Twice Quotes (page 9)

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• nature
• men
• tongue

Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we mayhear from others twice as much as we speak. Epictetus

• moments
• change
• pride

Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I wasn't touched. I was fascinated. It was as though a veil had been rent. I saw on that ivory face the expression of sombre pride, of ruthless power, of craven terror--of an intense and hopeless despair. Did he live his life again in every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at... Joseph Conrad

• earth day
• everyday
• commitment

there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mout? there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations Mark Twain

• sweat
• fun
• thankful

B-but, Mr Jimson, I w-want to be an artist.''Of course you do,' I said, 'everybody does once. But they get over it, thank God, like the measles and the chickenpox. Go home and go to bed and take some hot lemonade and put on three blankets and sweat it out.''But Mr J-Jimson, there must be artists.''Yes, and lunatics and lepers, but why go and live in an asylum before you're sent for? If you find life a bit dull at home,' I said, 'and want to amuse yourself, put a stick of dynamite in the... Joyce Cary

• humble
• look
• keeps

I need to look like an idiot at least twice a day to keep myself humble. Janet Evanovich

• self
• life
• evening

If you haven't confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. Marcus Garvey

• reality
• retrospect
• desired

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect. Sophocles

• women
• trip
• the who

And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone. Isabel Allende

• moving
• thoughts
• dumb

I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if you're too dumb to move. Jodi Picoult

• betrayal
• manly
• mans

Man who betrayed you once would betray you twice. Ken Follet

• pain
• hand
• him

Clove!" Cato's voice is much nearer now. I can tell by the pain in it that he sees her on the ground. "You better run now, Fire Girl," says Thresh. I don't need to be told twice. I flip over and my feet dig into the hard-packed earth as I run away from Thresh and Clove and the sound of Cato's voice. Only when I reach the woods do I turn back for an instant. Thresh and both large backpacks are vanishing over the edge of the plain into the area I've never seen. Cato kneels beside Clove,... Suzanne Collins

• forever
• moving
• sky

But it is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice -- guessed and refused to believe -- that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chance, no return. Yet they do move forever under it, reserved for its own black-and-white bad news certainly as if it were the rainbow, and they its children. . . . Thomas Pynchon

• thinking
• brainly
• brain

I don't think it's much use your looking for the brains: a creature who twice walked into a lions den can't have got any. Aesop

• today
• cold
• tomorrow

If it’s zero degrees outside today and it’s supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be? Steven Wright

• sins
• than
• he

[He's] Older than sin and twice as mean. George R. R. Martin