T Quotes
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“The great paralysis of our heart is unbelief.”
Source: The Oswald Chambers Devotional Reader: 52 Weekly Themes
“The great part about tennis is you can't run out the clock.... As long as we were still playing, I had a chance.”
“The great passion in a man's life may not be for women or men or wealth or toys or fame, or even for his children, but for his masculinity, and at any point in his life he may be tempted to throw over the things for which he regularly lays down his life for the sake of that masculinity. He may keep this passion secret from women, and he may even deny it to himself, but the other boys know it about themselves and the wiser ones know it about the rest of us as well.”
“The great people I've met always have time for the niceties.”
“The great people of the earth today are the people who pray. I do not mean those who talk about prayer, nor those who say they believe in prayer, nor yet those who can explain about prayer; but I mean these people who take time and pray. They have not time. It must be taken from something else. This something else is important, very important, and pressing, but still less important and less pressing than prayer. There are people that put prayer first, and group the other items in life's schedule around and after prayer.”
“The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.”
“The great person never loses a childlike spirit.”
“The great personal fortunes in the country weren't built on a portfolio of fifty companies. They were built by someone who identified one wonderful business. With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least 10% of your net worth in that stock.”
“The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.”
“The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems.”
Source: Juan de Mairena
“The great philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries did not think that epistemological questions floated free of questions about how the mind works. Those philosophers took a stand on all sorts of questions which nowadays we would classify as questions of psychology, and their views about psychological questions shaped their views about epistemology, as well they should have.”
“The great philosophers of the past who wrote so beautifully - Rousseau, John Stuart Mill - had to write beautifully because they had to sell their work to journals. They had to sell books to the general public because they could not hold positions in universities. Mill was an atheist, and, therefore, could not hold a position in a university.”
“The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed ecstatic over the great artist. She said, "Ah Maestro, you are a genius!" Paderewski tartly replied, "Ah yes, madam, but before I was a genius I was a clod!" What he was saying was that his present acclaim was not handed to him on a silver platter. He, too, was once a little boy laboriously practicing his scales. And even at his peak, behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.”
“The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.”
Source: Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries
“The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.”
“The great pines stand at a considerable distance from each other. Each tree grows alone, murmurs alone, thinks alone. They do notintrude upon each other. The Navajos are not much in the habit of giving or of asking help. Their language is not a communicative one, and they never attempt an interchange of personality in speech. Over their forests there is the same inexorable reserve. Each tree has its exalted power to bear.”
Source: The Song of the Lark
“The great Pioneer Missionaries all had 'inverted homesickness' this passion to call that country their home which was most in need of the Gospel. In this passion all other passions died; before this vision all other visions faded; this call drowned all other voices. They were the pioneers of the Kingdom, the forelopers of God, eager to cross the border-marches and discover new lands or win new-empires”
“The Great Plains were immense enough to inspire the grandest, most foolish of dreams - but they were also vast enough that no one could ever explore every corner.”
Source: The Children's Blizzard
“The great players have a set of golf clubs in their feet”
“The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
“The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.”
“The great pleasure of life is doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.”
“The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates them.”
Source: Science and Human Values
“The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.”
“The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.”
Source: Collected Poetry and Prose
“The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.”
“The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.”
Source: Essays (Annotated Edition)
“The great point about money was to convert it as quickly as possible into something you could use or enjoy.”
“The great point guards make everybody else better.”
“The great point in Christianity is the search for an independent content for spiritual life which, according to the insights of its founder, could be elevated, not by the forces of a world external to the soul of man, but by the revelation of a new world within his soul. Islam fully agrees with this insight and supplements it by the further insight that the illumination of the new world thus revealed is not something foreign to the world of matter but permeates it through and through.
Thus the affirmation of spirit sought by Christianity would come not by the renunciation of external forces which are already permeated by the illumination of spirit, but by a proper adjustment of man's relation to these forces in view of the light received from the world within.”
Source: The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam
“The great point is to renounce your own wisdom by simplicity of walk, and to be ready to give up the favor, esteem, and approbation of every one, whenever the path in which God leads you passes that way.”
Source: Spiritual Progress
“The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.”
Source: The First Battle: A Story of the Campaign of 1896
“The great political tragedy of our time is that conservative leaders in America have chosen to use their superior messaging and political skills to thwart serious action on global warming.”
Source: Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do
“The great post-Holocaust poet, Paul Celan, said that a poem is a message in a bottle sent out in the not always greatly hopeful belief that somewhere and some time it would wash up on land on heartland perhaps.”
“The great potential of Christian literature [is] to depict the material world, the physical world of the senses, while also revealing behind it another invisible and eternal dimension.”
Source: The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays
“The great poverty is negative thinking.”
“The great power in America is the corporations - we`re a corporate country. We`re run by a CEO and the stockholders have very little to say on how the corporation is run. Fine, the board of directors run it and the stockholders can just be disgruntled, but who gives a damn?”
“The great power of the Internet is it allows people who don't know each other... to connect with people with shared interests. The shared interests might be that 'I have a kid with leukemia.' Or, 'I'm a Nazi.' It gives marginalized people more power.”
“The great power the president has is that he is the most prominent person in the biggest media event on the planet. He has the attention of the nation and the world. When he speaks, everybody listens.”
“The great powers claim that whatever they possess is theirs by right, but whatever we, the smaller countries possess is negotiable.”
“The great powers have dominated the destiny of the Islamic countries for years and installed the Zionist cancerous tumor in the heart of the Islamic world. Many of the problems facing the Muslim world are due to the existence of the Zionist regime.”
“The great powers of the world may have done wonders in giving the world an industrial and military look but the great gift still has to come from Africa - giving the world a more human face.”
“The great presidents are people who watch out for others.”
“The great presidents never forget the principle of the republic and seek to preserve and enhance them – in the long run– without undermining the needs of the moment. Bad presidents simply do what is expedient, heedless of principles. But the worst presidents are those who adhere to the principles regardless of what the fortunes of the moment demand.”
“The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or a hangman. To prevent there being guilty men requires great astuteness.”
“The great principle of out-of-door relief is, to give the paupers exactly what they don't want; and then they get tired of coming.”
Source: Oliver Twist
“The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person.”
Source: Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn
“The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community... that in the operation of human institutions upon social action, self-love and social may be made the same.”
“The great problem of modern religions is to have relegated evil as a mere accident in the course of creation and to have made us believe that Good is superior to it. On the contrary, paganism carries with it the great lesson of the duality in all things, of good and evil and their balance. In the realm of goodness, evil grows stronger, by being sneaky and silent…”