T Quotes
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“The great achievement of Zen Buddhism, and all of its cultural expressions in painting or the tea ceremony or rock gardens, is a rejection of earlier Buddhist ideas which were dependent
upon narrative - all the mythological creatures that populate the Buddhist galaxy. Zen insisted on the real located in nature.”
“The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.”
“The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.”
Source: Adventures of Ideas
“The Great Activist (Sonnet)
The world doesn't need another climate summit,
the world needs a climate summon,
and not from some fair-weather activist
that jumps from one trend to another,
like privileged white women hop from
pseudoscience to pseudoscience -
the world needs a climate summon
from the commoners of the world,
everyday ordinary people with
a mundane job and a mundane life -
when these people sense the immediate
emergency that the planet faces,
then no amount of performative policy
will be required anymore,
because there is no greater environmental
stabilizer than commoners jolted to duty -
the greatest activist is the conscientious commoner.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.”
“The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.”
“The great actors, like Cary Grant, and the gentlemanliness that they portray in the movies is something that I try to keep in mind.”
“The great actresses and actors receive awards for great roles in great films.”
“The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.”
“The great advance in mathematics and the natural sciences which mark the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was the result of an international traffic which conquered more and more the whole earth.”
Source: Die Lessing-Legende
“The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines.”
Source: The Scientist as Rebel
“The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.”
“The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument.”
“The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.”
Source: Gaudy Night
“The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.”
“The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.”
“The great advantage of a new friend is that we have not yet found one another out.”
“The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.”
“The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.”
“The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances.”
“The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.”
“The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.”
“The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing”
“The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for.”
“The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.”
Source: The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge
“The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years.”
Source: Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...
“The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man's self a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse; but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought.”
Source: Essays
“The great adventures which our opponents offer is a voyage into the past. Progress is our heritage, not theirs. What is right for us as Democrats is also the right way for Democrats to win.”
“The great affair, the love affair with life,
is to live as variously as possible,
to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred,
climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sun-struck hills every day.
Where there is no risk, the emotional terrain is flat and unyielding,
and, despite all its dimensions, valleys, pinnacles, and detours,
life will seem to have none of its magnificent geography, only a length.
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery,
but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.”
“The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sunstruck hills every day.”
Source: A Natural History of the Senses
“The great affair, we always find, is to get money.”
Source: The Wealth of Nations: the Great Master
“The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and the reasons for the gradual development and improvement of their organization. This antiquity will appear even greater when he realizes the length of time and the particular conditions which were necessary to bring all the living species into existence. This is particularly true since man is the latest result and present climax of this development, the ultimate limit of which, if it is ever reached, cannot be known.”
“The great ages did not contain the best talent, they wasted less.”
“The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted.”
“The great agony is mental stress.”
“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.”
“The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.”
“The great allure of government programs in general for many people is that these programs allow decisions to be made without having to worry about the constraints of prices, which confront people at every turn in a free market.”
“The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.”
Source: The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort
“The great ambition of women is to inspire love.”
“The great American denial riff is that you can do whatever you like and you always triumph at the end. The world is saying no, you can do what you like, but there are consequences. And maturity is to be able to turn to the consequences and accept them.”
“The great American dream that reached out to the stars has been lost to the stripes. We have forgotten where we came from, we don’t know where we are, and we fear where we may be going. Afraid, we turn from the glorious adventure of the pursuit of happiness to a pursuit of an illusionary security in an ordered, stratified, striped society. Our way of life is symbolized to the world by the stripes of military force. At home we have made a mockery of being our brother’s keeper by being his jail keeper. When Americans can no longer see the stars, the times are tragic. We must believe that it is the darkness before the dawn of a beautiful new world; we will see it when we believe it.”
Source: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
“The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.”
Source: My life in baseball: the true record
“The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.”
“The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,' and I believe it is a good thing, this ambition to be a cosmopolitan, this idea to be citizens not of a small parcel of the world that changes according to the currents of politics, according to the wars, to what occurs, but to feel that the whole world is our country.”
“The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the Cold War, is that the engine of capitalism - the individual - is mightier than any collective.”
“The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.”
“The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.”
“The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven for both man and animal, for both thick and strong, germinated the wheat, swelled the furrows with fecund mud and brought forth the buds in the orchards. And it is I who empowered these moist espousals, I the great Aphrodite.”
“The great and constant need of those who investigate homicide and practice forensic pathology or criminal law is a warm humanism.”