T Quotes
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“The instability and disorderliness we have in Nigeria today and Africa at large is totally due to the absence of this light.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“The instability in the region is not a result of Israel and the Palestinians. That was never the cause of this instability. Instead, the disfunctionality of many of these societies that have failed to modernize.”
“The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that there shall always be a twelve-month between the ingross-ing a bill & passing it: that it should then be offered to its passage without changing a word: and that if circum-stances should be thought to require a speedier passage, it should take two thirds of both houses instead of a bare majority.”
Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
“The instability of our tastes is the occasion of the irregularity of our lives.”
Source: Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld
“The instances of honesty that one comes across in this world are just as amazing as the instances of dishonesty. After forty-five years of mixing with one's kind, one ought to have acquired the habit of being able to know something about one's fellow beings. But one doesn't”
Source: The Good Soldier
“The instances that second marriage move
Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.”
Source: Hamlet
“The instand one gives up, that is when it all ends. Keep wishing. Wish strongly! Wish hard! Do not let it matter what kind of being you are! Do not let it matter what pressures others put on you! Continue to wish for that which your heart truly desires!!”
Source: Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE, Vol. 10
“The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.”
Source: Essays in Radical Empiricism
“The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.”
Source: Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution
“the instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms”
Source: Cosmopolis: A Novel
“The instant I reach Heaven, I'm going to speak to God very sharply.”
“The instant Isabella Cortez left the safety of the FBI building, goose bumps skittered across her skin and her senses went on high alert.”
Source: Disarming Detective
“The instant of birth is exquisite. Pain and joy are one at this moment. Ever after, the dim recollection is so sweet that we speak to our children with a gratitude they never understand.”
“The instant people specialize, its in their interest to dehumanize the people their specialized function operates upon.”
“the instant she made a point of telling me I was just as good as them, I saw that the whole question was open to debate and she was cheering me on because I was on the losing team”
Source: The Gap Year
“The instant she saw the letter she squinted her eyes and bent her lips in a tough tiny smile that advanced her age immeasurably. "Darling," she instructed me, "would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.”
Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's
“The instant that any government obtains a monetary printing press, it becomes a deeply dishonest government, empowered to rob people by stealth. A government with the power to print money knows no limits.”
“The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids.”
Source: Runaway Horses
“The instant that you forget about the consequences of your actions on other people, is the moment that you are about to lose your humanity. We all are related, no matter, what skin color, sexual orientation, gender or religion we hold. We all like rosary beads. Our existence is depended to the rest, if one bead falls apart, the rest of us will do too. Our humanity defines by how we accept, respect and support each other, otherwise we are simply a bunch of animals acting according to our instinct and killing one another to survive.”
“The instant the atmosphere is illuminated it will be filled with an infinite number of images which are produced by the various bodies and colours assembled in it. And the eye is the target, a lodestone, of these images.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)
“The instant the rear door slid open, a monstrous-looking furball sprang out and jumped up on the captain’s chest. On hind legs the animal stood near identical to the man’s height. One sniff at the air turned the creature’s attention to Sevenah. The beast went right after her, bounding to the table on lion-like paws. She screamed and scrambled to the top of her chair.
The animal had a body shaped something like an earthly buffalo—a bulky chest, heavily-hunched shoulders, a thick neck—but on a smaller scale. The frightened girl screamed again, climbing onto the tabletop just as the hairy creature perched its front paws on her empty chair. It stretched its neck to examine her.
With nose in the air, it made a loud, awful howl. “Hhhrrroowwww!”
Dark eyes as big as saucers stared up from a face that was nothing but a thick mass of fur. The same long hair draped over the creature’s entire body, patched in browns and ivory with shadows of black and maroon. From the top of its head protruded two tiny horns positioned behind ears that spiked rigid with every curious sound. An oversized mouth spanned the width of its face, baring a lion's share of sharp teeth. The creature howled once again and then scrambled after its target, following her right onto the table.”
Source: Eena, The Dawn and Rescue
“The instant the words are out of his mouth, he realizes his mistake. It’s like getting smacked in the back of the head with a snowball: a thud, followed by glass-sharp prickles of dread melting down your neck.”
Source: Wrecked
“The instant they say something you don't expect or already know, you should drop into detective mode.”
“The instant trivial as it is is all we have unless-unless things the imagination feeds upon, the scent of the rose, startle us anew.”
Source: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962
“The instant you know what the result will be, you are lost.”
“The instant you say All Quiet On The Western Front people remember that great 20th century classic book on war, a book about a school boy turned into a soldier overnight.”
“The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them non-existent.”
“The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)
“The instinct of acquisitiveness has more perverts, I believe, than the instinct of sex. At any rate, people seem to me odder about money than about even their amours.”
Source: point counter point
“The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.”
Source: Opticks, Or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light
“The instinct of interest is the universal instinct of mankind.”
“The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.”
“The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.”
Source: Writings, 1902-1910
“The instinct of revenge is the force which constitutes the essence of what we call psychology, history, metaphysics and morality. The spirit of revenge is the genealogical element of our thought, the transcendental principle of our way of thinking.”
Source: Nietzsche and Philosophy
“The instinct of self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at the bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them nonexistent, and a warning such as mine against cheap optimism was bound to prove particularly unwelcome at a moment when a sumptuously laid supper was awaiting for us in the next room.”
Source: Beware of Pity
“The instinct, quiet inner voice is the voice of the Holy Spirit.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“The instinct that drives compulsion is universal. It is an attempt to solve the problem of disconnection, alienation, tepid despair... the problem is ultimately 'being human' in an environment that is curiously ill-equipped to deal with the challenges that entails.”
Source: Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions
“The instinct that pulls us toward art is the impulse to evolve, to learn, to heighten and elevate our consciousness. The Ego hates this. Because the more awake we become, the less we need the Ego.”
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“The instinct to notice changes gives women a tremendous advantage over men.”
Source: Social Blunders: A Novel
“The instinct to produce great work doesn't require a fancy notebook.”
“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct acts sooner or later to eliminate the individual and thereby fails to show up in future generations. . . . A scientifically verifiable theory of morals must be rooted in the individual's instinct to survive--and nowhere else!--and must correctly describe the hierarchy of survival, note the motivations at each level, and resolve all conflicts.
We have such a theory now; we can solve any moral problem, on any level. Self-interest, love of family, duty to country, responsibility toward the human race . . . .
The basis of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.”
Source: Starship Troopers
“The instinct to survive will never change, neither will the human body's amazing ability to endure.”
“The instinct to tell our children that they are better than someone else’s children, based on nothing more than the color of their skin, is now a fossilized aberration that serves no useful purpose.”
Source: Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.
“The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving to make them the most fitting symbols of those delicate sentiments for which language itself seems almost too gross a medium.”
“The instinctive need to be the member of a closely knit group fighting for common ideals may grow so strong that it becomes inessential what these ideals are.”
Source: On aggression
“The instinctive posture of grief is a shuffling compromise between defiance and prostration; and pride feels the need of striking a worthier attitude in face of such a foe.”
Source: The Moving Finger
“The instinctual desire to separate and hold on to individual identities was the root of suffering”
Source: The Yoga of Max's Discontent
“The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights... have pressured retailers on campus and off to publicly disclose the factory names and addresses.”
“The Institute on Holistic Wealth was founded to pioneer a new field of education - one that teaches people how to thrive in every area of life, not just survive.”
“The institution known as "school" isn't just a facility for doing classwork. It's essentially a microcosm of society, all of humanity put together in a little diorama. Bully exists in schools because war and conflict exist in the world, and school castes reflect our stratified, hierarchical society. Living in a democracy, the tyranny of the majority naturally applies at school, too. The majority -- that is to say, the people with the most friends -- are superior.”
Source: やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている。2