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Quotes About Double

Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.
~ James Harvey Robinson
The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket.
~ Will Rogers
The most fundamental characteristic of any investment is that its return and risk go hand in hand. As all too many have learned in the past few years, a market that doubles rapidly is just as likely to halve rapidly, and a stock that appreciates 900% is just as likely to fall 90%.
~ William J. Bernstein
A joy that's shared is a joy made double.
~ English proverb
For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.
~ Aeschylus
It's very clear that there's a lot of double standards going on. Should there be a 30mph speed limit? Of course there bloody should. And certainly with kids and school food, kids need to be nannied for sure. So give them a bloody good meal at school.
~ Jamie Oliver
shamed people rarely take stands against injustice. Such a stand would mean they would have to go public, which would only double the shame. Instead, once we are shamed, most of us try to make sense of it by believing we are getting what we deserve. So why would we protest?
~ Edward T. Welch
We are a retailer - we are a merchant. That is our business. But we look for places to make a positive difference. There is such a thing as a double bottom line, whether it is the wage increase or what we do with environmental sustainability to limit waste.
~ Doug McMillon
I was born in Islington and grew up in Islington, so Arsenal was all around me, and supporting them was kind of unavoidable. The first season I started going to watch them was when we did the Double in 1971, so my first heroes were Charlie George, Ray Kennedy, and John Radford.
~ Mark Strong
I don't know of too many double Christmas albums, so it is something that's new, and hopefully will be fun, and there's plenty of stuff out there to cut.
~ Garth Brooks
Even though 'Prequelle' is a record about death, essentially, it's a record about survival, and I think that that is something that's gone through all the records. Even back to 'Opus Eponymous,' there was a double meaning to things that doesn't necessarily have to do with evil sermons out of some old grimoire somewhere how to summon the devil.
~ Tobias Forge
All that now separated retirement from rest was a single box. The previous owner had been eager to protect its contents, using a lock carved from garlic. He picked it with a sprig of parsley and groped inside, pulling out an exact likeness of himself, a puppet double. Even his cork leg sealed the same dry white panic, judging from the way it jerked.
~ Rhys Hughes
Carry on, Jeeves." "Jeeves is a valet, not a chauffeur." "We can't afford both, so you're stuck with double duty.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Alarm, when used for anything less than a fire or an air attack, is certain to muddle the mind, unsettle the senses, and, in most cases, more than double the danger.
~ Ken Kesey
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important.
~ Carl Reiner
Rumor doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the feared.
~ William Shakespeare
But yet I'll make assurance double sure,And take a bond of fate.
~ William Shakespeare
Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.
~ William Shakespeare
My boy, that was a TV show. I used a stunt double. I always use a stunt double. Except in love scenes. I insist on doing those myself.
~ William Shatner
Terrorism, like viruses, is everywhere. There is a global perfusion of terrorism, which accompanies any system of domination as though it were its shadow, ready to activate itself anywhere, like a double agent.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Kind of a treble agent, see?" Schaffer said in a patient explaining tone. "That's one better that double.
~ Alistair MacLean
Kind of a treble agent, see?" Schaffer said in a patient explaining tone. "That's one better than double.
~ Alistair MacLean
Grant didn't look like a sophomore - Grant looked like Brad Pitt's body double.
~ Ally Carter
Christmas Eve is my wedding anniversary so it is a double whammy.
~ Sheila Hancock