Warren Miller
Filmmaker, Writer
"A pair of skis are the ultimate transformation to freedom"
Pairs quotes
Pairs
225 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Megan Young
Beauty Queen
"You can never go wrong with kindness."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"A pair of star-crossed lovers."
George Herbert
Poet
"You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows."
Cornel Wilde
Actor
"I treated her like a pair of gloves. When I was cold, I called her up."
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"It's better to buy one good pair of shoes than four cheap ones."
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"Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection."
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"Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better."
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"I do like my hair being pulled from time to time, it's like a pair of reins, innit?"
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"I always steal a pair of socks on every photo shoot I do. It's my thing."
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"Dan Radcliffe and Rupert Grint to me are like a pair of warm-hearted brothers."
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"I'm like any other woman - my weight fluctuates. I have a pair of jeans one size bigger than the other just in case that week I'm a little bit heavier."
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"If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that."
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"A pair of jaybirds came up from nowhere, whirled up on the blast like gaudy scraps of cloth or paper and lodged in the mulberries, where they swung in raucous tilt and recover, screaming into the wind that ripped their harsh cries onward and away like scraps of paper or of cloth in turn."
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"I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas."
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"I actually have a closet that's all shoes, maybe 700 pairs."
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"Willpower and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair."
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"No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes."
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"It's hard not to be sexy in a pair of high heels."
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"No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage."
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"A great pair of shoes can make a $20 outfit look like couture, and a poorly constructed pair of shoes can make couture look like a cheap knockoff."
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"I bought a new pair of pajamas with pockets, which is great, cause now i don't have to hold things when I sleep."
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"Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools."
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"A nation that still needs to distinguish between stealing an election, and stealing a new pair of shoes, is not completely civilized yet."
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"With so many brothers, I could always find a pair of shorts to borrow and run around in."
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