T Quotes
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“The extravagant and ostentatious lifestyles that pass for charisma in a time when almost anybody talks about charisma but if you think about it there's precious little to be seen.”
Source: Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll
“The extravagant cost of staying is watching others leave.-Commitment Defined”
“The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.”
“The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.”
Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK
“The extreme always makes an impression.”
“The extreme always seems to make an impression.”
“The extreme center is the political expression of the neoliberal state.”
“The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.”
Source: Desert Solitaire
“The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it.”
“The extreme geniality of San Francisco's economic, intellectual and political climate makes it the most varied and challenging city in the United States.”
“The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.”
Source: Gravity and Grace
“The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.”
“The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.”
Source: A Theory of Justice
“The extreme of flexibility is chaos and the extreme of being structured is rigid and staying sane, or indeed using your creativity, is about being aware of these extremes and steering yourself to areas where you work best which usually tend to be more in the middle than at either extreme edge.”
“The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare
“The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us.”
“The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification - framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues.”
“The extreme possibilities are the most illuminating.”
“The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality... could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.”
Source: Selected Essays of John Berger
“The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils.”
“The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.”
“The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers.”
“The extreme side of my personality, which I chose to sort of display, was snowballing and getting a life of its own. It was like looking in a mirror and not recognising myself.”
“The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.”
Source: Possible Worlds
“The extreme sophistication of modern technology - wonderful though its benefits are - is, ironically, an impediment to engaging young people with basics: with learning how things work.”
“The extreme, yet perhaps inevitable, expression of all these beliefs and behaviors—polygamy, religiously sanctioned bigotry, unchecked sexual harassment, a lack of sex education, repressed sexual urges, and the honor/shame dichotomy—is taharrush gamea, “the rape game” in Arabic.”
Source: Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
“The extremely high costs of hurricane and flood insurance may be the end of Florida’s heyday!”
“The (extremely lavish set) was created by a transparency, a fine gauze, finely painted. According to the theatre accounts, it cost 241 ducats, 91 ducats more than Rossini was paid for the music.”
Source: Rossini
“The extremely low respect Congress enjoys among the population indicates that the citizens understand broadly what's going on. But the lack of a realistic political reform path leads to apathy and the kind of mindless frustration that manifests itself in the Tea Party-style hatred of any and all government.”
“The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion - in the long run, these are the only people who count.”
“The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.”
“The extremes of opulence and of want are more remarkable, and more constantly obvious, in [Great Britain] than in any other place that I ever saw.”
“The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.”
Source: The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork.”
“The extremes to which Western elites will go to avoid blaming radical Islam for terrorism cripples our efforts to protect innocent Muslims. Terrified of offending butchers, we insist that we're the bigots, not them. We make excuses for monsters.”
“The extremist transgender movement is one more masculinist attempt to colonize women in the interest of appropriating the female body for one’s self. It’s a superficial preoccupation with women’s body parts and with women’s bodily functions — not a respect for women’s selves.”
Source: Doublethink: A Feminist Challenge to Transgenderism
“The extremist, isolationist policies of Jean-Marie Le Pen have been rejected and crushed”
“The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.”
“The extremists are talking too loudly, and everyone is convinced that only he is on the right side. It’s not just Jews against Arabs. It’s the Orthodox versus those who don’t think they can keep all six hundred and thirteen commandments of the Bible. It’s rich people versus poor people. At some point, something came over Israel so that everyone has his own ideas—and everyone else is an enemy. It’s a dialogue among deaf people and it is getting more and more serious.”
“The extremists took over the primary process.”
“The extremity of her sensitivity
impressed a richly idle princely family,
of her discomfort, bothered as she had to be
by the absurd softness of the ample beddings,
not to mention the pillow piles aggravating
her much lamented acrophobic dis-ease.
[from the poem, Princess and the Pea]”
“The exuberant focus on this one speck of beauty, human outward appearance, cultivates an aloofness to all the other beauty we are surrounded with. Thus, it promotes acute mental shortsightedness.”
Source: 22 Triggers
“The Exxon Valdez spill triggered a swift and strong response that changed policies about shipping, about double-hulled construction. A number of laws came into place.”
“The eye - which sees all objects reversed - retains the images for some time.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)
“The eye altering, alters all.”
“The eye always fills in the imperfections.”
Source: I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters
“The eye and brain are conspirators, and, like most conspiracies, theirs is negotiated behind closed doors, in the back room, outside of our awareness.”
Source: Stumbling on Happiness
“The eye and brain are not like a fax machine, nor are there little people looking at the images coming in.”
“The eye and fantasy feel more attracted by nebulous distance than by that which is close and distinct in front of us.”
“The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose