Two Things Quotes - Page 12

How do we keep our inner fire alive? Two things, at minimum, are needed: an ability to appreciate the positives in our life – and a commitment to action. Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: ‘What's good in my life?’ and ‘What needs to be done?

Nathaniel Branden

Leadership, Motivation, Commitment

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What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this -- two things: I crave truth. And I lie.

Tana French

Lying, Two, Stories

FaceBook post by Tana French from Aug 09, 2016

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However, while being able to think about two things at the same time is a terribly convenient, the training it takes to get there is frustrating at best, and at other times rather disturbing. I remember one time I looked for the stone for almost an hour before I consented to ask the other half of me where I'd hidden it, only to find I hadn't hidden the stone at all. I had merely been waiting to see how long I would look before giving up. Have you ever been annoyed and amused with yourself at the same time? It's an interesting feeling, to say the very least.

Patrick Rothfuss

Giving Up, Thinking, Two

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What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: Curious and teachable.

Roger Ebert

Wisdom, Believe, Two

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They have money and position and Ann has none.It's amazing how often you can be right as long as you have those two things working in your favor.

Libba Bray

Two, Long, Favors

Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.65, Delacorte Press

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You've probably all had those kinds of dreams that are like usual life, except that a lot of things are not the same, and you seem to know the future in them. Well, this is because these other worlds where two things can happen spread out from our world like rainbows, and sort of flow into one another-

Diana Wynne Jones

Dream, Our World, Other Worlds

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There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects.

Carrie Fisher

Swings, Two, Guy

Carrie Fisher (2011). “Postcards From the Edge”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.

Corrie Ten Boom

Love, Hurt, Pain

Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill (2006). “The Hiding Place”, p.60, Chosen Books

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It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .

Arthur Conan Doyle

Thinking, Two, Brain

Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The Lost World”, p.93, eKitap Projesi

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Reuven listen to me. The Talmud says that a person should do two things for himself. One is to acquire a teacher. Do you remember the other." "Choose a friend," I said. "Yes. You know what a friend is, Reuven? A Greek philosopher said that two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul." I nodded. "Reuven, if you can, make Danny Saunders your friend." "I like him a lot, abba." "No. Listen to me. I am not talking about only liking him. I am telling you to make him your friend and to let him make you his friend.

Chaim Potok

Teacher, True Friend, Two

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Not dead-dying. Funny how two things could be so similar and yet so far apart

Maggie Stiefvater

Two, Dying

Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Linger”, p.215, Scholastic Inc.

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If stakes and garlic were the top two things that could kill a vampire, ninth grade gym was a close third.

Heather Brewer

Two, Vampire, Garlic

Heather Brewer (2008). “Ninth Grade Slays #2: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod”, p.140, Penguin

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Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.

Steig Larsson

Friendship, Best Friend, Trust

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And she would not hold back his limbs when his heart was gone to the woods, for it is ever the way of witches with any two things to care for the more mysterious of the two.

Lord Dunsany

Heart, Two, Gone

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Why shouldn't I be introspective? We dont' make sense." "Neither do Chocolate and Peanut Butter, but it somehow works." He says "Somehow the mixture of two things is genius.

Simone Elkeles

Two, Chocolate, Peanut Butter

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She reached into her coat pocket and felt two things she hadn't expected.... One was a wad of cash... she brought out the money. Leo whistled. "Allowance? Piper, your mom rocks!

Rick Riordan

Mom, Rocks, Two

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Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony.

Dan Simmons

Book, Men, Self

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To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own.

Lawrence Hill

Two, People, Humanity

Lawrence Hill (2008). “Someone Knows My Name: A Novel”, p.41, W. W. Norton & Company

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In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.

Orson Welles

Two, Opinion, Praying

Orson Welles, Mark W. Estrin (2002). “Orson Welles: Interviews”, p.105, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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I do not know what she was thinking, but I was remembering the years we have lived together, yet never together, and what a waste they have been--of each other, and of love, which is the most unpardonable waste there is. Love and time, those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent.

Gary Jennings

Thinking, Years, Two

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But I knew that someday I was going to die. And just before I died two things would happen; Number 1: I would regret my entire life. Number 2: I would want to live my life over again.

Hubert Selby, Jr.

Regret, Two, Numbers

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...and the red sun of desire and decision (the two things that create a live world) rose higher and higher, while upon a succession of balconies a succession of libertines, sparkling glass in hand, toasted the bliss of past and future nights.

Vladimir Nabokov

Past, Night, Glasses

Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.38, Hamilton Books

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And He [God] and you are two things of such a kind that if you really get into any kind of touch with Him you will, in fact, be humble--delightedly humble, feeling the infinite relief of having for once got rid of all the silly nonsense about your own dignity which has made you restless and unhappy all your life.

C. S. Lewis

Silly, Humble, Two

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Oh, there were all sorts of things to wonder about, but the truth was simple: here stood this door alone on an endless stretch of beach, and it was for only one of two things: opening or leaving closed.

Stephen King

Beach, Simple, Doors

Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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I mean, if you're asking a fellow to come out of a room so that you can dismember him with a carving knife, it's absurd to tack a 'sir' on to every sentence. The two things don't go together.

P. G. Wodehouse

Mean, Knives, Two

P.G. Wodehouse (2012). “The Jeeves Omnibus - Vol 1: (Jeeves & Wooster)”, p.111, Random House

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