Quotes 421 till 440 of 1097.
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It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.
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It takes two to speak truth - one to speak, and another to hear.
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It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.
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It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.
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It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized.
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It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils and give their own minds the benefit of the robbery.
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It would probably take me an hour to two to write it down, get the feel of it, and that's with quite a few changes. It's not really a hard thing for me to do.
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It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story is told in alternating chapters, say.
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It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.
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It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.
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It's fundamentally unfair to have so much of the tax relief go to so few. And it is a 10-year tax plan rather than one, as mine, focused on the next two years, which in my opinion is the critical time to jumpstart the economy.
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It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story.
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It's not easy to walk out on a marriage and two young kids, and it's the most difficult thing I've ever had to do.
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It's so exciting to be able to talk about Office 365. I can only describe what Office 365 is in sort of two words. You could say technically it's three words. But Office 365, ladies and gentlemen, is nothing but a Google butt-kicker, that's all it is.
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Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers.
The Godfather -
Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.
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Just because you're working does not mean you're making money. That's two very different things in show business.
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Just two weeks ago, millions of Iraqis defied the threats of terrorists and went to the polls to determine their own future. I congratulate the Iraqi people for the courage they've shown in making these elections so successful.
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Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. If they reach the point, they either crush it, or lean all round, more on the false than on the true.
Pensees (1669)
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