T Quotes
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“The engine of economic growth must be fueled by inclusivity and opportunity for all. Only a foolish society would accept the spread of poverty in exchange for growth.”
“The engine of growth is also the engine of inequality.”
“The engine roared to life. He ran toward her. She shot our of her parking space. He rushed to the side of her car. "Stop it, Kristy! You're overreacting! Let's talk about this." That was when she did the unthinkable. She rolled down the window, thrust out her hand, and gave Reverend Ethan Bonner the bird.”
“The engine room really is a metaphor for my head, and all the things bangin' around, and I think I share that with a lot of people. A lot of memories, and a lot of hopes, and a lot of just dealing with the day-to-day. Sometimes it gets all abstract.”
“The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.”
Source: A Treatise on Money
“The engineer didn't pay any attention to a lone figure poised on the top of the bridge, staring down at the oncoming train. He wore a black cowboy hat and a tattered dister coat. His waist was belted with two Colt 45 revolvers.”
Source: Clayton's Revenge
“The engineer’s ready capitulation, however, did not hide from the poet’s mother the sad realization that the adventure into which she had plunged so impulsively--and which had seemed so intoxicatingly beautiful--had no turned out to be the great, mutually fulfilling love she was convinced she had a full right to expect. Her father was the owner of two prosperous Prague pharmacies, and her morality was based on strict give-and-take. For her part, she had invested everything in love (she had even been willing to sacrifice her parents and their peaceful existence); in turn, she had expected her partner to invest an equal amount of capital of feelings in the common account. To redress the imbalance, she gradually withdrew her emotional deposit and after the wedding presented a proud, severe face to her husband.”
Source: Life is Elsewhere
“The Engineer smirked slightly at the Driver, a silent acknowledgment of their shared secret. The leader, catching the smirk, looked cautiously optimistic. The Cutter, however, remained blissfully unaware of the surprise the others had up their sleeves.”
Source: Shortcut to Victory: How the Weavers did it…
“The engineer who counts cost as nothing as compared to the result, who holds himself above the consideration of dollars and cents, has missed his vocation.”
“The Engineer who Design a Helmet Needs to be a Doctor First”
“The engineer's power was usually limited to a refusal to endorse a given plan, or to the tender of his resignation.”
Source: The Existential Pleasures of Engineering
“The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function.”
“The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only company that has everything under one roof.”
Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs
“The engineering is secondary to the vision.”
Source: Art and Ardor
“The engineering mountain managers went to the summit of Mauna Kea two to three days per week, whereas the technicians went there four days per week. It was apparent to me that the technicians were sicker than the engineers.”
“The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.”
Source: Public Relations
“The engineers of the day are only restricted by the tools of the day never their visionary ability”
“The engineers of the future will be poets.”
“The England manager job is not for me - I'm very happy wih what I'm doing in French football for now.”
“The England team must always be respected. They always fight to the end.”
“The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“The English also had a reputation, shared with the Dutch, for blowing up their ships to avoid capture. In 1611, for instance, the Spanish Admiral Don Pedro de toledo captured a Turkish pirate ship, but its English consort, 'being wont to seek a voluntary death rather than yield, blew up their ship when they saw resistance useless'. Blowing up their ships, or at least threatening to do so, would become standard pirate practice.”
Source: The Pirate Wars
“The English and Americans dislike only some Irish--the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers--the ones that think.”
Source: Behan Complete Plays
“The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect.”
Source: The English: A Portrait of a People
“The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.”
Source: Past and Present
“The English are a nation of consummate cant.”
“The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.”
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“The English are always ready to admire anything so long as they can queue up.”
“The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.”
“The English are busy; they don't have time to be polite.”
“The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.”
“The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.”
“The English are loth to express their feelings, but in my stall in the choir I could feel the pent-up, passionate emotion, and also the fear of the congregation, not of death or wounds or material loss, but of defeat and the final ruin of Britain.”
Source: Their Finest Hour
“The English are mentioned in the Bible; Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.”
Source: Following the Equator: Mark Twain's Collections
“The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.”
“The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.”
“The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad.”
“The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.”
Source: Stepping Westward
“The English are potentially very aggressive, very violent”
“The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.”
“The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty.”
Source: The English People: With 8 Plates in Colour and 17 Illus. in Black and White
“The English are probably the most tolerant, least religious people on earth.”
“The English are serial racists--one group gets accepted, another group becomes the scapegoat.”
Source: Frankissstein: A Love Story
“The English are such a frightened, nervous, insecure group of people - they no longer rule the world!”
“The English are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.”
“The English are the most romantic people in the world.”
Source: The Portrait of a Lady
“The English are the people of consummate cant.”
Source: Twilight of the Idols
“The English are very proud of their Parliament, and week in, week out, century after century, they have pretty good cause to be.”
Source: The View From The Ground
“The English are worried about the Euro being brought in because of loss of national identity and rising prices. In Scotland, people are just worried in case they have to close Poundstretcher.”
“The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world”
Source: Memoirs of an egotist