T Quotes
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“The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we call - in enemy nations - 'state indoctrination.'”
Source: The Night Is Dark and I Am Far from Home
“The first goal is always important.”
“The first goal is for the clinician to find the patient, and the patient to find the clinician, as both are required for a real alliance.”
“The First Goal of Conversation: Understanding, not Agreement”
“The first goal of the technostructure is its own security.”
Source: the new industrial state
“The first goal of writing is to have one's words read successfully.”
“The first god that I prayed to was the planet Sun, until my father taught me how to pray to a Christian God. I still wonder about the origins of this need to pray to the planet Sun.”
“The first god that I prayed to was to the planet Sun, until my father taught me how to pray to a Christian God. I still wonder about the origins of this need to pray to planet Sun.”
“The first god that I prayed to was to the planet Sun, until my father taught me how to pray to a Christian God. I still wonder about the origins of this need to pray to the planet Sun.”
“The first gold medal we had won for the Soviet Union. This one we won for each other.”
“The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.”
“The first good reason to write a book is to add value to people’s lives.”
“The first grand federalist design...was that of the Bible, most particularly the Hebrew Scriptures or Old Testament... Biblical thought is federal (from the Latin foedus, covenant) from first to last--from God's covenant with Noah establishing the biblical equivalent of what philosophers were later to term Natural Law to the Jews' reaffirmation of the Sinai covenant under the leadership of Ezra and Nehemiah, thereby adopting the Torah as the constitution of their second commonwealth. The covenant motif is central to the biblical world view, the basis of all relationships, the mechanism for defining and allocating authority, and the foundation of the biblical political teaching.”
“The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down.”
Source: To a God Unknown
“The first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day is to have my soul happy in the Lord.”
“The first great cause of crime is poverty, and we will never cure crime until we get rid of poverty.”
“The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.”
“The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.”
“The first great law is to obey.”
Source: Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life
“The first great real intimacy between two people begins when secrets are told.”
Source: Bathing the Lion
“The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.”
Source: The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“The first great thing is to find yourself and for that you need solitude and contemplation - at least sometimes. I can tell you deliverance will not come from the rushing noisy centers of civilization. It will come from the lonely places.”
“The first great work (a task performed by few)
Is that yourself may to yourself be true.”
“The first group started along the strait and narrow path, but they did not take hold of the iron rod that would keep them on the path, and they got lost in the mists of darkness”
“The first guest hesitated before pressing me, as though wary of being the first to break the stillness. When he finally did, I rang with the unmistakable tone of good breeding.”
Source: Avon Brook Hotel | Volume One: A series of stories set in the 1970s
“The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.”
“The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn't really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.”
“The first guy I really liked and was kind of obsessed with and had to seek out and find more of his films was Jean-Paul Belmondo. He was the main guy that I was obsessed with.”
“The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.”
“The first guy who got Aids was a French flight attendant. How you like that Frenchie! You know when I come back and run for office, that may be the one that comes back and haunts me.”
“The first guy who lays a finger on this blind old man is fined fifty bucks!”
“The first had been ordinary ground chuck, good and fatty, seasoned with salt and pepper- the most underrated beef seasoning there was- and smashed on the griddle.
The second was brisket. Toothsome, but leaner than chuck. If she went with that, she'd have to add some oil to the mix, maybe smoky olive oil, to give it some juice. For now, the buttered bun did some of the work for her and kept the playing field even.
But she would probably go with her third option: brisket, chuck, and short rib mixed. It wasn't as expensive as the pure brisket, but she thought it was far better. Then again, the fact that it wasn't as expensive was part of what made it a better option to her, so she wasn't entirely sure she trusted her own taste on this.”
Source: The Cookbook Club: A Novel of Food and Friendship
“The first half [of Valley of Violence] was to endear you to all these people and give you all these archetypes that you're familiar with, and then the second half, just to see all those archetypes unravel like real people.”
“The first half has gone how I almost half-anticipated.”
“The first half of fiscal 2006 has been exceptional for Cochlear. Importantly, Cochlear capitalized on a number of opportunities in this half with worldwide market share estimated to be in excess of 70%.”
“The first half of high school, I had a girlfriend, and then the second half I got to know these guys who would just get stoned and jam. I had struck the goth thing by then, but I still thought of myself as Ian Curtis or something.”
“The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.”
“The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.”
“The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.”
“The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.”
“The first half of the 1960s was the apogee of what might be termed the Age of Cool - as defined by that quality of being simultaneously with-it and disengaged, in control but nonchalant, knowing but ironically self-aware, and above all inscrutably undemonstrative.”
“The first half of Vietnam was fought to win the war, and the second half of Vietnam was soldiers going haywire without a mission, getting further and further towards our friend, Captain Kurtz and our friends at 'Apocalypse Now.'”
“The first half was end-to-end stuff. In contrast, in this second half it's been one end to the other.”
“The first Halloween was very well made. The second one was also well made, though I didn't like it as well as the first one. The third one had nothing to do with the series at all and perhaps shouldn't have been made at all.”
“The first hands he heard banging at the outside walls felt like nails pushing into his temples. Then there were more hands. Pounding. Punching. Scratching. Then kicks and shrieking that even drowned out the sound of the rain.
The worst was when Ham could make out individual voices. He could hear their neighbor Zebeleh and her little daughter Ariel”
Source: Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bible!
“The first hint of danger was a howl so distant, it was more a feeling than a sound.”
Source: The Dark Divide
“The first hit on the nervous system is the one I'm most interested in, because I think if you hit the reader emotionally, the reader can't guarantee the lessons they would like to learn.”
“The first hockey shinny of the season was fast and rough. George noticed the guys played up to their personalities. Books was quick with the stick, played a bit dirty. He checked George more times than he needed to, but never illegally. Frank was a decent defenseman, joined the rush, didn’t start it. But Ron Barry, notwithstanding his showy antics, was by far the best player out there. He played by gut feel, which was usually right.”
Source: The Day Before Tomorrow: A Novel
“The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.”
“The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.”
Source: Writings, 1932-1946