T Quotes
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“The fruit was so plentiful that young hobbits very nearly bathed in strawberries and cream; and later they sat on the lawns under the plum-trees and ate, until they had made piles of stones like small pyramids or the heaped skulls of a conqueror, and then they moved on. And no one was ill, and everyone was pleased, except those who had to mow the grass.”
Source: The Return of the King
“The fruit we wish to pick tomorrow lies hidden in the seed of today. The goals we are to read and the problems we are to solve tomorrow depend upon today's diligence, hope and faith, today's conviction of the almightiness of good.”
“The fruitfulness of our lives depends in large measure in our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value of our own work. The man who completely trusts his own estimate of himself is doomed to sterility.”
Source: Seeds
“The fruition of beauty is no chance of hit or miss... it is inevitable as life.”
Source: Whitman: The Mystic Poets
“The fruition of the year had come and the night should have been fine with a moon in the sky and the crisp sharp promise of frost in the air, but it wasn't that way. It rained and little puddles of water shone under the street lamps on Main Street. In the woods in the darkness beyond the Fair Ground water dripped from the black trees.”
Source: Winesburg, Ohio
“The fruition of what is unlawful must be followed by remorse. The core sticks in the throat after the apple is eaten, and the sated appetite loathes the interdicted pleasure for which innocence was bartered.”
“The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.”
“The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and remains disinterested and generous; it is friendship and communion: Love is itself the fulfillment of all our works. There is the goal; that is why we run: we run toward it, and once we reach it, in it we shall find rest.”
“The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place.”
Source: Religion
“The fruits of discovery are awaiting the picker.”
“The fruits of labor are delicious, but individually they’re not particularly fattening. So don’t share yours, and munch on those of others whenever you can.”
“The fruits of life fall into the hands of those who climb the tree and pick them.”
“The fruits of one’s sweat and mental labour are always rewarding”
“The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.”
“The fruits of the earth are not brought to perfection immediately, but by time, rain and care; similarly, the fruits of men ripen through ascetic practice, study, time, perseverance, self-control and patience.”
“The fruits of the earth do not more obviously require labor and cultivation to prepare them for our use and subsistence, than our faculties demand instruction and regulation in order to qualify us to become upright and valuable members of society, useful to others, or happy ourselves.”
“The fruits of the tree of Knowledge are various; he must be strong indeed who can digest all of them.”
“The fruits of this profound union with Jesus are marvelous: our whole being is transformed by the grace of the Holy Spirit: soul, intelligence, will, affections and even the body, because we are united in body and spirit.”
“The fruits of victory are tumbling into our mouths too quickly.”
“The fruits of your labor will bare the fruits of your success.”
“The fruits scorch in the fierce heat. The smell of plum jam fills the kitchen. Flesh bubbles, edges blacken, plum juices burst from their skins and mingle with the honey and lemon. Twenty minutes later they emerge, collapsed in a pool of deepest purple-red. I twist the lid from a bottle of rosewater, hand-made, no label, and shake drops over the scorched fruit. A scent of rose, sweet fruit and honey. We let the fruit rest for ten minutes.
The roasted plums are served on an old tin dish, a mound of salted labneh at their side, the juices seeping into the soft, thick yoghurt like lipstick into a pantomime dame's pancake make-up. I rain a pinch of dried rose petals over the surface and offer them up. We spoon the soft fruit and labneh into our mouths, then lift the dishes to our lips to drink the last drop of rose-perfumed juice.”
Source: A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts
“The frustrated follow a leader less because of their faith that he is leading them to a promised land than because of their immediate feeling that he is leading them away from their unwanted selves. Surrender to a leader is not a means to an end but a fulfillment. Whither they are led is of secondary importance.”
Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER
“The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene you've prepared for two months.”
“The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for.”
“The frustrating thing about Friday Night Lights is I know a lot more people would respond to the show if they saw it.”
“The frustrating thing is that those who are attacking religion claim they are doing it in the name of tolerance, freedom and openmindedness. Question: Isn't the real truth that they are intolerant of religion? They refuse to tolerate its importance in our lives.”
“The frustration of being marginalized often gets misdirected at the most visible members of one's own community, because they are more accessible than the real agents of marginalization.”
“The Frustration of Not Finding a Library When You Really Need One”
Source: The Midnight Library
“The frustration of our [The Daily] show is- very much outside any parameters of the media or the government. We don't have access to these people, we don't have access. We don't go to dinners we don't have cocktail parties. We don't you know, you've seen what happens when one of us ends up at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, it doesn't end well.”
“The frustration of the customer grows exponentially. It’s best resolved at the bottom of the curve.”
Source: Quantraz
“The frustrations have been festering for 12 years because federal policy has forced immigration into this area with no programs to accommodate this thrust and no dollars for education or jobs or social services...we have become a repository but no beneficiary of federal actions.”
“The frying pan you should give to your enemy. Food should not be prepared in fat. Our bodies are adapted to a stone age diet of roots and vegetables.”
“The fuck I was going to stand here and wait for my men to save the day.”
Source: Queen Takes Knights
“The fuck is this shit?" it says. "Can you bloody believe this shit?" "No, honey," I say. "This is absolutely ridiculous." "Aren't you pissed the fuck off?" "Someone really should do something about this." "Why don't we bloody do something about it?" "Yeah, why don't we?" I say. "But how." "Well, we find whatever prick is in charge and give the fucker a piece of our minds, of course."”
Source: Motive Black
“The fuckery never ends.”
Source: Every Body Yoga: Let Go of Fear. Get On the Mat. Love Your Body
“The fucking world is running out of gas.”
Source: Rabbit is Rich
“The fucking you get ain't worth the fucking you get.”
“The Fuehrer declared that the Jews have played their final act in Europe, and therefore they have played their final act.”
“The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries.”
“The fuel for the sports fan is the ability to have private theories.”
“The fuel in the earth will be exhausted in a thousand or more years, and its mineral wealth, but man will find substitutes for these in the winds, the waves, the sun's heat, and so forth.”
Source: Under the Apple-Trees
“The fuel light's on, Frank! We're all going to die! Wait, wait... Oh, my mistake - that's the intercom light.”
Source: The Complete Far Side: 1980-1994
“The fuel of a decision making, confers the indomitable energy of venturing into our ambitious goals.”
“The fuel of ambition is not the problem; it is the focus of ambition that frees or betrays us.”
Source: The Uprising Experience: A Personal Guide for a Revolution of the Soul, Promise Keepers Edition
“The fuel on which science runs is ignorance. Science is like a hungry furnace that must be fed logs from the forests of ignorance that surround us. In the process, the clearing we call knowledge expands, but the more it expands, the longer its perimeter and the more ignorance comes into view.”
“The fuel you need should come from the core of who you are and the driving forces that cannot be turned off. Surface-level reasons will fade, goals for monetary gain are short-lived, and you need to determine what factors ignite your hunger, fuel your passion, and turn you into an unstoppable force.”
Source: Suck Less, Do Better: The End of Excuses & the Rise of the Unstoppable You
“The Fugazi Live Series site, when we realized the Internet, the way it works - the speeds and its development - made it possible to have one source of infinite copies, was incredible for us. Using tapes or CD's to make copies would have been so unwieldy. We have shows that have zero downloads, which makes me sad, but they're all freely available at any time. The most downloaded show was the one with the best audio quality, but I didn't think it was a very interesting show.”
“The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.”
“The fuhrer decided he would rule the world with words. "I will never fire a gun," he said, "I will not have to." Still, he was not rash. Let's allow him at least that much. He was not a stupid man at all. His first plan of attack was to plant the words in as many areas of his homeland as possible.”
Source: The Book Thief
“The Fuhrer himself was the target of the fourth leaflet: "Every word that comes from Hitler's mouth is a lie. When he says peace, he means war, and when he blasphemously uses the name of the Almighty, he means the power of evil, the fallen angel, Satan. His mouth is the foul-smelling maw of Hell, and his might is at bottom accursed." This leaflet ended with the words "We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will not leave you in peace.”
Source: We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler – Sibert Honor History of Hans and Sophie Scholl for Kids