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“Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‘Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path.’ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.”

People Ifs Men Two Government Order Asks Opinion Path Humble Be Good Every Man Diverse Governance Good Governance

Author:Pope Francis

“I eat excellent bread, clean meat, good crisp veggies, organic fruits and nice wine and cheese. It is one of the things I am truly grateful for. I'm not kidding. You can't ask a single mother of three working two jobs for minimum wage to eat that way. I am lucky.”

Way Two Jobs Mother Three Asks Nice Lucky Grateful Wine Clean Fruit Bread Excellent Meat Cheese Minimum Minimum Wage Crisps Single Mother Two Jobs Wine And Cheese

Author:Rachael Taylor

“If someone should ask me, 'What does the soul do?' I would say, It does two things. It loves. And it creates. Those are its primary acts.”

Ifs Should Doe Two Soul Asks Primaries Ask Me Two Things

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“I've had two fights within a month and I can't ask for more than that.”

I Can Two Fighting Asks Months

Author:Billy Joe Saunders

“Life's two most important questions are Why? and Why not? The trick is knowing which one to ask.”

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Book:Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now

Source: Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now

“If there is something that you have to do, resist the temptation to do it under duress. Ask yourself, "What's the worst thing that would happen if I didn't do this?" And if you can get away with not doing it at all, don't do it. And then imagine what would it feel like to have this done. Spend a day or two, if you can, just 15 minutes here, 5 minutes here, 2 minutes here, here and here, imagining it completed in a way that pleases you! And then, the next time you decide that you're going to take action about it, the action is going to be a whole lot easier.”

Ifs Way Feels Two Done Whole Happens Action Next Asks Imagine Minutes Worst Easier Please Temptation Get Away Next Time Worst Things Completion Completing Duress

Author:Esther Hicks

“What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press him further, you have the choice of two things - either to lose your loan or lose your friend.”

Ifs May Made Two Choices Asks Lost Loses Loss Enemy Kindness Presses Two Things Loan

Author:Plautus

“After every difficulty, ask yourself two questions: 'What did I do right?' and 'What would I do differently?”

Two Asks Difficulty

Book:The Gift of Self-Confidence

Source: The Gift of Self-Confidence

“This is advertising that is designed not to look or feel like advertising at all. The one thing we felt we got parents to agree with was that if their children ask them questions about enlisting, they had an obligation to, one, engage, and then two, be informed.”

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Author:Edward Boches

“If future generations ask us what we are fighting for [in World War Two], we shall tell them the story of Lidice.”

Ifs World Two War Stories Fighting Asks Generations War Of The Worlds Future Generation World War Two

Author:Frank Knox

“In order for a musician to grow, he's got to pay his dues. Some musicians ask me, 'well, what do you mean? You're saying I have to 'starve' and pay all these dues just to play jazz?' And my answer to them is, well, to some degree, yes! Because in order to play jazz you have to live it. Those notes mean something. They don't just come from your brain, they come from your heart and soul too. And in order to have that heart and soul you have to experience life. So I relate my music to my life and my life style. You can't separate the two.”

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Author:Woody Shaw

“When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier, I immediately ask, 'Why?'”

Knows Men Two Book Fighting Asks Plot Frontiers

Author:Nicolas Roeg

“Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings to swear eternal love; the fight at once commences and victory, that is to say liberty, remains in the hands of the cleverer of the two.”

Two Hands Fighting Asks Heaven Liberty Couple Victory Blessing Eternal Remains Swear Undertakings Eternal Love

Book:The Physiology of Marriage

Source: The Physiology of Marriage

“Christianity has held back any further advances in human consciousness for the past thousand years. And for the past century it's been in direct conflict with its illegitimate offspring, Communism (again with a capital C). Both ask the individual to sacrifice his self-interest to the higher goals of the organization. (Which is okay by me as long as it's voluntary; but as soon as either becomes too big - and takes on that damned capital C - they stop asking for cooperation and start demanding it.) Any higher states of human enlightenment have been sacrificed between these two monoliths.”

“The great Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen, wrote, "One of these days, the younger generation will come knocking at my door." The future is knocking at our door right now. Make no mistake, the next generation will ask us one of two questions. Either they will ask: "What were you thinking; why didn't you act?" Or they will ask instead: "How did you find the moral courage to rise and successfully resolve a crisis that so many said was impossible to solve?”

“Love is such a simple thing when we have only one-and-twenty summers and a sweet girl of seventeen trembles under our glance, as if she were a bud first opening her heart with wondering rapture to the morning. Such young unfurrowed souls roll to meet each other like two velvet peaches that touch softly and are at rest; they mingle as easily as two brooklets that ask for nothing but to entwine themselves and ripple with ever-interlacing curves in the leafiest hiding-places.”

Source: Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus

“There are two kinds of characters in all fiction, the born and the synthetic. If the writer has to ask himself questions - is he tall, is he short? - he had better quit.”

Ifs Kind Two Character Asks Born Fiction Quitting Tall Synthetic

Author:Rex Stout

“The industry has changed. Two years ago I could tell a company I've got Russell Crowe and that would get the film made. Now they'd ask 'And who's the girl?' Just one famous face isn't enough any more.”

Years Made Two Enough Film Faces Girl Asks Company Changed Industry Years Ago Just One Two Years Two Years Ago

Author:Gary Oldman

“As if our happiness, our good fortune, might rub off, contestants ask us for a light: they brush up against us in the halls, pull strands of hair off our clothing. Whenever we leave our bed, our room -- not often -- two or three are sure to be lurking just outside our door.”

Ifs Two Light Might Three Asks Rooms Doors Hair Bed Fortune Halls Clothings Brushes Good Fortune Strands Lurking Contestants

Author:Kelly Link

“We can each sit and wait to die, from the very day of our births. Those of us who do not do so, choose to ask - and to answer - the two questions that define every conscious creature: What do I want? and What will I do to get it? Which are, finally, only one question: What is my will? Caine teaches us that the answer is always found within our own experience; our lives provide the structure of the question, and a properly phrased question contains its own answer.”

Want Two Dies Asks Found Waiting Answers Teach Our Lives Birth Creatures Conscious Structure

Author:Matthew Woodring Stover

“People ask me, Jimmy, howd you get here tonight. Lets just say it involved a two-hour make-out session with Elaine Stritch. It got pretty heavy actually, I almost had to host.”

People Two Asks Hours Involved Heavy Ask Me Tonight Host Session Jimmy Make Out

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once remarked that if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you five, that is a mistake. But if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you ninety-seven, that is no longer a mistake. The man you are talking to is operating with a wholly different logic from your own.”

Ifs Men Two Different Asks Mistake Talking Five He Man Logic Seven Philosopher Plus Ninety

Author:Thomas Friedman

“We want stuff done right. As long as it's my team, I'll voice my opinion. Yep, it's my team. You media guys might give it to him, like you've given him everything else his whole lifetime, but this is the Diesel's ship. And if we're not right, I'm going to go out there and try to get it right... Just ask Karl and Garywhy they wanted to come here. It was because of one person, not two. One.”

Ifs Want Giving Trying Persons Long Two Done Whole Might Wanted Guy Asks Given Stuff Voice Opinion Team Media Like You Basketball Lifetime Whole Life Ships Diesel Lakers

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“I think actually the American people are pretty realistic. In polls they ask what do you think of the president's policies. Is he on the right track? They say yes. They ask them how long will it take for the economy to recover. And people are saying two years.”

People Thinking Years Long Two Asks President Economy Policy Track Two Years Realistic Polls Right Track

Author:Austan Goolsbee

“In this world, man has two significant possessions: intelligence and emotion. These two possessions govern our day-to-day life. But very often we see that emotion (ego) gets the upper hand in our life. We know that even if someone is extremely intelligent, when his emotion comes to the fore it will devour him. He is compelled to do what his emotion asks him to do.”

Ifs Knows Men World Two Hands Asks Emotion Our Lives This World Ego Intelligent Possession Significant Day To Day Compelled Day Life Day To Day Life Upper Hand

Author:Sri Chinmoy

“You must overcome any shyness and have a conversation with the librarian, because he can offer you reliable advice that will save you much time. You must consider that the librarian (if not overworked or neurotic) is happy when he can demonstrate two things: the quality of his memory and erudition and the richness of his library, especially if it is small. The more isolated and disregarded the library, the more the librarian is consumed with sorrow for its underestimation. A person who asks for help makes the librarian happy.”

Ifs Persons Two Helping Asks Memories Quality Advice Sorrow Offers Conversation Overcoming Library Two Things Isolated Consumed Librarian Richness Neurotic Shyness Disregarded Erudition

Author:Umberto Eco

“Do you ask what sort of a maid I desire or dislike, Flaccus? I dislike one too easy and one too coy. The just mean, which lies between the two extremes, is what I approve; I like neither that which tortures nor that which cloys.”

Mean Two Lying Desire Asks Easy Extremes Torture Dislike Maids Two Extremes

Book:The Epigrams of Martial

Source: The Epigrams of Martial

“A friar who asks alms for God's sake begs for two.”

Two Asks Charity Sake Alms Friars

Author:Pedro Calderon de la Barca

“I think we ought to have a new rule: You can ask two questions, and then we can pick the one we want to answer.”

Thinking Want Two Asks Answers Ought Picks

Book:Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001

Source: Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001

“On everything you need to hear other people's opinions. It's the only way to do things. You ask a friend's advice and then between the two of you things somehow get clearer.”

People Way Needs Two Asks Opinion Advice

Author:Shmuel Yosef Agnon

“Heart surgeons do not have the world's smallest egos: when you ask them to name the world's three leading practitioners, they never can remember the names of the other two.”

World Heart Two Remember Three Asks Names Ego Doctors Smallest Surgeons

Book:Windy City Blues

Source: Windy City Blues

“And looking into the face of ... one dead man we see two dead, the man and the life of the woman who gave him birth; the life she wrought into his life! And looking into his dead face someone asks a woman, what does a woman know about war? What, what, friends in the face of a crime like that, what does man know about war?”

Knows Men Doe Two War Faces Asks Crime He Man Birth Dead Man

Author:Anna Howard Shaw

“I ask two questions when I am confronting life on a moment to moment basis when something important is happening. (1) What is factually happening right now? (2) What does my soul know about this and want me to know about this? It is amazing that when I give myself 20-25 seconds to seriously consider these questions, almost instantly I will arrive at a deeper awareness and a richer understanding of what is happening right now - from the soul's level of awareness.”

Knows Want Giving Doe Two Important Soul Moments Asks Understanding Levels Awareness Right Now Happenings Bases Deeper My Soul Seconds Want Me Confronting

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it.”

Way Needs Looks Two Asks Demand Architect Clients Two Ways

Author:Rem Koolhaas

“Ask yourself if you would feel comfortable giving your two best friends a key to your house. If not, look for some new best friends.”

Ifs Giving Feels Looks Two Home Asks House Keys Comfortable Two Best Friends

Author:H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“But many, many stories were told; from what could be gathered, all fifty of the mine's inhabitants had reacted on each other, two by two, as in combinatorial analysis, that is to say, everyone with all the others, and especially every man with all the women, old maids or married, and every woman with all the men. All I had to do was to select two names at random, better if different sex, and ask a third person, "What happened with those two?" and lo and behold, a splendid story was unfolded for me, since everyone knew the story of everyone else.”

Ifs Men Persons Two Different Stories Asks Names Sex Happened Mines He Man Married Thirds Mathematics Every Man Analysis Fifty Splendid Select Maids Third Person Old Maids

Author:Primo Levi

“I have pictures of me sitting in the racquetball court in my pajamas with an acoustic guitar, and Wolfgang is probably just two-and-a-half-feet tall. I'll never forget the day I saw his foot tapping along in beat! I knew then, I couldn't wait for the day I'd be able to make music with my son. I don't know what more I could ask for.”

Knows Two Able Asks Waiting Forget Half Saws Feet Son Beats Sitting Court Guitar My Son Never Forget Tall Acoustics Pajamas Tapping Acoustic Guitar Racquetball

Author:Eddie Van Halen

“I ask everyone with political responsibility to remember two things: human dignity and the common good.”

Humans Two Remember Political Asks Common Responsibility Dignity Two Things Common Good Human Dignity Political Responsibility

Author:Pope Francis

“Thus, after a period of about two thousand years the greatest crime became to worship a god other than the God of Moses, whereas injustice became a minor sin. I began to ask myself how this change had come about. Was it linked to a new order in which the female goddesses had been replaced by one male god?”

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Book:Walking through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi

Source: Walking through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi

“The thing about being irresponsible is it's only cute till you are about twenty-two or so, then it becomes a liability. One day you wake up under a pizza box, the television blaring in your bedroom, the laundry piled up over what might be a bedside table, and you ask yourself: 'How did my life get like this? Why don't people like me? Didn't I have a cat and what is that smell?'”

People Two Might Asks Television One Day Cat Wake Up Twenties Tables Boxes Smell Like Me Cute Bedroom Pizza Irresponsible Laundry Liability Twenty Two

Author:Donald Miller

“"Well, well!" said my aunt. "I only ask. I don't depreciate her. Poor little couple! And so you think you were formed for one another, and are to go through a party-supper-table kind of life, like two pretty pieces of confectionery, do you, Trot?"”

Thinking Love Wells Kind Littles Said Two Asks Poor Party Pieces Couple Tables Aunt Supper Well Said Depreciate

Book:Life and Times of Charles Dickens: Autobiographical Novels, Stories, London Society Sketches, Travel Memoirs, Letters & Biographies (Illustrated): David Copperfield, Sketches by Boz, American Notes, Pictures From Italy, Reprinted Pieces, Sunday Under Three Heads, The Uncommercial Traveller, My Father as I Recall Him by Mamie Dickens…

Source: Life and Times of Charles Dickens: Autobiographical Novels, Stories, London Society Sketches, Travel Memoirs, Letters & Biographies (Illustrated): David Copperfield, Sketches by Boz, American Notes, Pictures From Italy, Reprinted Pieces, Sunday Under Three Heads, The Uncommercial Traveller, My Father as I Recall Him by Mamie Dickens…

“Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises; the battle is not slow to start, and victory, that is to say freedom, goes to the cleverest.”

Love Two Asks Heaven Marriage Victory Battle Blessing Partners Enterprise Fierce Audacious

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Whenever I hear about a child needing something, I ask myself, 'Is it what he needs or what he wants?' It isn't always easy to distinguish between the two. A child has many real needs which can and should be satisfied. His wants are a bottomless pit. He wants, for example, to sleep with his parents. He needs to be in his own bed. At Christmas he wants every toy advertised on television. He needs only one or two.”

Want Needs Should Children Two Real Asks Easy Parent Sleep Responsibility Example Television Bed Satisfied Toys Pits

Author:Haim Ginott

“Two and two make four. Nature doesn't ask your advice. She isn't interested in your preferences or whether or not you approve of her laws. You must accept nature as she is with all the consequences that that implies.”

Two Law Asks Accepting Four Advice Consequence Preference

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I don't think women can have it all. I just don't think so...My husband and I have been married for 34 years, and we have two daughters. And every day you have to make a decision about whether you are going to be a wife or a mother. In fact, many times during the day you have to make those decisions...We co-opted our families to help us. We plan our lives meticulously so we can be decent parents. But if you ask our daughters, I'm not sure they will say that I've been a good mom.”

“Our American past always speaks to us with two voices: the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him? Citizens ask, What do they mean to us? Historians are trained to seek the original meaning; all of us want to know the present meaning.”

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Author:Daniel J. Boorstin

“The most famous self-made man in the world today is our own Edison. Talk with Mr. Edison and he will tell you he owes much if not most of his success to omnivorous reading. Forbes is one of his favorite publications. How closely he reads it can be gathered from a letter just received from him in which he asks the editor to forward a long analytical letter to the writer of a series of articles which contained two figures Mr. Edison questions, and he wants to know exactly on what authority or investigation they were based. Both letters were the product of Mr. Edison and were signed by him.”

“My mom always said that she didn't wear a red nose and big shoes because that's the reason people are scared of clowns. My dad is a sociology teacher, so he probably figured that out with her. Those are the things that are exaggerated, that don't give off the signals of humans. You know, if you draw a picture of a circle and ask somebody to feel empathy with the circle, they won't. But if you draw literally two, three dots inside the circle, like two eyes and a nose, you immediately feel empathy.”