T Quotes
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“There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.”
“There are two kinds of success. One is the rare kind that comes to the person who has the power to do what no one else has the power to do. That is genius. But the average person who wins what we call success is not a genius. That person is a man or woman who has merely the ordinary qualities that they share with their fellows, but has developed those ordinary qualities to a more than ordinary degree.”
“There are two kinds of suffering - conscious and unconscious. Only a fool suffers unconsciously.”
Source: Views from the Real World
“There are two kinds of suffering in this life. That which pursues us and that which we doggedly pursue.”
“There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.”
“There are two kinds of systems in the world. There are many-party systems and there are two-party systems. And our English cousins, both England, Canada, Australia, India, tend to have majority rule elections, rather than proportional elections and that tends to lead them to have two sort of competing parties. So in England, you know, it's been, you know, since the '20's, that anybody other than Labor or the Conservatives have formed a government and gotten a Prime Minister in the Cabinet, and so on.”
“There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.”
“There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.”
“There are two kinds of terrorism. Rational terrorism such as Palestinian terrorism and apocalyptic terrorism like Sept. 11. You have to distinguish between the two.”
“There are two kinds of theatre, good and bad. Much as I should like to see theatre in America, I would rather have no theatre than bad theatre. What we must strive for is perfection and come as close to it as is humanly possible.”
“There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.”
Source: Pluck and Luck
“There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it. The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.”
Source: Paris to the Moon
“There are two kinds of trouble: The kind you have and the kind you haven't. There are but few of the first sort, but of the second there is no end.”
“There are two kinds of truth in the world, empirical truth and human truth - empirical truth is all about facts, human truth is more than facts - human truth applies facts wisely among other instruments to uplift human condition.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science and the second is art.”
“There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery. The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous."
(Great Thought, February 19, 1938)”
Source: The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler; and English Summer: A Gothic Romance
“There are two kinds of truth. There are real truths, and there are made up truths.”
“There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery.”
“There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.”
Source: The notebooks of Raymond Chandler and English summer: a gothic romance
“There are two kinds of typical days. There's the typical day when I'm writing a novel, and there's the typical day when I'm not.”
“There are two kinds of visual memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your mind, with your eyes open (and then I see Annabel in such general terms as: "honey-colored skin," "thin arms," "brown bobbed hair," "long lashes," "big bright mouth"); and the other when you instantly evoke, with shut eyes, on the dark innerside of your eyelids, the objective, absolutely optical replica of a beloved face, a little ghost in natural colors (and this is how I see Lolita).”
Source: The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated
“There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“There are two kinds of wealth we must focus on creating.
1. Material wealth, of course, is important to pay your bills and live comfortably.
2. And then there is emotional wealth too. This is created only through living a Life of Purpose and by serving the world around you. Accumulating this wealth is what makes you truly happy!”
“There are two kinds of witnesses. One kind is the people that surround you. You are constantly aware that you are being watched, witnessed. With so many eyes watching you, you are reduced to an object... And you are afraid because they may not appreciate you. They may not feed your ego, they may not like you, they may reject you. Now you are in their hands.”
“There are two kinds of women in the world: those who savor, and those who don’t. The ones who savor know how to enjoy a good time when it happens. We dig in the claws and ride a rush as hard and as long as we can.
And then there are those other gals. I don’t know if they feel guilty about having fun or if they take themselves too seriously—or maybe they’re just afraid they’ll get their hair mussed if they throw their head back and have a good time. Whatever it is, they’ll push back from the table at d’Annunzio’s, still flushed from some masterpiece of chocolate-raspberry bliss, and their first words uttered will involve 'walking it off.”
Source: World's Finest: Red Cape, Big City
“There are two kinds of women--those who eat in a crisis and those who lose their appetite in a crisis.”
Source: Baby Proof: A Novel
“There are two kinds of women: those who marry princes and those who marry frogs. The frogs never become princes, but it is an acknowledged fact that a prince may very well, in the course of an ordinary marrige, gradually, at first almost imperceptibly, turn into a frog. Happy the woman who after twenty-five years still wakes up beside the prince she fell in love with.”
Source: The Frog Prince: A Fairy Tale for Consenting Adults
“There are two kinds of world: the one we dream about and the real one.”
“There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.”
“There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.”
“There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren't. With the first, content and form belong together like soul and body; with the second, they match each other like body and clothes.”
“There are two kinds of writers. There are architects and gardeners. The architects do blueprints before they drive the first nail. The gardeners just dig a hole and plant the seed and see what comes up.”
“There are two kinds of writers: hustlers and sanctimonious hustlers.”
“There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.”
“There are two kinds of writing; the one you write and the one that writes you. The one that writes you is dangerous. You go where you don't want to go. You look where you don't want to look.”
Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“There are two kinds: one takes the music too fast, and the other too slow. There is no third!”
“There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.”
“There are two laws that we had better take to be absolute. The first is that as we cannot exempt ourselves from living in this world, then if we wish to live, we cannot exempt ourselves from using the world. If we cannot exempt ourselves from use, then we must deal with the issues raised by use. And so the second law is that if we want to continue living, we cannot exempt use from care.”
“There are two levels of vampirism: one is the regular vampire, which is just like it has always been; and then there's the super vampires, which are a new breed we've created.”
“There are two levels to your pain: the pain that you create now, and the pain from the past that still lives on in your mind and body. Ceasing to create pain in the present and dissolving past pain - this is what I want to talk about now.”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.”
“There are two life-forces in the world I know: Jewish and gentile, ours and yours...I do not believe that this primal difference between gentile and Jew is reconcilable. You and we may come to an understanding, never to a reconciliation. There will be irritation between us as long as we are in intimate contact. For nature and constitution and vision divide us from all of you forever.”
“There are two lights in this universe: The light and the Reason!”
“There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed.”
“There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.”
Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience
“There are two lost continents.... We are one: the lovers.”
Source: Still Life with Woodpecker
“There are two magic acts I want to pull off when I write. One is creating a feeling that when you're inside a book, you believe everything you're reading even when you know it's not true. And the second is an extension of that, which is you know it's not true, you know it's not real, but you believe it anyway. And it's that believing of the story that isn't real that attracted me to writing and storytelling in general.”
“There are two main drivers of asset class returns - inflation and growth.”
“There are two main goals behind ALF actions. The first is obviously to remove as many animals as possible from fur farms, vivisection labs, and other areas of abuse. The second is to cause as much economic damage to these industries and persons as possible.”
“There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.”
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks