T Quotes
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“The great fun of doing new plays is that people have no idea what's going to happen next. That goes quite soon, as people start talking about it, and the only way you can keep hold of that is genuinely to keep changing it.”
“The great function of art is to widen our sympathies, to amplify our experience and extend our contact with our fellow men beyond the boundaries of our personal lot.”
“The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.”
“The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.”
“The Great Gatsby emerges from a world strewn with wreckage and that debris is the novel's material - sullied, but with the hope of something redeemable glinting among the ash heaps.”
Source: Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby
“The Great Gatsby' [...] was my 'Tom Sawyer' when I was twelve [....]”
“The Great Gatsby' ticked so many boxes for me.”
“The Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written.”
“The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.”
Source: The Nature of the Judicial Process
“The great genius does not let his work be determined by the concrete finite conditions that surround him, whilst it is from these that the work of the statesman takes its direction and its termination. ... It is the genius in reality and not the other who is the creator of history, for it is only the genius who is outside and unconditioned by history.”
“The Great German general Erwin Rommel once made a distinction between a gamble and a risk. Both cases involve an action with only a chance of success, a chance that is heightened by acting with boldness. The difference is that with a risk, if you lose, you can recover: your reputation will suffer no long-term damage, your resources will not be depleted, and you can return to your original position with acceptable losses. With a gamble, on the other hand, defeat can lead to a slew of problems that are likely to spiral out of control. With a gamble there tend to be too many variables to complicate the picture down the road if things go on. The problem goes further: if you encounter difficulties in a gamble, it becomes harder to pull out—you realize that the stakes are too high; you cannot afford to lose. So you try harder to rescue the situation, often making it worse and sinking deeper in to the hole that you cannot get out of. People are drawn into gambles by their emotions: they see only glittering prospects if they win and ignore the ominous consequences if the lose. Taking risks is essential; gambling is foolhardy. It can be years before you recover from a gamble, if you recover at all.”
Source: The 33 Strategies Of War
“The great German idealists from Kant to Hegel saw this idealism or nihilism as a reductio ad absurdum of any philosophy, and so they struggled by all conceptual means to avoid it.”
“The great German scholar Helmut Thielicke once said that a person who speaks to this hour’s need will always be skirting the edge of heresy, but only the person who risks those heresies can gain the truth.”
Source: What We Talk About When We Talk About God: A
“The great gift of a spiritual path is coming to trust that you can find a way to true refuge. You realize that you can start right where you are, in the midst of your life, and find peace in any circumstance. Even at those moments when the ground shakes terribly beneath you—when there’s a loss that will alter your life forever—you can still trust that you will find your way home. This is possible because you’ve touched the timeless love and awareness that are intrinsic to who you are.”
“The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.”
“The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.”
Source: Cardinal Hume: A Spiritual Companion : Reflections Through the Year
“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.”
“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.”
“The great gift of solitude is that although you might think that it provokes introspection, actually the very opposite is true - you can lose all sense of self.”
Source: The Last Wilderness, A Journey into Silence
“The great gift of the human imagination is that it has no limits or ending.”
“The great gifts of models are not that they're more beautiful than the next person, it's that they're able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.”
“The great glory of travel, to me, is not just what I see that's new to me in countries visited, but that in almost every one of them I change from an outsider looking in to an insider looking out.”
“The great goal of the backlash is to nurture a cultural class war, and the first step in doing so, as we have seen, is to deny the economic basis of social class. After all, you can hardly deride liberals as society's "elite" or present the GOP as the party of the common man if you acknowledge the existence of the corporate world - the power that creates the nation's real elite, that dominates its real class system, and that wields the Republican Party as its personal political sidearm.”
“The great God absolute! The centre and circumference of all democracy! His omnipresence, our divine equality!”
Source: Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land
“The great God endows His children variously. To some He gives intellect...and they
move the earth. To some He allots heart...and the beating pulse of humanity is theirs.
But to some He gives only a soul, without intelligence...and these, who never grow up,
but remain always His children, are God's fools, kindly, elemental, simple, as if from
His palette the Artist of all has taken one color instead of many.”
Source: Love Stories
“The great GOD is a tower of refuge to the poor.
The great GOD is a tower of refuge to the needy in distress.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“The great god Pan is dead.”
Source: Why the Ancient Oracles disappeared?
“The great god Ra, whose shrine once covered acres, is filler now for crossword puzzle makers.”
“The great greatest gift you can give him is the freedom to spread his wings.”
Source: The Scarlet Thread
“The great grey beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive.”
Source: The Thief of Always
“The great grindstone, Earth, had turned when Mr. Lorry looked out again, and the sun was red on the courtyard. But, the lesser grindstone stood alone there in the calm morning air, with red upon it that the sun had never give, and would never take away.”
Source: The Shorter Novels of Charles Dickens
“The great growling engine of change - technology.”
Source: future shock
“The great guardian principle of all conduct in the church of God is personal responsibility to the Lord.”
“The Great Hall at the Met is one of the great portals of the world... From there, you can walk in any direction to almost any culture.”
“The great hall was shimmering in light, sun streaming from the open windows, and ablaze with colour, the walls decorated with embroidered hangings in rich shades of gold and crimson. New rushes had been strewn about, fragrant with lavender, sweet woodruff, and balm... the air was... perfumed with honeysuckle and violet, their seductive scents luring in from the gardens butterflies as blue as the summer sky.”
Source: Devil's Brood
“The great happiness in life in creativity belongs to amateurs.”
“The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.”
“The great Harvard psychologist Gordon Allport had died years before I entered the program, but he had written an "Epistle to Thesis Writers" that was still being handed down from generation to generation of doctoral candidates. Allport tried to steer students away from the clutter and fog of professional prose and offered as a model an essay by a ten-year-old girl, who, he wrote, merited a higher degree "if not for the accuracy of her knowledge, then at least for the clarity of her diction":
'The bird that I am going to write about is the Owl. The Owl cannot see at all by day and at night is as blind as a bat.
'I do not know much about the Owl, so I will go on to the beast I am going to choose. It is the Cow. The Cow is a mammal. It has six sides—right, left, an upper and below. At the back it has a tail on which hangs a brush. With this it sends the flies away so that they do not fall into the milk. The head is for the purpose of growing horns and so that the mouth can be somewhere. The horns are to butt with, and the mouth is to moo with. Under the cow hangs the milk. It is arranged for milking. When people milk, the milk comes through and there is never any end to the supply. How the cow does it I have not yet realized, but it makes more and more. The cow has a fine sense of smell; one can smell it far away. This is the main reason for the fresh air in the country.
'The man cow is called an ox. It is not a mammal. The cow does not eat much, but what it eats it eats twice, so that it gets enough. When it is hungry it moos, and when it says nothing it is because its inside is all full up with grass.'
—From the introduction to *The Best American Science and Nature Writing: 2004*—”
“The great hatred of capitalism in the hearts of the oppressed, ancient and modern, I think, stems not merely from the ensuing vast inequality in wealth, and the often unfair and arbitrary nature of who profits and who suffers, but from the silent acknowledgement that under a free market economy the many victims of the greed of the few are still better off than those under the utopian socialism of the well-intended. It is a hard thing for the poor to acknowledge benefits from their rich moral inferiors who never so intended it. (p.272)”
Source: Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power
“The great have private feelings of their own, to which the interests of humanity and justice must curtsy. Their interests are so far from being the same as those of the community, that they are in direct and necessary opposition to them; their power is at the expense of OUR weakness; their riches of OUR poverty; their pride of OUR degradation; their splendour of OUR wretchedness; their tyranny of OUR servitude.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“The great heart of comrade Kim Jong Il has ceased.”
“The great help of being in the Army is to understand why are the armies clever in what they describe as emotional intelligence, making soldiers come to terms with the death of comrades by certain rituals.”
“The great heroes of other ancient cultures were strong and clever and virtuous, but the great Jewish heroes copulated with slaves (Abraham), showed they were willing to allow others to have sex with their wives (also Abraham), cheated their brothers, seduced their in-laws, murdered, started civil wars through terrible family decisions, yet somehow-through a mixture of humility, near-insanity, and good fortune-served as conduits of God's action in the world.”
Source: Law & Gospel: A Theology for Sinners
“The great high of winning Wimbledon lasts for about a week. You go down in the record book, but you don't have anything tangible to hold on to. But having a baby -- there isn't any comparison.”
“The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast welldoing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.”
“The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast, well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful; success treads on the heels of every right effort.”
Source: Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct
“The great hindrance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.”
“The great home of the soul is the open road.”
Source: Studies in Classic American Literature
“The great hope is that people who wouldn't normally make films will be making them. Suddenly, one day some little fat girl in Ohio is going to be the new Mozart and make a beautiful film with her father's camera and for once the so called professionalism about movies will be destroyed forever - and it will really become an art form.”
“The great hope of society is in individual character”
Source: Remarks on the character and writings of Fenelon