“I was in the gym five days a week, two hours a day. At one point, I was going seven days straight. I had put on a lot of weight, and then I started losing it drastically, so I was worried. It turned out I was overworking myself. My trainer told me that I couldn't break a sweat, because I was burning more calories than I was putting on.” TwoHoursBreakFiveWeekLosingWeightSevenBurningWorriedGymSweatTrainersCaloriesSeven Days Author:Taylor Lautner
“We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We ought to break our days and our marches into two.” MadeTwoPlaySleepBreakMorningOughtEightClockMarchMidnight Book:My Early Life: 1874-1904 Source: My Early Life: 1874-1904
“Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers, and the two groups watch each other's strange behavior with apparent bewilderment. But unlike the inhabitants of Lilliput, who fought holy crusades over the question at which end to break the egg, the potato-washing monkeys do not go to war with the non-washers, because the poor creatures have no language which would enable them to declare washing a diving commandment and eating unwashed potatoes a deadly heresy.” TwoWarEndsSometimesLanguagePoorWatchesBreakTakenGroupsSocietyStrangeHolyCreaturesBehaviorEatingRiversEggsCommandmentsTribesMonkeysPotatoesHeresyWashingCrusadesDivingBewilderment Author:Arthur Koestler
“You don't like a particular policy or a particular president? Then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election. Push to change it. But don't break it. Don't break what our predecessors spent over two centuries building. That's not being faithful to what this country's about.” TwoCountryWinningPresidentBreakCenturyPolicyPositionBuildingParticularElectionArguingFaithfulPredecessorsBeing Faithful Author:Barack Obama
“There are two types of pain, the one that breaks you and the one that changes you. In the gym, pain is felt as a result of weakness leaving the body. Physical pain is the glue of transformation and the pain of progress. The more you endure the harder it gets to accept the thought of failure.” TwoBodyPainFeltResultsAcceptingBreakProgressTypeWeaknessHarderTransformationEndureLeavingGymGluePhysical Pain Author:Greg Plitt
“Dysphagia is the medical term for not being able to swallow, and I know that there are two kinds of dysphagia: oropharyngeal and esophageal. But maybe there is also a third kind of dysphagia that comes when your heart breaks into pieces. I can't swallow because I have that kind.” KnowsHeartKindI CanTwoAbleTermBreakPiecesThirdsMedicalHeart Break Book:Counting by 7s Source: Counting by 7s
“I loved my father, but I was not like him. I never needed to believe the best of people. I took them as they were: two-faced, desperate, kind - perhaps all at once. But to Pa, they were all children of god, poor troubled sheep, who only needed love and an even break. He needed the world to back up what his religion told him about people. And when it came down to a choice between reason and faith, he let go of reason.” PeopleWorldBelieveKindChildrenTwoReasonChoicesFatherPoorBreakNeededLetting GoDesperateSheepChild Of GodNeeded Love Book:Far North Source: Far North
“There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot.” TwoSometimesTermBreakPoetic Author:Octavio Paz
“For more than two generations, my family had never achieved their ambitions. Their talents were unappreciated and unused. They deserved better. They hadn't done anything wrong; they just had some bad breaks. Why was I succeeding? Why was I living my dreams? I wasn't more deserving than they were. I wasn't smarter or a better person. What was the difference between us that allowed me to attain so much in a short time? America. America was the difference. I had been born a citizen of the greatest nation in all of human history.” HumansPersonsTwoDoneDreamAmericaNationsBornDifferencesBreakGenerationsTalentCitizensSucceedAmbitionMy FamilySmarterHuman HistoryDeservingBetter PersonShort Time Book:An American Son: A Memoir Source: An American Son: A Memoir