Twins Quotes - Page 25

• People flock in, nevertheless, in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considered to be able to answer, such as "Is this the laundry?" "How do you spell surreptitious?" and, on a regular basis, "Do you have a book I remember reading once? It had a red cover and it turned out they were twins.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Reading, People

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Going Postal: (Discworld Novel 33)”, p.234, Random House

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• This is a sad day for the Minnesota Twins, Major League Baseball and baseball fans everywhere. I loved Kirby deeply. A tremendous teammate, Kirby will always be remembered for his never-ending hustle, infectious personality, trademark smile and commitment to the community.

  Carl Pohlad

  Baseball, Commitment, League

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• I think things are more confused now than in several years, and I think the reason is that the governor is vacillating on it. He's all for it, but he's not doing anything about it. I am certain that his behavior is at the center of the Twins' frustration.

  Steven Schier

  Confused, Frustration, Thinking

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• It's an earnings-driven market. The big question is whether the flow of earnings can rescue the market from the twin dreadnoughts of higher oil and interest rates.

  Larry Wachtel

  Oil, Earning, Flow

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• Owner Red McCombs has a track record for dumping teams - he owned both the NBA's Spurs and Nuggets at various times - and his stadium situation just isn't going to get resolved in the Twin Cities. Even some of his fellow owners have him No. 1 on the relocation list. I think Red might sell, ... He's been known to sell before.

  Bud Adams

  Team, Thinking, Nba

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• Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.

  Dean Koontz

  Real, Book, Evil

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• The Gullikson twins here. An interesting pair, both from Wisconsin.

  Dan Maskell

  Interesting, Tennis, Wisconsin

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• Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Beauty, Beautiful, Men

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.1, Hamilton Books

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• Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  New York, Skills, Trying

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• Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins.

  Robert Mugabe

  Gun, People, Together

  ""Our Votes, Our Guns: Robert Mugabe and the Tragedy of Zimbabwe". Book by Martin Meredith, 2002.

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• Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me

  Alice Walker

  Self, Natural, Timeless

  Alice Walker (1997). “The Same River Twice”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Brother, Honesty, Accuracy

  "Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker, containing over a thousand subjects alphabetically and systematically arranged". Book by Charles Simmons, p. 20. Chapter: "Accuracy", 1852.

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• My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Children, Distance

  "The Book of Disquiet".

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• Sometimes, if you're lucky, someone comes into your life who'll take up a place in your heart that no one else can fill, someone who's tighter than a twin, more with you than your own shadow, who gets deeper under your skin than your own blood and bones.

  Snoop Dogg

  Love, Dog, Heart

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

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• The past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one’s dreams would have no meaning.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Past, Hands

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world—a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious—surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity.

  Walt Whitman

  School, Humanity, Democracy

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.1406, Delphi Classics

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• When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire for vindications, the paranoia, and the projection are bottled in there, along with all the excesses of envy, desire for revenge, all the hypochondriacal responses, rituals, defenses, and the twin obsessions with sex and money. It other words, the stuff of great books.

  Betsy Lerner

  Sex, Revenge, Book

  Betsy Lerner (2016). “The Forest for the Trees: An editor's advice to writers”, p.61, Pan Macmillan

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• I loved working with Valerie. That was the most wonderful revelation to find that when we are on a set and we're playing our roles, we're like separated twins. We can almost finish each other's dialogue.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Roles, Wonderful, Revelations

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• I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. Anarchists oppose the State because it has its very being in such aggression, namely, the expropriation of private property through taxation, the coercive exclusion of other providers of defense service from its territory, and all of the other depredations and coercions that are built upon these twin foci of invasions of individual rights.

  Murray Rothbard

  Rights, Focus, Defense

  "Society Without A State". The Libertarian Forum, 1975.

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• In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion.

  Haruki Murakami

  Knowledge, Confusion, World

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 31, 2013

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• Women are the twin halves of men.

  Muhammad

  Women, Half, Men

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• Love and joy are twins or born of each other.

  William Hazlitt

  Love, Joy, Born

  William Hazlitt, William Ernest Henley (1904). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings”

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• Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.

  Marabel Morgan

  Sister, Leadership, Perseverance

  Marabel Morgan (1986). “The Electric Woman”

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• Everyday, day & night, we hear the lies that September 11th is the worst tragedy, worst accident, and worst crime to ever been committed on American soil. We bear witness that the worst crime, the worst tragedy, that has ever taken place on American soil is not September 11th. It's not the twin towers. It's the holocaust that black folks been dealing with for 400 years.

  Malik Zulu Shabazz

  Lying, Taken, Night

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