Two urns on Jove’s high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both.
So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
My morning starts with some form of exercise, and I give two hours – from 5:30 to 7:30 A.M. – to my personal fitness.
When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.
The spread of computers and the Internet will put jobs in two categories. People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.
It’s a good marriage because each of us is what we are, allows the other one to be themselves, and appreciates each other for the right reason. You know, it’s rare that you’ll find two people who don’t try to change the other person and let everyone be what they are.
There are two types of friends: actual friends, and the other kind.
Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years – and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
From my close observation of writers… they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.
Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.
I was born in Orange County – in Santa Ana. My dad is from California. I was raised on the East Coast. My first two years were in California, but I claim East Coast. I’m sorry, I don’t rep California.
The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.
There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.
In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils – mass unemployment and the threat of war.
My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.
You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people’s maps will be the same.
How can they beat me? I’ve been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.
My second divorce was the worst kind of divorce. There were two children; one had just been born. My husband was in love with someone else.
Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I’d like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.
Let us read and let us dance – two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
Time and health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.
