T Quotes
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“The drive to know fuels the desire to seek.”
“The drive to learn is as strong as the sexual drive. It begins earlier and lasts longer”
“The drive to live in the master’s house is also symbolic of the desire to become like the master. Our colonized consciousness has convinced us that to be is to be like the master. To be Filipino is not good enough—or so we we have been taught (or coerced) to believe. It is a reflection of the internalization of the dark shadows projected by the colonizer onto the colonized. These are shadows from which there is no escape, shadows that will keep haunting until they are withdrawn, atoned for, and integrated within the colonizer’s self”
“The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things”
“The drive to resist compulsion is more important in wild animals than sex, food, or water... The drive for competence or to resist compulsion is a drive to avoid helplessness.”
“The drive to scale in almost every endeavor. The British went very large scale in ship building and a few other industries. Their steel plants were bigger and much more advanced than ours after the Civil War, but we had blown past them by the mid-80s.”
“The drive to want to know is innate in people. You cannot influence this. I think in contrast it is harmful if you push kids too far in a particular direction.”
“The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.”
“The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism.”
“The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.”
“The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought , for one would thereby dispense with man himself.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“The drive was difficult, because at this point it seemed that everyone in town but the two of us had hopped onto the buzzing shadow entity train, and were loping around town as malevolent holes in our reality, emanating an energy that made the hairs on your arm stand and your bowels vibrate. Or maybe that was just the chemistry with Carlos I was feeling.”
Source: The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe
“The Drive-Bys want to believe that somebody like me on the radio could express difficulty, problems with the wall not going up now, the funding not being requested now, in lieu of a government shutdown. And they want you to believe that Donald Trump is in the White House, and somebody said, "You know what, Limbaugh just said you better not do this."”
“The drivenness in any addiction is about the ruptured self, the belief that one is flawed as a person. The content of the addiction, whether it is alcoholism or work, is an attempt at an intimate relationship. The workaholic with her work or the alcoholic with his booze are having a love affair. Each alters mood to avoid the feeling of loneliness and hurt in the underbelly of shame.”
“The driver, a black silhouette upon his box, whipped up his bony horses. Icy silence in the coach. Marius, motionless, his body braced in the corner of the carriage, his head dropping down upon his breast, his arms hanging, his legs rigid, appeared to await nothing now but a coffin; Jean Valjean seemed made of shadow, and Javert of stone.”
Source: Les Misérables
“The driver commandeered the taxi through the streets with a complete disregard for traffic lights; their colours were there to make them pretty.”
Source: Dead Ends
“The driver drove by roadway Braille”
Source: Perfidia
“The driver got out smiling. He looked about seventeen or eighteen, and for a second, I had the uneasy feeling it was Luke, my old enemy. This guy had the same sandy hair and outdoorsy good looks. But it wasn't Luke. His smile was brighter and more playful. (Luke didn't do much more than scowl and sneer these days.) The Maserati driver wore jeans and loafers and a sleeveless T-shirt. "Wow" Thalia muttered. Apollo Is hot." "He's the sun god," I said. "That's not what I meant.”
“The driver had recently scraped an 'AMRAK is Love' decal from his back window, leaving a sticky residue of his former beliefs.”
Source: Small Orange Fruit
“The driver hadn’t said not to [climb the tree]. Maybe it was implied, because normal people’s minds didn’t jump straight to, Oh, a tree, I should climb it.”
Source: Picture-Perfect Boyfriend
“The driver nods and yanks the steering wheel like an old quack pulling out a molar, bumping us up onto the kerb. We stop beside a stall selling juice. Lesley and I approach the proprietor, who’s got a generous supply of teeth. Most of them seem to be vying for a seat up the front where the view’s better. He’s stuffing ripe oranges down the throat of a large trembling juicer. It’s whirring, grinding, and gushing a copious flood of juice into a bucket. Unfortunately, the bucket’s got a halo of flies. Lesley, not wanting to offend the man, leans closer to me and whispers, ‘It looks a bit unhygienic.’
‘Unhygienic? Lesley, I can actually see a blue bottle washing shit off his feet with the juice.”
Source: Swami Premananda & The Temple of Whom
“The driver of a racing car is a component. When I first began, I used to grip the steering wheel firmly, and I changed gear so hard that I damaged my hand.”
“The driver of the power of intelligent systems is the knowledge the systems have about their universe of discourse, not the sophistication of the reasoning process the systems employ.”
“The driver on the highway is safe not when He reads the signs, but when He obeys them.”
“The driver was irrelevant when you had a massive truck ramming you up the arse.”
Source: The Cabin: A Locked-Room Thriller
“The drivers have one foot on the brake, one on the clutch and one on the throttle.”
“The drives you take for granted ("I'm a hetero/homosexual," "I'm attracted to children/adults," "I'm aggressive/not aggressive," and so on) depend on the intricate details of your neural machinery.”
Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain
“The driving force behind doing everything that I've been doing as a stand-up is having problems with authority and not liking to be told what to do.”
“The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.”
“The driving force behind today's terrorist threat is Islamist fundamentalism. The struggle we are engaged in is, at root, ideological. During the last century a strain of Islamist thinking has developed which, like other totalitarianisms, such as Nazism and Communism, offers its followers a form of redemption through violence.”
“The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.”
“The driving force of a nation lies in its spiritual purpose, made effective by free, tolerant but unremitting national will.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7
“The driving forces of the universe, the framework upon which it is built up in all its parts, belong to another phase of manifestation than our physical plane, having other dimensions than the three to which we are habituated, and perceived by other modes of consciousness than those to which we are accustomed.”
Source: Psychic self-defense: The Classic Instruction Manual for Protecting Yourself Against Paranormal Attack
“The driving in Riyadh was deadly. Turbocharged testosterone without creative or sexual outlet translated into deadly acceleration.”
Source: In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom
“The driving motivation of a new American endeavor in Iraq and in neighboring Arab lands should be modernizing the Arab world.”
“The driving thing was for me to get out of the poverty that we lived in... My mother always used to say that we were as good as anyone else.”
“The Droid I had actually seemed to have free will, which I thought was interesting.”
“The drone in my ear, it’s like the tornado drill in elementary school, the hand-cranked siren that rang mercilessly, all of us hunched over on ourselves, facing the basement walls, heads tucked into our chests. Beth and me wedged tight, jeaned legs pressed against each other. The sounds of our own breathing. Before we all stopped believing a tornado, or anything, could touch us, ever”
Source: Dare Me
“The drone rises above the trees, makes a few lazy spirals in the air, and hovers there over the edge of the pond, the little boy fully in control, for now.”
Source: Culpability
“The drone war takes place 24/7, 365 days a year. The war doesn't stop on Christmas. It's like being a fireman when there's a fire every single day, day after day after day. That's emotionally and physically taxing.”
“The drones are a terrorist weapon, they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.”
“The drones are really interesting - how have the troops withdrawn from Afghanistan? Because we've upped the drone strikes and most of the country doesn't even really know what that means or who we're killing or... it's such a new weapon that we don't know what the long term impacts of that kind of military action is going to be.”
“The drop grows happy by losing itself in the river.”
“The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling.”
“The drop in living standards most people would have to accept to reduce climate change significantly would still leave us far better off than previous generations, so it's inexcusable that we find it so hard to renounce material goods.”
“The drop in pending home sales is an affirmation that we are experiencing a modest slowing in the housing sector.”
“The drop of rain knows who and what it is as long as it remains a drop. When it falls back into the sea, its origin, it can no longer know.”
Source: The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry
“The Drop's unpredictability is organic rather than sensationalistic. The movie doesn't pull surprises out of thin air for the sole purpose of shocking an audience - it lets them develop naturally.”
“The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.”
“The dropping of the Atomic Bomb is a very deep problem... Instead of commemorating Hiroshima we should celebrate... man's triumph over the problem [of transmutation], and not its first misuse by politicians and military authorities.”