T Quotes
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“The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.”
“The fervor and single-mindedness of this deification probably have no precedent in history. It's not like Duvalier or Assad passing the torch to the son and heir. It surpasses anything I have read about the Roman or Babylonian or even Pharaonic excesses. An estimated $2.68 billion was spent on ceremonies and monuments in the aftermath of Kim Il Sung's death. The concept is not that his son is his successor, but that his son is his reincarnation. North Korea has an equivalent of Mount Fuji—a mountain sacred to all Koreans. It's called Mount Paekdu, a beautiful peak with a deep blue lake, on the Chinese border. Here, according to the new mythology, Kim Jong Il was born on February 16, 1942. His birth was attended by a double rainbow and by songs of praise (in human voice) uttered by the local birds. In fact, in February 1942 his father and mother were hiding under Stalin's protection in the dank Russian city of Khabarovsk, but as with all miraculous births it's considered best not to allow the facts to get in the way of a good story.”
Source: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
“The festival of Lughnasadh speaks of fullness and bounty of richness and sacrifice. As cornfields ripple in the late summer breeze and whisper golden promises of the grain harvest to come, we know deep within our psyche that the darkness is but a heartbeat away.”
Source: Mrs Darley's Pagan Whispers: A Celebration of Pagan Festivals, Sacred Days, Spirituality and Traditions of the Year
“The festival of the spring equinox speaks of freshness and youth, of excitement and endless possibilities. Nature begins to quicken and early flowers open to the warmth of the strengthening sun, bringing the colours of lemon and yellow into our lives on the wings of a March wind.”
Source: Mrs Darley's Pagan Whispers: A Celebration of Pagan Festivals, Sacred Days, Spirituality and Traditions of the Year
“The festival of the summer solstice speaks of love and light, of freedom and generosity of spirit. It is a beautiful time of year where vibrant flowers whisper to us with scented breath, forests and woodlands hang heavy in the summer’s heat and our souls become enchanted with midsummer magic.”
Source: Mrs Darley's Pagan Whispers: A Celebration of Pagan Festivals, Sacred Days, Spirituality and Traditions of the Year
“The festivals are cool because you make a lot of connections at the festivals.”
“The festive season isn’t just a time to teach children about Jesus and giving, it’s also a time to teach your children about those less fortunate. This year, encourage your children to pick a present and give it to a child who has none, or take them to a charity drive.”
“The Fetch was intelligent, diabolically so, and intelligent people devised intelligent cruelties. That was where the Red Queen had always excelled.”
Source: The Queen of the Tearling
“The fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a fetish. It is not based on a genuine desire for learning. Education today need not be sought at any great distance. It is largely compounded of two things, of a certain snobbishness on the part of parents, and of escape from home on the part of youth. And to those who must earn quickly it is often sheer waste of time. Very few colleges prepare their students for any special work.”
“The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad.”
Source: James Madison's
“The fetters of tyranny were not stricken from America for the sake of Americans alone.”
“The fetus is a body within a body. This is massive human sacrifice and irrationality. It is an absurdity to say that the fetus is part of the woman's body, for this argument is unscientific and illogical. The fetus is not part of a woman's body. If a pregnant woman is carrying a male child, would we argue that this woman's body consists of four arms, four legs, two heads, a vagina, and a penis? A moment's thought about this reveals the absurdity of the argument that the fetus is part of the woman's body.”
Source: Alien Parasites: 40 Gnostic Truths to Defeat the Archon Invasion!
“The fetus is biochemically connected to the mother, and her external, internal, physical, and mental health affect the overall development of the fetus. Stress and depression during pregnancy have been proven to have long-term and even permanent effects on the offspring. Such effects include a vulnerability to chronic anxiety, elevated fear, propensity to addictions, and poor impulse control.”
Source: Human Development and Trauma: How Childhood Shapes Us into Who We Are as Adults
“The fetus is the property of the entire society.”
“The fetus, in many cases, dies just as a human adult or child would: It bleeds to death as it is torn from limb from limb. The fetus can be alive at the beginning of the dismemberment process and can survive for a time while its limbs are being torn off.”
“The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master and man, of potentate and slave, of external and internal suppression of the life urge of the only one - of its faith in human sacrifice as a means of salvation.”
“The feudal ownership of land did bring dignity, whereas the modern ownership of movables is reducing us again to a nomadic horde. We are reverting to the civilisation of luggage, and historians of the future will note how the middle classes accreted possessions without taking root in the earth, and may find in this the secret of their imaginative poverty. The Schlegels were certainly the poorer for the loss of Wickham Place. It had helped to balance their lives, and almost to counsel them. Nor is their ground-landlord spiritually the richer. He has built flats on its site, his motor-cars grow swifter, his exposures of Socialism more trenchant. But he has spilt the precious distillation of the years, and no chemistry of his can give it back to society again.”
Source: Howards End
“The Fever Bird
The fever bird sand out last night.
I could not sleep, try as I might.
My brain was split, my spirit raw.
I looked into the garden, saw
The shadow of the amaltas
Shake slightly on the moonlit grass
Unseen, the bird cried out its grief,
Its lunacy, without relief:
Three notes repeated closer, higher,
Soaring, then sinking down like fire
Only to breathe the night and soar,
As crazed, as desperate, as before.
I shivered in the midnight heat
And smelt the sweat that soaked my sheet.
And now tonight I hear again
The call that skewers though my brain,
The call, the brain-sick triple note--
A cone of pain stuck inits throat.
I am so tired I could weep.
Mad bird, for God's sake let me sleep
Why do you cry like one possessed?
When will you rest? When will you rest?
Why wait each night till all but I
Lie sleeping in the house, then cry?
Why do you scream into my ear
What no one else but I can hear?”
Source: A Suitable Boy
“The fever called "living" Is conquer'd at last.”
“The few Americans he had encountered in his lifetime had all seemed flat to him, as if freedom weakened one's capacity for intense emotion by demanding too little of it.”
Source: Alif the Unseen
“The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.”
Source: The Philosophy of History
“The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.”
Source: The sexual revolution: toward a self-governing character structure
“The few birds seen anywhere were moribund; they trembled violently and could not fly. It was a spring without voices.”
Source: Silent Spring
“The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.”
Source: Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader
“The few certainties in our existences are pain, death and bereavement.”
Source: A Glimpse of Eternal Snows: A Journey of Love and Loss in the Himalayas
“The few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents in the case history of sound common sense.”
“The few have not strength to achieve great changes unaided; the many have not wisdom to be moved by truth unmixed.”
Source: The History of Freedom: Great Event
“The few have said, Think! The many have said, Believe! The first doubt was the womb and cradle of progress, and from the first doubt, man has continued to advance.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“The few journalists attempting to report on the atomic cities in the weeks immediately following the bombings were threatened with expulsion from Japan, harassed by U.S. officials, and accused of spreading Japanese propaganda…”
Source: Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
“The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels.”
Source: The Diary of a Drug Fiend
“The few men who do a hand's turn around the house expect gratitude and recognition, so sure are they that, though it is their dirt, it is not their job.”
“The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.”
“The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.”
“The few people who ask to have their photographs with me, I almost always say yes, except for a few circumstances, like when my family is around.”
“The few people who earned my respect are those who are predictable in their character but totally unpredictable the way they think!”
Source: The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership
“The few people who work earnestly are those who want to accumulate wealth. They are born with exceptional ability and a drive to reach the top. Even if they life as a worker, they become very wealthy. Had their needs been met at the beginning, they would never have acquired the capacity for hard work and commitment. Why is it that rich men's children fail within two or three generations?”
Source: Yuganthaya
“The few powerful Western elites…benefit from wars twice: first, by destroying other countries and stealing their resources under different pretexts. Second, by bringing millions of refugees to Western countries and using them as cheap labor. This is where the strong connection between the military-industrial-complex and the refugee-industrial-complex precisely lies.”
“The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.”
“The few surviving Armenians no longer ask to go home. They do not ask for restitution. They ask simply to have the memory of their obliteration acknowledged. It is a moral obsession, the lonely legacy passed onto the third and fourth generation who no longer speak Armenian but who carry within them the seeds of resentment that will not be quashed.”
“The few survivors were hounded into an evangelical concentration camp, where well-meaning but not particularly open-minded missionaries tried to indoctrinate them in the ways of the modern world. The Tasmanians were instructed in reading and writing, Christianity and various ‘productive skills’ such as sewing clothes and farming. But they refused to learn. They became ever more melancholic, stopped having children, lost all interest in life, and finally chose the only escape route from the modern world of science and progress – death.”
Source: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“The few that pray at all pray oft amiss.”
Source: The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson
“The few, the proud, the bearded.”
“The few things I’d sacrificed, or put on hold, to be with my husband and baby were worth it.”
“The few things that work fantastically well should be identified, cultivated, nurtured, and multiplied.”
Source: The 80/20 Principle
“The few times when Big Ma was sick, Uncle Darnell brought in a pizza pie. Big Ma never liked that and always got well the next day so we wouldn’t get used to take-out food.”
Source: P.S. Be Eleven
“The few took advantage of the ignorant many. They pretended to have received messages from the Unknown. They stood between the helpless multitude and the gods. They were the carriers of flags of truce. At the court of heaven they presented the cause of man, and upon the labor of the deceived they lived.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.”
“The few who do are the envy of the many who watch.”
“The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from it's profits or so dependent on it's favors, that there will be no opposition from that class.”
“The few women who have been admitted to the study are usually given a second-class status in which they are taught only the basics of self-discovery.”