Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up.
‐‐ Chaim Potok
Two hundred years ago, industrialisation ruined the labour force. In the modern age, especially in the West or America, people who are 'efficient,' who can bracket their emotions off, tend to win. But at what cost to the rest of us?
‐‐ Matt Bellamy
Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.
‐‐ Paul Tsongas
Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
‐‐ Baldwin Spencer
Two hurt people can not help each other. They can not.
‐‐ Mary J. Blige
Two, I actually learned a lot of things that served me very well when it came to repeating performances on stage, because it is a craft and you do need a technique for it.
‐‐ Ron Silver
Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.
‐‐ Alfred Korzybski
Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told.
‐‐ Bum Phillips
Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
‐‐ Tertullian
Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.
‐‐ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Two messengers covered with dust come to bid me fly, but I wait for him.
‐‐ Dolley Madison
Two million dollars is only small when you're talking about Washington, D.C.
‐‐ Geoff Davis
Two million felons have tried to buy a gun and, because of the background check, have been denied.
‐‐ Joe Biden
Two minutes later the right arm was pointing normally and the reaction to the left appeared. The patient made no complaint at all about the experiment.
‐‐ Robert Barany
Two months after I got out of test pilot school, I saw an advert that said NASA was recruiting more astronauts. The best job you could have as a test pilot was being an astronaut, so I volunteered.
‐‐ Charles Duke
Two months later at a party, Bernard pulled me into a closet and proposed. I said yes.
‐‐ Shelley Duvall
Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance.
‐‐ Laurence Housman
Two must-haves for me are a great book and my iPod.
‐‐ Kelly Clarkson
Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli
Two new reports indicate that, under Bush, the Army is overstretched and under enormous strain. The National Guard and reserves have been weakened and we are experiencing numerous recruiting problems.
‐‐ Jim Clyburn
Two new workers are being added to the population for every one job that is created.
‐‐ Bob Beauprez
Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater or lesser degree by friendship.
‐‐ Mother Angelica
Two of my biggest heroes were my father and John Wayne.
‐‐ Johnny Ramone
Two of my boys are Manchester United fans; one is an Arsenal fan. Whenever there is a game I can take the boys to, I love taking them.
‐‐ David Beckham
Two of my favorite artists are Josh Smith and Joe Bradley. But I argued against them for years, until I grew to love them and felt stupid for my immediate reaction towards their work.
‐‐ Leo Fitzpatrick
Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.
‐‐ Dale Earnhardt
Two of my favourite books are Henry Miller's 'Tropic of Cancer' and 'Tropic of Capricorn.'
‐‐ Lydia Lunch
Two of my grandfathers had been artists, lifelong oil painters, so I was exposed to art very young. I've always been interested in it, although I never pursued it as a career or even as an avocation.
‐‐ Susan Vreeland
Two of my grandparents died in a car crash. Sucks, 'cause they would have lived to a hundred.
‐‐ Kid Rock
Two of my sons are themselves filmmakers, and we can't afford them nor they us. They work in the real world and earn money and are pretty good at it.
‐‐ D. A. Pennebaker
Two of my theatres are 1930s and the other five are by Sprague, the greatest Edwardian architect of the lot. They've needed a lot of work doing to them but they were built very well.
‐‐ Cameron Mackintosh
Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age, which I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature.
‐‐ Julia Roberts
Two of the central ingredients to our family are food and faith, so sitting down together and thanking God for the food He's provided means everything to us. Prayer is a natural part of our lives - not only around the dinner table, but all day long.
‐‐ Phil Robertson
Two of the chief defenders of the faith in the Old Testament and in the New - Moses and Paul - were both well-versed in the language, the thinking, and the philosophy of their cultures.
‐‐ Ravi Zacharias
Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.
‐‐ Hedda Hopper
Two of the first plays I saw after I arrived in Britain were 'King Lear' in Liverpool, and 'Antony and Cleopatra' at Stratford. One was produced with hardly a backdrop and the other with gigantic scene changes. I was impressed by what connected the two: the words and their life beyond the stage.
‐‐ Romesh Gunesekera
Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!
‐‐ Stephen Sondheim
Two of the many areas of conflict between Judeo-Christian values and leftism concern the separation between the holy and the profane and the separation between humans and animals.
‐‐ Dennis Prager
Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world.
‐‐ Carrie Fisher
Two old Bachelors were living in one house; One caught a Muffin, the other caught a Mouse.
‐‐ Edward Lear
Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.
‐‐ Anthony Daniels
Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.
‐‐ Dorothy Allison
Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.
‐‐ Bill Gates
Two packed houses. I guess the theater sat 2,700 people every night so it was an amazing experience.
‐‐ Blair Underwood
Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
‐‐ Edward Teller
Two people can make love but that isn't necessarily love.
‐‐ Greta Scacchi
Two people could build an outhouse in four hours. They're not complicated.
‐‐ Robert Maxwell
Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him.
‐‐ Clifford Geertz
Two people who I think have the world's most perfect skin are Cate Blanchett and Kate Bosworth. Maybe there's something to being named Kate, I don't know, but those two just seem to be effortless, yet completely, ethereally gorgeous.
‐‐ Sophia Bush