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Quotes About Pair

Kertbeny coined 'heterosexual' and 'homosexual' as a pair on purpose: having two marked categories instead of only one generates a certain amount of equality, which was precisely his point. The paired words suggest that both 'homo' and 'hetero' are marked categories whose specialization sets them off from the unmarked human universal, the undifferentiated 'sexual'.
~ Hanne Blank
I love you Huey was the note I read, but there's a strange pair of shoes underneath the bed.
~ Huey Lewis
His painter's eye and his deviant soul told him the girl was the one to watch of this pair.
~ Maureen Johnson
The hall's door was framed by a pair of vast curved bones that had come from some sea monster.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Could a flavor be pleased with itself and its position in the world? That was plum. Not the sharp-flavored skin and the sweet flesh of a fresh plum, but more the concentrated flavor when the fruit was cooked down for a tart filling. Like the taste of port. In fact, I liked to pair plum and port together.
~ Judith Fertig
The smallest a family can be is two members, and that was Jules and me.
~ Heather O'Neill
Two left-handed gloves don't make a pair. Two half-truths don't make a truth.
~ Multatuli
Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.
~ William Mathews
Bina and Landsman were twisted together, a braided pair of chromosomes with a mystery flaw. And now? Now each of them pretends not to see the other and looks away. Landsman looks away.
~ Michael Chabon
Most star systems in the cosmos are binary (double-starred), which makes our solitary sun a slight oddity.
~ Bill Bryson
What a pair we are, intrinsically broken but tied to one another by desire and death.
~ Sylvia Day
What is the opposite of two? A lonely me and a lonely you.
~ Kami Garcia
There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
~ Friedrich Schiller
There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
~ Friedrich Schiller
An exchange occurs between man and woman. Love and thought complete each other in the human pair, and something like an exchange of souls takes place, according to the divine plan.
~ Saul Bellow
Why did he tempt the original pair in the Garden?" asked Salah. "He is also called the satan which means 'the accuser' in God's heavenly court." Salah followed the explanation well. He knew that God's divine council of holy ones surrounded Elohim's throne and engaged in legal disputes of justice on earth.
~ Brian Godawa
What do I really want? he thinks. This is, of course, an extremely good question. It was just such a pity that, life being as it tended to be, it so rarely came as part of a matched pair, with an extremely good answer.
~ Iain Banks
Our stares connected and we were quiet for a long minute, united by our misery. At least he understood me and I understood him. A fine pair we make," he said. Yeah.
~ Ilona Andrews
what is a journeywithout someone who wandersif sometimes a pairis made of two
~ Lori Jenessa Nelson
The more partners I had, the more I realized Gregory and I were the best pair I'd ever come across. But in my pursuit of answers to all the difficult questions in my life, I missed out on the obvious ones right in front of my very eyes.
~ Cecelia Ahern
Baby needs a new pair of shoes,' he said. 'My baby doesn't need any shoes.
~ Thomas Harris
Paul Taylor's 'Offenbach Overtures' has lots of zip and charm, and its pair of dueling soldiers in red, who end up starry-eyed about each other while their disgusted seconds take up the quarrel, is nonstop funny.
~ Robert Gottlieb
The welkin is blue yet in agony, The air and the water has made a pair, As the love was unfaithful and the earth has to suffer, until the time goes backwards.
~ J. Sarraf
some theories about the Casimir effect and pair production and spinning beakers of helium-3
~ Charles Stross