Quotes 281 till 300 of 1267.
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Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made the two companies complementary. Apple would ship the phones and computers, while Google would provide Maps, Search, YouTube, and other web tools that made the devices more useful.
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Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch.
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Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
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Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.
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Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.
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Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
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He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.
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He had scarcely told the lie when his nose, which was already long, grew at once two fingers longer.
Pinocchio (1892) -
He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.
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He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
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He possesses two out of the three qualities necessary for the ideal detective. He has the power of observation and that of deduction. He is only wanting in knowledge.
The Sign of the Four (1890) -
He seemed so confident that I, remembering my own confidence two nights before and with the baneful result, felt awe and vague terror. It must have been my weakness that made me hesitate to tell it to my friend, but I felt it all the more, like unshed tears.
Dracula (1897) Dr. John Seward -
He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.
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He's five feet two and he's six feet four. He fights with missiles and with spears. He's all of thirty-one and he's only seventeen. He's been a soldier for a thousand years.
The Universal Soldier (1963) -
Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men,
the Good and the Bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue. -
Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
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Herr Schroder has conducted two electoral campaigns, and he is doing it again now, by not telling people what is really necessary. He keeps avoiding the difficult and uncomfortable issues, those that imply changes and therefore provoke discussions.
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How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.
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How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese?
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How do you build a relationship when you've hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don't see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter?
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