Two Things Quotes

You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.

Education and the workforce: I think these two things go together in terms of human potential.

To succeed in life one needs two things -- influence and a lucky star.

If you ever get in real trouble, don't panic. Sit down and think about it. Remember two things, always. There must be some way out of it and there must be humor in it somewhere.

Truth and ceremony are two things.

Two things distinguish nonviolent actions from violent actions. First, you don't see an enemy and second, your intention is not to make the other side suffer.

Remember that there are two things in this life that are never worth crying about: what can be cured and what cannot be cured.

Poetry is like air. It's one of the necessary things. Everyone benefits from poetry. And as you know, poetry is international. There are only two things that are truly international, poetry and wine.

The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.

There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.

Those are the two things: a sense of loving and being loved, and being creative - that is what life is made up of, and what literature reminds us of.

There are two things losers say: 'I can't do it' and 'I can't afford it.

Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.

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

thought I was doing two things. One is inquiring into the phenomenon of revelation, if you are not a religious person. But, clearly, it's a sincere phenomenon.

So when I cover the president, I try to remember two things: First, if you don't ask, you don't find out; and second, the questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

You need demarcation." "Demarcation?" I asked. "It means a clear separation between two things," he told me. "A solid end before a clean beginning. No murky borders. Clarity.

For the most part I'll probably do floor exercise and balance beam. Those are the two things that I do.

I have to do two things at once or I get tired.

Effective people do two things: they strive to do excellent work, and they prioritize.

Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing some of the fat out of life.

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

There are two things you can learn by stopping your backswing at the top and checking the position of your hands; how many hands you have, and which one is wearing the glove.

Two things are desired in order that intercourse may be had: First, that a minister or agent be allowed to reside at the capital. Second, that commerce between different countries be freely allowed.

Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.

Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.

The legislator should keep two things constantly before his eyes: 1. The pure theory developed to its minutest details; 2. The particular condition of actual things which he designs to reform.

You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.

You know there's only two things more beautiful than a good gun--a Swiss watch or a woman from anywhere.

When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke.

Since the war nothing is so really frightening not the dark not alone in a room or anything on a road or a dog or a moon but two things, yes, indigestion and high places they are frightening.

And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.

These have been the most successful years I've ever had. I've been placing well in the contests but more importantly I've been enjoying them. I think those two things go hand-in-hand.

Note to the wise: whenever someone insists that he wants to buy something from you, but tells you there's no real value in it yet, two things are happening: he's lying, and you're being taken.

You have two things happening: You have the cultural and economic reality of men falling apart and traditional masculinity falling apart.

I read for growth, firmly believing that what you are today and what you will be in five years depends on two things: the people you meet and the books you read.

Two things of opposite natures seem to depend / One on another, as Logos depends / On Eros, day on night, the imagined On the real. / This is the origin of change.

You can never have 'equality' between two things that are not equal by definition. And so, for example, you can have equality among 'people', but not between 'men' and 'women'.

You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.

There are two things for a marriage to be good. One is to work hard on it. The other one is to marry above you. And I succeeded at both of those.

My mother only ever said two things. She said,'I don't know, dear.'And she said,'Can I get you a sandwich, honey?

To be influential in our conversations, we must first be aware of two things, (1) what do we want to bring to the conversation and (2) what do we want to bring out in others.

Marriage is only good for two things: tax breaks and adultery.

You should never do two things. You should hammer one nail all your life, and I didn't do that; I hammered on a lot of nails like a xylophone.

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

I don't ever really list things that I want to do. The only two things that I've ever wanted to do are be in a rock band and be a wrestler. Those were my two goals.

I write best about two things, which is evident from the cover of So Far Gone: the constant quest to understand love and money.

God requires to be represented by a fiery Church... two things are intolerable to Him-insincerity and lukewarmness.

Anyone who's ever filed a tax return or visited the Department of Motor Vehicles understands that government does two things well: spend our money and waste our time.