Two Meaning Quotes

• F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.

  Zig Ziglar

  Running, Fear, Forget Everything

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• Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Two, Goodness

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• Well, "slithy" means "lithe and slimy." "Lithe" is the same as "active." You see it's like a portmanteau - there are two meanings packed up into one word.

  Lewis Carroll

  Mean, Two, Through The Looking Glass

  'Through the Looking-Glass' (1872) ch. 6

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• You know sometimes words have two meanings.

  Robert Plant

  Two, Zeppelins, Sometimes

  "Song: 'Stairway To Heaven'". 1971.

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• The word "utopia" has two meanings. It means both "good place" and "nowhere". That's the way it should be. The happiest places, I think, are the ones that reside just this side of paradise. The perfect person would be insufferable to live with; likewise, we wouldn't want to live in the perfect place, either. "A life time of happiness! No man could bear it: It would be hell on earth," wrote George Bernard Shaw, in his play Man and Superman.

  Eric Weiner

  Mean, Men, Thinking

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• Children are the ultimate investment of all of those that want to make money, to sell, to dominate. So there are two meanings. They are our ultimate investment for anyone who is honest and ethical and loving, but also for all the commerce.

  Laura Huxley

  Children, Two, Want

  Source: www.whitelotus.org

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• Someone on Twitter sent me a page from a textbook. It had a picture of a football player next to a picture of me. The juxtaposition was meant to illustrate two meanings of "offensive." Seriously. It broke my heart. It's that accepted what I do is offensive?

  Sarah Silverman

  Football, Heart, Player

  "Comedian Sarah Silverman". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.mrt.com. March 27, 2011.

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• A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary and there is no intention to deceive anyone.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Two, Use, Language

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

  James Russell Lowell

  Two, Flesh, Spirit

  James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”, p.264

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• The French verb aimer has two meanings. And that’s why he liked her, and loved her. She spoke to him in a language that, no matter how hard you studied it, could not be completely understood.

  John Green

  Two, Verbs, Matter

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.134, Penguin

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• This was always the problem with my mother and me, I suddenly realized. There were so many things we thought we agreed on, but anythign can have two meanings. Like sides of a coin, it just matters how it falls.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mother, Fall, Two

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “The Truth About Forever”, p.198, Penguin UK

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