„It all ends in one of two ways: either someone gets eaten or something blows up.“

„The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love, or a call for love.“

—  Marianne Williamson American writer 1952

„People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.“

—  Sue Monk Kidd, книга The Secret Life of Bees

Источник: The Secret Life of Bees

„If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren't always happy ones.“

—  Jennifer Weiner, книга Good in Bed

Источник: Good in Bed

„We're led by a man that either is not tough, not smart, or he's got something else in mind. And the something else in mind, you know, people can't believe it, people cannot believe that President Obama is acting the way he acts and can't even mention the words 'radical Islamic terrorism. There's something going on — it's inconceivable. There's something going on. He doesn't get it, or he gets it better than anybody understands. It's one or the other, and either one is unacceptable.“

—  Donald J. Trump 45th President of the United States of America 1946

Phone interview on "Fox and Friends", as quoted in "Trump on Obama and Islam: 'There's something going on'" http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/283246-trump-on-obama-and-islam-theres-something-going-on by Jesse Byrnes, The Hill (13 June 2016)
2010s, 2016, June

„I feel the way bank robbers must feel before they go out on that last job that ends up getting them all killed. That is to say, optimistic.“

—  Joey Comeau writer 1980

Lockpick Pornography

„There are only two ways of getting on in the world: by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of others.“

—  Jean de La Bruyère, книга Les Caractères

Il n'y a au monde que deux manières de s'élever, ou par sa propre industrie, ou par l'imbécillité des autres.
Aphorism 52
Les Caractères (1688), Des biens de fortune

„Setting the agenda and getting one's way, however, are two very different things.“

—  John W. Kingdon American political scientist 1940

Источник: Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies - (Second Edition), Chapter 2, Participants on the Inside of Government, p. 23

„Just when you think you know something, it gets turned around and challenged in some way. But those changes are welcome because you end up learning more.“

—  Jennifer Beals American actress and a former teen model 1963

Interview in First for Women magazine (February 8, 2010, p. 46) http://jennifer-beals.com/media/press/first.html.

„Hooking on scuba gear and blindly diving into zombie-infested water is a wonderful way to mix the two childhood terrors of being eaten and drowning.“

—  Max Brooks, книга The Zombie Survival Guide

Источник: The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead

„… there are two ways of being unhappy. Not getting what you want is one. Getting what you want is the other.“

—  Eckhart Tolle German writer 1948

Источник: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

„I heard that the best way to get over someone is to get under someone else.“

—  Kerry Cohen American writer 1970

„Reich and John Cage were pretty big influences on this record (Folie A Deux) in weird ways in that you wouldn't necessarily hear any of it - nothing ends up sounding like either of them, but I think just methodology and things like that ended up on the record in various ways.“

—  Patrick Stump American musician 1984

AbsolutePunk.net

„Love is a one-way street. Love, like respect isn't something you get; it's something you give“

—  Gregory David Roberts, книга Shantaram

Источник: Shantaram

„I guess I was just hoping there might be a way to do things other than the way that ends up with everyone getting killed.“

—  John Scalzi, книга Zoe's Tale

Источник: Zoe's Tale (2008), Chapter 21 (p. 302)

„This is why we call people exes, I guess -- because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. It's too easy to see an X as a cross-out. It's not, because there's no way to cross out something like that. The X is a diagram of two paths.“

—  John Green, книга Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Will Grayson, p. 277
Will Grayson, Will Grayson (2010)

„In a 52-48 referendum this would be unfinished business by a long way. If the Remain campaign win two-thirds to one-third that ends it.“

—  Nigel Farage British politician and former commodity broker 1964

Interviewed by the Mirror before the EU referendum result http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nigel-farage-wants-second-referendum-7985017 (16 May 2016)
2016

„I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.“

—  Booker T. Washington African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor 1856 - 1915

The Story of My Life and Work, vol. I (1900), ch. XV: Cuban Education and the Chicago Peace Jubilee Address http://web.archive.org/20071031084035/www.historycooperative.org/btw/Vol.1/html/126.html

„Plants, animals, and stars are all kept in place, bridled along appointed ways, with one another, and through the midst of one another — killing and being killed, eating and being eaten, in harmonious proportions and quantities.“

—  John Muir Scottish-born American naturalist and author 1838 - 1914

" Wild Wool http://books.google.com/books?id=LcIRAAAAYAAJ&pg=P361", Overland Monthly, volume 14, number 4 (April 1875) pages 361-366 (at page 364); reprinted in Steep Trails (1918), chapter 1
1870s

„There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.“

—  Booker T. Washington African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor 1856 - 1915

As quoted in The Great Quotations (1971) edited by George Seldes, p. 366