T Quotes
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“The first sign of leadership confusion is getting the CEO of a company to lead the country and its citizens.”
“The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.”
“The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful”
“The first sign on a declining civilization is a decline in the arts.”
Source: The Case of the Missing Secretary
“The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful. When a man is gloomy, that may be dyspepsia, but it is not religion. Misery is caused by sin, and by no other cause. What business have you with clouded faces? It is terrible. If you have a clouded face, do not go out that day, shut yourself up in your room. What right have you to carry this disease out into the world?”
Source: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
“The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.”
“The first sinful deed you can do as a human is to be evil to a fellow human, the remaining deeds remains sinful”
“The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.”
Source: The Dharma Bums
“The first six months are what I call the La La Land phase. This is what a lot of romantic novels, songs, and movies are based upon. Enjoy the courtship, nights out, and fun. You will eventually come back to reality.”
Source: Insights for Singles: Steps to Find Everlasting Love
“The first six years of my career, I got more comments on my weight than on my singing. So I think I became so self-conscious that I started working on it harder.”
“The first slap-jack given me for dinner was a cake of flour, partially fried in a pan of fat bacon. I nibbled about the brown edges and threw it, unbaked, against a barn door, where it stuck for days.”
“The first snow always startles. It covers the tricycle in the driveway, turning its frame into an abstact sculpture that says: See how quickly yesterday turns into today.”
“The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.”
“the first snowflakes caress
the love lace of dying leaves”
Source: The Comprehension Watch
“The first socialists were the intellectuals; they, and not the masses, are the backbone of Socialism.”
“The first society in history whose leaders were neither Attilas nor Witch Doctors, a society led, dominated and created by the Producers, was the United States of America.”
Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)
“The first song Ben taught me was Deep Purple's 'Smoke on the Water', when i was 10, and I would play it on the top string with one finger. I did it so much that there was a massive crease in the skin and i think I must have driven everyone crazy, playing that same song all the time,”
Source: Hey, Let's Make a Band!: The Official 5SOS Book
“The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat - Understand Me. I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.”
“The first song I ever learned to sing and play on the piano was 'I Remember Sky' when I was 10 years old. I remember thinking, This is the most beautiful song I will ever hear. And that remains true for me to this day. His music is the sole reason I wanted to be on Broadway. I wanted to sing music that transports us to the most important place one can travel, our hearts.”
“The first song I heard from me was Meek Mill ["I Don't Know"], it was his first single before he went (to jail). I remember the first time I heard it was like eleven thirty at night, and I was like, "Yo, this is crazy!" And, I was smiling from ear to ear.”
“The first song I sent over was Up All Night. People say that sounds like Angels on a Blink record. Well, no - that's just me!”
“The first song I wrote and had published was titled "Just As Long As That Someone Is You". It was written in 1959, and recorded in 1965 by Jimmy Ellege. I started writing songs because I wanted something of my own to sing. I, at that time, was not aware that the songs I heard on the radio were not written by the folks singing them. I had always loved poetry, and found it easy to integrate a melody with poetry.”
“The first song I wrote was "Look Both Ways Before You Cross" from Imaginaryland. I started the song by singing a bass line, "hoo hoo hoo hoo."”
“The first song I wrote was called "You" and it was a love song about somebody who didn't even exist. I remember them all because I used to always write terrible poetry. I keep all my notebooks.”
“The first song I wrote was the first song I remember thinking, "Well, maybe I can do something here." The very first one. By the second one I knew I could do something.”
“The first song I wrote, in fifth grade, was totally ripped from Jeffrey Lewis. My aunt's boyfriend gave me bass lessons, and I played drums for a year in sixth grade. Around seventh grade, I got a guitar and forgot everything else.”
“The first song is called 'London.' It's about two Russian soldiers who desert the Russian army and escape to London, where they indulge in a life of crime.”
“The first song that I ever recorded was written by my mother.”
“The first song that I wrote was when I was with The Del Rios. I was like 14 years old but I was always putting my thoughts down on paper even before then because it was like an escape - a way of unleashing all the stuff.”
“The first songs I wrote were catchy, but the subject matter was God.”
“The first sorrow of autumn is the slow good-bye of the garden that stands so long in the evening—a brown poppy head, the stalk of a lily, and still cannot go.
The second sorrow is the empty feet of a pheasant who hangs from a hook with his brothers. The woodland of gold is folded in feathers with its head in a bag.
And the third sorrow is the slow good-bye of the sun who has gathered the birds and who gathers the minutes of evening, the golden and holy ground of the picture.
The fourth sorrow is the pond gone black, ruined, and sunken the city of water—the beetle's palace, the catacombs of the dragonfly.
And the fifth sorrow is the slow good-bye of the woodland that quietly breaks up its camp. One day it's gone. It has only left litter—firewood, tent poles.
And the sixth sorrow is the fox's sorrow, the joy of the huntsman, the joy of the hounds, the hooves that pound; till earth closes her ear to the fox's prayer.
And the seventh sorrow is the slow good-bye of the face with its wrinkles that looks through the window as the year packs up like a tatty fairground that came for the children.”
“The first sound a child hears is very important. It determines character. A Muslim child always hears the Azan first. Words in praise of God.
Words to live by.”
Source: First Fires
“The first sound after a silence should always be your very best.”
“The first sound of the morning.”
“The first source of advice you should listen to is your instinct.”
“The first space walk, it's really got your attention. You know you're travelling eight times faster than a rifle bullet, and you're outside. Second space walk, you're a lot more relaxed, you're looking over your shoulder, admiring the view of Earth. What was funny about the third space walk was that mission control in Houston called and said, "Take a moment and enjoy the view".”
“The first spark puts Everything in motion, sufficient that Everything seeks its place unmistakably based on the principle of chance or a program. Evolution makes no difference, whether chance or a program, because Everything will play out according to “plan” and establish order. If we suppose that the whole future development lies in the principle of chance, then this chance must be so perfect that it is irrelevant if the program develops perchance or under the supervision of a higher power. The result would be the same. (The chance offers a bigger chance, for in endless cycles of the Universe and life, the chance always empowers or enables a new world and order.)”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“The first spiritual law of success is the Law of Pure Potentiality. This law is based on the fact that we are, in our essential state, pure consciousness. Pure consciousness is pure potentiality; it is the field of all possibilities and infinite creativity. Pure consciousness is our spiritual essence. Being infinite and unbounded, it is also pure joy. Other attributes of consciousness are pure knowledge, infinite silence, perfect balance, invincibility, simplicity, and bliss. This is our essential nature. Our essential nature is one of pure potentiality.”
Source: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
“The first spiritual quality we need to have is not faith; it is courage.”
“The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.”
Source: The Best of the Happiness Project Blog: Ten Years of Happiness, Good Habits, and More
“The first splurge of creativity is kind of free, and the last 30 percent is painstakingly hard work, but it's good to light a fire and make it public and create that expectation. It's become part of the writing process, really, a way to ask the audience what they think, how they think it's going. I can't write songs in a vacuum.”
“The first spoken word poem I ever wrote was when I was 14 and I wrote it because I was accidentally signed up for a teen poetry slam. Because I loved poetry I said that I'd try it out.”
“The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised in Six Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates : with Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes Historical and Explanatory
“The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color - oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples.”
Source: The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor
“The first stage of camping always involves a trip to an outdoor equipment store like REI. These stores are well known for their abundance of white customers and their extensive inventory of things for white people to buy and only use once.”
Source: Whiter Shades of Pale: The Stuff White People Like, Coast to Coast, from Seattle's Sweaters to Maine's Microbrews
“The first stage of meditation is simply to ignore thought; to become conscious that there is something beyond thought.”
“The first stage of this tranquility consists in silencing the lips when the heart is excited. The second, in silencing the mind when the soul is still excited. The goal is a perfect peacefulness even in the middle of the raging storm.”
“The first stair to failure is ignorance. Keep learning by leaning on the lap of information and you'll take the lead!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“The first Star Wars movie had come out in 1977 and had become this huge phenomenon with all the toys and everything - it just kind of swept America.”
“The first stars tremble as if shimmering in green water. Hours must pass before their glimmer hardens into the frozen glitter of diamonds. I shall have a long wait before I witness the soundless frolic of the shooting stars. In the profound darkness of certain nights I have seen the sky streaked with so many trailing sparks that it seemed to me a great gale must be blowing through the outer heavens.”