T Quotes
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“There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.”
Source: The Shockwave Rider
“There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.”
Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day
“There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.”
“There are two kinds of freedom: one is the freedom from something, which is a reaction; and the other is not a reaction, it is "being free."”
Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1963-1964): The New Mind
“There are two kinds of friends:
Those who would risk everything to further your dreams.
And those who grudgingly show support because they take you for a rival and a threat.”
Source: The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes
“There are two kinds of friendship: the beneficial friendship and the erroneous friendship. The erroneous friendship balances on the principle of "the closer we are, the more okay it is for me to say anything I want to you and for me to treat you any way that I want to, and for me to disrespect you and take advantage of you" while a true friendship is rooted in this principle: "the closer we are, the more respect I have for you, the better I will treat you, the higher I will regard you, the more good things I will wish for you." You will know someone is a true friend by basis of observing their actions towards you as the friendship grows deeper. A true friend will continue to hold you in higher and higher regard while the error of a friend will see your goodwill and newfound fondness as basis to do and say whatever he/she wants, that is disrespectful and non-beneficial to you.”
“There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.”
“There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.”
Source: The North American Review
“There are two kinds of geniuses. The characteristic of the one is roaring, but the lightning is meagre and rarely strikes; the other kind is characterized by reflection by which it constrains itself or restrains the roaring. But the lightning is all the more intense; with the speed and sureness of lightning it hits the selected particular points - and is fatal.”
“There are two kinds of great power which can shake the earth: Mega earthquakes and big ideas!”
“There are two kinds of guilt: the kind that drowns you until you’re useless, and the kind that fires your soul to purpose.”
Source: An Ember in the Ashes
“There are two kinds of hangover: in one you feel ill and incapable, in the other you feel ill and lucid.”
Source: THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN
“There are two kinds of happiness - the temporary pleasure derived primarily from material comfort alone and another more enduring comfort that results from the thorough transformation and development of the mind. We can see in our own lives that the latter form of happiness is superior because when our mental state is calm and happy, we can easily put up with minor pains and physical discomforts. On the other hand, when our mind is restless and upset, the most comfortable physical facilities do not make us happy.”
“There are two kinds of hecklers: the destructive and constructive hecklers.”
“There are two kinds of homeland: one that is given is like a negative, and one that you have to conquer is like the positive.”
“There are two kinds of hope: the kind you couldn't do anything about and the kind you could. And even if the kind you could do something about wasn't what you'd originally wanted, it was still worth doing. A rainy day is better than no day. A small happiness can make a big sadness less sad.”
Source: The Story of Beautiful Girl
“There are two kinds of houses in the neighborhood where I grew up-the ones where the parents stayed married, and the ones where they didn’t.”
Source: Good in Bed
“There are two kinds of humor. One kind that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity -- like what Garrison Keillor does. The other kind holds people up to public contempt and ridicule -- that's what I do. Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel -- it's vulgar.”
“There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.”
“There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists.”
Source: The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West 1911-17
“There are two kinds of individuals on Planet Earth who do not have beards - women and youth.”
“There are two kinds of intelligence in this world. People who are Monopoly smart and people who are Trivial Pursuit smart... If you're starting your own business, don't even talk to me. But If you need to know who the lead singer of Kajagoogoo is, I'm your guy. His name is Limahl, by the way.”
“There are two kinds of investors, be thay large or small: those who don't know where the market is headed, and those who don't know that they don't know.”
“There are two kinds of investors, be they large or small: those who don't know where the market is headed and those who don't know what they don't know. Then again, there is a third type of investor: the investment professional, who indeed knows he doesn't know, but whose livelihood depends upon appearing to know.”
“There are two kinds of jackets - reversible, and reversible but it's hard to zipper up and it looks really stupid.”
“There are two kinds of jokes - funny jokes and Jack Benny jokes.”
“There are two kinds of knowledge, local and universal.”
Source: The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin
“There are two kinds of leaders, cowboys and Shepherds. Cowboys drive and Shepherds lead.”
“There are two kinds of leaders: those who are interested in the flock, and those who are interested in the fleece.”
“There are two kinds of learning, from the inside and from the outside. The first is regarded as the best, or even the only kind. And so people learn through distant journeys, watching, reading, universities and lectures — they learn from what is happening outside them. Man is a stupid creature who has to learn. So he tacks knowledge onto himself, he gathers it like a bee, gaining more and more of it, putting it to use and processing it. But the thing inside that is “stupid” and needs learning doesn’t change.”
Source: Primeval and Other Times
“There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and paternalistic, on the side of one's good conscience. And then there is a liberalism which is more ethical than political; one would have to find another name for this. Something like a profound suspension of judgment.”
“There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.”
“There are two kinds of loss of hope, one is the feeling when your pulse slows down and you are going to die, and there's nothing else left. The other loss of hope is when you're living in a country which becomes insecure, and you don't know what the future is. That's existential.”
“There are two kinds of love: we love wise and kind and beautiful people because we need them, but we love (or try to love) stupid and disagreeable people because they need us. This second kind is the more divine because that is how God loves us: not because we are lovable but because He is love, not because He needs to receive but He delights to give.”
Source: The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950 - 1963
“There are two kinds of luxuries; being alone and being with someone who understands.”
“There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.”
“There are two kinds of marketing: expensive and inexpensive. Expensive marketing is the kind that doesn't work. Inexpensive marketing is the kind that works—regardless of cost.”
Source: Guerrilla Marketing, 4th edition: Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your SmallBusiness
“There are two kinds of marriages, Benny — where the husband quotes the wife, or where the wife quotes the husband.”
“There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.”
Source: Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein
“There are two kinds of men: men who want a wife who is predictable, and men who want a wife who is exotic. For some reason, Peter had thought she was the latter. But even if that had been the case, the problem inherent remains the same-- once she becomes a wife, the exotic becomes familiar, and thus predictable, and thus not what was wanted at all. Those few women who stayed exotic usually were considered, after a few years, to be crazy.”
Source: Still Life with Bread Crumbs
“There are two kinds of men. There are men who are f**king misogynist pigs and then there are men who really love women, who think they’re the most amazing people in the world. And that’s me. Maybe the reason I was promiscuous and wanted to sleep with a lot of them, is that I love them so much.”
“There are two kinds of money : the one you make without expecting it, and the one you expect without making it.”
“There are two kinds of mornings that stand out in my life. The ones where I wake with a nameless dread, and the ones where I wake with a deep sense of joy.”
Source: Four of a Kind
“there are two kinds of music - good music and bad music. Good music is music that I want to hear. Bad music is music that I don't want to hear.”
Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.”
Source: The Duke Ellington Reader
“There are two kinds of music. One comes from the strings of a guitar, the other from the strings of the heart.”
“There are two kinds of music. One comes from the strings of a guitar, the other from the strings of the heart. One sound comes from a chamber orchestra, the other from the beating of the heart's chamber. One comes from an instrument of graphite and wood, the other from an organ of flesh and blood. This loftier music I speak of tonight is more pleasing than the notes of the most gifted composers, more moving than a marching band, more harmonious than a thousand voices joined in hymn and more powerful than all the world's percussion instruments combined. That sweet sound of love.”
“There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.”
“There are two kinds of nations: Those rolling around in the mud and those sailing into the space!”
“There are two kinds of negligence (pramaad). Negligence related to worldly matters is referred to as laziness. When applied awareness as the Self does not remain in matters related to spirituality, then it is referred to as spiritual slumber (pramaad). When constant applied awareness as the Self remains, then One is apramatt (in One's inherent state as the Self).”
Source: Whatever Has Happened is Justice