T Quotes
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“The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development.”
“The disposition to give a cup of cold water to a disciple is a far nobler property than the finest intellect. Satan has a fine intellect, but not the image of God.”
“The dispute is still before the judge.”
“The disquieting thing about newscaster-babble or editorial-speak is its ready availability as a serf idiom, a vernacular of deference. "Mr. Secretary, are we any nearer to bringing about a dialogue in this process ?”
Source: For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports
“The disruption caused by globalization and technology (what Tom Friedman calls hyperconnectedness) will be around for the rest of our professional lives.”
“The disruption of science is one which abandons the method and seeks to conquer grounds outside its territory. It is not at all religion but this pseudo-science that is the enemy of science.”
Source: Healology
“The disruption of the anticipated American future that was simply to have unrolled out of the solid American past, out of each generation’s getting smartersmarter for knowing the inadequacies and limitations of the generations beforeout of each new generation’s breaking away from the parochialism a little further, out of the desire to go the limit in America with your rights, forming yourself as an ideal person who gets rid of the traditional Jewish habits and attitudes, who frees himself of the pre-America insecurities and the old, constraining obsessions so as to live unapologetically as an equal among equals.”
Source: American Pastoral
“The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.”
Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace
“The dissatisfaction and internal conflict that I had felt throughout my life wasn’t due to my husband or my marriage or my career. It was because for the majority of my life I had been trying to be something that I wasn’t. I was not true to myself.”
Source: The Husband Swap
“The dissemination of pseudoscience, including such things as the fascination with near-death experiences and the growing belief by Americans -- 34 percent of them -- in reincarnation are dangerous. They help to break down the standards of reason.”
“The dissemination of the individual's opinions on matters of public interest is for us, in the historic words of the Declaration of Independence, an 'unalienable right' that 'governments are instituted among men to secure.' History shows us that the Founders were not always convinced that unlimited discussion of public issues would be 'for the benefit of all of us' but that they firmly adhered to the proposition that the 'true liberty of the press' permitted 'every man to publish his opinion'.”
“The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.”
“The dissenting opinions of one generation become the prevailing interpretation of the next.”
“The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin - and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.”
“The dissolution of a family, global crisis creates the massive fracture, not only in the Middle East but between America and Israel, between Europe and Israel, between American Jews and Israeli Jews. The distances seem to be widening wherever you look.”
“The dissolution of society bids fair to become the termination of a career of which property is the end and aim, because such a career contains the elements of self-destruction. Democracy in government, brotherhood in society, equality in rights and privileges, and universal education, foreshadow the next higher plane of society to which experience, intelligence and knowledge are steadily tending.”
Source: The Indian Journals, 1859-62
“The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.”
Source: The Old Testament in the Jewish Church: Twelve Lectures on Biblical Criticism
“The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and answer something profound in contemporary sensibility.”
Source: Art and Culture: Critical Essays
“The dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then.”
“The dissonance that I felt daily flew in the face of what Silicon Valley says about itself: that it is a meritocracy, that it values intelligence and creativity, that everyone has a fair shot if they just work hard enough. This was true only if you were technical, and even that may not always be enough: in the age of the social network, who you know and who your friends were was becoming increasingly important.”
Source: The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network
“The distance at which all shooting weapons take effect screens the killer against the stimulus sensation which would otherwise activate his killing inhibitions. The deep, emotional layers of our personality simply do not register the fact that the crooking of the finger to release a shot tears the entrails of another man.”
“The distance between a gene and a behavior is of greatest interest to me. The relative contributions of nature and nurture, of nucleotide and nuclear family, are perpetually fascinating to me.”
“The distance between a person's dream and their accomplishments can only be measured by their desire.”
“The distance between capital and labor is not a great gulf over which is swung a Niagara suspension bridge; it is only a step, and the laborers here will cross over and become capitalists and the capitalists will cross over and become laborers. Would to God they would shake hands while they are crossing, these from one side, and those from the other side.”
Source: The Battle for Bread: A Series of Sermons Relating to Labor and Capital
“The distance between dreams and reality is called Fate”
Source: WHO AM I: Author Hari Krishnan Nair
“The distance between Evil and Good is a vast expanse in which many can exist without being either.”
“The distance between food and hunger is called Destiny.”
Source: WHO AM I: Author Hari Krishnan Nair
“The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home-a moment will bring us there.”
Source: Strengthen My Spirit
“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”
“The distance between me and Benny [Goodman], was that I was trying to play a musical thing, and Benny was trying to swing. Benny had great fingers; I'd never deny that. But listen to our two versions of 'Star Dust.' I was playing; he was swinging.”
“The distance between my home and here is a fraction of the emotional distance between here and inside.”
Source: The Temptation of Eden
“The distance between my lips and yours
cannot be deciphered from the square root
of the sum of the days we have spent wondering
what to do with three minutes and ten seconds.
The distance between my lips and yours
cannot be deduced by the difference in
the circumferences of our necks or in
how many minutes we can sit in the noon sun.
The distance between my lips and yours
can only be measured in poems.
Tell me, how many are there?
Were there? Will there be?
(But who knows what to call a poem
and what to call a conversation?
And who knows whether to call at all?)”
“The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you. That is a big lesson. I cannot just expect the organization to improve if I don't improve myself and lift the organization, because that distance is a constant.”
“The distance between significance and irrelevance is shorter than you think. It could be traveled in a single day, a single moment, or even a single word.”
Source: Heaven and Hurricanes
“The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi.”
Source: Heartland
“The distance between the actual developmental level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through problem solving under adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers”
“The distance between the adolescent and the true adult is about five thousand miles, but the distance between the adult and the elder is almost as large.”
“The distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.”
Source: From the Earth to the moon/De la Terre à la lune (Bilingual edition/Édition bilingue)
“The distance between the glorified spirits in heaven and the militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home. Heaven... is just one sigh and we get there. Our departed friends are only in the upper room, as it were, of the same house; they have not gone far off; they are upstairs and we are down below.”
“The distance between the library and the bedroom is astronomical”
Source: The Yogi and the Commissar, and Other Essays
“The distance between the limousine and the gutter is a short one.”
“the distance between this pigeon's brain and mine is minute compared to that between mine and Bodhi 's Wisdom Compassion”
“The distance between truth and lies is integrity,
between need and want is contentment,
between fate and chance is will,
between vice and virtue is intention,
between faith and doubt is conviction,
between joy and grief is happiness,
between strength and weakness is tenacity,
between action and fear is courage,
between hope and despair is expectation,
between wealth and poverty is diligence,
between friendship and humility is kindness,
between life and death is existence,
between eternity and time is reality,
between war and peace is diplomacy,
between God and intelligence is wisdom,
between knowledge and ignorance is education,
between sin and righteousness is desire,
between God and religion is faith,
between blessings and curses is obedience,
between faith and science is God,
between good and evil is light,
between light and darkness is sight,
between God and Lucifer is love,
and between Heaven and Hell is faith.”
“The distance between two hearts can be measured not in miles, but in the silence of unanswered calls. The true measure of separation between two hearts lies not in the physical distance, but in the depth of connection and the endurance of the heart's journey.”
- NIRVANA: RAGA • DVESHA • MOHA”
Source: NIRVANA: RAGA • DVESHA • MOHA
“The distance between two minds is understanding.”
“The distance between us and the maleness of our friendship precluded revealing anything that truly mattered, and at the time I was too naive to know that if you were friends with someone––truly friends––then you told him what was going on ("It's called 'catching up,'" my wife informed me when I asked how it was possible for her to yap with her girlfriends for as long as she did and share every innocuous detail of her life). Instead, I thought that by concisely presenting the most easygoing and put-together version of myself, I was being "all good."
Really, I was just fronting. And Rob was doing the same.”
Source: The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
“The distance between us feels too close, too far, too close.”
Source: Lola and the Boy Next Door
“The distance between us was just a few inches of evening air, but his arm seemed to bridge a span of miles and his featherlight touch crumbled walls that had taken
years to build.
His fingers moved into my hair, and his other arm slid around my waist. My hands wanted to go to him, but in disbelief, I couldn’t move.
He took a breath and, for a moment, I thought he was about to speak. Instead, he drew me to him and kissed me.
It was a gentle kiss, just his lips against mine as we breathed each other in, but it eased a deep, consuming sense of loss I hadn’t even been fully aware of. I
wrapped my arms around him, holding him closer and letting him overwhelm my senses. For all that had been said and all we’d been through, it was this kiss—this
deliberate, silent return to the way things should have been—that allowed me to release my breath for the first time in months. In years.
I had to break the kiss just to look at him, to remind myself that this was real. Our eyes met, and it was. He was here. My world was back on its axis.
There were a thousand things I wanted to say, to ask, to know, but words hadn’t done us a lot of good. All they’d done was keep me from hearing everything he’d
tried to tell me all along. Talking could wait until we’d said all the things we needed to say.
So I kissed him again.”
Source: The Distance Between Us
“The distance between where I am and where I want to be seems impossibly large.”
“The distance between where you are now and the path you think you should be on is probably smaller than you think it is”