T Quotes
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“The great disruption is when the climate crisis will bring about the end of shopping and the birth of a new world.”
“The great distinction of a true Christian is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. How careful should he be, lest anything in his thoughts or feelings would be offensive to the Divine Guest.!”
Source: The Francis Schaeffer Collection: True Spirituality / He Is There and He Is Not Silent
“The great divide in American foreign policy thinking is between those who believe in paper and those who believe in power.”
“The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.”
Source: A Happy Half-century: And Other Essays
“The great do not always prevail.”
Source: Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection
“The great documentary subjects find you, you don't really search for them.”
“The great doing of little things, makes the great life.”
“The Great don't innovate, they fertilize seeds planted by lackeys, they leave to others the inhaling of the flowers whose roots they've manured. A deceptive memory may be the key to their originality.”
Source: The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem: 1961–1972
“The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.”
“The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“The great drawback of being witty is that you have to keep your eyes fixed on the semi-idiots around you, and absorb their worthless sensations.”
Source: The Life of Henry Brulard
“The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.”
“The great duties of life are written with a sunbeam.”
“The great dynamic success of capitalism had given us a powerful weapon in our battle against Communism-money.”
Source: An American Life
“The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death - that is not the great thing - but that...we are to, and may, live nobly now because we are to live forever.”
“The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries - a million complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture. Nature can cope with small rents in the fabric; it can even, after a time, cope with major disasters like floods, fires, and earthquakes. What nature cannot cope with is the steady undermining of its fabric by the activities of man.”
Source: The Amateur Naturalist
“The great edifice of the Belfontaine Hotel loomed up out of the darkness and spitting snow and swallowed me whole, like a giant in a fairytale swallowing a fool.”
Source: The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth
“The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American supermarket turns out to rest on a remarkably narrow biological foundation comprised of a tiny group of plants that is dominated by a single species: Zea mays, a giant tropical grass most Americans know as corn...
Read the ingredients on the label of any processed food and, provided you know the chemical name it travels under, corn is what you will find. For modified or unmodified starch, for glucose syrup and maltodextrin, for crystalline fructose and ascorbic acid, for lecithin and dextrose, lactic acid and lysine, for maltose and HFCS, for MSG and polyols, for the caramel color and xanthan gum, read: corn... There are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter of them now contain corn. This goes for the nonfood items as well...
And us?”
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
“The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq
“The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground.”
Source: Complete Shorter Poems
“The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fails and something else succeeds.”
Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone
“The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness”
Source: The philosophical works of David Hume
“The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)
“The great end of all religionis to purify our hearts--and conquer our passions--and in a word, to make us wiser and better men--better neighbours--better citizens--and better servants of GOD.”
“The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world.”
Source: My Sister and I
“The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.”
“The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.”
“The great end of life is not knowledge but action. Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”
“The great end of life is not knowledge but action.”
“The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendor cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate.”
Source: The Rambler
“The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended amusement, in which a man shrinks to his natural dimensions, and throws aside the ornaments or disguises which he feels in privacy to be useless incumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.”
Source: The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with his life, and notes on his Lives of the poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In eleven volumes ...
“The great enemy of achievement is a schedule already full.”
“The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia.”
“The great enemy of any totalitarian regime is normalization and trade.”
“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.”
“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.”
“The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it. We have talked enough; but we have not listened. And by not listening we have failed to concede the immense complexity of our society—and thus the great gaps between ourselves and those with whom we seek understanding.”
“The great enemy of creativity is fear. When we're fearful, we freeze up - like a nine-year-old who won't draw pictures, for fear everybody will laugh. Creativity has a lot to do with a willingness to take risks. Think about how children play. They run around the playground, they trip, they fall, they get up and run some more. They believe everything will be all right. They feel capable; they let go. Good businesspeople behave in a similar way: they lose $15 million, gain $20 million, lose $30 million and earn it back. If that isn't playing, I don't know what is!”
“The great enemy of foreign language learning is a sense of shame, an inability or unwillingness to become like a child again and let one's inadequacies show.”
“The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.”
Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry
“The great enemy of morality is indifference.”
“The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.”
Source: Faith: A Holy Walk
“The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.”
“The great enemy of the truth is not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest but the myth persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962
“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
[Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11 1962]”
“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
“The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“The great equalizer is health. If you don't have it, you're screwed.”
“The great error consists in supposing that poetry is an unnatural form of language. We should all like to speak poetry at the moment when we truly live, and if we do not speak it, it is because we have an impediment in our speech. It is not song that is the narrow or artificial thing, it is conversation that is a broken and stammering attempt at song. When we see men in a spiritual extravaganza, like Cyrano de Bergerac, speaking in rhyme, it is not our language disguised or distorted, but our language rounded and made whole.”
Source: Five Types