Twins Quotes

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Persistence is the twin sister of excellence.

One is a matter of quality the other, a matter of time.

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society.

Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?

I don't know whether John Roberts has a twin, perhaps a sister or, uh, someone with a Hispanic last name.

How do people, like, not curse? How is it possible? There are these gaps in speech where you just have to put a fuck. I'll tell you who the most admirable people in the world are: newscasters. If that was me, I'd be like, And the motherfuckers flew the fucking plane right into the Twin Towers. How could you not, if you're a human being? Maybe they're not so admirable. Maybe they're robot zombies.

It may be that we shall, by a process of sublime irony, have reached a stage in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.

We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up.

They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed dignity to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulnesss of spirit is the twin brother of optimism, and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up!

Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses; whence it follows that religious principles bear upon nothing whatever and are not in the slightest innate. Ignorance and fear, you will repeat to them, ignorance and fear -- those are the twin bases of every religion.

We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism.

If you want to humble an empire it makes sense to maim its cathedrals.

They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe. The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, planted at the base of Manhattan island with the Statue of Liberty as their sentry, and the Pentagon, a squat, concrete fort on the banks of the Potomac, are the sanctuaries of money and power that our enemies may imagine define us. But that assumes our faith rests on what we can buy and build, and that has never been America's true God.

I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle - so all is peace.

Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition.

I think about how best to live my grandmother's twin mantras that 'Life is not a dress rehearsal' and 'Life is not about what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you.'

Other actors don't get asked about their brothers or sisters, so why do I have to always answer questions about having a twin brother? I suppose it's interesting for everybody other than me.

I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace.

I think the only boundaries are individual and personal.

A writer should be free to write about anything he or she wants to, including the twin towers. I have made small references to 9/11 in my past two books.

The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity.

And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy.

By the way, I understand that now you can have the Times delivered to your door here in the Twin Cities.

Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia.

My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.

My twin in the show is Molly Stanton who is so sweet and great and she is totally different from me.

I really loved Twin Peaks. When I saw the two-hour pilot, they screened it in the big theatre. I said, I don't know what is going to happen. I'm in this and I don't understand it. This is never going to sell. Who's going to watch this thing?

Twin Peaks was special because it was so groundbreaking.

In the early '90s it really changed television a lot. A bunch of weird shows, like Northern Exposure, came on after that.

After the 1954 Geneva international conference, Vietnam was divided into two parts. On paper, North and South Vietnam were twin countries born at the same moment.

I have twin boys, 12, and a daughter, 17.

If I ever had twins, I'd use one for parts.

I suppose being his twin made me understand Robin that much more easily.

Freedom and Justice are twin sisters.

I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana.