Quotation Explorer - 'Twice'

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
First impression is not the last reflection of a true friend, so if you are head over heels for someone who just bought you a cake, you'd better think twice before devouring your misery. - Michael Bassey Johnson
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one. - G.K. Chesterton
Women are almost two thirds more likely than men to believe in God, a major study of attitudes among middle aged Britons has found, says The Telegraph. Well, men are twice more likely than God to believe in women! (At least that was so in the Garden of Eden) - R. N. Prasher
I was well aware of her ghosts. I'd met them, once or twice, during her darkness nights. "I knew you were my one when you wouldn't run," she said. How could I? Of course I stayed, when her ghosts scared my own away. What others were too afraid to see, meant everything to me. - J. Raymond
when you read once, you get the understanding ; when you read twice, you get the second understanding. Don't just read, read! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. - Napoleon Hill
Think twice before you pull your trouser and rape a woman; she may be your mother, sister or friend, and you know the consequences that follows. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Writers live twice. - —Natalie Goldberg
What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stagecoaches?
I have only been a ‘Poor Me’ once or twice in my life…. And that was my own fault. - Gary Hopkins
Hackers find more success with organizations where employees are under appreciated, over worked and under paid. Why would anyone in an organization like that care enough to think twice before clicking on a phishing email? - James Scott
Twice the size of a full grown man, with four muscular arms, it was his worst nightmare on steroids. -The Hyperscape Project - Donald Swan
Whichever season you’re in, rejoice and celebrate your life as you might not experience it twice. - Joan Ambu
We are twice armed if we fight with faith. - Plato
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. - George Bernard Shaw
The quality of mercy is not strain'd, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. - William Shakespeare
Don't be afraid to make mistakes. But if you do, make new ones. Life is too short to make the wrong choice twice. - Joyce Rachelle
I live in vice. I eat twice - with a advice. - Deyth Banger
If only we were not that seedling of Creation,Of Earth and its generations,If only we had remained simple Clay or Ember,Or something in between,Then we would not have to see This World, its Lord, and its Hell, twice over. - Adonis
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. - H. L. Mencken
If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. - Abigail Van Buren
Stab me in the heart; once, twice, more. For it is your own you are stabbing; I gave you mine to hold long ago. No pain will be greater than you leaving with my heart in your hands. Rip me apart or hold it for eternity, in the name of love. - Anonymous
They say you start weaving clearer, sharper memories after you've been to a place at least twice. Because then the reflection is more of validation. Let the rush come to you and let your senses be flushed the first time. There will be time for reflection after you've had your fill. - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Let lessons learnt be like fingers burned. Gentle reminders imploring us to stay away from fire. It is a mark of folly to make the same mistake twice. - karan godara
To create is to live twice. - Albert Camus
I did it,... I talked to Stephen King in a dream... not once but twice in two dreams. - As far from here I can tell you it's awesome... I did it... I jerkoff on a dream... dreaming that I'm jerking off.... I did it... I fucked a girl in a dream! - Deyth Banger
When you count your blessings, count life twice. - Matshona Dhliwayo
As we change, our writing changes too. You cannot write the same poem twice. And that's a good thing. - Katerina Stoykova Klemer
In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive from racial discrimination, but will discuss the poverty that affects white and Negro alike. - Martin Luther King Jr.
If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice. - Tom Stoppard
You cannot step twice into the same river. - Heraclitus
I’m dying twice as fastas any other Americanbetween eighteen and thirty-fiveThis disturbs me,but I try not to show it in public. - Essex Hemphill
Sometimes it took death for me to see life, don't live with regrets keep your head high. In a world filled with beauty I don't want to blink twice; soak up every moment because you can't stop time. - Puerto Rican Princess
Would you marry me and love me forever because I'm a man. Think twice and don't complain later. :D - nugas
Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one. - H. L. Mencken
People who keep journals have life twice. - Jessamyn West
They have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action.' - Ian Fleming
The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come.
I write about romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect. - Angeline M. Bishop
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
For he lives twice who can at once employ,The present well, and e’en the past enjoy. - Alexander Pope
One day I realized, I am what I'm looking for. The love I've been searching the world for. When I devoutly love myself it's fulfilling, and it attracts others. They fight to love me twice as much. - Euphoria Godsent
I have been through the OSHA system twice and I can confirm that I did not have the right to a safe workplace or whistle-blower protection on either occasion. - Steven Magee
I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. - David Attenborough
Listen to life story of few people, made me think 'human being are prefer to leave than to be replaced..it take years to recover the pain..once recovered and they accept you, appreciate it...its hard to trust other people twice (Ejump,2016) - Ejump Schiffler
Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once. - Evan Esar
twice I have lived forever in a smile - E.E. Cummings
The music of rebellion makes you want to rageBut it's made by millionaires who are nearly twice your age - Porcupine Tree
Many a woman would not be in a relationship with or married to her man, if he earned half of what he earns; and many a man would not be in a relationship with or married to his woman, if he earned twice as much as he earns. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If you haven't confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. - Marcus Garvey
Never cry for the same reason twice. - Stephen Richards
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. - Charlotte Whitton
When a heart mends it doesn't let the same people in twice. - Nikki Rowe
A man who lives long enough will be a boy twice. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
don't you think between here and now we will see each other once or twice? - Richard Bach
I've had cancer twice and if I had to pick one fate for you, cancer or fertility problems-I'd pick cancer. - Kelly Corrigan
But suicides have a special language.Like carpenters they want to know which tools.They never ask why build.Twice I have so simply declared myself,have possessed the enemy, eaten the enemy,have taken on his craft, his magic. - Anne Sexton
I've said my friend, not once, but twice, never trust a preety girl cause darkness waits a mile behind her smile!! - Prashant Dev
Sometimes I just say that to read one thing more than twice is just a losing of time, but some stuff are used a lot of times, are read a lot of times until the meaning is get... - Deyth Banger
A diplomat must always think twice before he says nothing. - Irish Proverb
That's the thing about being a former fat camp champ: when asked if I'd change my past if I could, I always answer no. The pain of being an overweight kid, the humiliation, make you think twice before ever cutting anyone else down. - Stephanie Klein
If I could do it all again, I would start three hundred years ago, and write twice as fast. - Peter James West
I can still kick your pony-lovin' butt with twice this much pain."Thomas shrugged, "I do love ponies. Wish I could eat one right now. - James Dashner
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. - Heraclitus
If you have no confidence in [yourself] you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won before you have started.
Many of my movies have strong female leads- brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about fighting for what they believe with all their heart. They'll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a savior. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man. - Hayao Miyazaki
So that was where we were in our relationship.Derwent’s scale ran all the way from wouldn’t piss-on-you-if-you-were-on-fire to would-kill-for-you-no-need-to-ask-twice. I was quite glad to be somewhere near the middle. - Jane Casey
I, the ordinary restless child, the plain adolescent, the commoner who had been a nun twice, would prove to be a Daughter of Heaven. - Shan Sa
Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty.I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be. - George Carlin
He was a living dead man. According to official records he had died, not once, but twice. yet he still breathed - Matt Hilton
Think first. Think twice. Think again. Respect others. Respect yourself. Respect dreams. - Kevin James Breaux
Everything has been created twice once on a mental plain and once on a physical plain. - Bob Proctor
You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice. - John Lothrop Motley
I’m not going, he said. He held up the Third key like a weapon. Sensing his mood, it grew longer and sharper, till he was holding a trident as long as he was tall... And anyone who tries to make me is going to suffer. Twice, added the voice under the table. - Garth Nix
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once. - Cyril Connolly
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. - William Shakespeare
Take your time.Stay away from the easy going.Never take the same way twice.Gunny Arndt's rules for successful reconnaissance; Guadalcanal 1942 - GYSGT Charles C. Arndt
A believer shall not be stung twice out of the same hole. - Rickey Price
And so Discovery drove on toward Saturn, as often as not pulsating with the cool music of the harpsichord, the frozen thoughts of a brain that had been dust for twice a hundred years. - Arthur C. Clarke
It’s not words, but years we should be editing. Remember: time spent on bad art is a form of redundancy, doing the same thing twice is a form of tautology, and wasting precious moments complaining about life is a form of pleonasm. We should all learn to live our lives concisely. - Anthony Marais
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
If some musicians put half as much effort in to the business side as they do their outer look and appearances, they could be twice as far. - Loren Weisman
When both you and your spouse actively focus on developing godly character qualities, the foundation of your marriage will be twice as strong. - Elizabeth George
Never think twice, when you have decided once. - Auliq Ice
Every utterance is an event, and no two events are precisely alike. The extreme view, therefore, is that no word ever means the same thing twice. - Louis B. Saloman
I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure. - Mae West
You only live once, but can be born twice. Then, you can live forever. - Abby Morel
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths. - Bertrand Russell
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!
You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you. - Heraclitus
Look twice before you leap. - Charlotte Bronte
Some say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what I've tasted of desire,I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twiceI think I know enough of hateTo say that for destruction iceIs also greatAnd would suffice. - Robert Frost
Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast. - Compton Mackenzie
My life closed twice before its' close- It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me. So huge, so hopeless to concieve As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell. - Emily Dickinson
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect. - Anaïs Nin
TWICE, adv. Once too often. - Ambrose Bierce
Once or twice I saw evidence that rats had been nesting among the books, rearranging them to make snug two and three-level homes for themselves and smearing dung on the covers to form the rude characters of their speech. - Gene Wolfe
Never cry for the same person twice. - Manoj Vaz
cross-national studies show that the U.S. poverty rate, which stands persistently above 12 percent, is not only the highest poverty rate of any advanced industrial nation, but is more than twice the average for that group.Pursuing the American Dream, 9, 276 - Calvin C. Jillson
I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one. - Voltaire
It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie. - Unknown
If you were in a room with Kadaffi, Saddam Hussien, and John Sununu, and you only had two bullets, what would you do. Shoot John Sununu twice.
The lazy man always does twice the work. (El bago siempre pasa double trabajo) - Spanish Proverb
Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice. - Bill Watterson
Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it’s exciting, and if you do it every day it’s exciting. But if you do it, say, twice or just almost every day, it’s not good any more. - Andy Warhol
What happens if you get scared half to death twice? - Steven Wright
Two times twice now, I have been called arrogant, by the decadent.I'd rather be overly self confident, rather than overly self indulgent. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. - Charles Caleb Colton
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. - Charlotte Whitton
Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size. - Virginia Woolf
An old man is twice a child. - William Shakespeare
No one lives twice the same "now". - Javier Tinajero Rodríguez
Even if someone is already dead in front of you, knock twice on the heart who knows they might answer. - Auliq Ice
If I never shed a tear or wondered what happened to someone I actually loved, what makes you believe I'd think twice about you, someone I never even cared for? - Donna Lynn Hope
You cannot step into the same river twice - Heraclitus of Ephesus
The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time. - Willie Tyler
Fall down twice... get up three times. - Found on a button on a curtain
You rolled me once, you rolled me twice and the third time, you had taught to win the game. - Auliq Ice
I’ll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of. - Anne Brontë
Any society that produces twice as many lawyers as it does poets and preachers is doomed. - John Fogarty
It's ok to be a fool once or twice but never let it be a third time. Be smart and pretend to be a fool and at the end of the hunt make sure you're the one that has the gun. - Surgeo Bell
Consumers presented with six choices on an item were twice as likely to buy as consumers overwhelmed with 24 varieties of the same item. - Sheena Iyengar
never say never. whoops - said it twice - Harry Hill
Kiss me twice, I am schizophrenic .. Kiss me ten times, I am obsessive! - أحمد عمارة
Churchill kept perspective on the crowds that gathered to hear him speak by conceding they would be twice as big if gathered to see him hanged. - Winston S. Churchill
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice. - George Bernard Shaw
A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad. - Samuel Goldwyn
Once in jail or you just go in prison for a reason you don't have rights... So be wise, think twice and don't go there! - Deyth Banger
Think twice before you try to convince someone by killing the truth. - Mohith Agadi
The postman always rings twice. - James M. Cain
Think twice as much as others.Study twice as much as others.Work twice as much as others.Give twice as much as others. - Matshona Dhliwayo
I'm unpredictable, I never know where I'm going until I get there, I'm so random, I'm always growing, learning, changing, I'm never the same person twice. But one thing you can be sure of about me; is I will always do exactly what I want to do. - C. JoyBell C.
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice. - Cyril Connolly
If a person wants to be a part of your life,they will make an obvious effort to do so.Think twice before reserving a space in your heartfor people who do not make an effort to stay. - Sham Hinduja
I write romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect. - Angeline M. Bishop
The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead. - Maurice Sendak
If you have to think about it twice you probably shouldn't do it - Sophia Nam
You can never make the same mistake twice because the second time you make it, it's not a mistake, it's a choice. - Steven Denn
When we introduce new technologies into our classrooms we are teaching our students twice. - Michael Joseph Brown
I write to taste life twice; to savour the flavour of sweet times gone by, or spit out the bitterness before it multiplies. - Aisha Mirza
Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power. - Gloria Steinem
The Lord gives a good many things twice over, but he don't give ye a mother but once. - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Made a wrong turn.ones or twice. - Sonja De Lange
I have interacted with the police complaints and internal affairs division twice and both times I came away with the opinion that I was dealing with a blatantly corrupt group of people. - Steven Magee
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you are a fool.
If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you started.
(A point of view of a stupidy of mankind)...Hey... did you check out the book by Stephen King in 7 June published??... (I was talking to one friend if I can put him as a friend...)The teacher says "Stop with this books.."... pff I said once not twice, why to stop? - Deyth Banger
A candle that lights another no longer has to work twice as hard to illuminate a room. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Every girl would like to marry a rich husband. I did twice. But what divides girls into two groups is this question - do you first think of money and then love, or vice versa? - Hedy Lamarr
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