Two Years Quotes:

I went to a private boys' school, and we had girls in the last two years.

- Chris Lilley

topic: Girl, School, Boys, Two Years

Once you've spent two years trying to wiggle one toe, everything is in proportion.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Years, Two, Trying, Two Years

He was no martyr. He was no hero But in the last two years, selfishness gave way to selflessness, lies gave way to truth and indulgence gave way to spirituality, and anyone watching that couldn't help but be moved by it.

- Lex Lasry

topic: Lying, Hero, Years, Two Years

I graduated in 1930 and I went up to the Yale Drama School for two years.

- Albert Maltz

topic: Drama, School, Yale, 1930s, Two Years

It is truly strange how long it takes to get to know oneself. I am now sixty two years old, yet just one moment ago I realised that I absolutely love lightly toasted bread. Simultaneously, I also realised that I loathe bread when it is heavily toasted. For almost sixty years, and quite unconsciously, I have been experiencing inner joy or total despair at my relationship with grilled bread.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

topic: Years, Two Year Olds, Long, Loathe, Knowing Oneself

Now, apparently strengthened as by a new spirit, with "might in the inner man," he labored with renewed energy and zeal; and new and singular blessings descended upon his labors. In two years, his ten preaching places in Anglesea were increased to twenty, and six hundred converts were added to the church under his immediate care.

- Christmas Evans

topic: Blessing, Men, Years, Two Years

With such a perishable, expensive and important product buying truffles can be a leap of faith for a chef. Working with Céline over the past two years has taken away any of that stress. The level of quality and consistency with her truffles is unsurpassed. Most importantly the quality and loyalty of her service makes me feel that she is looking out for me and my guests interests in giving me an honest assessment of the markets fluctuations.

- Douglas Keane

topic: Loyalty, Stress, Taken, Truffles, Over The Past

I walk out of this office every day at 5:30 so I'm home for dinner with my kids at 6, and interestingly, I've been doing that since I had kids. I did that when I was at Google, I did that here, and I would say it's not until the last year, two years, that I'm brave enough to talk about it publicly. Now I certainly wouldn't lie, but I wasn't running around giving speeches on it." "...there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.

- Sheryl Sandberg

source: "Sheryl Sandberg Leaves Work at 5:30 Every Day — And You Should Too" by Laura Donovan, mashable.com. April 05, 2012.

topic: Life, Running, Lying, Work Life Balance, Work And Life Balance

No, I was two years older than the other guys. I was a war baby. My family were a lot poorer than they were. I'd had to fight too hard for anything I had in my life and to smash things up for me.

- Roger Daltrey

topic: Baby, War, Fighting, Two Years

It's depressing and scary, but he needs to know the world around him because he's fourteen now and in two years he's going to drive. He needs to know what goes on out in the world. I'm not going to always be there.

- Jami Gertz

topic: Depressing, Years, Two, Two Years

The report begins by asserting that it is a 'comprehensive' look at Benghazi resulting from an intensive investigation of nearly two years. Neither claim is true. Instead, the report is a reflection of a dysfunctional committee and the reluctant, ad hoc approach to Benghazi of its leadership and top staff.

- Stephen F. Hayes

topic: Reflection, Years, Two, Two Years, Benghazi

I bowled for two years in college, because I was drunk and needed shoes.

- Kathleen Madigan

topic: College, Years, Shoes, Two Years

I couldn’t sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash.

- Mordechai Vanunu

source: Interview with Amy Goodman, www.counterpunch.org. August 18, 2004.

topic: Sleep, Years, Two, Brainwash, Two Years

I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out.

- Gordon Parks

topic: Photography, Years, Europe, Two Years

I have no idea why one of our most original filmmakers would want to spend two years of his life translating someone else's movie from Spanish into English. And it wasn't such a good film in Spanish, either.

- Joel Siegel

topic: Years, Ideas, Two, Two Years

And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And I was very happy to be assigned to this mission.

- Umberto Guidoni

topic: Years, Class, Two, Two Years

I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years.

- Harry Shearer

topic: School, Years, Two, State Legislatures, Graduate School

I was later to receive an excellent first two years' graduate education in the same University and then again was able to pursue my studies in the U.S. on a fellowship from the aforementioned fund.

- Chen-Ning Yang

source: Chen Ning Yang (2005). “Selected Papers, 1945-1980, with Commentary”, p.247, World Scientific

topic: Years, Two, Fellowship, Two Years

I still shop at Costco. I just started tipping two years ago.

- Bernard Hopkins

topic: Motivation, Years, Two, Costco, Two Years

How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years.

- Winston Churchill

source: Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

topic: Education, School, Years, Two Years

My father...made us shop at Goodwill. I found things to wear and got Best Dressed (in the yearbook) two years in a row. I had lemons, so I made lemonade.

- Nick Cannon

topic: Attitude, Father, Yearbook, Lemonade, Best Dressed

He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked about this and she talked about that and it was only words, like the words he had heard once in a nursery at a friend's house, a two-year-old child building word patters, like jargon, making pretty sounds in the air.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Children, Winter, Islands, Two Years

The problem of viruses is temporary and will be solved in two years.

- John McAfee

topic: Years, Two, Viruses, Computer Security, Computer Viruses

If you don’t have a deal in two days, you won’t have a deal in two years.

- Werner Herzog

source: "12 Things I Learned at Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School" by Marie-Françoise Theodore, www.indiewire.com. September 24, 2012.

topic: Years, Two, Deals, Two Years

We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth.

- Gavin MacLeod

topic: Two, Years, People, Mindless, Very Nice

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.

- Billie Holiday

source: Lady Sings the Blues ch. 4 (1956).

topic: Song, Exercise, Night, Yodeling, Singing Songs

I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Letting Go, Years, Two, Life Being Short, Everyday Life

It took us two years to get our first real gig. That was a big dream. We ended up booking a lot of our own gigs and putting on a lot of our own shows. We were trying to get our actual music across, trying to make a connection there.

- Greg Ginn

topic: Dream, Real, Years, Two Years

Diplomacy is much like the "lovemaking of elephants", which is accompanied with a lot of bellowing and other sound effects, but no one can be sure of the consequences for at least the next two years

- Shashi Tharoor

topic: Years, Elephants, Two, Sound Effects, Two Years

I practiced saxophone eight hours a day for the first two years I played.

- Stan Getz

topic: Years, Two, Eight, Two Years

I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest.

- Charlotte Gainsbourg

topic: Years, Two, Desperate, Two Years

My only agenda for the next two years is the same as the one I’ve had since the day I swore an oath on the steps of this Capitol — to do what I believe is best for America.

- Barack Obama

source: Sixth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2015

topic: Believe, Years, Two, Capitol, Two Years

I also played two years of high school football but I wasn't very, how shall I say it, talented.

- Kyle Chandler

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Football, School, Years, Two Years, High School Football

The thing is, when I had my first success it did coincide with the end of my first marriage, and because I went on to have a very, very unhappy two years, I don't think I equate career success with personal happiness.

- Rob Brydon

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, Years, Careers, Two Years

I said, 'I'll give myself two years. If I can't support myself as an actress within two years, then I'll go back to choreography.'

- Khandi Alexander

topic: Years, Two, Giving, Two Years

Actually, I only left twice. I left then, and then rejoined literally two years later for Going For The One.

- Rick Wakeman

topic: Years, Two, Two Years

All that now seems to stand between Nigel and the prospect of the world crown is the unfortunate fact that fate brought him into this world only two years after Kasparov.

- Garry Kasparov

topic: Fate, Years, Two, Two Years

The last two years, nationals have been close to home for me, so I've had big family support from friends and club support. Especially last year in Ottawa, I had a whole section my grandpa got for all my family, and the skating club (supported me). I feel like I'm a veteran at this now.

- Alaine Chartrand

topic: Home, Years, Two, Ottawa, Family Support

Marygreen did not change in sixteen years. It had changed little enough in the past two years.

- Kathleen Winsor

source: Kathleen Winsor, Barbara Taylor Bradford (2012). “Forever Amber”, p.19, Chicago Review Press

topic: Change, Past, Years, Two Years

For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth.

- John Amery

source: John Amery (2007). “John Amery Speaks, &: England and Europe”

topic: Country, Fog, Years, Haze, Two Years

In two years, there were 22 military coups d'etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d'etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path.

- Ahmed Ben Bella

source: "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

topic: Military, Years, Two, Coups, Two Years

Number one, we need to get in shape, number two we need to shoot, number three, we need to learn self-defense, and number four, we need to study small-unit tactics... If you do not have 5,000 rounds of .223, 5,000 rounds of .22 and 1,000 rounds of handgun ammo, as a MINIMUM, you're wrong. We need to train our families how to shoot as well. We need to get food. We need to have a year's supply of food, two years supply of seeds, we need to have a year's supply of sundry items. That's what it means to be an American. We prepare for the worst but hope for the best.

- Matt Shea

topic: Inspiring, Mean, Self, Handguns, Getting In Shape

Japan is dealing us a dead hand. For two years we have watched the Japanese drag their feet and we can't let them continue to slam the door in our faces.

- Craig L. Thomas

topic: Japan, Doors, Hands, Two Years

It's a bit ridiculous to have people who have two years of experience handling an $83 billion budget.

- Mike Thompson

topic: Years, Two, People, Two Years, Years Of Experience

I think of the Replacements only when they're brought up to me. For two years, I'm at home, they don't really cross my mind. I still hear them on the radio. I'm not ashamed of anything we did.

- Paul Westerberg

topic: Home, Thinking, Years, Two Years

I am excited about it. No-one really knows him [Kumar Sangakkara] as a person and everyone is looking forward to that. Getting to know players like Amla, Ponting and Smith has been special and this is great, because he [Sangakkara] is here for two years, it's no flash in the pan.

- Jason Roy

topic: Player, Years, Sri Lanka, Two Years

You're talking to somebody who two years ago couldn't figure out how to use e-mail and who now has carpal tunnel. It has totally changed in that these films would not be getting out to people the way they're getting out without the Internet.

- Robert Greenwald

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Talking, Years, Two, Two Years, Two Years Ago

A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.

- Rose Tremain

topic: Dream, Writing, Years, Two Years

The center will be fully operational in two years' time, but probably in the middle of the year we will have a temporary laboratory of 4,000 square feet.

- Luc Montagnier

topic: Squares, Years, Two, Two Years

I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places.

- Tabitha Soren

topic: Years, Mtv, Two, Two Years