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Quotes About Two

It would not be for the public good to have [a majority in Congress of one party] greater [than] two to one.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The two greatest priorities for my government are tackling tax evasion and corruption.
~ Mario Monti
That's the reality of it. Everybody has a big two or three. The health of those big two or three ... there's a lot riding on it.
~ Dusty Baker
Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.
~ Edward Young
How many amoebas does it take to screw in a light bulb? One, no two! No four! ...no eight!
~ Bill Bailey
He has fought many battles with us" (Jace) By which you mean one battle" muttered Simon. "Two if you count the one I was a rat
~ Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
The moment was surreal. A sometimes-autistic young man with two identities lecturing a room full of zombies on feelings and realities.
~ Jonathan Friesen, Both of Me
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
~ Jan Karon
A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.
~ Jane Smiley
Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country.
~ Jared Diamond
You don't strangle someone in self-defense. You murdered her. You stole her little girl. How old was she? Two? Two and a half?
~ Jason Rekulak
Vreal filed away digital copies in triplicate, four analog copies, threw two copies away, shredded one, and finally, ate another. He was rather compulsive.
~ Jason Z. Christie
Two there should be; no more, no less. One to embody the power, the other to crave it. The Rule of Two.
~ Drew Karpyshyn
There was an Old Man or Nepaul, From his horse had a terrible fall; But, though split quite in two, By some very strong glue, They mended that Man of Nepaul.
~ Edward Lear
Memory entering the head like a knife. A girl's hands slicing the heart in two.
~ Alfian Sa'at
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
~ Susan Sontag
There is no reason inherent in the real resources available to us why we cannot move rapidly within the next two or three years to a state of genuine full employment.
~ William Vickrey
Do you mind cigar smoke," he mumbled. "Not at all," she murmured. He turned away from her but made no move to find a cigar. "Go ahead," she said. "As a matter of fact, I wish you'd smoke two cigars at the same time." "You must really like cigar smoke." "Not especially, but I think two cigars going at the same time would look awfully amusing.
~ Richard Condon
To be human is to confuse a satisfying story with a meaningful one, and to mistake life for something huge with two legs.
~ Richard Powers
Thank Artemis, it is you! That little scar on your lip--you tried to eat a stapler when you were two! ... Hedge nodded like he approved of Jason's taste. Staplers--excellent source of iron.
~ Rick Riordan
Edgar understood numbers, and he could not let that pass. "Wasn't Jesus born in the year one?" he said. "He was," said Degbert. He added snootily: "Every educated man knows that." "Then he must have had his first birthday in year two." Degbert began to look unsure.
~ Ken Follett
I killed a guy, maybe two. Possibly three. I have one power. Not two or three or four. Just one. I met a girl, and she changed everything.
~ Patrick Carman
The command "Be fruitful and multiply" was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two people.
~ William Ralph Inge
The man has an axe. There's two of us. There'll be four of us in no time.
~ Woody Allen