Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others. – Joseph Butler
In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen. – Jacky Ickx
The right of absolute and irresponsible dominion is the right of property, and the right of property is the right of absolute, irresponsible dominion. The two are identical; the one necessarily implying the other. – Lysander Spooner
My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration. – John L. Phillips
A blog is neither a diary nor a journal. Many people think of blogging in relation to those two things, confessional or practical. It is neither but includes elements of both. – Lemn Sissay
I’m beginning to think I have two years encountering sexism without really realising it. – Kristin Hersh
I already have a production company called J Squared and we’re working on two projects. – Jordana Brewster
Two of my grandparents died in a car crash. Sucks, ’cause they would have lived to a hundred. – Kid Rock
I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don’t wake up before – the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours. – Karl Lagerfeld
What I did was I completed the half-hour film, but before really showing it, I wrote two more sections for a potential feature film which I didn’t think would really happen, but at least I had it in case. – Jim Jarmusch
In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves. – John Lothrop Motley
Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again. – Madeleine M. Kunin
It’s usually the exact same three things which are, the Scripts, the Director and the Role those are the three things I look for and really any two of them, If I get two of them that’s usually enough, but definitely those are the things I look for. – Matt Damon
When there is a situation where one does not see demand for a year or two, then capex is suspended. It will reverse only when the situation improves. – Jamshyd Godrej
I met a congressman who claimed that he could introduce me to two people who saw Amelia Earhart. – Jim Sullivan
After my film ‘The Tale of Two Sisters,’ I received a lot of offers from Hollywood to direct, but because ‘A Tale of Two Sisters’ was a horror film, I received a lot of horror films. But I wasn’t interested in working in the same genre, and the scripts I received for films in different genres were for projects that were near completion. – Kim Jee-woon
I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else’s name on the cover, one had my name on the cover. – Jonathan Franzen
People perceive opera and classical as elitist – I disagree. I’ve always tried to mix the two, make it more accessible. – Katherine Jenkins
It’s very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages. – Kristin Scott Thomas