T Quotes
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“There are two sides of the Velvet Rope. Those who want to be on the other side and those who are on the other side.”
“There are two sides of wisdom, one side of which God teaches you lessons and advice, and the other side brings failure if you don't like by the politics of that time.”
“There are two sides to a coin may not be always true; as the other side of sweet may be salty as well as sour.”
“There are two sides to a pancake. One is brown and fluffy; the other is burnt.”
“There are two sides to a person's being - the superconscious and the conscious. These have reverberations in the popular works of Carlos Castaneda, in the don Juan terminology of the tonal and the nagual.”
“There are two sides to being pigeonholed. There's, 'Oh, no, I'm going to be Chandler for the rest of my life,' but there's also the fact that getting to play Chandler opened up doors to me. It's now my job to find things that shake it up a little bit.”
“There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks!”
“There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“There are two sides to every question.”
“There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.”
“There are two sides to every story. And I do mean every story, no matter how wrong you think it might be.”
Source: Thelema: Book 0 - The Fool
“There are two sides to every story, as if that explains and justifies everything! You know what I say when someone tells me that? I say well of course there are two sides to every story, and one side is WRONG!”
Source: Carmen's New York Romance Trilogy
“There are two sides to every story — especially if you’re a hypocrite.”
Source: Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One
“There are two sides to every wing and it's difficult to see both of them at the same time. - The Malwatch”
“There are two sides to increasing energy. One is avoiding loss. The other is learning how to gain energy.”
“There are two sides to self-discovery, as in most things, an outer more popular side and an inner side. The popular side presents more of a simplified form.”
“There are two sides to the life of every man, his individual life which is the more free the more abstract its interests, and his elemental swarm-life in which he inevitably obeys laws laid down for him.
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity. A deed done is irrevocable, and its result coinciding in time with the actions of millions of other men assumes an historic significance. The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the more people he is connected with and the more power he has over others, the more evident is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.
‘The king’s heart is in the hands of the Lord.’
A king is history’s slave.
History, that is, the unconscious, general, swarm-life of mankind, uses every moment of the life of kings as a tool for its own purposes.”
Source: War and Peace
“There are two sides to this Baptism: The first is, you possess the Spirit; The second is that the Spirit possesses you.”
Source: Faith That Prevails
“There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.”
“There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again.”
“There are two singles I did with Noah Breakfast, ["Talkin Greezy" and "New Phone (Who Dis),"] which was a cool experience. So it's cool either way, I think. It depends on the relationship you have with the other person - not everybody is going to work the same way.”
“There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation.”
“There are two sorts of affection - the love of a woman you respect, and the love for the woman you love.”
Source: The Social Plays of Arthur Wing Pinero
“There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with the resulting modifications, brings with it a very complicated richness, which the art critic ought to try to discover.”
“There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant.”
“There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other, a vice.”
Source: Works
“There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.”
“There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and tlak much of free grace, but at the same time make a righteousness of their discoveries and of their humiliation, and exalt themselves to heaven with them.”
Source: The Works of President Edwards in Four Volumes: A Reprint of the Worcester Edition, with Valuable Additions and a Copious General Index
“There are two sorts of ignorance: we philosophize to escape ignorance; we start from the one, we repose in the other; they are the goals from which and to which we tend; and the pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is only a traveling from grave to grave.”
“There are two sorts of losers - the good loser, and the one who can't act.”
“There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next.”
“There are two sorts of pity: one is a balm and the other a poison; the first is realized by our friends, the last by our enemies.”
“There are two sorts of sick consciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon.”
Source: Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide
“There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth”
“There are two sources of error: Either you lack sufficient data, or you fail to take advantage of the data that you have.”
“There are two specific objections to use of psychedelic drugs.First,use of these drugs may be dangerous.Howev er,every worth-while exploration is dangerous-climb ing mountains,testi ng aircraft,rocket ing into outer space,or collecting botanical specimens in jungles.But if you value knowledge & the actual delight of exploration more than mere duration of uneventful life,you are willing to take the risks.”
“There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.”
Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There
“there are two spiritual tests: The patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be diappointed to what you have encounter.”
“There are two statements about human beings that are true: that all human beings are alike, and that all are different. On those two facts all human wisdom is founded.”
“There are two states in Life: Existing and Living. You exist when you are unhappy and are merely floating around like deadwood. Living is a constantly evolving state…over time, and through your lived experiences, you graduate from just being to experiencing immersion to dissolving…momentarily, you too have experienced losing yourself, dissolving in devotion (in bhakti, in prayer), in sex, in music, in dance. But you have the option to remain dissolved forever, to be lost in what you love doing…when you attain that state, that is your Bliss experience…”
“There are two stories for every life; the one you live & the one others tell”
“There are two strains, I think, in American playwriting, of importance. One is traditional narrative realism, which is definitely my strain, and then the other great contribution is American musical theater, which is a whole other kettle of fish.”
“There are two styles of walls "opus reticulatum," now used by everybody and the ancient style called "opus incertum." Of these, the reticulatum looks better, but its construction makes it likely to crack. On the other hand, in the opus incertum, the rubble lying in courses and imbricated, makes a wall which though not beautiful, is stronger.”
“There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and the sub-division of counties into wards. I consider the continuance of republican government as absolutely hanging on these two hooks.”
Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson
“There are two sure ways to fail: never get started and quit before you succeed. Many companies promote the language of risk-taking and innovation but are so concerned with short term profit goals that their culture discourages innovation (trying new things) and abandons promising projects too soon. It shouldn't require exceptional moral courage to try new things and stick with them.”
“There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend.”
Source: The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:
“There are two synergistic approaches for increasing productivity that are inversions of each other:
1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20).
2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson's Law).
The best solution is to use both together: Identify the few critical tasks that contribute most to income and schedule them with very short and clear deadlines.”
“There are two tendencies in all our war talk.... The first is to boast, if not of ourselves and our deeds, at least of our army, our corps, our regiments. The other is to find fault with, to criticize, to censure, to condemn others. If there is a victory, we gained it and must have the credit of it. If there is a failure, it was the fault of the other fellow,--he must be blamed for it.”
“There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up, do you feel in the pit of your stomach you can't wait to go to work? And when you're ready to go home Friday afternoon, do you say, 'I can't wait to go home?'”
“There are two tests that we [writers] have for all of our writing: So What? and Who Cares? There is an answer to both. The answer to Who Cares is that a reader cares, if the writing is good. The answer to So What is that these ideas give us completely new understanding, change our sense of who we [people] are and why we're here [on this planet].”