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Source: The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes

“I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received, and heard him muse incredulously: "An old-fashioned naval battle. A war between two civilized nations, perhaps with even a declaration of war, and later a peace conference. Wow." No hostages, no nukes, no ideologies, no religious fanaticism; just a fair-and-square war over national interests - hard to believe, in this day and age.”

“I peed in my wife's boot once. On honeymoon, in Madrid, we were drinking absinthe and somehow made it back to our hotel. I don't remember a second of this, but my wife woke up to this noise. Two of her boots were in the corner, one had fallen down and the other was standing up and I was peeing into it! It was a hole, and it looked like a toilet. She said: "Rob, wake up, you're peeing into my shoe!"”

Made Said Two Remember Wife Standing Wake Up Down And Drinking Shoes Corners My Wife Holes Noise Made It Fallen Hotel Boots Toilets Honeymoon Madrid Absinthe

Author:Rob Corddry

“Next-door a baker's apprentice with his wife, an employee in a printing-shop, she has inflammation of the ovaries. Wonder what those two get out of life? Well, first of all, they get each other, then last Sunday a vaudeville and a film, then this or that club meeting and a visit to his parents. Nothing else? Well now, don't drop dead, sir. Add to that nice weather, bad weather, country picnics, standing in front of the stove, eating breakfast and so on. And what more do you get, you, captain, general, jockey, whoever you are? Don't fool yourself.”

“The choreographed standing and clapping of one side of the room - while the other side sits - is unbecoming of a serious institution and the message that it sends is that even on a night when the president is addressing the entire nation, we in Congress cannot sit as one, but must be divided as two.”

Two Night Nations Sides President Rooms Serious Messages Standing Institutions Congress Divided Law Enforcement Clapping Unbecoming

Author:Mark Udall

“In healthy families, children discover (through being listened to) that what they have to say is important and that their experiences and ideas (and they themselves) have worth. They are encouraged to think for themselves, express opinions, and make decisions for themselves. Parents supporting them in standing on their own two feet and doing what they think is right. Trusting and gaining confidence in themselves, they develop an inner locus of control.”

Thinking Children Two Important Ideas Parent Decision Opinion Feet Healthy Standing Independence Gaining Confidence Healthy Family

Book:On the Wings of Self-esteem: A Companion for Personal Transformation

Source: On the Wings of Self-esteem: A Companion for Personal Transformation

“Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place - and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all - so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time.”

People Persons Doe Two Truth Truth Is Standing I Have Learned Rainbow

Book:Inversions

Source: Inversions

“You're standing in the cage and you've got two options - you can quit or you can continue going, and I'm not a quitter.”

Two Standing Quitting Cages Quitter Two Options

Author:Rich Franklin

“I never have free time, I don't know about you. You ever go to the cash machine, there's two people in line in front of you and you get kinda flustered, you're like "Forget it! I'm not standing here for 40 seconds. I got things to do, okay?"”

People Knows Two Humor Funny Lines Forget Fronts Standing Okay Machines Things To Do Seconds Cash Forget It Free Time

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“It's not hard to be sexy when you're standing in front of Angelina Jolie or Robin Wright Penn. They're two of the most beautiful women in the world and two of the finest actresses. I think that if you're with people who are good in your profession they become sexy because they're good at what they do. I enjoyed being 6ft 6ins, having an eight pack and a long todger, you know? If I fold mine in half it's the same length!”

“In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year - year after year - we have an average of two million automobiles standing in front of red lights with their engines going, the energy for which amounts to that generated by the full of efforts of 200 million horses being completley wasted as they jump up and down going nowhere.”

“Standing between these two guys you'd have to be me to know how I'm feelin'!”

Knows Two Guy Know How Standing Two Guys

Author:Buddy Guy

“That's proof right there that men and women are on different levels because men can watch two women together and that's a turn-on. It doesn't work the same way for us, does it, ladies? No, uh-uh - it doesn't work the same. You ask any woman in here her sexual fantasy, and I will bet you a million dollars that it's NOT to go home and catch your man bent over with some big, burly guy standing behind him.”

Men Way Doe Two Different Home Bigs Together Guy Turns Asks Levels Behinds Watches Millions Fantasy Men And Women Standing Dollars Proof Bent Turn-on Million Dollars Different Levels

Author:Wanda Sykes

“I don't like waking up. I feel like staying in bed usually, but I can't because I've got two kids standing next to my bed, just eager to live another day.”

Feels I Can Two Kids Next Bed Standing Wake Up Staying Waking Another Day

Author:Louis C. K.

“What then is to be the lot of Rossetti's fame and influence? 'An amateur who failed in two arts', it is true; yet it hardly harms Rossetti or touches his standing. On the contrary, it defines both very brilliantly. The small word 'failed' is a small word and little more to artists who are forever going on until they give up over a game that must be lost. Every artist, when confronted by the immensities of art, which is life, must confess to failure. A failure is a thing very relative.”

Giving Littles Art Two Artist Games Lost Forever Influence Fame Giving Up Standing Harm Contrary Relative Immensity Small Words

Author:Ford Madox Ford

“Three and a half million years ago our ancestors - yours and mine - left these traces [indicates footprints]. We stood up and parted ways from them. Once we were standing on two feet, our eyes were no longer fixated on the ground. Now, we were free to look up and wonder.”

Way Years Looks Two Eye Three Left Half Wonder Millions Feet Mines Years Ago Standing Look Up Ancestor Footprint Stood Up

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“If there is a showdown, two enormous nations, Russia and China, standing side-by-side, will defeat fascism!”

Ifs Two Nations Sides Standing Defeat China Russia Enormous Fascism Showdowns

Author:Andre Vltchek

“I have two daughters, it really means a lot to me to have two women standing now and being the PM.”

Mean Two Daughter Standing Really Mean Pms Two Daughters

Author:Iain Duncan Smith

“When I see a salt and pepper standing next to a bottle of ketchup, to me that's obviously a parent and two children, you know? Isn't it for everybody?”

Knows Children Two Next Parent Standing Bottles Salt Peppers Ketchup Salt And Pepper

Author:Richard McGuire

“I think there are many people in the working class who say, you know what? Yes, maybe we are better off than we were eight years ago, but I am still working two or three jobs, my kid can't afford to go to college, I can't afford child care, my real wages have been going down for 40 years. The middle class is shrinking. Who's standing up for me?”

“You cannot dissociate birth from death, creation from destruction, good from evil. Thus any art is a form of drama standing between the two extreme poles of birth and death, just like life is drama. This is not sad, because to be alive means to be mortal, to pass through.”

Mean Art Two Form Life Is Evil Alive Creation Birth Drama Art Is Standing Destruction Extremes Mortals Birth And Death Two Extremes

Author:Paul Virilio

“If you and I took a walk down a shopping street in Jo'burg or Cape Town or London, we see two guys looking in a shop window, we think, "Oh, they're wondering what they're going to buy." A cop looks at them and thinks, "Why are they standing there? Are they doing a drug deal? Are they going to mug someone? Are they going to rob the shop?"”

Ifs Thinking Looks Two Guy Walks Deals Wonder Streets Drug Standing Window Towns London Shops Shopping Cop Standing There Capes Mug Two Guys Cape Town Shop Windows

Author:Peter James

“The [Donald] Trump administration got rid of the number one and number two most senior people ahead of [Dan fried] in the foreign service, so that did make him the most senior person still standing - but now he`s out, too.”

People Persons Stills Two Numbers Trump Standing Administration Senior Foreign Service

Author:Rachel Maddow

“The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.”

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Author:George McGovern

“I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill.”

Years Two Lasts Mother Lost Stuff Parent Terrible Picks Standing Two Years Funeral Terrible Things Mills Standing There

Author:Terry Pratchett

“And if these mountains had eyes, they would wake to find two strangers in their fences, standing in admiration as a breathing red pours its tinge upon earth's shore. These mountains, which have seen untold sunrises, long to thunder praise but stand reverent, silent so that man's weak praise should be given God's attention.”

Source: Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road

“The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.”

Two Reason Three Race Enemy Five Arms Weapons Standing Nuclear Absurd Cold War Gasoline Peacemaking Arms Race Nuclear Arms Petrol Nuclear Arms Race Sagan

Author:Carl Sagan

“In truth, there are only two realities: the one for people who are in love or love each other, and the one for people who are standing outside all that.”

People Two Reality Standing Love Each Other

Book:The feast of love

Source: The feast of love

“I stood looking down out of the window. The street seemed miles down. Suddenly I felt as if I'd flung myself out of the window. I could see myself lying on the pavement. Then I seemed to be standing by the body on the pavement. I was two people. Blood and brains were scattered everywhere. I knelt down and began licking up the blood and brains”

People Ifs Two Body Lying Felt Brain Blood Streets Standing Window Down And Miles Pavement Looking Down Licking

Author:Doris Lessing

“Statues lined the stairs and stood, dotted across the roof. But they had been brutalized by time and the weather. Some were missing arms. Many had no faces. Once they had been saints and angels. Two hundred years standing in London had turned them into cripples.”

Years Two Faces Missing Arms Hundred Angel Standing Saint London Weather Roof Statues Stairs Cripples

Book:Scorpia

Source: Scorpia

“The Master Speed No speed of wind or water rushing by but you have speed far greater. You can climb back up a stream of radiance to the sky, and back through history up the stream of time. And you were given this swiftness, not for haste nor chiefly that you may go where you will, but in the rush of everything to waste, that you may have the power of standing still-- off any still or moving thing you say. Two such as you with such a master speed From one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.”

May Stills Two Together Moving Life Is Given Water Greater Sky Wind Masters Waste Standing Wings Speed Streams Climbs Haste Rushing Radiance Standing Still Oar Swiftness

Book:A Further Range

Source: A Further Range

“When people discuss his plays, he says that he feels like he's standing at customs watching an official ransack his luggage. He cheerfully declares responsibility for a play about two people, and suddenly the officer is finding all manner of exotic contraband like the nature of God and identity, and while he can't deny that they're there, he can't for the life of him remember putting them there. In the end, a play is not the product of an idea; an idea is the product of a play.”

People Feels Two Ideas Ends Play Remember Responsibility Identity Products Findings Standing Deny Officials Customs Officers Exotic Luggage

Author:Tom Stoppard

“Standing Here My entire world far beneath my feet, I should be filled with pride. Instead, I feel overwhelmed by a sense of defeat. Suddenly it comes to me, toes tempted to test the ledge, that there is a way out of this. Clam surety flows through my veins, and as I turn to wave good-bye, I wonder if it will hurt or if a single person will cry at my funeral. I take a deep breath, a final taste of sweet mountain air. I conjure Leona, Emily. Move my feet closer. Closer There's Grandma One, Grandma Two, and their spouses, waiting for me. I see Dad. Cara. Mommy. I screw up my courage, step over”

“Think of two people, living together day after day, year after year, in this small space, standing elbow to elbow cooking at the same small stove, squeezing past each other on the narrow stairs, shaving in front of the same small bathroom mirror, constantly jogging, jostling, bumping against each other’s bodies by mistake or on purpose, sensually, aggressively, awkwardly, impatiently, in rage or in love – think what deep though invisible tracks they must leave, everywhere, behind them!”

Source: Where Joy Resides: An Isherwood Reader

“Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.”

Ifs Wells Two Enough Strong Family Marriage Too Much Built Standing Posts Novelists Collapse Strong Enough Being Strong Porch Stand Strong

Book:The Secret Life of Prince Charming

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“Magnus stood up and went to the window. He pushed the curtain back, letting in just enough light to silhouette his hawklike profile. "Blood," he said, half to himself. "I had a dream two nights ago. I saw a city all of blood, with towers made of bone, and blood ran in the streets like water." Simon slewed his eyes over to Jace. "Is standing by the window muttering about blood something he does all the time?" "No," said Jace, "sometimes he sits on the couch and does it.”

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels

“So it’s still standing?” he managed to get out between his snickers. “I would’ve thought you two had knocked it to rubble by now. What were you doing last night? Discussing the national debt?” Emmett howled with laughter.”

Stills Two Lasts Night Laughter Standing Debt Last Night Discussing National Debt Rubble Snickers

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“...we were like two people standing apart on separate mountain peaks, recklessly leaning forward to throw stones at one another, unaware of the dangerous chasm that separated us.”

People Two Dangerous Mountain Standing Stones Chasms Mountain Peaks Standing Apart

Book:The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“Barrel of the gun, rounds one two three She says I have to pick: choose you, or choose me Metal to the temple, the explosion is deafening Lick the blood that covers me She’s the last one standing “Roulette” Collateral Damage, Track 11”

Two Lasts Three Blood Picks Gun Standing Rounds Track Damage Temples Metals Explosions Barrels Collateral Roulette Collateral Damage Where She Went Choose Me

Book:Where She Went

Source: Where She Went

“Damnit.' Isabelle, standing in the mouth of the alley, her wet black hair like a cloak around her shoulders, kicked a trash can out of her way and glowered. 'Oh, for goodness's sake,' she said. 'I can't believe you two. Why? What's wrong with bedrooms? And pivacy?”

Way Believe Said I Can Two Black Hair Goodness Mouths Standing Sake Shoulders Wet Bedroom Trash Alleys Cloaks Isabelle Lightwood Black Hair Trash Cans

Author:Cassandra Clare

“Standing in a two-hour line makes people worry that they're not living in a democratic nation. People stand in line for two houres and they go over the edge.”

People Two Nations Hours Lines Worry Standing Democratic Edges Over The Edge

Book:Holidays on Ice

Source: Holidays on Ice

“A uniform cordoned off the area with crime scene tape. The M.E. pulled in and parked. There were two EMT trucks idling at the edge of the lot. I’d stayed close to the back door, and one of the Rangeman guys had taken a position two feet from me, standing at parade rest. No doubt in my mind he’d take a bullet for me rather than face Ranger over a dead Stephanie.”

Source: Janet Evanovich 3-Book Variety Summer Bundle: The Heist, Wicked Business, Smokin' Seventeen

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