T Quotes
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“The life of a plural wife, she'd found, was a life lived under constant comparison, a life spent wondering. Sitting across from her sister-wives at Sunday dinner, the platters and serving dishes floating past like hovercraft, the questions were almost inescapable; Who of us is the most happy? Which of us is his one true love? Who does he desire the most?”
Source: The Lonely Polygamist: A Novel
“The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception and memory combined with the sensitivity to what is perceived and remembered.”
Source: The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion
“The life of a professional golfer is precarious at best. Win, and they carry you to the clubhouse on their shoulders. Lose, and you pay the caddies in the dark.”
Source: Thirty Years of Championship Golf: The Life and Times of Gene Sarazen
“The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.”
Source: The Papers of Andrew Johnson: September 1865-January 1866
“The life of a rock & roll band will last as long as you can look down into the audience and see yourself.”
“The life of a sannyasin should be a life of no expectations. And then every moment is such a bliss, such a benediction, because whatsoever God gives is so much. Then you always feel grateful. But your desires are so much that whatsoever God gives always looks so little; and you feel frustrated, and you feel complaints, and you cannot feel grateful. And without gratitude, there is no possibility of prayer arising in your heart. Gratitude is prayer.”
“The life of a savage is beset by glowering terrors: from birth to death he lives in an animated world; where the sun and the stars, sticks, stones, and rivers are obsessed with his fate. He is busy all the time in a ritual designed to propitiate the abounding jealousies of nature. For his world is magical and capricious, the simplest thing is occult.”
Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy
“The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.”
Source: The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith
“The life of a soldier seemed like a climb up a stairway without any stairs, only the wooden supporting spine of preagreed ritual. Step away from that spine and anything might happen -- to you, by you.”
Source: Sherman's March
“The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout.”
Source: Rasselas
“The life of a star is surrounded by the qualities of a Galaxy;I am that Galaxy.”
“The life of a thinking man will probably be divided into two parts -- the first in which he desires to exterminate modern thinkers, and the second in which he desires to watch them exterminating each other. ... Suppose, for instance, there is an old story and a new skeptic who is skeptical of the story. We have only to wait a little while for a yet newer skeptic who is skeptical of the skeptic. He will probably find the old notion actually a help in his new notion. This process is an abstract truth applying to anything, apart from agreement or disagreement.”
“The life of a valuable woman can never be in vain.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“The life of a visual communicator should be one of systematic and exciting intellectual chaos.”
Source: The Functional Art: An introduction to information graphics and visualization
“THE LIFE OF A WARRIOR IS A STRATEGY IN SELF-DISCIPLINE. EVERY ACTION, THOUGHT AND FEELING HAS TO BE CAREFULLY ASSESSED AS TO ITS VALUE. WARRIORS CANNOT WASTE THEIR TIME AND PERSONAL POWER ON ISSUES WHICH ARE OF NO CONSEQUENCE TO THEIR DESTINY.”
Source: Cry of the Eagle: The Toltec Teachings Volume 2
“The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end.”
Source: Wild Animals I Have Known
“The life of a winner is the result of an unswerving commitment to a never-ending process of self-completion .”
“The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.”
Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with his last corrections, additions and improvements
“The life of a woman is worth half of that of a man [in Iran]. If a terrorist attacks me and my brother on the street and we are both injured the same, the compensation he receives is twice as much as the compensation that I would receive.”
“The life of a woman may be divided into three epochs; in the first she dreams of love, in the second she makes love in the third she regrets it.”
“The life of a working model in L.A. kind of sucks.”
“The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman. The writer has to force himself to work He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him...A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it.”
“The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.”
“The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a creative divergent devil.”
“The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.”
“The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can't find it anywhere else, try looking here.”
Source: The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People
“The life of action is nobler than the life of thought.”
“The life of action need not be renounced. If you meditate for an hour or two every day you can then carry on with your duties. If you meditate in the right manner then the current of mind induced will continue to flow even in the midst of your work.”
“The life of all the living comes from the Lord.”
“The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro , like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.”
“The life of an actor can be very enviable.”
“The life of an actor is a bit easier to take if you admit you're bonkers.”
Source: Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part
“The life of an actor is very random. It can be exhilarating but terrifying - you do wonder day to day where the next job will come from. Some of my friends are very talented people, but you see them out of work - which can be tough. If you wanted that kind of security, though, I guess you wouldn't be an actor in the first place.”
“The life of an adoptee is like an ancient voyager who searches for the unknown. The stars guided their destiny. They had their sights on the wonders that lay ahead of them. An adoptee travels in the opposite direction.”
Source: Adopted Like Me- Chosen to Search for a Birthmother
“The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.”
Source: George Orwell's Animal Farm
“The life of an ant and the life of my child should be accorded equal respect.”
“The life of an artist is a continuous journey, the path long and never ending.”
“The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination.”
“The life of an artist is not all glamorous. It's a lot of work. A lot of people think that it's very easy.”
“The life of an aviator seemed to me ideal. It involved skill. It brought adventure. It made use of the latest developments of science. Mechanical engineers were fettered to factories and drafting boards while pilots have the freedom of wind with the expanse of sky. There were times in an aeroplane when it seemed I had escaped mortality to look down on earth like a God.”
“The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity.”
“The life of an Indian is like the wings of the air. That is why you notice the hawk knows how to get his prey. The Indian is like that. The hawk swoops down on its prey, so does the Indian. In his lament he is like an animal. For instance, the coyote is sly, so is the Indian. The eagle is the same. That is why the Indian is always feathered up, he is a relative to the wings of the air.”
Source: The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's teachings given to John G. Neihardt
“The life of an individual is a constant struggle, and not merely a metaphorical one against want or boredom, but also an actual struggle against other people. He discovers adversaries everywhere, lives in continual conflict and dies with sword in hand.”
Source: On the Suffering of the World
“The life of an "out-of-control" addict often resembles an amusement ride.”
“The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.”
“The life of an unenlightened person is filled with suffering.”
“The life of an unhappy rich person is poorer than a happy beggar.”
“The life of any animal is no less precious to the animal, than your life is precious to you.”
Source: Topsy-Turvy World - Vegan Anarchy
“The life of any musician really doesn't fall into a normal schedule at all. Every week there are different rehearsals, different days and nights of performances, so we don't have a particular pattern that we can follow. For a conductor, it is a little bit worse because we have to allow for traveling.”
“The life of any one can by no means be changed after death; an evil life can in no wise be converted into a good life, or an infernal into an angelic life: because every spirit, from head to foot, is of the character of his love, and therefore, of his life; and to convert this life into its opposite, would be to destroy the spirit utterly.”
Source: A Compendium of the Theological Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg