Twins Quotes - Page 21

• Immortality--twin sister of Eternity.

  J. G. Holland

  Twin Sister, Eternity, Immortality

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• There are no twin souls in God's universe.

  J. G. Holland

  Soul, Universe

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• Other actors dont get asked about their brothers or sisters, so why do I have to always answer questions about having a twin brother? I suppose its interesting for everybody other than me.

  Luke Treadaway

  Brother, Interesting, Actors

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• hope and uncertainty [are] the twin ingredients necessary for romance to thrive. ... Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope, or fails as often, as love.

  Diane Ackerman

  Romance, Ingredients, Excitement

  Diane Ackerman (1994). “A Natural History of Love”, Vintage

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• I don't know about you, but moderation and restraint is not what I felt when I watched the twin towers crumble to the ground, a side of the Pentagon destroyed, and almost 3,000 of our fellow citizens perish in flames and rubble.

  Karl Rove

  Flames, Towers, Citizens

  Speech at a Fund-raiser in Midtown for the Conservative Party of New York State, www.nytimes.com. June 23, 2005.

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• My hope is next year Terry and I can work out a contract. I have no problem with the Minnesota Twins.

  Scott Boras

  Years, Work Out, Minnesota

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• The court has had to take a hard look at our resources and make difficult decisions balancing competing demands for resources. While our current allocation of resources to the Twin Peaks Court may not be ideal, it is an appropriate allocation when all factors are considered. While I realize this will be disappointing news to you, I can assure you the matter was given serious thought before a decision was made.

  Larry Allen

  Decision, Serious, Looks

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• Prospects for growth in the year ahead are solid at the national level, and of course, this can only be good news for the Bay Area and California as well. The U. S. economy has shown remarkable resilience in the face of some severe shocks - in particular, the surge in energy prices that began a couple of years ago and the devastation wrought by the twin hurricanes last summer.

  Janet Yellen

  Summer, Couple, California

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• Casey Blake (a former Minnesota Twin, now with the Indians) is a good friend of mine, I'd like to see the Indians win.

  Corey Koskie

  Good Friend, Winning, Minnesota

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• It's always an honor to work with the Twins Community Fund and be a part of all the good that they do. They help people in so many ways. To be part of not only a baseball team, but being a part of something where you're helping people who need help, that's what life is all about really.

  Ron Gardenhire

  Baseball, Team, People

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• If it doesn't have siamese twins in a jar, it is not a fair.

  Homer

  Jars, Funny Simpsons, Ifs

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• We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.

  Edward Abbey

  Two, Giving, Superstitions

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.13, RosettaBooks

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• This is a good group of young guys that's eager to play. When I was coming up with the (Minnesota) Twins, they called us a Triple-A team. But then we made the playoffs. That's the direction we're headed.

  Corey Koskie

  Team, Play, Guy

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• One dupe is as impossible as one twin.

  John Sterling

  Duplicity, Dupes, Impossible

  John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.121

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• A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.

  Honore de Balzac

  Occupation, Born, Vocation

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• Religious ecstasy is a madness of thought freed of its bodily bonds, whereas in the ecstasy of love, the forces of twin natures unite, blend and embrace one another.

  Honore de Balzac

  Religious, Madness, Embrace

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• Cant is the twin sister of hypocrisy.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Hypocrisy, Twin Sister, Cant

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• You pass the old L.A. County jail, which is surprisingly beautiful. It's got a handsome stone facade and stately columns. The new L.A. County jail - called The Twin Towers - isn't beautiful at all; it's a stucco panopticon the color of sick flesh.

  Leslie Jamison

  Beautiful, Color, Jail

  Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.72, Granta Books

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• I remember facing him on opening day in 1987. It was Oakland at the Minnesota Twins, the first time I got him out on a breaking ball down-and-in and next at bat he hit the same pitch for a home run. I was telling my kids that story yesterday.

  Curt Young

  Running, Home, Kids

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• The range of derivatives contracts is limited only by the imagination of man (or sometimes, so it seems, madmen). Say you want to write a contract speculating on the number of twins to be born in Nebraska in 2020. No problem-at a price, you will easily find an obliging counterparty.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Writing, Men

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.74, John Wiley & Sons

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• Twin Peaks' is my favorite American TV show.

  Rebecca Hall

  Tv Shows, Tvs, Twin Peaks

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• The polls demonstrate that 50 percent of Americans who get their news from TV think Saddam Hussein was behind the Twin Towers attack. Man, have they got ways for getting half-truths out right away now, thanks to TV! I think TV is a calamity in a democracy.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Men, Thinking, Democracy

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. June 12, 2003.

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• My wife Jennifer's family is all from there. Jennifer grew up there, so we have personal ties forever - her mom, dad, her brother, her twin brother - so, there's certainly a personal connection there that will also be there. Also, even though I grew up in Omaha, I feel like I really grew up in Milwaukee.

  Peter Buffett

  Mom, Brother, Dad

  "Milwaukee Talks: Peter Buffett". Interview with Bobby Tanzilo, onmilwaukee.com. July 11, 2007.

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• What a cruel irony of fate, to pair together, like Siamese twins united by the shoulders, scientific adversaries of such contrasting character!

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Character, Fate, Together

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• The mystery of light [and] the enigma of time form the twin pivots around which all my work revolves. In addition... my work attempts to create a mythology for our contemporary world.

  Clarence John Laughlin

  Light, World, Mystery

  Keith F. Davis, Nancy Barrett, John H. Lawrence, Clarence John Laughlin (1990). “Clarence John Laughlin: visionary photographer”, Hallmark Card Inc

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