Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
~ Lily Tomlin
There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.
~ Bruce Schneier
Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the other uplifts and unites.
~ Chuck D
Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.
~ Neil Simon
Profit or perish... There are only two ways to make money: increase sales and decrease costs.
~ Fred Deluca
Elimination of child labour and access to education are like two sides of one coin. One cannot be achieved without the other.
~ Kailash Satyarthi
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
~ Octavio Paz
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.
Consensus wisdom has it that all modern commercial fantasy novels fall into two camps: those derived from J.R.R. Tolkien and those derived from Mervyn Peake. The 'Lord of the Rings' template or the 'Gormenghast' mold.
~ Paul Di Filippo
Success is not two cars or a swimming pool. It's the approval of your peers.
~ Peter Finch
I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.
~ Woody Allen
I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.
~ Ayrton Senna
Two of my grandparents died in a car crash. Sucks, 'cause they would have lived to a hundred.
~ Kid Rock
Cars and cameras are the two things I let myself be materialistic about. I don't care about other stuff.
~ Louis C. K.
When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
~ Russell Baker
I've got two old Volvos, two old Subarus, and an old Ford Ranger. If you've got an old car, you've gotta have at least several old cars, 'cause one's always gonna be in the garage.
~ Rip Torn
I have two bikes: a classic 1978 Yamaha SR500 and a more modern Suzuki SV650. I've been into cars and bikes since I was tiny.
~ Thomas Sangster
Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
~ Swami Sivananda
We do not covet one inch of Lebanese territory, and the basis for the peace treaty between our two countries will be the international border, which exists now, between Rosh Haniqra and Ras en Naqura.
~ Menachem Begin
War may be made by one party, but it requires two to make peace.
~ John C. Calhoun
The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I've often found myself following in their footsteps - although perhaps not all of their footsteps since a typical walk for Samuel T. Coleridge might last two days and cover 145km.
~ Arthur Smith
I went through a stage of writing my cramped hand in tiny books. My two sisters and I did have our Bronte period. My mum is from Yorkshire, and we would go up to the Moors. It tapped into our romantic visions of ourselves.
~ Rachel Joyce
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
~ Barbara Walters
Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.
~ Navjot Singh Sidhu
Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.
~ Eugenio Montale
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
~ Blaise Pascal
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
~ Émile Zola
I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.
~ Mae West
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
~ Ezra Pound
While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.
~ Douglas Horton
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
~ Josh Billings
As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification.
~ Ernst Mayr
We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'
~ Ban Ki-Moon
There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
~ William S. Burroughs
I like that original romance of having a pen and a legal pad and going anywhere in the world and being able to write a novel with just those two things.
~ Alice Mcdermott
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
~ Charles Lamb
I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.
~ Susan Straight
I only wear two rings: a wedding ring and my World Series ring.
~ Joe Garagiola
When he came back from downtown, he had forgotten to bring his license, his identification, the $2 for the wedding license. So we got married two days later.
~ Eydie Gorme
The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted.
~ Vinoba Bhave
