “Vanity Fair”, p.321, Pan Macmillan

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big dark eyeglasses!

  Michael Chabon

  Girl, Dark, Eyeglasses

  "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay". Book by Michael Chabon, September 19, 2000.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed. Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you. When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.

  Alan Alda

  Real, Thinking, Differences

  "Alan Alda ... on Celebrity and Its Discontents". "The Open Mind" with Richard Heffner, www.thirteen.org. January 22, 2007.

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• He will grow up into one of those people who lean back to smile and jump so easily it looks like slow motion and steer cars with their knees and snitch roses from gardens to give to girls and write with their left hand and own two pairs of jeans and one jacket and fall in love from such a height and so hard and so completely that they never quite recover from the drop. But at least he will have me to look out for him.

  Hilary McKay

  Girl, Falling In Love, Growing Up

  35 Copy quote

• Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad.

  Harper Lee

  Flower, Good Luck, Two

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.36, Infobase Publishing

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Look...at...me..." he whispered. The green eyes found the black, but after a second, something in the depths of the dark pair seemed to vanish, leaving them fixed, blank, and empty. The hand holding Harry thudded to the floor, and Snape moved no more.

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye, Dark, Hands

  4 Copy quote

• The last words Albus Dumbledore spoke to the pair of us?' Harry is the best hope we have. Trust him.

  J. K. Rowling

  Lasts, Spokes, Hoping For The Best

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, p.68, Pottermore

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think it's kinda nice.' And I did. my mom isn't famous for her pies. No, she's famous for defusing a nuclear device in Brussels with only a pair of cuticle scissors and a ponytail holder. Somehow, at the moment, pies seemed cooler.

  Ally Carter

  Mom, Nice, Thinking

  Ally Carter (2007). “I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You”, Hyperion

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Working with him was sort of like trying to defuse a bomb with somebody standing behind you and every now and then clashing a pair of cymbals together. In a word, upsetting.

  Stephen King

  Upset, Trying, Together

  Stephen King (2010). “The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Two households, both alike in dignity In fair Verona, where we lay our scene From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Blood, Hands

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Edward Capell, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.5

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are symbolic dreams-- dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities -- realities that symbolize a dream. Symbols are what you might call the honorary town councillors of the worm universe. In the worm universe, there is nothing unusual about a dairy cow seeking a pair of pliers. A cow is bound to get her pliers sometime. It has nothing to do with me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Reality, Pliers

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jul 25, 2014

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• What was the self-sacrifice?" I jettisoned half of a much-loved and I think irreplaceable pair of shoes." Why was that self-sacrifice?" Because they were mine!" said Ford, crossly. I think we have different value systems." Well mine's better.

  Douglas Adams

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Self

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Mostly Harmless”, p.130, Pan Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk.

  Carol Shields

  Trunks, Buried, Stuck

  4 Copy quote

• I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on marches this monkey, this ape, in a pair of red-checked trousers with a little matching jacket holding a ukelele and it started jigging around playing it, and it was looking straight into the camera, straight at me, and I remember thinking, that's it, that'll be me, you know, that'll be me.

  Nick Cave

  Thinking, Years, Cameras

  8 Copy quote

• Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  92 Copy quote