T Quotes
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“The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)
“The eagle only knows how high it can fly when it spreads its wings.”
“The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby, Knowing that with the shadow of his wings He can at pleasure stint their melody: Even so mayest thou the giddy men of Rome.”
“The eagle suffers little birds to sing.”
“The eagle that soars in the upper air does not worry itself how it is to cross rivers.”
“The Eagle, he was lord above”
Source: Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscellaneous Pieces of the Author
“The Eagles and the Captain and Tennille ruled the airwaves, and we were the answer to it.”
“The Eagles and the critics were not the best of friends.”
“The Eagles are coming! The Eagles are coming!”
Source: The Return of the King
“The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time.”
“The eagles ruled the air as the tribes ruled the land.”
Source: Conqueror: The Complete 5-Book Collection
“The Eagles, let's face it, they were a pretty cool group, Fleetwood Mac, Blondie. I had this really eclectic background in music.”
“The ear and the eye are the mind's receivers; but the tongue is only busy in expending the treasures received. It, therefore, the revenues of the mind be uttered as fast or faster than they are received, it must needs be bare, and can never lay up for purchase.”
“The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.”
“The ear enjoys hearing words.”
“The ear has to be educated if one wishes to appreciate musical sounds, just as the eyes must learn to distinguish the value of words.”
“The ear in man and beast is an evidence of blood and high breeding.”
“The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.”
“The ear is never tired of hearing nor the eye tired of seeing.”
“The ear is profound, whereas the eye is frivolous, too easily satisfied. The ear is active, imaginative, whereas the eye is passive. When you hear a noise at night, instantly you imagine its cause. The sound of a train whistle conjures up the whole station. The eye can perceive only what is presented to it.”
“The ear is the avenue to the heart.”
“The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.”
Source: The Letters of Robert Frost
“The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.”
Source: The Letters of Robert Frost
“The ear never forgets what the soul says.”
“The ear of the bridled horse is in the mouth.”
“The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.”
Source: The Political Thought of Woodrow Wilson
“The ear participates, and helps arrange marriages; the eye has already made love with what it sees. The eye knows pleasure, delights in the body's shape: the ear hears words that talk about all this. When hearing takes place, character areas change; but when you see, inner areas change. If all you know about fire is what you have heard see if the fire will agree to cook you! Certain energies come only when you burn. If you long for belief, sit down in the fire! When the ear receives subtly; it turns into an eye. But if words do not reach the ear in the chest, nothing happens.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“The ear plays the role of the guide in the museum in the concert I'm taking now. We don't have an oral guide, we have to provide it ourselves. One reason why active listening is absolutely essential.”
“The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.”
“The ear that does not care to hear should not fear to bear a hot slap.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“The ear writes my poems, not the mind.”
“The Earl of Lancaster loudly spoke, “Piers Gaveston, this court finds you guilty of treason, of sodomy and sedition as well as many other crimes against God! You shall be taken to Blacklow Hill, which shall by your place of execution, and you shall be put to death by two of my Welsh soldiers! May God have mercy upon your soul!”
Source: Isabella Warrior Queen
“The Earl of Woolsey was indeed completely nude. He did not seem particularly perturbed by this fact, but Miss Tarabotti felt the sudden need to close her eyes tight and think about asparagus or something equally mundane.”
Source: Soulless
“The Earl of Woolsey was indeed completely nude. He did not seem particularly perturbed by this fact, but Miss Tarabotti felt the sudden need to close her eyes tight and think about asparagus or something equally mundane. Coiled about him as she was, her chin wedged over one of his massive shoulders, she was being forced to look down, directly at a nicely round, but embarrassing bare, moon. And not the kind that caused werewolves to change either. Although it did seem to be changing aspects of her own anatomy that she would rather not think about. It was all a very heady - or bottomy? -experience.”
Source: Soulless
“The Earl pressed his lips together and considered long enough that faintness made Will light-headed. And his words sent Will’s stomach plunging hopelessly.”
Source: Hell and Earth
“The earl shook his head, exhibiting a degree of frosty offense that could only be achieved by an aristocrat whose wishes had just been gainsaid. “I’ve never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he’s just ruined,” he said sourly.”
“The earlier days of the republic went into the acquisition of money and the provision for material things is now finding an outlet in the espousal of art. Now America has the leisure and the culture to foster beauty.”
“The earlier stuff is more like "this is happening to me," but now there are more songs that are accusatory or something, or more declaratory. I don't know where that voice comes from, like, "I've been down the road, we've been there and done that." That's sort of like a tougher style, or a less vulnerable style.”
“The earlier truths are not expelled but absorbed, not contradicted but extended; and the history of each science, which may thus appear like a succession of revolutions, is, in reality, a series of developements.”
Source: History of Inductive Sciences
“The earlier we begin, the more influence our lessons will have.”
Source: Leia: Princess of Alderaan
“The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.”
Source: The Works of Victor Hugo
“The earlier years - the ones I've just been telling you about - they tend to blur into each other as a kind of golden time, and when I think about them at all, even the not-so-great things, I can't help feeling a sort of glow.”
Source: Never Let Me Go
“The earlier you invest in health, the more dividends it pays later.”
“The earlier you learn that you should focus on what you have, and not obsess about what you don't have, the happier you will be.”
“The earlier you learn to masturbate, the better your sex life will be.”
“The earlier you put your capital to work, the more likely you are to have a larger portfolio value.”
“The earlier you realize that you were born alone and will die alone, you will be free from all the worries, tensions, and concerns immediately.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“The earlier you start, the easier it is to accumulate major wealth. Still, it's never really too late to begin.”
Source: The Automatic Millionaire: A Powerful One-Step Plan to Live and Finish Rich
“The earlier, more analytic impulse was to use very rational but kind of absurd techniques or tendencies—mapping, charting, and architecture—to try and make sense of who I was in my time and space and political environment. But there’s only so much truth to a theoretical understanding of something.”
“The earlier, the more fun. Why put it off? It’s the atomic age!”
Source: The Cancer Ward