Quotes with two-legged

Quotes 1021 till 1040 of 1097.

  • Anton Chekhov When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Mae West Whenever I have to choose between two evils, I always like to try the one I haven't tried before.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of the limitations of the data, and an illusion of precision.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • William James Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Victor Hugo Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Lord Samuel Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.
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  • Earl Nightingale Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • Amartya Sen While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.
    Amartya Sen
    Indian economist and philospher
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  • Doug Horton While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • Bono Who in Ireland could have too much respect for organized religion? We've seen it tear our country in two. My mother was a Protestant. My father was a Catholic. And I learned that religion is often the enemy of God, actually.
    Source: CNN Larry King Weekend (2002)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Billy Beane Who wants to get really granular with sabermetrics when you're going to see a two-and-a-half-hour Brad Pitt movie? You don't go to the cinema for a maths lesson.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • Bill Simmons Why should it matter to us when wrestlers are found dead in their beds or seen limping around on two fake hips? Why should it matter to us that there's a list of modern wrestlers who died before the age of 50 - many of them famous - and that the list is more than 70 names long? Hey, there's always another wave of guys on the way. Always.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Al Gore Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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  • Octavio Paz Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
    Octavio Paz
    Mexican Poet, Essayist (1914 - 1998)
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  • John Cheever Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.
    John Cheever
    American writer (1912 - 1982)
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  • Butch Trucks With The Allman Brothers, we made two studio records that were OK, but the first really great album was the live one, 'At Fillmore East.' We were a live band, and it's one of the reasons we were able to stick around for 45 years.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • C. S. Forester With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents.
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Carroll Quigley Without communities, no infant will be sufficiently socialized... and that occurs in the first four or five years of life....The first two years are important....of vital importance. He has to be loved, above all he has to be talked to.
    Source: Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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