#double

He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood. ↗

— Florence King

#double #fastest #feminism #goes #real

I do some of my stunts for the things I have learned. But if it is for something I have never learned, then I use a double. ↗

— Jet Li

#i #i do #i have learned #learned #never

It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it - which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years. ↗

— Peter Lynch

#doing #double #every #human #human nature

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#books #doubled #lives #pleasure #reading

Playing Marcia was a double-edged sword; it always will be whenever you play a character like that. You will be known as that character forever. ↗

— Maureen McCormick

#character #double-edged #double-edged sword #forever #known

We had not had time to establish ourselves as a double act before Ernie joined the Merchant Navy. I teamed up with the brother of the late Dave Morris. ↗

— Eric Morecambe

#before #brother #dave #double #establish

The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#call #double #first #i #objects

This programme would only really make sense and work properly if it was also broadcast on France's international television channel TV5. So I ended up with a double production, on France 2 and TV5. ↗

— Bernard Pivot

#broadcast #channel #double #ended #france

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared. ↗

— Jane Porter

#brightness #happiness #heart #itself #kindred

What we're going to do is redouble our efforts on financial regulatory reform, because that has in it sensible things like say on pay, so at least the shareholders are minding the store, sensible things like saying, for heaven's sakes, compensation should be focused on - on long term, so that you don't have rewards for short-term risk-taking. ↗

— Christina Romer

#compensation #efforts #financial #focused #going