T Quotes
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“The great truth for Innokenty used to be that we are given only one life.
Now, with the new feeling that had ripened in him, he became aware of another law: that we are given only one conscience, too.
A life laid down cannot be reclaimed, nor can a ruined conscience.”
Source: The First Circle
“The great truth is that every man
's just a little boy in a woman's hands”
“The great truth is that women actually like men, and men can never believe it.”
“The Great Truth is that women in our society constitute one of the most privileged and powerful classes of human beings on earth. The challenge is to make women believe in their power. "Woman as victim" is an idea whose time has passed. The idea of woman as a survivor and a success must take its place.”
“The great truth that is too often forgotten is that it is in the nature of people to do good to one another.”
“The great truths of Christianity do not belong to the professional theologians alone, but to every person who calls upon the name of Christ.”
“The great truths of human life do not spring new born to each new generation. They derive from long experience. They are the gathered wisdom of the race. They are renewed in time of conflict and danger.”
“The great twin political problems of the age are the brutality of the right, and the dishonesty of the left.”
“The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.”
“The great universe is filled with an abundance of all things, filled to overflowing. All there is, is in her, waiting only for the touch of the right forces to cast them forth.”
Source: What All the World’s A-Seeking: The Vital Law of True Life, True Greatness, Power, and Happiness
“The great unknown in this country is where this leaves the Republican Party after this election. Will it be the party of the Kochs or will it be the party of [Donald] Trump?”
“The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved -- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, literally, patriarchal -- God is the Omnipotent Father -- hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates.”
Source: The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
“The great unrequited love tears open your heart to the beauty of the world, its small rivers and upland meadows. It also makes you kinder to the next hundred thousand persons who cross your path.”
“The great unthankfulness, contempt of God's word, and wilfulness of the world, make me fear that the divine light will soon cease to shine on man, for God's word has ever had its certain course.”
Source: Martin Luther's Table Talk
“The great use of copying, if it be at all useful, should seem to be in learning color; yet even coloring will never be perfectly attained by servilely copying the model before you.”
Source: The Life and Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds
“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." "This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it." "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”
“the Great Vaccination — the vaccination against the stupidity of the intelligentsia.”
“The great Vaishnava religion of India has also sprung from a Tamil Pariah - Shathakopa - "who was a dealer in winnowing-fans but was a Yogin all the while".”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“The Great Vessel takes long to complete.”
“The great vice of democracy is that for a generation we have been busy getting ourselves on to the list of beneficiaries and removing ourselves from the list of contributors, as if somewhere there was somebody else's effort on which we could thrive.”
“The great victory, which appears so simple today, was the result of a series of small victories that went unnoticed”
“The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.”
Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence
“The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The important thing is that there be multiple food chains, so that when any one of them fails-when the oil runs out, when mad cow or other food-borne diseases become epidemic, when the pesticides no longer work, when drought strikes and plagues come and soils blow away-we'll still have a way to feed ourselves.”
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World
“The great virtue of a free market is that it enables people who hate each other, or who are from vastly different religious or ethnic backgrounds, to cooperate economically. Government intervention can't do that.”
“The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another.”
“The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.”
Source: Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit
“The great virtue of bureaucracy - indeed, perhaps its defining characteristic ~ was that it was an institutional method for applying general rules to specific cases, thereby making the actions of government fair and predictable.”
“The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the market continuously, to produce products that meet consumer demands at lowest cost, or else be driven from the market. It is a profit-and-loss system. Naturally, existing businesses generally prefer to keep out competitors in other ways. That is why the business community, despite its rhetoric, has so often been a major enemy of truly free enterprise.”
“The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century
“The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.”
“The great virtue of those who seek the spiritual path is courage.”
“The great virtue, I think, of studying Aristotle - and, more importantly, taking him seriously as a possible teacher - is that he presents an alternative view of both science and the world.”
“The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices”
“The Great Wall of China hadn’t arisen overnight.”
Source: The Zodiac Quest: A LitRPG Adventure
“The Great Wall of Facebook:
Having just visited the Great Wall of China, I'm thinking about the walls we build on FB. They are real. They keep people in and others out.
Build your wall carefully by answering this question:
What are you building your wall around?”
“The great wall of vegetation, an exuberant and entangled mass of trunks, branches, leaves, boughs, festoons, motionless in the moonlight, was like a rioting invasion of soundless life, a rolling wave of plants, piled up, crested, ready to topple over the creek, to sweep every little man of us out of his little existence. And it moved not. A deadened burst of mighty splashes and snorts reached us from afar, as though an ichthyosaurus had been taking a bath of glitter in the great river.”
Source: Heart of Darkness
“The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.”
Source: An appeal to the people in behalf of their rights as authorized interpreters of the Bible
“The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought... Europe and large parts of Asia and Africa became one vast battlefield on which after years of struggle not armies but nations broke and ran. When all was over, Torture and Cannibalism were the only two expedients that the civilized, scientific, Christian States had been able to deny themselves: and they were of doubtful utility.”
“The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought.”
Source: Churchill: The Power of Words
“The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.”
“The great war that broke so suddenly upon the world two years ago, and which has swept up within its flame so great a part of thecivilized world, has affected us very profoundly.... With its causes and its objects we are not concerned. The obscure fountains from which its stupendous flood has burst we are not interested to search for or explore.”
“The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.”
Source: TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE
“The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.”
“The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.”
Source: Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
“The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.”
“The Great Way has no gate. Clear water has no taste. The tongue has no bone. In complete stillness, a stone girl is dancing.”
“The Great Way has no gate; / there are a thousand paths to it. / If you pass through the barrier, / you walk the universe alone.”
“The great Way is all-pervading. It reaches to the left and to the right. All things depend on it with their existence. Still it demands no obedience.”
“The great Way is easy, yet people prefer the side paths. Be aware when things are out of balance. Stay centered within the Tao.”