Pairs Quotes - Page 19

• To the barefoot man, happiness is a pair of shoes. To the man with old shoes, it's a pair of new shoes. To the man with new shoes, it's stylish shoes. And of course, the fellow with no feet would be happy to be barefoot. Measure your life by what you have not by what you don't.

  Michael Josephson

  Men, Feet, New Shoes

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• Every girl should have a little black dress, a great boyfriend blazer and a pair of skinny jeans in their wardrobe.

  Lauren Conrad

  Girl, Should Have, Jeans

  "Lauren Conrad’s Fashion Essentials". stylecaster.com. 2011.

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• I have two pairs of eyes – one to paint and one to take photographs.

  Jacques-Henri Lartigue

  Eye, Two, Photographer

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• Thrice happy is that humble pair, Beneath the level of all care! Over whose heads those arrows fly, Of sad distrust and jealousy.

  Edmund Waller

  Humble, Arrows, Levels

  Edmund Waller, Elijah Fenton (1772). “The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq. in verse and prose. Published by Mr. Fenton. (Observations on some of Mr. Waller's poems.) L.P.”, p.53

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• One can't say how one behaved or why, really. Such situations, they are far more complex than any either/or proposition. It is simplistic to produce events in pairs and lean them against each other like cards. I suppose if you a playing go or shogi, then such a thing might be helpful, but that is not life.

  Jesse Ball

  Might, Events, Cards

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• We’re all searching for something to fill up what I like to call that big, God-shaped hole in our souls. Some people use alcohol, or sex, or their children, or food, or money, or music, or heroin. A lot of people even use the concept of God itself. I could go on and on. I used to know a girl who used shoes. She had over two-hundred pairs. But it’s all the same thing, really. People, for some stupid reason, think they can escape their sorrows.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Girl, Sex, Children

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• And I'm a pair of pants with a hole scorched through the ass?

  Spider Robinson

  Pants, Ass, Holes

  Spider Robinson (1996). “Deathkiller”, Baen Books

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• In Detroit, Ned [Harkness] kept talking about a new concept, and when I'd ask him what he meant he never gave me the right answer. Now, take Bobby Hull. Give him a puck, a stick and a pair of skates and put him on your team. Do you need a new concept?

  Frank Mahovlich

  Team, Talking, Giving

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• Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

  Ray Bradbury

  Children, Wall, Flower

  "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury, (pp. 156-157), 1953.

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• It is an amazing thing, the difference to one’s powers of concentration a pair of comfortable shoes can make.

  Laurie R. King

  Shoes, Differences, Concentration

  Laurie R. King (2012). “O Jerusalem”, p.55, Allison & Busby

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• In fact we put so many things in our mouths we constantly have to be reminded what not to eat. Look at that little package of silicon gel that's inside your sneakers. It says DO NOT EAT for a reason. Somewhere sometime some genius bought a pair of sneakers and said Ooooh look. They give you free mints with the shoes

  Morgan Spurlock

  Sneakers, Shoes, Giving

  Morgan Spurlock (2006). “Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America”, p.10, Penguin

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• We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents' lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies-all the bits and pieces of our unique existences.

  Angela Carter

  Life, Unique, Emotional

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• The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.

  William Cowper

  Forgiving, Pity, Occasions

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1851). “The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country : with a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.122

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• Counting pairs is the oldest trick in combinatorics... Every time we count pairs, we learn something from it.

  Gil Kalai

  Mathematics, Counting, Tricks

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• Here we find the moat of thieves. And just as a lizard, with a quick, slick slither, Flicks across the highway from hedge to hedge, Fleeter than a flash, in the battering dog-day weather, A fiery little monster, livid, in a rage, Black as any peppercorn, came and made a dart At the guts of the others, and leaping to engage One of the pair, it pierced him at the part Through which we first draw food; then loosed its grip And fell before him, outstretched and apart.

  Dante Alighieri

  Dog, Weather, Justice

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• If Richard Branson had worn a pair of steel-rimmed glasses, a double-breasted suit and shaved off his beard, I would have taken him seriously. As it was I couldn't . . .

  John King, Baron King of Wartnaby

  Taken, Glasses, Steel

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• 'Who dares this pair of boots displace, Must meet Bombastes face to face.' Thus do I challenge the human race. Bombastes: So have I heard on Afric's burning shore, A hungry lion give a grievous roar; The grievous roar echo'd along the shore. King: So have I heard on Afric's burning shore Another lion give a grievous roar, And the first lion thought the last a bore.

  William Barnes Rhodes

  Kings, Echoes, Race

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• However old you are, however much you love life, however happy you are, how healthy you are, it doesn’t matter. Nothing’s guaranteed. And I think it made me want to take that risk to expose myself as me and not as a version of myself. I don’t become Jessie J. I might put a nicer pair of heels on and a cooler outfit, but I’m still that naughty girl who likes a slice of cheesecake on my day off.

  Jessie J

  Girl, Love Life, Naughty

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• When I do things I shouldn't do, my mother says I need a new pair of glasses -- that I should be be looking differently at the choices I make.

  Ridley Pearson

  Mother, Glasses, Choices

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• . . . the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take . . . a pair of shoes for his freezing feet, is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me. . . .

  Marsilio Ficino

  Men, Hands, Law

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• Throughout our lives friends enclose us like pairs of parentheses. They shift our boundaries; crater our terrain. They fume through the cracks of our tentative houses and parts of them always remain. Friendship asks the truth and wants the truth, hollows and fills, ages with us, and we through it. It cradles us like family. It is ecology and mystery and language - all three. Our grown-up friendships - especially the really meaningful ones- model for our children what we want them to have throughout their lives.

  Beth Kephart

  Friendship, Meaningful, Children

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• Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world.

  Jacques Barzun

  Hero, Past, Tennis

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• The intellect always cuts and divides like a pair of scissors. The heart sews things together and unites like a needle. The tailor uses both.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Inspirational, Heart, Cutting

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• Fear is a pair of handcuffs on your soul.

  Faye Dunaway

  Soul, Anticipation, Handcuffs

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• The pair of opposites do not effect a yogi - neither praise nor insult.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Opposites, Bhajans

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