T Quotes
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“The heel of Montgomery’s boot tapped nervously against the floor, as if he knew he was a bad liar. “I can’t say how he’ll take the news at first. He can be unpredictable, but in the end he’ll be glad you came.” He leaned forward, blue eyes simmering. His boot tapped faster. “I’m glad you came.”
Source: The Madman's Daughter
“The heft of a life in the hands grows both lighter and weightier. Over time, my life has become more saturated with its shape and made-ness, while my poems have become more and more free. The first word of every poem might be "Yes." The next words: "And then."”
“The hegemony imposes rules and regulation, the corrupted rule is that when imposing harshly on some people and ignoring others.”
“The hegemony of finance and the banks has produced the indebted. Control over information and communication networks has created the mediatized. The security regime and the generalized state of exception have constructed a figure prey to fear and yearning for protection—the securitized. And the corruption of democracy has forged a strange, depoliticized figure, the represented. These subjective figures constitute the social terrain on which—and against which—movements of resistance and rebellion must act.”
“The hegemony of what was real had been altered, or broken, forever.”
Source: Acceptance
“The Heian Period (794–1185) was Japan’s classical era, a time of peace and opulence, when the imperial court in Heian-kyō (“Capital of Peace and Tranquility”: later Kyoto) was the fountainhead of culture, and the arts flourished. Toward the end, however, political power slipped from the aristocracy to the warrior class, the decline of the imperial court led to the decay of the capital, and peace gave way to unrest. This was the part of the Heian Period that interested Akutagawa, who identified it with fin-de-siècle Europe, and he symbolized the decay with the image of the crumbling Rashōmon gate that dominates his story. Director Kurosawa Akira borrowed Akutagawa’s gate and went him one better, picturing it as a truly disintegrating structure, entirely bereft of its Heian lacquer finish, and suggestive of the moral decay against which his characters struggle. His film Rashōmon (1950) was based on two of Akutagawa’s stories, “Rashōmon” and “In a Bamboo Grove.” Both—themselves based on tales from the twelfth century—reach far more skeptical conclusions than the film regarding the dependability of human nature and its potential for good.
(Jay Rubin)”
Source: Rashomon and Other Stories
“The Heidelberg Catechism rightly says, for all Christians who allow the Bible to absorb the world for them - who see reality through the biblical story - that the purpose of life is to glorify God - a personal being who is ultimate over us and everything else - and enjoy him forever. This should be clear to all Christians, but many Christians have been influenced to think otherwise even about the Bible because of dabbling in movements such as the New Age Movement or the Gospel of Health and Wealth or even naturalistic humanism.”
“The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own; and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired.”
Source: Works, Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy: With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c
“The height of a man’s wall or fence is usually a reflection of the depth or shallowness of his neighbours’ pockets.”
“The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.”
“The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.”
“The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God.”
“The height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm.”
Source: My theatre life
“The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.”
Source: Killosophy
“The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.”
“The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity ... the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. It is the halfway cultivation that leads to ornamentation.”
“The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.”
Source: Bruce Lee: Artist of Life
“The height of devotion is reached when reverence and contemplation produce passionate worship, which in turn breaks forth in thanksgiving and praise in word and song.”
“The height of foolishness is to discard an opportunity without full investigation”
“The height of human achievement and glory, Muhammad.”
“The height of human desire is what wins, whether it’s on Normandy Beach or in Ohio Stadium.”
“The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.”
Source: The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner with an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe
“The height of humanity should give birth to greater good. We should be in desperation of "CHANGE" but not in spawning evil, because by doing so, humanity remains shackled.”
“The height of mediocrity is still low.”
“The height of strategy, is to attack your opponent's strategy.”
“The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about.”
“The height of success is when you break your business, that is what I say! Just when you think things are really really going well that's the time to change.”
“The height of the Chacoan culture lasted from A.D. 1055 to 1083, corresponding to the period of most intense building activity. This period also produced the most startling series of events in the heavens that have taken place within the Iast few thousand years. In July 1054 the supernova which produced the Crab Nebula blazed in the daytime skies for three weeks and remained visible at night for nearly two years. Some twelve years later, in 1066, Halley's Comet appeared, frightening Europeans on the eve of the Battle of Hastings. Another decade later, on March 7, 1076, a total solar eclipse was visible south of Chaco Canyon. In 1077 sunspots large enough to be seen with the naked eye were reported in China, beginning a more than two-hundred-year period of unusual sunspot activity. And again on July 11, 1097, another total eclipse passed over the Southwest. The inhabitants of Chaco Canyon may have been so startled and puzzled by these events that they became devoted sky watchers, investing much more effort in astronomy than they might have had the heavens been ordinary and unchanging.”
Source: Prehistoric Astronomy in the Southwest
“The height of the mountaintop is measured by the drab drudgery of the valley.”
Source: The Love of God: An Intimate Look at the Father-Heart of God
“The height of the tree is never measured in feet. Rather, it is measured by the courage of those who seek to climb it. Therefore, one tree can have many heights.”
“The height of your achievements is determined by the depth of your self-belief, the strength of your resolve and the intensity of your efforts.”
“The height of your maturity and sagacity depends on your ability to see the beauty in ugly situations.”
“The height of your success is determined by the depth of your belief.”
“The height of your success will be measured with reference to the depth from which you started.”
Source: Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
“The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system.”
“The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight,
but they, while their companions slept,
were toiling upward in the night.”
“The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.”
“The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.”
Source: Sister Peg: A Pamphlet Hitherto Unknown by David Hume
“The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy.”
Source: Sister Peg: A Pamphlet Hitherto Unknown by David Hume
“The Heimlich maneuver works on house pets. My pit bull was choking on his dinner. I squeezed his stomach and the neighbor's cat shot right out.”
“The heinous misdeeds committed by the empire are no longer privy to debate. It's a known fact, at least to people with some basic brains... Imagine me coming to your home and then declaring myself the guardian of the house while helping myself with all your resources and keeping you as underling - you know, like the pilgrims did to the native Americans. Sucks right! Exactly my point!”
Source: Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race
“THE HEIR OF NIGHT by Helen Lowe is a richly told tale of strange magic, dark treachery and conflicting loyalties, set in a well realized world.”
“The heirs of that liberal theology are today keen to marginalize the Bible, declaring that it supports slavery and other wicked things, because they don't like what it says on other topics such as sexual ethics. But if you push the Bible off the table, you are merely colluding with pagan empire, denying yourself the sourcebook for your kingdom critique of oppression. The Sadducee didn't know the Bible or God's power; that's why they denied the resurrection and supported Rome.”
“The Heisenberg principle - If something is closely observed, the odds are it is going to be altered in the process. The more a price pattern is observed by speculators the more prone you have false signals; the more the market is a product of nonspeculative activity, the greater the significance of technical breakout”
“The Heisman attention has definitely been a little bit of a surprise. It's been out of my hands. It's something I'm not focused on. I'm focused on the season and trying to win as many games as possible.”
“The Heisman is the biggest award I've ever won.”
“The held inside emotions that stay unvoiced are the very emotion that make you human. Let them loose for they are the voice of your soul....”
“The helicopter appeared so reluctant to fly forward that we even considered turning the pilot's seat around and letting it fly backward.”
“The helicopter has never achieved much success and . . .may be classes with the ornithopter as obsolete.”
“The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.”
Source: Flashbacks: on returning to Vietnam