T Quotes
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“The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.”
“The false sense of adventure wrought from walking a gangplank of amorous tropism embroiders a shallow life. Only religious mystics or persons exhibiting tremendous internal resources dedicate their lives to seeking a meaningful existence that transcends the festive indulgence of taking a pleasure cruise through life.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“The false separation between living and giving must end.”
“The false world is full of illusions and misery.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“The falsehood of all the revolutions of history: they destroy only those carriers of evil contemporary with them (and also fail, out of haste, to discriminate the carriers of good as well). And they take to themselves as their heritage the actual evil itself, magnified still more.”
Source: The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
“The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves.”
Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
“The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.”
“The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter”
“The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly bear to wait out the two weeks. I was rather anxious to find out what I was going to do, too.”
Source: Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck
“The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies.”
“The fame and the fame-hungry world we live in does it all for you. Women are lining up on your Instagram account to meet you.”
“The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.”
“The fame aspect of winning the Masters... besides being married and becoming a father, that's a strong third there.”
“The fame is birthed through the opposition. The success through the dynamism of fighting the despair. No fight, No lift!”
“The fame of a battlefield grows with its years; Napoleon storming the Bridge of Lodi, and Wellington surveying the towers of Salamanca, affect us with fainter emotions than Brutus reading in his tent at Philippi, or Richard bearing down with the English chivalry upon the white armies of Saladin.”
Source: Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature
“The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Bram Stoker (Illustrated)
“The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names.”
“The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.”
Source: Prisoner of Love
“The fame of his likes circulates briskly but soon grows heavy and stale; and as for history it will limit his life story to the dash between two dates.”
“The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.”
“The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)
“The fame stuff, the kind words from websites and things, are very flattering and lovely, but I just wanna act.”
“The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.”
“The fame thing has happened very gradually, so I've been kind of lucky.”
“The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.”
“The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. You know, my fantasy of being a famous writer, and again there's a slight disconnect with reality which happens a lot with me. I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.”
“The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous....You know I didn't think they'd rake through my bins, I didn't expect to be photographed on the beach through long lens. I never dreamt it would impact my daughter's life negatively, which at times it has. It would be churlish to say there's nothing good about being famous; to have a total stranger walk up to you as you're walking around Safeways, and say a number of nice things that they might say about your work.”
“The fame which bids fair to live the longest resembles that which Horace attributes to Marcellus, whose progress he compares to the silent, imperceptible growth of a tree.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion
“The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.”
“The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you”
“The famed author Robert Lewis Stevenson declared that he'd trained his Brownies to be writers. As he slept, they would whisper fantastic plots in his ear -- for example, the strange case of Dr. Jekyll and the diabolical Mr. Hyde, and that episode in "Olalla" when a young man from an old Spanish family bites his sister's hand.”
Source: The book of imaginary beings
“The familiar changes as we cling to it.”
“The familiar childhood admonition of 'counting to 10' before taking action works because it emphasizes the two key elements of anger management -- time and distraction.”
“The familiar cooking warmth coming from the booths soothed my anxious thoughts, like entering a labyrinth of barbecued, breaded, deep-fried treats. Acarajé bursting with shrimp. Grilled fish covered in lime juice and raw onion rings. Coxinhas loaded with shredded chicken and potato. Pastéis heavy with extra minced meat and olives. Coconut and cheese tapioca. Crepe sticks, too, prepared on demand right before the customers' eyes, the batter cooked like a waffle and filled with chocolate and doce de leite.”
Source: Salt and Sugar
“The familiar (if loud) churn of the engine made it hard to talk, especially with the windows open (the air-conditioning didn’t work), but the day was warm and they blasted the music and sang along. Nessa loved singing at full volume. She couldn’t carry a tune, but with Bree it didn’t matter.”
Source: Weregirl
“The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.”
Source: Word and Object
“The familiar
people and things had failed her so she hung over the gate
and looked up the road towards way off. She knew now that
marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so
she became a woman.”
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
“The familiar photographs that many people carry with them always obviously belong to the order of fetishes in the ordinary sense of the word.”
“The familiar picture of man in the last centuries was one of a rational being whose actions were determined by his self-interest and the ability to act according to it. Even writers like Hobbes, who recognized lust for power and hostility as driving forces in man, explained the existence of these forces as a logical result of self-interest: since men are equal and thus have the same wish for happiness, and since there is not enough wealth to satisfy them all to the same extent, they necessarily fight against each other and want power to secure the future enjoyment of what they have at present. But Hobbe's picture became outmoded.”
Source: Escape from Freedom
“The familiar presence of Anakin was gone, like a disrupted conduit that no longer channeled power like it was meant to.”
Source: Ahsoka
“The familiar shape of the cross still gleamed above the distant forest, but now that I had found companions it no longer made any impression on me.”
Source: Fires on the Plain
“The familiar song of a night-singing nightingale rises from somewhere in the garden. A nightingale that in this season of cold should not be in the garden, a nightingale that in a thousand verses of Iranian poetry, in the hours of darkness, for the love of a red rose and in sorrow of its separation from it, has forever sung and will forever sing.”
Source: Censoring an Iranian Love Story
“The Familiar Squatter by Stewart Stafford
Stranger at a ranting roundabout,
Changeling deep in a cranial fog,
An infant brooked with abandon,
The frail bitterness fumed within.
Another dawn, the lid loosens more,
Recognition dims, pleading for hints,
Let me see my reflection in full now,
Squatter with a thousand-yard stare.
A planet downsized to an asteroid belt,
Leave, and I surrender to disintegrate,
Core melts inside this atrophying shell,
Beyond repair, a journey of light ahead.
© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
“The familiar tune returns,
its drifting quality heightened in pitch,
like the sound of a bird,
free flying through the soft breeze.
I allow myself to believe
that I may just be that bird,
taking a small adventure
across my tiny island.
I could have wings that soar,
high above the red stained streets
into a much calmer, brighter sky.”
Source: All the Hope We Carry
“The familiar was usually invisible; how many people really noticed everything they saw?”
Source: Ashes
“The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged.”
Source: Essays and Reviews
“The familiarities of the gaming-table contribute very much to the decay of politeness ... The pouts and quarrels that naturally arise from disputes must put an end to all complaisance, or even good will towards one another.”
“The familiarity of his kiss breathes me back to life.”
Source: Dating for Decades
“The familiarity of it felt strange. When she reached the shop she saw that something wasn't right.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned.”
Source: Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1