T Quotes
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“The ideals that bind us together are as old as our nation, but so are the forces that pull us apart.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1997
“The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.”
“The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.”
Source: Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb
“The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed to the empty. The trite objects of human efforts — possessions, outward success, luxury—have always seemed to me contemptible.”
“The ideas always have to be in service of the story. And that's what Scott and the writers did - they weren't trying to beat you over the head with an idea; they had a story they wanted to tell, and they had ideas, so they used the story as a way of fleshing out the ideas. It all depends on where they want to go with it.”
“The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.”
“The ideas and principles of democracy should not be limited to politics, but must pervade all areas of social life.”
“The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.”
“The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.”
“The ideas behind the words are simple ones that work in everyday life; find what we most want to do; do it, no matter what; and in the doing be guaranteed a very difficult and a very happy lifetime.”
“The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.”
Source: The affluent society
“The ideas can come from anywhere; the energy just comes from loving what I do.”
“The ideas choose me, not the other way around.”
Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes
“The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.”
“The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.”
Source: David Lynch: Interviews
“The ideas dictate everything.”
Source: David Lynch: Interviews
“The ideas embodied in the New Deal Legislation were a compilation of those which had come to maturity under Herbert Hoover’s aegis. We all of us owed much to Hoover”
“The ideas for my books come about in two ways. There can be an intellectual idea that seems to be the reason for writing the book. [...] The other motive is unconscious. There is something deeply psychological and emotional that draws me to the material in the first place.”
“The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them.”
“The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.”
Source: Psychology: The Briefer Course
“The ideas get under your skin. I am honored and deeply excited by the thought that the next generation of writers, or whomever, are influenced by these books.”
“The ideas I got from books formed the interior architecture of my mind. As I read, unbeknownst to me, my brain was busily constructing a framework from the ideas in the pages, a framework I would continue building on and refining for years to come.”
Source: I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
“The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book.”
“The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?”
“The ideas, ideals, ideologies that we hold are learned, taught or sometimes indoctrinated. Some are temporary ....some linger indefinitely. Some are found along our path; adopted through desire, desperation, nativity, through hurt, epiphany or realised under a tree. But do not hate the person ....instead shift through loving action and transform our deeds.”
“The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.”
“The ideas of [ Le Corbusier ] that actually found their way into practice were deeply destructive - for instance, the tower-in-a-park, which mutated into the vertical slums of the late 20th century.”
“The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit.”
Source: Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose
“The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.”
“The ideas of ancient Greece helped inspire America's founding fathers as they reached for democracy. Our revolutionary ideas helped inspire Greeks as they sought their own freedom.”
“The ideas of beawolf ain’t gonna go nowhere.” <—My first complete sentence to an MLA style paper about Beowulf. My English teachers in high school changed and edited my trajectory with my writing and with . . . my life. Writing is a process like life. We’re all in a process of becoming. Remember that. Make mistakes and keep your voice. And, take the guidance along the way.”
“The ideas of control and improvements are often confused with one another. This is because quality control and quality improvement are inseparable.”
“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
Source: Love Among the Chickens
“The ideas of directing attention outward, trying to imagine other people complexly, trying not to see myself as the center of the universe - these concepts have become important to me, and I hope they're at work in my life on a minute-by-minute basis.”
“The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.”
“The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance.”
“The ideas of individual supremacy and the right of free expression, when carried to excess, have not worked. They have made it difficult to keep America society cohesive. Asia can see it is not working.. In America itself, there is widespread crime and violence, old people feel forgotten, families are falling apart. And the media attacks the integrity and character of your leaders with impunity, drags down all those in authority and blames everyone but itself.”
“The ideas of non-duality and mindfulness that I address in my works are things I try to practice in my daily life. Both in and outside of the studio, it's about trying to be fully present, to accept things as they are, to frame your experience in terms of a continually unfolding moment. I feel like that's directly reflected in my formal approach: utilizing a literal use of materials, emphasizing the more ephemeral aspects of the artistic process, and so on.”
“The ideas of people in general are not raised higher than the roofs of the houses. All their interests extend over the earth's surface in a layer of that thickness. The meeting-house steeple reaches out of their sphere.”
Source: Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of
“The Ideas of primary Qualities of Bodies, are Resemblances of them, and their Patterns do really exist in the Bodies themselves; but the Ideas, produced in us by these Secondary Qualities, have no resemblance of them at all. There is nothing like our Ideas, existing in the Bodies themselves. They are in Bodies, we denominate from them, only a Power to produce those Sensations in us: And what is Sweet, Blue or Warm in Idea, is but the certain Bulk, Figure, and Motion of the insensible parts in the Bodies themselves, which we call so.”
Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
“The ideas of right and wrong change with the experience of the race, and this change is wrought by the gradual ascertaining of consequences - of results.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“The ideas of Social Justice scholarship often look good on paper. That's almost always the way with bad theories.”
Source: Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
“The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest and most profound conceptions. It seems to me rather a lazy makeshift to mumble over the familiar.”
“The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.”
Source: Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel
“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.”
Source: The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document
“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.”
Source: The German Ideology
“The ideas of the sun rises from the East and sets
on West will stop, including the idea of day and night, will cease to exist except inside our imaginations.”
Source: Resistance To Intolerance
“The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are left.”
“The ideas of theologians are refuted by their adversaries, the ideas of scientists are refuted by their followers.”
Source: The Bridge of Criticism; Dialogues Among Lucian, Erasmus, and Voltaire on the Enlightenment: --on History and Hope, Imagination and Reason, Constraint and Freedom--and on Its Meaning for Our Time
“The ideas of things intellectually known pass into the substance of the intellect much more than do foods into the substance of the body.”