Two Quotes

Every person who is offered a knighthood has the opportunity to say yes or no. You get a letter from the Prime Minister saying you've been recommended for a knighthood and there are two little boxes, one says yes, one says no.

I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.

If each of your time steps is one week long, you are not modeling the stock price terribly well over a one-week time period, because you are saying that there are only two possible outcomes.

If you keep saying two plus two equals five over and over again, then that is what people are going to think. Maybe it does equal five if we keep changing the definition of what's normal and what's right and what's wrong.

It goes without saying that when you're the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a team two divisions below you, it's disappointing.

I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a protest. Their signs were probably saying something I wouldn't have agreed with at all. But I was so glad to see women marching. And it's happening all over the world.

Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.

We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.

There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.

I think when I was two years old in the sandbox. I think I formulated my basic philosophy there, and I haven't really had to alter it very much ever since.

So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books.

I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man.

We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself.

I'm confident in our resolve to make the decisions necessary to keep our country and our people safe and prosperous and I look forward to representing the citizens of Pennsylvania's 6th Congressional District for the next two years.

Nine out of 10 times these guys will hit it-they'll be on something incredibly funny, but one out of 10, two out of 10, they'll fall flat on their faces. That's what makes them great actors: they take those chances, they don't play it safe.

It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils.

'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson!

I'm a married man and I've got two children, and you have to do sacrifices.

I am still in love with couture because it is just two months from drawing pad to runway so everything on the catwalk is hot from the oven.

When I grew up Carl Lewis was still running, Maurice Greene was running - he was that figure I see, like Michael Johnson. I really wanted to look up to the fast guys - so those two guys were some of the guys I looked up to.

With my runners now, they get two month-long breaks during the year.

I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.

Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things.

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two.

The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.

An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold.

To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.

It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened.