T Quotes
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“There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.”
Source: Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)
“There are two gradations of cold that are always acceptable: Mild Frost, which is preferable for reading and writing and any other activity done indoors, and Absolute Zero, which is the only temperature suitable for sleep. There is nothing more delicious than being swathed in a cocoon of blankets and awaking with a nose frosted over with rime, and once I do achieve vampiric heights and fall asleep with the mastery of a corpse lately dead, I am best left alone until I wake up at my usual time. I do tend to bite when rattled out of my flocculent coffin, and everyone in my building knows never to disturb me during the early morning hours. Authors, being crepuscular creatures, should never be roused before 11am: the creative mind is never turned off; it only dies momentarily and its revived by the scent of coffee at the proper time.
Bacon is also an acceptable restorative.”
Source: I Hate Summer: My tribulations with seasonal depression, anxiety, plumbers, spiders, neighbours, and the world.
“There are two great classes of men: the people and the scholars, the men of science. For the former, nothing exists but that which directly leads to action. It is for the latter to see beyond. They are the free artists who create the future and its history, the conscious architects of the world.”
“There are two great days in a person’s life—the day we are born and the day we realise this life is not eternal; the rest in between is temporary and unimportant.”
“There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.”
“There are two great forces, God's force of good and the devil's force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don't understand.”
“There are two great gifts which God, in his love for man, has granted from on high: the priesthood and the imperial dignity.”
“There are two great injustices that can befall a child. One is to punish him for something he didn't do. The other is to let him get away with doing something he knows is wrong.”
“There are two great rules of life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can, in the end, get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the general rule.”
Source: The note-books of Samuel Butler
“There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.”
“There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.”
“There are two great systems in the body of man: the tree of life, which is the arterial with its roots in the heart; and, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, i.e. the nervous system, which has its roots in the brain. These two "trees" are physical manifestations of a complicated network of branching energy currents in the aura or superphysical bodies.”
“There are two great things that we need to find in life: one is love, probably the most important, and the second is work, and they compete with one another from time to time.”
“There are two great tragedies in life: one is to fail to achieve one's grandest ambitions, and the other one is to succeed.”
“There are two great truths which from this platform I have proclaimed for many years. The first is that salvation is free to every man who will have it; the second is that God gives salvation to a people whom He has chosen; and these truths are not in conflict with each other in the least degree.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 38
“There are two groups in the World;
First ones are Living for dying
Rest ones are Dying for living”
“There are two groups of Batlokwa in South Africa
The first group is Batlokwa/Batlokwe Ba Ga Lethebe who was also known as Tlokwe. Tlokwe/Lethebe was a leader of the group that is referred to in the book 'Tja Magoshi le Dilete' who stole Matlala's cattle and fled to Mogodumo. It is this man that Batlowa Ba Lebowa (including the collective Banareng and Ba Ga Mohlala) were named after, he was the chief of Ba Ga Dikgale who (Ba Ga Dikgale) were at that time called Bakgaladi, and Lethebe later called himself Dikgale ( that was around the year 1800).
The second group is is Batlokwa/Batlokoa Ba Ga Kgwadi who was also called Motlokwa/Motlokoa ( this group include Batlokwa Ba Mantatise in Gaborone in Botswana, Batlokwa Ba Sekonyela in Lesotho, Batlokwa Ba Sebetwane in Zimbabwe, Batlokwa Ba Machaka and Matoks in Botlokwa in Limpopo, and all Batlokwa in Free State KZN and North West. Batlokwa Ba Machaka and Matoks arrived in Lebowa (Limpopo) from Harrismith around 1825/27 (they left Harrismith in 1820) and settled at the present day Botlokwa which was already called/named Botlowa after Batlokwa Ba Lethebe/Dikgale, they only arrived there after majority or most of us (Batlokwa Ba Lethebe/Dikgale) have left the area.
The history of this group is well documented.
Kgwadi is the brother of among others, Diale gave birth to Bapedi of Maroteng Ga Sekhukhune (Mohlaletse and Mamone Ga Sekwati), and Mosia who gave birth to Moshweshwe of Lesotho (Bashweshwe).”
“There are two groups of people: Herds and individual clever people. Because herds have numerical superiority, individual clever people remain weak in determining the right fate for the country! The solution: Disperse the herds, augment the individuals!”
“There are two halves warring within you, and the one that will win is the one that you feed.”
“There are two hedges I know of; one is cash and the other is knowledge.”
“There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.”
“There are two horses inside the human mind - the horse of good and the horse of evil. Each horse pulls the human towards their own inclinations. If the horse of evil is fed, then evil reigns over the mind, whereas if the horse of good is fed, then goodness prevails.”
Source: Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon
“There are two hundred and fifty-six names given in the Bible for the Lord Jesus Christ, and I suppose this was because He was infinitely beyond all that any one name could express.”
Source: Billy Sunday speaks
“There are two hundred million idiots, manipulated by a million intelligent men.”
“There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that, if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, their prosperity will leak through on those below. The DEMOCRATIC idea, however, has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them”
“There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why.”
Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
“There are two important days in your life. The day you discovered you were alive and the day you forgot about it”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“There are two important reasons for you to make feeling good a priority. First, when you feel good, your brain releases neurochemicals that boost all of your body’s systems. Second, when you feel good, you are much more likely to behave in a way that benefits your body because you respect it.”
“There are two important things in the world, the first is sex. The other isn't all that important.”
“There are two important things that parents can give to their children, money mindset and eating habits”
“There are two impossibilities in life: "just one drink" and "an honest politician."”
“There are two impulses in theatre: to be frivolous or to make rules.”
“There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.”
“There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.”
“There are two individuals within a human body. The one that people see and the one that you see when closing your eyes.”
“There are two inevitable conditions of life, confronting all of us, which destroy its whole meaning; (1) death, which may at any moment pounce upon each of us; and (2) the transitoriness of all our works, which so soon pass away and leave no trace. Whatever we may do--found companies, build palaces and monuments, write songs and poems--it is all not for long time. Soon it passes away, leaving no trace. And therefore, however we may conceal it from ourselves, we cannot help seeing that the significance of our life cannot lie in our personal fleshly existence, the prey of incurable suffering and inevitable death, nor in any social institution or organization. Whoever you may be who are reading these lines, think of your position and of your duties--not of your position as landowner, merchant, judge, emperor, president, minister, priest, soldier, which has been temporarily allotted you by men, and not of the imaginary duties laid on you by those positions, but of your real positions in eternity as a creature who at the will of Someone has been called out of unconsciousness after an eternity of non-existence to which you may return at any moment at his will. Think of your duties-- not your supposed duties as a landowner to your estate, as a merchant to your business, as emperor, minister, or official to the state, but of your real duties, the duties that follow from your real position as a being called into life and endowed with reason and love.”
Source: The Kingdom of God is Within You
“There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness.”
“There are two infinities that confuse me: the one in my soul devours me; the one around me will crush me”
“There are two infinities: God and stupidity.”
“There are two influences ever present in the world. One is constructive and elevating and comes from our Heavenly Father; the other is destructive and debasing and comes from Lucifer. We have our agency and make our own choice in life subject to these unseen powers. There is a division line well defined that separates the Lord's territory from Lucifer's. If we live on the Lord's side of the line Lucifer cannot come there to influence us, but if we cross the line into his territory we are in his power. By keeping the commandments of the Lord we are safe on His side of the line, but if we disobey His teachings we voluntarily cross into the zone of temptation and invite the destruction that is ever present there. Knowing this, how anxious we should always be to live on the Lord's side of the line.”
“There are two instances I studied in which a community moved, amazingly, into an preexisting village built by other, earlier communalists. The Rappites were a German millenarian sect I mostly leave out of the story, even though they are fascinating, because they're focused on salvation and retreating from the world, as opposed to transforming it, like the other groups I write about.”
“There are two instruments worse than a clarinet - two clarinets.”
“There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.”
Source: Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott
“There are two key lessons: a) The only way to survive in business is to be profitable, unless you have an unlimited amount of money; b) Get through your difficulty and learn to do better next time.”
“There are two keys to productive missionary work -- (1) family-to-family friendshipping (when a member family shares the gospel with a nonmember family) and (2) cooperation between members and the missionaries to reach people...Every member knows of nonmembers he or she can refer to the missionaries. Every father, mother, and youth in this church should share the gospel by giving a Book of Mormon, telling the account of the Prophet Joseph Smith, or inviting our acquaintances to a special meeting.”
“There are two kind of mathematicians, smart ones, and dumb ones. I am one of the dumb ones.”
“There are two kind of men,' said Ka, in a didatic voice. 'The first kind does not fall in love until he's seen how the girls eats a sandwich, how she combs her hair, what sort of nonsense she cares about, why she's angry at her father, and what sort of stories people tell about her. The second type of man -- and I am in this category -- can fall in love with a woman only if he knows next to nothing about her.”
“There are two kind of people in the world those who wish to be remembered, and those who are always remembered.”
“There are two kind of travellers: (1) They relax in their seat and enjoy the journey. Their train reaches the destination smoothly. (2) They remain agitated and desperate to reach the destination. They think they can relax only after reaching. Somehow their train always faces delays and obstacles.”
“There are two kinds of actors -- one sits in a dressing room waiting for his call and the other gets out into the business and polishes his craft by absorbing everything. I don't know enough, I'll never learn everything I need to learn. When a guy thinks he's already learned it, he can only go backwards.”
Source: Clint Eastwood: interviews