There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating --people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
Oscar Wilde
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FAITH SULLIVAN There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who k...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL There are two kinds of people I don't trust: people who don't drink and people who collect stickers.
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CYRUS CURTIS There are two kinds of people; those who can count and those who can't.
SOURCE UNKNOWN There are only two kinds of people in this world; those who have a conscience and those who do not.
P.A. SPEERS It is an undisputed truth of the modern age that there are now only two kinds of people in the world...
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HENRY DAVID THOREAU There are two kinds of people in America today: those who have experienced a foreign cyber attack an...
FRANK WOLF there are three kinds of people in the world: those who don't know and don't know they don't know; t...
KAREN MARIE MONING Having 40 million people who are uninsured is absolutely scandalous.
JEFFREY KINDLER There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.
ROBERT BYRNE There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on
ROBERT BYRNE There is nothing more dangerous than ignorant people who think they know everything.
KEN NDARU There are three kinds of people in this world: people who make it happen, people who watch what happ...
TOMMY LASORDA There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart beca...
BLAISE PASCAL Bob Beckel and Juan Williams are two people who I love personally. But what they say drives me absol...
KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE There are three kinds of people: those who can count, and those who can't.
UNKNOWN There Are Three Kinds of People - Those Who Can Count and Those Who Can't
HARRY S TRUMAN I believe the only people that should be around a child and raising a child are people who absolutel...
ANGELINA JOLIE I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.
MICHAEL PALIN It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothin...
JOSEPH STALIN There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, There you are and th...
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, "There you are" and ...
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN There are two kinds of people, those who like to sleep next to the wall, and those who like to sleep...
ETGAR KERET Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.
JOHN KEEGAN People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
ISAAC ASIMOV I think there are people who want to destroy, symbolically, Orthodox churches and I find this behavi...
BERNARD KOUCHNER There are only two types of people in the world. There are the people who understand that this is a ...
RUPAUL There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told, and the ones who figure it out all by t...
TOM CLANCY There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by th...
TOM CLANCY One of the great misconceptions is that people who have STDs know they have them, ... That is absolu...
EDWARD HOOK People are so quick to judge and make decisions for themselves about situations they know absolutely...
LEANN RIMES There are only two kinds of people in the modern world who know what they are after. One, quite fran...
GEOFFREY FISHER Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
ISAAC ASIMOV People who are afraid of commitment are people who know what the real thing is.
HOUSE Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learnin...
RAMAKRISHNA I was amazed as people must be who are seized and kidnapped, and who realize that in the strange wor...
ALICE MUNRO There are only two kinds of people in the world - there are those who wake up in the morning and say...
UNKNOWN There are two kinds of folks who sit around thinking about how to kill people: psychopaths and myste...
RICHARD CASTLE There are three kinds of people; those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and t...
PROVERB Most Oscar parties are pretty silly. They're really for people who like to schmooze.
DARYL HANNAH People who know what is inside of you are people who are afraid of your strength.
LUCAS WILD A: I like your apartment.
B: It's nice, but it's only big enough for one person – or two peop...
ANDY WARHOL Let him who walks in darkness and no light trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God
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HENRY WEINGARTEN They absolutely have an expertise in advertising to people who are targeting gay and lesbian viewers...
JASON KLARMAN People are who they are and, try as you might, you cannot make them be what you want them to be.
LEILA SALES I know gay - gay people who aren't married who are better parents than some, you know, straight ...
DENIS LEARY Frankly, the only good people who I know are dogs.
FAKEER ISHAVARDAS The two kinds of people on earth that I meanAre the people who lift and the people who lean.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX A lot of people... kind of make heroes that are separate from us, people who are, you know, like... ...
WALTER MOSLEY There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.
EMILE-AUGUSTE CHARTIER There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.
EMILE CHARTIER There are two kinds of parents. The parents who want kids and the kind who really, really don't.
WILLIAM RODERICK There's absolutely no purpose served by the FBI keeping this list. These are people who are approved...
BILL POWERS There are two types of people I have seen : those who fish and those who only disturb the water.
VIKRANT PARSAI The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
OGDEN NASH There are two kinds of people in this world, those who seem happy to take marching orders and those ...
KEN O. ELDIB The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The t...
ANN LANDERS There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those
who take the credit. Try to be in t...
THOMAS FULLER There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the...
INDIRA GANDHI You'd be surprised there still are a lot of people who don't know who we are out here.
JEFF BECK There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary numerals, and those who don't...
IAN STEWART There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who are remembered and those who are forgotten. Th...
LORRIN L. LEE People who are saying the Lower 9th Ward shouldn't be rebuilt or is totally damaged are absolutely w...
JOE BROWN The people who boast the most usually have absolutely no idea what they are boasting about.
PETER GRECH There are people who love you and people who hate you, but for me, more so, people only think they k...
LLEYTON HEWITT There are two kinds of comics; there are the ones who build bridges, and then there are the people w...
RON WHITE Successful people are people who know how to fight, they are people who can fight for success and wi...
SUNDAY ADELAJA There are broadly two kinds of people who worry and fear a lot. One who has built the desire more th...
ANUJ SOMANY People are fascinating. Especially the ones who hate me.
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MARIA POPOVA There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good fo...
LORD CHESTERFIELD There are only two kinds of coaches -- those who have been fired, and those who will be fired.
KEN LOEFFLER There are only two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired and those who will be fired
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OSCAR WILDE And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness...
OSCAR WILDE It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
OSCAR WILDE Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive t...
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