T Quotes
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“The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value”
Source: My Summer in a Garden
“The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.”
“The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.”
Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes
“The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.”
“The excellence of every Art is its intensity.”
“The excellence of every art, must consist in the complete accomplishment of its purpose”
Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone
“The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State
“The excellence of metallic money in free circulation consists in the fact that it renders impossible the abuse of the power of the government to dispose of the possessions of its citizens by means of its monetary policy and thus serves as the solid foundation of economic liberty within each country and of free trade between one country and another.”
“The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.”
Source: Commentary on Isaiah
“The excellence of this important contribution to genre literature CANNOT be overstated A masterwork.”
“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.”
“The excellent book ‘Going Higher. Oxygen, Man, And Mountains.’ should be compulsory reading for all high altitude workers.”
“The exception, as ever, was the children. Freed from the constraints of silence which had been enforced during the bard's performance, the children dashed into the woods with wild cries, and enthusiastically immersed themselves in a game whose rules were incomprehensible to all those who had bidden farewell to the happy years of childhood. Children of elves, dwarves, halflings, gnomes, half-elves, quarter-elves and toddlers of mysterious provenance neither knew nor recognised racial or social divisions. At least, not yet.”
Source: Blood of Elves
“The exception does not prove the rule.”
“The exception is I'm not going away. Don't ask me to do that ever again.”
Source: Good For You
“The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition.”
Source: Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
“The exception tests the rule.”
Source: The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
“The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.”
“The exceptional patient is the person who, despite their diagnosis, takes charge of their health and decides to be responsible to their illness or their condition and not necessarily feel responsible for it. One stance is drenched in blame and the other is full of power.”
“The exceptionalism of a black U.S. President is not important to me. It's what he does - and who he has at the table.”
“The exceptions were two men a little ahead of them, standing just outside the Three Broomsticks. One was very tall and thin; squinting through his rain-washed glasses Harry recognized the barman who worked in the other Hogsmeade pub, the Hog’s Head. As Harry, Ron, and Hermione drew closer, the barman drew his cloak more tightly around his neck and walked away, leaving the shorter man to fumble with something in his arms. They were barely feet from him when Harry realized who the man was. “Mundungus!”
“the excess of all good things is mischievous.”
“The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.”
“The excess of pleasure is pain”
“The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason.”
“The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.”
Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words
“The excessive greedy players of endless power play, corruption, megalomania, injustice, impunity, and kleptocracy continue to reign for how many succeeding decades?
When will the country stop being corrupted by revisionism, kleptocratic political dynasties, dirty politics, Machiavellian manipulations, political patronage, destructive lies, and a lack of genuine collective memory of the past and the erosion of truth?
This is a long life work-in-progress for honest public servants, marginalised sectors, and the concerned hard-working citizens with the right moral compass:
How to effectively triumph against the oligarchs, kleptocrats, Machiavellian manipulators, megalomaniacs, and the unscrupulous benefactors of corruption, injustice and impunity?
~ Ana Angelica Abaya van Doorn writing as Angelica Hopes
an excerpt from Onestopia
Book 3, Solo la verità è bella Trilogy
Genre: political, inspirationa, literary novel
© 2022 Ana Angelica Abaya van Doorn”
“The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.”
“The exchange between different cultures can not possibly be seen as a threat, when it is friendly. But I believe that the dissatisfaction with the overall architecture often depends on the quality of leadership.”
“The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't.”
“The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing!”
Source: The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846
“The exchange of words is a lot like a virtual handshake. Is the writer's grasp of the language strong and bold? Are the words gripping? Direct? Inventive? Sincere?”
“The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life.”
“The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life. It's the only activity that gives me some hope that the human race won't commit suicide, though I still wouldn't count on it.”
“The exchange rate between first-world lives and third-world lives in disaster stories in the media is about 50:1.”
“The exchangeable value of all commodities rises as the difficulties of their production increase.”
Source: The Works of David Ricardo ...
“The excitement about independent filmmaking is that they're a little more open to taking chances. The studios are a little more careful, as far as who they choose for their film and what they're known for and staying in the genre because they know what works.”
“The excitement for me lies not so much in interviewing the hard-to-get famous person, but the person whom you are about to discover. You know, like maybe the character actors who are just coming into their own and you're realizing how great they are.”
“The excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next.”
“The excitement level for me working on projects is really not a bit different from when I was 26.”
“The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.”
Source: A Widow For One Year
“The excitement of dreams coming true is beyond the description of words.”
“The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.”
“The excitement of life is in the numinous experience wherein we are given to each other in that larger celebration of existence in which all things attain their highest expression, for the universe, by definition, is a single gorgeous celebratory event.”
“The excitement of the fans in Montreal, especially in the playoffs, I don't think you can get that anywhere else. For a hockey player, I kind of wish everyone could go through that and experience what it is to play there. It's very unique.”
“The excitement of theatre is palpable but the frustrations, and the complete absence of a definitive evening - the play as text means practically nothing in a way - , there's no particular performance that is definitive in the way a novel is a solid object you hold in your hands and here it is. You can't say that about a play. If the novel gives us a sense of throbbing consciousness, theater is pure soul, beautiful and elusive.”
“The excitement of vitamins, nutrition and metabolism permeated the environment.”
“The excitement really didn't start to build until the trailer - which was carrying me, with a space suit with ventilation and all that sort of stuff - pulled up to the launch pad.”
“The excitement right now is coming from the Liberty movement. And the Republicans want a piece of it.”