“Is he onside? He is! It's two, one! To the U.S.!”

— Ian Darke

United States v. Portugal http://www.listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=gQC2SusDfIw (22 June 2014). 2010s, 2014, 2014 FIFA World Cup Context: Nicely measured. Jones to Yedlin. Really, it nearly got to him! He has got to Bradley, and then Zusi, and Dempsey! Is he onside? He is! It's two, one! To the U. S.! 'Captain Marvel', again!

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British association football and boxing commentator 1950

Ian Darke (1950) British association football and boxing commentator

Ghana v. United States http://www.listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=gQC2SusDfIw (16 June 2014). 2010s, 2014, 2014 FIFA World Cup Context: Dempsey, great start here. Can Clint Dempsey score? He has! The U. S. ahead! Incredibly, within seconds! Now that, is dreamland! Clint Dempsey becomes the first American to score at three different World Cups!

“In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him--he who had never in his life known anything but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“And he that does one fault at first
And lies to hide it, makes it two.”

Isaac Watts (1674–1748) English hymnwriter, theologian and logician

Song 15. Compare: "Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby", George Herbert, The Church Porch.
1710s, Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)

“All were fat; and well they might
Be in admirable plight,
For one by one, and two by two,
He tossed them human hearts to chew.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet

St. 3
(1819)

“Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Two birds on a wire
One tries to fly away
And the other watches him close from that wire
He says he wants to as well
But he is a liar”

Regina Spektor (1980) American singer-songwriter and pianist

Two Birds
Far (2009)

“Pooh looked at his two paws. He knew that one of them was the right, and he knew that when you had decided which one of them was the right, then the other one was the left, but he never could remember how to begin.”

A.A. Milne book The House at Pooh Corner

Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Seven.

“He has told me he likes men as well as he likes women, which seems only natural, he says, since he is the offspring of two sexes as well as two races. No one is surprised he is biracial; why should they be surprised he is bisexual? This is an explanation I have never heard and cannot entirely grasp; it seems too logical for my brain.”

Alice Walker book Possessing the Secret of Joy

Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992).

“A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Similar quotes are found, unattributed, from as early as 1899 https://books.google.com/books?id=lC81AAAAIAAJ&pg=RA4-PA32&dq=%22two+evils%22+both+pessimist&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAGoVChMIuveP5uz0yAIVBVqICh0GRQQJ#v=onepage&q=%22two%20evils%22%20both%20pessimist&f=false. First clear attribution to Wilde was not until 1977 https://books.google.com/books?id=eOcWAQAAMAAJ&q=oscar+wilde+%22two+evils%22&dq=oscar+wilde+%22two+evils%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CE4Q6AEwCWoVChMIjMLEuO30yAIVBpSICh0c4Qi9 Disputed

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