T Quotes
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“The high-handed bureaucratic excesses of the IRS are a national disgrace ... riding roughshod over the taxpayers and making a joke out of our rule of laws.”
“The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him.”
“The high-minded definition of politics is: 'the art or science of government; the art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental policy.' It is only when you keep reading in Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary that you get closer to the truth: 'political activities characterized by artful and often dishonest practices'.”
“The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.”
“The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.”
“The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”
“The high-priests and priestesses of Atlantis had discovered many of the deepest secrets of the universe. They had come to understand all about reincarnation, karma, and the innermost workings of the Enlightenment Cycle.”
Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of the past, to come, in time, to an understanding of the best writing of the present. He will teach literature, not social studies or little lessons in democracy or the customs of many lands. And if the student finds that this is not to his taste? Well, that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted; it is being formed.”
Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.”
“The high-tech industry needs the immigration of highly qualified labor, from India, from China, from everywhere.”
“The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.”
“The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.”
“The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.”
Source: War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
“The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.”
Source: Modern Painters (Complete)
“The higher a man's conception of God, the better will he know Him. And the better he knows God, the nearer will he draw to Him.”
Source: Twenty-Three Tales
“The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind.”
“The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.”
Source: The Promise of American Life
“The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.”
Source: Mere Christianity
“The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get a set which can really be depended on 'till a dentist makes him one.”
“The higher arithmetic presents us with an inexhaustible store of interesting truths - of truths, too, which are not isolated, but stand in a close internal connection, and between which, as our knowledge increases, we are continually discovering new and sometimes wholly unexpected ties.”
“The higher Christian churches...come at God with an unwarranted air of professionalism, with authority and pomp, as though they knew what they were doing, as though people in themselves were an appropriate set of creatures to have dealings with God. I often think of the set pieces of liturgy as certain words which people have successfully addressed to God without their getting killed. In the high churches they saunter through the liturgy like Mohawks along a strand of scaffolding who have long since forgotten the danger. If God were to blast such a congregation to bits, the congregation would be, I believe, genuinely shocked. But in the low churches you expect it any minute.”
Source: Holy the Firm
“The higher consciousness feel the most pain because they search for the darkness in order to bring it to the light and thus feel the most pleasure.”
“The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“The higher education has always appealed to the South Asian social leaders across all the countries in South Asia. But primary education has been neglected. The oddity, by the way, is if you look at the contrast in India, there are some areas like Kerala where there's a long history of educational development.”
“The Higher Education Industry is very analogous to the Newspaper industry. By the time they realize they need to change the costs to support their legacy infrastructure and costs will keep them from getting there.”
“The higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the market place, but it has to be wrought out in each one of us for himself; it is the silent influence of character on character.”
Source: Aequanimitas
“The higher education system in these countries (US, Korea etc) has become like a theatre in which some people decided to stand to get a better view, promoting the others behind them to stand. Once enough people stand, everyone has to stand, which means no one is getting a better view, while everyone has become more uncomfortable.”
“The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth.”
“The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.”
Source: The Sabbath
“The higher I elevate, the more I see the hate.”
“The higher I get the lower I sink.”
“The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“The higher knowledge, the higher responsibility”
“The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that will follow.”
“The higher life begins for us ... when we renounce our own will to bow before a Divine law.”
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
“The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.”
Source: The Will to Power
“The higher mental activities are pretty tough and resilient, but it is a devastating experience if the drive does stop. Some people lose it in their forties and can only stop. In England they are a source of Vice-Chancellors.”
Source: Littlewood's Miscellany
“The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.”
Source: Anarchism and Other Essays
“The Higher Mind Mirror reflects the vibration of the personality structure back to itself to get the experience you call physical reality. The Higher Mind makes it seem the reflection is outside you when all of that is happening inside your consciousness. The Higher Mind, using that frequency by design, creates the illusion in your consciousness that everything is being projected around you holographiclly. That is why it is an illusion.”
Source: Pataphysics: Mastering Time Line Jumps for Personal Transformation
“The higher mind sees every one as equal and unified because it sees each person through its own light”
Source: Living with Consciousness: Everyday Inspirations for Spiritual Growth and Personal Fulfillment
“The higher my GPA gets the more I realize high school is useless”
“The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man's dharma, man's religion, and man's self is the vessel.”
Source: Sadhana
“The higher octave light that comes from samadhi, the kundalini of samadhi, this you can absorb continuously. You can never overload. It can never hurt you.”
“The higher one climbs, the lonelier one is.”
“The higher ones level of helpfulness to others, the greater wellbeing one will experience.”
“The higher orders [of angels] are presumed to be closer in their nature to God and to function in roles that serve God more directly than the lower orders, which tend to the administration of the physical universe and the service of humankind. Some orders are associated with particular divine qualities - Seraphim with Love, Cherubim with Wisdom, Thrones with Judgment.”
Source: In Search of Angels: A Celestial Sourcebook for Beginning Your Journey
“The higher our degree of concentration, the greater the quality of our life.
Vietnamese girls are often told by their mothers that if they concentrate, they will be more beautiful. This is the kind of beauty that comes from dwelling deeply in the present moment. When a young lady moves inattentively, she does not look as fresh or at ease. Her mother may not use these words, but she is encouraging her daughter to practice Right Concentration”
Source: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching : Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy and Liberation
“The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.”
“The higher our self-esteem, the more likely we are to be creative in our work, which means the more successful we are likely to be. The higher our self-esteem, the more ambitious we tend to be, not necessarily in a career or financial sense, but in terms of what we hope to experience in life - emotionally, creatively and spiritually.”
Source: How to Raise Your Self-Esteem: The Proven Action-Oriented Approach to Greater Self-Respect and Self-Confidence
“The higher our self-esteem, the stronger the drive to express ourselves, reflecting the sense of richness within. The lower our self-esteem, the more urgent the need to "prove" ourselves or to forget ourselves by living mechanically and unconsciously.”
Source: A Woman's Self-Esteem: Struggles and Triumphs in the Search for Identity