All Quotes

There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.
‐‐ Aaron Allston

There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who've had their passion punched, beaten, or whatever out of them.
‐‐ Kevyn Aucoin

There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.
‐‐ Magnus Scheving

There are two types of people in this world: one who opens a packet of biscuits, has one and puts the rest back in the cupboard, and one who eats the whole packet in one go.
‐‐ Jo Brand

There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.
‐‐ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There are two types of people, you see. One type keep their heads straight, and look around as they walk. The others look up - at the tops of houses, at the eaves and the lintels and the roofs, which can tell you when they were built - and I've always done that.
‐‐ Peter Ackroyd

There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it.
‐‐ Daniel Radcliffe

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
‐‐ Jean-Paul Sartre

There are two types of stories: public and private.
‐‐ Antonio Munoz Molina

There are two views of interpreting the Bible in America: that every word is literally the truth without qualification, and then the other view is, it's called plenary inspiration, which holds that all religious truth taught in the Bible is true from God, but each word is not necessarily interpreted literally.
‐‐ Robert H. Schuller

There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
‐‐ Charles Caleb Colton

There are two ways of approaching your time on this planet: one is to sit around waiting for something to happen that will make sense of your existence, and the other is to get out there and find purpose for yourself.
‐‐ Mariella Frostrup

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.
‐‐ Sophie Swetchine

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
‐‐ Booker T. Washington

There are two ways of knowing if something ends badly: If you're honest with yourself, you just kind of know it. And then there's other people's reaction to it.
‐‐ Vince Gilligan

There are two ways of looking at the talking filibuster. My way is as a form of unanimous consent.
‐‐ Jeff Merkley

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.
‐‐ Josefina Vazquez Mota

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.
‐‐ Phyllis Bottome

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
‐‐ Edith Wharton

There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
‐‐ V. S. Naipaul

There are two ways to approach the application process: trying to hit a home run by getting an immediate 'Yes, here's an offer' or trying not to be eliminated. I recommend the second approach.
‐‐ Guy Kawasaki

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.
‐‐ Jeff Bezos

There are two ways to go about it. You can take a compass and draw a perfect circle and make two perfect eyes as neat as can be. Or you can do it freehand and have some fun with it. Like I did. Give it character.
‐‐ Harvey Ball

There are two ways to go when you hit that crossroads in your life: There is the bad way, when you sort of give up, and then there is the really hard way, when you fight back. I went the hard way and came out of it okay. Now, I'm sitting here and doing great.
‐‐ Matthew Perry

There are two ways to handle a woman, and nobody knows either of them.
‐‐ Kin Hubbard

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
‐‐ Albert Einstein

There are two ways to look at how life works and how people find their paths. One way is you take your time and try different things out. The other is you settle in early. I was into cooking very early.
‐‐ Michael Mina

There are two ways to look at my publishing career. One is that I'm a novelist churning out books, who is eight into a series; the other way is that I'm a cartoonist, just starting out. Most cartoonists have long careers: Charles Schulz drew Peanuts for 50 years.
‐‐ Jeff Kinney

There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
‐‐ Alfred Korzybski

There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying 'What can I learn?.' That's a very different approach.
‐‐ Tori Amos

There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.
‐‐ June Jordan

There are two ways to write a werewolf novel - you can examine the genre conventions, or you can say, 'What would it be like if I were a werewolf?'
‐‐ Glen Duncan

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
‐‐ Alan Perlis

There are two words for everything.
‐‐ E. V. Lucas

There are two words that send romance authors into spasms of rapture: 'Downton Abbey.'
‐‐ Teresa Medeiros

There are two worlds out there - two Americas out there. If you're a white person, there's one way of being a citizen in our country, and if you're a brown or a black body, there's another way of being a citizen, and that way is very close to death. It's very close to the loss of your life.
‐‐ Claudia Rankine

There are two worlds: the deaf world and the hearing world. There are some people in the deaf community that feel that hearing people look down on us.
‐‐ Sean Berdy

There are two worlds: the world of the tourist and the world of everyone else. Often they're side by side. But the tourist doesn't actually see how people live.
‐‐ Paul Theroux

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.
‐‐ Leigh Hunt

There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just as important.
‐‐ Alan Moore

There are umpires, and there are those who hold the title.
‐‐ Al Barlick

There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.
‐‐ Auguste Rodin

There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.
‐‐ John Travolta

There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested. Whether it's serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents who speak limited English, difficulty can tap unexpected strengths.
‐‐ Sonia Sotomayor

There are usually multiple messages that could be preached from the same text.
‐‐ John Ortberg

There are values of humanity, culture, beauty, community that may require deviations from the cold logic of market theory.
‐‐ Anthony Lewis

There are values on Broadway that are dangerous: it's got to be Best Musical, it's got to make money, it's got to run a certain amount of time. Nowhere in this, of course, is there any mention of quality.
‐‐ Denis O'Hare

There are varied experiences of overweight women throughout the country; there's not just one experience.
‐‐ Sarah Baker

There are varieties of Spanglish. There's Spanglish spoken by Cuban Americans in Miami called cubonics is different from Mexican American Spanglish, but thanks to the Internet, thanks to radio and television, thanks to what is happening in the classrooms, in the streets in the restaurants, we are finding a middle ground.
‐‐ Ilan Stavans