Double Quotes

986 quotes by 849 authors

We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old. — Elizabeth Janeway
One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of… — George Sand
The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving… — George Eliot
Almost everything is double like that for adolescents; their lies are true and their truths are lies, and their hearts are broken by the world.… — Ursula K. Le Guin
As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a… — Anna Brownell Jameson
Had double chins all the way down to his stomach. — Mark Twain
On how to make the game more exciting - Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the… — Al McGuire
It (the double-clarinet in India) was primarily used for snake charming, since the snake would do almost anything to get the Indians to stop playing… — Victor Borge
A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does… — Henry David Thoreau
[Professor Pauling] confesses that he had harboured the feeling that sooner or later he would be the one to get the DNA structure; and although… — Linus Pauling
The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing. — Ronnie Barker
32 grams raw, chop it in half, get 16. Double it times three, we got 48. Which mean a whole lot of cream. Divide the… — Foxy Brown
If you double the number of experiments you do per year you're going to double your inventiveness. — Jeff Bezos
It's amazing how someone's IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them. — Tim Ferriss
Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Philosophers and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle. Our own nature demands from us this… — Louis Agassiz
He that stands still and suffers his enemies to double blows upon him without resistance, will undoubtedly be conquered in the issue. — John Owen
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth. — Rene Daumal
To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to… — Thomas Jefferson
The laughter in response to my question unmasked the double standard our deconstructionists espouse. And that is precisely the double standard of atheism! It is… — Ravi Zacharias

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