#two

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended? ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#blended #child #fruit #image #monsieur

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#commands #distinct #fact #gives #kinds

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#characters #concerned #don quixote #ego #every

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#between #different #england #know #people

On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely say I owe my life. ↗

— John James Audubon

#care #caught #charge #commanded #fever

Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#covered #earth #headquarters #other #surface

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being. ↗

— Jane Austen

#being #distinct #good-humoured #man #orders

Two special agents at the front door pulled me outside. By that time, they had already had the house surrounded with loaded weapons, machine guns, shotguns... about 25 federal agents. ↗

— Sherman Austin

#agents #already #door #federal #front

We've gotta give Richard Williams a lot of credit - to give us two number one champions is a phenomenal feat. ↗

— Tracy Austin

#credit #feat #give #gotta #lot

I haven't given up on working... across the aisle on issues and maybe it'll take an election or two for that to fully ferment, maybe it you know sometimes it takes awhile for people to realize what the best path is. ↗

— David Axelrod

#aisle #awhile #best #election #ferment