T Quotes
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“The idea of 10 dimensions might sound exciting, but they would cause real problems if you forget where you parked your car.”
“The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying '24-hour news' almost has satire laced in it.”
“The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible”
Source: Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb
“The idea of a bowed and terrified liberal minority during McCarthy's 'reign of terror' is poppycock. Then as now, all elite opinion was against McCarthy.”
Source: Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism
“The idea of a bully being jittery is so backwards to me.”
Source: Keedie
“The idea of a celebrity endorsing a presidential candidate is nothing new, but the full-throated endorsement for Senator Bernie Sanders from one of the country`s biggest hip hop stars had surprised some political observers.”
“The idea of a Chicago band that wanted to sing songs about California is really funny. Having never been to California.”
“The idea of a child (of whatever age) forgiving a bad parent, and the unthinkableness of a happy ending without it, is very modern and not one that has much to do with Roald's world view at all. It is idealistic and sentimental, and is more concerned with relieving adult anxieties (there is nothing we can do so bad that it cannot ultimately be undone) than entertaining child viewers/readers or slaking their thirst for natural justice.”
Source: Inside Charlie's Chocolate Factory: The Complete Story of Willy Wonka, the Golden Ticket, and Roald Dahl's Most Famous Creation.
“The idea of a commonwealth relationship is alien to most people but I think that's true generally.”
“The idea of a company that's earning money, not losing money, that's not, let's say 'industrially endangered,' to have just cutbacks so they can earn another $12 million or $20 million or $40 million in a year where no one's counting is really a horrible act when you think about it on every level. First of all, it's certainly not necessary. It's doing it at the worst time. It's throwing people out to a larger, what is inevitably a larger unemployment heap for frankly no good reason.”
“The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate.”
Source: The Theater and Its Double
“The idea of a different life was like grasping smoke.”
Source: Chasing the Darkness
“The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.”
“The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque.”
“the idea of a finished human product not only appears presumptuous but even, in my opinion, lacks any strong appeal. Life is struggle and striving, development and growth - and analysis is one of the means that can help in this process. Certainly its positive accomplishments are important, but also the striving itself is of intrinsic value.”
Source: Self-Analysis
“The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.”
“The idea of a gamma casually rearranging the contents of his skull made Chaz want to wrinkle his nose and mince back like a cat confronted with a maggot-riddled corpse. Judging from the expressions around the table, his revulsion wasn’t unique.”
Source: Shadow Unit 2
“The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death.”
“The idea of a government is to create an ordered, willing work force where there's no trouble. I think idlers are generally seen as potentially dangerous because they're asking questions.”
“The idea of a group of elders is that, in past civilizations, they have linked worlds; the other world was also present in this one. There is also the argument that elders have "experience." The problem is that experience teaches fear of change. Experience kills imagination. Experience makes people conservative. What we are facing tomorrow requires the force of imagination, not wisdom from yesterday.”
“The idea of a hell that involves some kind of eternal punishment at the hands of a just and holy God is so profoundly difficult for us to handle emotionally, that the only person who would have enough authority to convince us of the reality of such a place would be Jesus Himself.”
“The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you're talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.”
“The idea of a Japanese comedian was not only a rarity, it was non-existent.”
“The idea of a journeyman actor, people sort of say negatively - "Someone who never made it for real" - [but] I think a journeyman actor is the complete goal.”
“The idea of a judgment of history is secularism's vain, meaningless, hopeless, pathetic attempt to devise a substitute for what the great Abrahamic traditions of faith know is the final judgment of almighty God, who is not an impersonal force. History is not God. God is God. History is not our judge. God is our Judge.”
“The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.”
“The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.”
Source: The Giant's House
“The idea of a life plan, "I'm here now, where do I need to go to..." There's always "And then what?" And eventually the end of that "and then what?" is death. I've just learned that I can't have such a narrow focus as I did as a child, because there is no end point, and eventually you feel empty if you're not also nourishing other things: joy, love, relationships.”
“The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.”
“The idea of a method that contains firm, unchanging, and absolutely binding principles for conducting the business of science meets considerable difficulty when confronted with the results of historical research. We find, then, that there is not a single rule, however plausible, and however firmly grounded in epistemology, that is not violated at some time or another.”
Source: Against method: outline of an anarchistic theory of knowledge
“The idea of a natural right is to preserve life, not to kill it; and a constitutional right cannot supersede the natural right to life. The whole point of natural rights is that they cannot be superseded by the power of the state.”
Source: Ten Universal Principles: A Brief Philosophy of the Life Issues
“The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.”
Source: Peace Kills
“The idea of a perfect vacation is not working or not having to work and having no appointments.”
“The idea of a permanent U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, as opposed to an economic presence, is going to create a new wave of hostility toward the United States.”
“The idea of a person's being a thing ... constantly aspiring to be ... and never achieving it--here, surely, is death but death spread out over a whole lifetime; here, surely is life, but life that death congeals before abolishing.”
Source: War and the Iliad
“The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously.”
“The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naïve.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“The idea of a personal God who protects us, loves us, and then punishes us by not allowing us into Heaven, but instead casts us into Hell for eternity if we haven’t met his standards of living, is so outlandish that it can only be taught to children who don’t know any better—which, by the way, is how it’s done. If a person hasn’t been introduced to this mythical idea about God in early childhood, he or she becomes increasingly hard to preach to.”
Source: More Likely to Quote Star Wars than the Bible: Generation X and Our Frustrating Search for Rational Spirituality
“The idea of a poem as a message in a bottle means that it's sent out towards some future reader and the reader who opens that bottle becomes the addressee of the literary text.”
“The idea of a post-religious society is a fantasy, ultimately. Human beings are, by nature, religious in various ways.”
“The idea of a radio station that is still programmed by human beings where the actual deejay gets to choose depending on his or her own taste and interests is the way radio used to be, but is now a revolutionary concept - and something we've been committed to all along.”
“The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.”
Source: In Defense of Politics
“The idea of a regular-looking guy who is the lead of something - whether it's a movie or a show - is something that I really hope I can grow towards.”
“The idea of a rock band to me is the ultimate in subversion, in leading the charge to revolution. My fave part of music is that it cuts to the chase and goes right to the id.”
“The idea of a “secular democratic Palestine” is as much a nonstarter today as it was three decades ago. It is a nonstarter primarily because the Palestinian Arabs, like the world’s other Muslim Arab communities, are deeply religious and have no respect for democratic values and no tradition of democratic governance.”
Source: One State, Two States: Resolving the Israel/Palestine Conflict
“The idea of a series of items, following one another docilely, forms the only possible reasonable approach to life if you have to live it with a home and a husband and children, none of whom would dream of following one another docilely.”
Source: Life Among the Savages
“The idea of a singular hero and a manifest destiny just makes us lazy. There is no destiny. There is choice, there is action, and any other narrative perpetuates a myth that someone else out there will fix our problems with a magic sword and a blessing from the gods.”
Source: Rosewater
“The idea of a small circle, of an exalted and loyal sect, except with a traitor infiltrated at its core, an informant who's not foreign to the sect, but constitutes an essential part of its structure---this was the true organizational form of any small society. One must act knowing that there's a traitor infiltrated in the ranks.”
Source: Blanco nocturno
“The idea of a socialism with a human face was something that I absolutely could support, because it was my idea from the very first.”
“The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.”