T Quotes
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“The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.”
“The fates have a way of demanding of a man that he suffer his greatest moments all by himself; being lone seems as often attendant upon reality as being in company is attendant upon the flight from reality.”
Source: Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties
“The fates have given mankind a patient soul.”
Source: The Iliad
“The fates have informed me that your examination in June will concern the Orb, and I am anxious to give you sufficient practice. Hermione snorted. "Well honestly... 'the fates have informed her'... Who sets the exam? She does!”
“The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag.”
“The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.”
“The Fates – or Moirai – are a group of three weaving goddesses who assign individual destinies to mortals at birth. Their names are Clotho (the Spinner), Lachesis (the Alloter) and Atropos (the Inflexible).
Zeus, Poseidon, Hades.
If not two, then three. Stability.”
“The Fates were heard as winds
To our ears they ran faster
and threw their voices further
than we could understand
Thus we watched the tides
reaching out slowly and thin
on to barely felt journeys
The shuddering tides whose movements
became of our own body
Familiar and well-used
and unremarkable to us”
Source: Mystical Tides
“The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.”
Source: The The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two
“The father and daughter made their way north, through unknown sylvan paradises where only the owls and skunks know their way around. The hard work of paddling non-stop for many hours had long since stopped being difficult for Saweyimew. In spite of her beauty and grace, her back had grown strong and sinewy from years of canoe trips. She reveled in the exhilaration it always brought her, after the first few hours left her body insensible to pain or discomfort. Warm and tingly, lulled into peaceful contemplation by hours of the rhythmic paddling, the smell of the water, exotic blooms, animal musk. It all combined as one to make her feel so alive. Especially when it rained, and her body steamed against the cool drops, feeling invincible against the elements. The mountain of her father's back was like a rock against anything nature could throw against them. The stream of fragrant pipe-smoke still flowing from his lips, regardless of any obstacle. She felt at that moment, nothing would ever stop her father's pipe from smoking. Nothing, not death, not any force of the living or spirit world, would ever still her father's heart. Rain cleansing her to the core, she was a spring of raw power and self-reliance, paddling against all adversity--their master completely. Her father's daughter. At times like that, when it rained, she entirely understood and shared her father's outlook on life.”
Source: Forgotten Lore: Volume II
“The Father and His angelic hierarchy
That made the magnitude and glory there
Stood in the circuit of a needle's eye.”
Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays
“The Father and the Son have one Will, and that Will is the Holy Ghost, Who gives Himself to the soul so that the Divine Nature permeates the powers of the soul so that it can only do God-like works.”
Source: Meister Eckhart's Sermons
“The Father- blessed be His Name world without end- showed me His Son in the Light that never sets, and thus made me so forcefully perceive my sin - I had disdained God - that for long years I wept, prostrate in despair over my wickedness. I recognised my behaviour in departing from God in all its abomination, and felt bitter shame. I become abhorrent to myself, and my self-contempt found a fellow-traveller - self-hatred. I cannot say that I hated my father or my mother, my family or my friends. It was enough for me to detest myself, I somehow did not even think about anyone else. My longing for God caused me intolerable pain - such pain that I lost all awareness of the material world, as I sojourned alone with Him. I do not know whether the Lord altogether forgave me my sin but I could not forgive myself for what I had done. Through my personal tragedy I lived the tragedy of our forefather Adam - the heritage handed down from generation to generation of the inhabitants of the earth. Through this channel prayer came to me for all the world.”
Source: On Prayer
“The Father did not require the death of Christ to persuade Him to love us. Christ died because the Father loves us.”
“The Father doesn't give life directions in one big bundle because the goal is knowing Him, not the plan.”
“The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what will happen? Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts. And we've done fine tonight. Even Death can't spoil it.”
Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel
“The Father is about total restoration. A complete returning to son-ship. An heir with all rights and privileges thereof.
Maybe you're the prodigal. Surrounded by pigs and staring at the pods. Let me say this to you--I don't care what you've done, where you've gone, where you are, or who you've become, the truth is this: the sanctifying, redeeming, justifying, snatching-back-out-of-the-hand-of-the-devil blood of Jesus reaches to the far ends of the earth.”
Source: Long Way Gone
“The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.”
Source: Robert Frost on writing
“The father is the head of the home; the mother is the heart of the home; the children are the reward, the joy and the life of the home.”
Source: Faith Like Potatoes: The story of a farmer who risked everything for God
“The father is the sun, the mother is the moon and the light they mutually shed on their kids makes them bright stars against a very dark night.”
“The Father is truly the only Promise Maker who is in earnest a Promise Keeper. A promise from God is a promise kept.”
Source: The Shelter of God's Promises
“The Father made men curious, some say to test our faith. It is my own abiding sin that whenever I come upon a door I must needs see what lies upon the farther side, but certain doors are best left unopened.”
Source: Fire & Blood
“The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.”
“The father of confederation is deadlock.”
“The father of democracy is Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister after our independence, who was assassinated under conditions that to this day nobody can clearly understand. So, for me, this title is not the most important thing. You can go down in history as the father of democracy, but you can also go down as the person who brought about chaos just by stepping down.”
“The father of Egyptology was Father Athanasius Kircher.”
“The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence.”
“The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice, and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy in him.
Proverbs 23:24”
“The father of this pleasant grandfather, of the neighbourhood of Mount Pleasant, was a horny-skinned, two-legged, money-getting species of spider who spun webs to catch unwary flies and retired into holes until they were entrapped. The name of this old pagan's god was Compound Interest. He lived for it, married it, died of it. Meeting with a heavy loss in an honest little enterprise in which all the loss was intended to have been on the other side, he broke something--something necessary to his existence, therefore it couldn't have been his heart--and made an end of his career. As his character was not good, and he had been bred at a charity school in a complete course, according to question and answer, of those ancient people the Amorites and Hittites, he was frequently quoted as an example of the failure of education.”
Source: Bleak House
“The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea.”
Source: Lincoln on Democracy
“The Father promises us the Holy Spirit so He can take us into a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ—not into religion or a list of rules or a format.”
Source: Conquer Your Deliverance: How to Live a Life of Total Freedom
“The father receives his power from God (and from his own father). The teacher finds the soil already prepared for obedience, and the political leader has only to harvest what has been sown.”
Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence
“The Father's love does not force itself on the beloved. Although he wants to heal us of all our inner darkness, we are still free to make our own choice to stay in the darkness or to step into the light of God's love. God is there. God's light is there. God's forgiveness there. God's boundless love is there. What is so clear is that God is always there, always ready to give and forgive, absolutely independent of our response. God's love does not depend on our repentance or our inner or outer changes.”
“The Father's love does not force itself on the beloved. Although he wants to heal us of all our inner darkness, we are still free to mate our own choice to stay in the darkness or to step into the light of God's love. God is there. God's light is there. God's forgiveness there. God's boundless love is there. What is so clear is that God is always there, always ready to give and forgive, absolutely independent of our response. God's love does not depend on our repentance or our inner or outer changes.”
Source: The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
“The father-son relationship can be tough, but it is also one of the most beautiful; and life-giving mercies that God has given us, even in our fallen world.”
Source: A Letter to My Father: What Your Son Wants to Tell You But Doesn't
“The father spent his time talking and thinking of religion. He proclaimed himself an agnostic and was so absorbed in destroying the ideas of God that had crept into the minds of his neighbors that he never saw God manifesting himself in the little child that, half forgotten, lived here and there on the bounty of her dead mother's relatives.”
Source: Winesburg, Ohio
“The Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, they all understand the importance of that first espresso.”
Source: Lorenzo Searches For The Meaning Of Life
“The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.”
“The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monument than that of his children. But as for a life well lived, no other monument is necessary.”
“The father who raises a son to have a profession he once dreamed of, and the mother who uses her daughter as the adult companion her husband is not; the parents who urge their children into accomplishments as status symbols-all these and many more are ways of subordinating a child's authentic self to a parent s needs.”
Source: Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
“The father who was stressed that his boy was away was readying himself to follow him to where he assumed the boy was going, to the log cabin until he heard that howling. He hastens to leave the house and that howling he’s certain was his son’s.”
Source: Into the Gateway: Predators' Kingdom
“The father who would taste the essence of his fatherhood must turn back from the plane of his experience, take with him the fruits of his journey and begin again beside his child, marching step by step over the same old road.”
“The father's life is surrounded by mysterious prestige: the hours he spends in the home, the room where he works, the objects around him, his occupations, his habits, have a sacred character. It is he who feeds the family, is the one in charge and the head. Usually he works outside the home, and it is through him that the household communicates with the rest of the world: he is the embodiment of this adventurous, immense, difficult, and marvelous world; he is transcendence, he is God.”
“The father, the mother and the teacher are the three primarily responsible for moulding the future of the country.”
“The Father, Who is Justice, is not without the Son or the Holy Spirit; and the Holy Spirit, Who kindles the heart of the faithful, is not without the Father and the Son; and the Son, Who is the plenitude of fruition, is not without the Father or the Holy Spirit; they are inseparable in Divine Majesty.”
“The father-son thing, that's a separate thing. This film [Forsaken] was not about that. This was a film about two actors wanting to try and tell a story... and taking advantage of the fact that we looked like a father and son.”
“THE FATHER: But don't you see that the whole trouble lies here? In words, words. Each one of us has within him a whole world of things, each man of us his own special world. And how can we ever come to an understanding if I put in the words I utter the sense and value of things as I see them; while you who listen to me must inevitably translate them according to the conception of things each one of you has within himself. We think we understand each other, but we never really do.”
Source: Six Characters in Search of an Author
“The fatherland shall one day be like this: We're not all equal, but we're all brothers.”
“The fathers greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.”
“The Fathers of the Church can well afford to preach the gospel of Christ. It contains nothing dangerous to the regime of authority and wealth; it stands for self-denial and self-abnegation, for penance and regret, and is absolutely inert in the face of every [in]dignity, every outrage imposed upon mankind.”
Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader