T Quotes
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“The good designer aims at a perfect fusion of the various considerations which enter into his design. He aims at an untortured unity-a direct whole. He arranges his levels consciously or subconsciously, adhearing to the requisites of the problem he is asked to solve or to his own inclination. Some designers see total act through a disc of aesthetic considerations-others, more practical minded, may put economic considerations at top level.”
“The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.”
“The good diarist writes either for himself alone or for a posterity so distant that it can safely hear every secret and justly weigh every motive. For such an audience there is need neither of affectation nor of restraint. Sincerity is what they ask, detail, and volume; skill with the pen comes in conveniently, but brilliance is not necessary; genius is a hindrance even; and should you know your business and do it manfully, posterity will let you off mixing with great men, reporting famous affairs, or having lain with the first ladies in the land.”
Source: Collected essays
“The good did not breathe joy into me,
Did not drive away the fear- No, it spun me back into the dark,
Until I found the balance between it all.”
Source: Borderline: A Poetic Memoir
“The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.”
“The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.”
“The good displeases us when we are not up to it.”
“The good doctor put a spoon of tea into my honey." "You're drinking tea a honey badger made," Jim said. "What did you expect?”
Source: Magic Bleeds
“The good doctor reassured John these were people who put their psychopathy to good use. They lived productive, well-adjusted lives as surgeons, CEOs and ambulance drivers. The light bulb went on. The CSC [Correctional Service of Canada] doesn't have to go through all these gyrations to reprogram anyone, they just have to find every inmate the right job!”
“The good dog leaves a dent but not a wound, a dent which nods toward the possibility of puncture and says I am not the wound, but I could be.”
Source: Lovebug
“The good don't masquerade their goodness, they just are.”
Source: The Reason
“The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both of private Families and of Common-wealths. Almost all Governments have therefore made it a principal Object of their Attention, to establish and endow with proper Revenues, such Seminaries of Learning, as might supply the succeeding Age with Men qualified to serve the Publick with Honour to themselves, and to their Country.”
Source: The Portable Benjamin Franklin
“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.”
“The ''good-enough marriage'' is definitely not good enough for today's singles. We're not content to marry someone who happens to live down the street and gets along okay with our parents.”
Source: Modern Romance
“The good enough mother, owing to her deep empathy with her infant, reflects in her face his feelings; this is why he sees himselfin her face as if in a mirror and finds himself as he sees himself in her. The not good enough mother fails to reflect the infant's feelings in her face because she is too preoccupied with her own concerns, such as her worries over whether she is doing right by her child, her anxiety that she might fail him.”
“The good enough parent, in addition to being convinced that whatever his child does, he does it because at that moment he is convinced this is the best he can do, will also ask himself: "What in the world would make me act as my child acts at this moment? And if I felt forced to act this way, what would make me feel better about it?”
“The good face pain. But the great? They embrace it.”
Source: Cordelia's Honor
“The good father does not have to be perfect. Rather, he has to be good enough to help his daughter to become a woman who is reasonably self-confident, self-sufficient, and free of crippling self-doubt, and to feel at ease in the company of men.”
Source: Women and Their Fathers: The Sexual and Romantic Impact of the First Man in Your Life
“The good feeling I get from contributing rivals anything I felt on the Olympic stand in Albertville.”
“The Good Fight is the one that we fight in the name of our dreams.”
“The good fighter is able to secure himself against defeat, but cannot make certain of defeating the enemy.”
Source: Sun Tzu's Art of War - Illustrated & Translated for Modern Readers
“The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.”
Source: Sun Tzu's Art of War - Illustrated & Translated for Modern Readers
“The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. Thus the good fighter is able to secure himself against defeat, but cannot make certain of defeating the enemy.”
Source: The Illustrated Art of War
“The good folks mostly win, courage usually triumphs over fear, the family dog hardly ever contracts rabies: these are things I knew at twenty-five, and things I still know now, at the age of 25 x 2. But I know something else as well: there's a place in most of us where the rain is pretty much constant, the shadows are always long, and the woods are full of monsters. It is good to have a voice in which the terrors of such a place can be articulated and its geography partially described, without denying the sunshine and clarity that fill so much of our ordinary lives. (viii)”
“The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin.”
Source: An Irish Eye
“The ‘good’ future is a mirage. Once you get there, there is always another future to chase. You never get to rest. There is never enough, only more.”
“The good gardener knows with absolute certainty that if he does his part, if he gives the labour, the love, and every aid that his knowledge of his craft, experience of the conditions of his place, and exercise of his personal wit can work together to suggest, that so surely will God give the increase. Then with the honestly-earned success comes the consciousness of encouragement to renewed effort, and, as it were, an echo of the gracious words, 'Well done my good and faithful servant'.”
Source: Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur
“The good go for the better to come.”
“The good God would not inspire unattainable desires.”
“The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.”
Source: Don Quixote: Easyread Large Edition
“The good guest is almost invisible, enjoying him or herself, communing with fellow guests, and, most of all, enjoying the generous hospitality of the hosts.”
“The good guy only gets the girl in a soppy way.”
“The good guys and bad guys aren’t as easy to tell apart as I used to think they were. You can’t look at someone with your eyes and take their measure.
You have to look with the heart.”
“The good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers--just for society to keep track of who was who.”
“The good guys in my movies mind their own business and they don't judge other people. And the bad guys are jealous, they judge other people without knowing the whole story, they want all the attention and they're mean spirited. So I think my films are politically correct in a weird way.”
“The good hate sin because they love virtue.
[Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]”
“The good he scorn'd Stalk'd off reluctant, like an ill-us'd ghost, Not to return; or if it did, its visits Like those of angels, short, and far between.”
Source: The grave, a poem. To which are added An elegy in a country church-yard, by Gray. Death, a poem, by bishop Porteus [&c.].
“The good heart that prays for the end of others suffering ends its own suffering with such prayers. Send out your blessings to family, friends, colleagues, strangers on the street. A saint acts compassionately not because she is a saint. Rather, her compassionate acts make her a saint.”
Source: Love for Imperfect Things: How to Accept Yourself in a World Striving for Perfection
“The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.”
Source: The Historian's Craft
“The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.”
“The good husbandman may pluck His roses and gather in His liles at midsummer, and, for ought I dare say, in the beginning of the first summer month; and He may transplant young trees out of the lower ground to the higher, where they have more of the sun, and a more free air, at any season of the year. What is that to you or me? The goods are his own.”
Source: The Loveliness of Christ
“The good husbands understand and offer to help. "All you have to do is ask" they say. But even helpful husbands have to be thanked, their contributions acknowledged, credit given. All those pleases and thank yous. Being grateful takes time and energy. It's often easier to do it yourself.”
“The good I stand on is my truth and honesty.”
Source: Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems
“The good ideas will survive.”
Source: Quentin Tarantino: Interviews, Revised and Updated
“The good in life feels great when you have gratitude in your heart.”
“The good inside of all of us is wrapped in a layer of apathy and we forget how much potential we have within us, in each and every one of us, to change the world for the better for ourselves and our children, and thus to bring about oneness.”
“The good is always beautiful, the beautiful is good!”
Source: Poems
“The good is always the enemy of the best.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“The good is not a category that interests me.”