#twice

Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice. ↗

— William J. Mayo

#deliver #lord #makes #man #me

You know what, rip me off once, shame on me. But twice? I'm coming after you and taking back what's mine. ↗

— Billy Mays

#back #coming #i #know #me

And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five. ↗

— James Merrill

#astonishing #become #external #five #his

I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book. ↗

— George Murray

#book #even #having #i #poem

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#also #around #express #foot #get

That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something. ↗

— Karl Urban

#being #big #danger #differently #each

A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing. ↗

— Edward Heath

#diplomat #man #nothing #says #thinks

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. ↗

— Heraclitus

#man #river #same #steps #twice

You cannot step into the same river twice. ↗

— Heraclitus

#into #river #same #step #twice

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

#apart #before #behind #double #everything