T Quotes
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“The line must follow some direction of policy, whether rooted in logic or experience. Lines should not be drawn simply for the sake of drawing lines.”
“The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.”
“The line of communication between God and man is always open unless broken by man himself. We are, as it were, always in the presence of our Father in Heaven. Through His Holy Spirit, God is with us always and everywhere.”
“The line of demarcation between democracy and monocracy is often thin, but rigid and stronger than unbreakable steel.”
“The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in.”
Source: Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing
“The line of gray along the horizon is brighter now, and with the coming light I feel a certainty: that there is, despite our wild imaginings, only one life. The ghostly others, no matter how real they seem, no matter how badly we need them, are phantoms. The one life we're left with is sufficient to fill and refill our imperfect hearts with joy, and then to shatter them. And it never, ever lets up.”
“The line of his cheek bunched in a smile. My heart made a little lurch toward him. But if I let it move, it would spill its cargo into the sea of pain, so I held it still again, tight and cold.”
Source: Listening at the Gate
“The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion.”
Source: Addresses on International Subjects
“The line of least resistance is to most people the lifeline.”
“The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.”
“The line of lovelessness is not drawn between speaking and doing, but between speaking and doing in the truth, and speaking and doing in emptiness. Truth turns word-love into deed-love.”
“The line of the unmarried grew shorter every Chinese New Year.”
Source: House of Koi
“The line of traffic advancing towards the rising sun looked like a procession of the returning dead. Every one of them, solitaries in clean shirts, smoking, checking mirrors to see if their reflections were still there, wore dark glasses.”
“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, races or creeds, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart.”
“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart - and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained.”
“The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently enjoyed triumphs. Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money. After a heady experience of that kind, normally sensible people drift into behavior akin to that of Cinderella at the ball.”
Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha
“The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining ... to the tortured prisoner seems to run pretty straight. We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.”
“The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.”
Source: Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order
“The line that I am urging as today's conventional wisdom is not a denial of consciousness. It is often called, with more reason, arepudiation of mind. It is indeed a repudiation of mind as a second substance, over and above body. It can be described less harshly as an identification of mind with some of the faculties, states, and activities of the body. Mental states and events are a special subclass of the states and events of the human or animal body.”
“The line "too much love will kill you" is not true. It's not too much love that kills, but the lack of its reciprocity.”
“The line was originally, ‘Captain Phillips, get a load of me: fancy-free on the seven seas,’ but I ad-libbed.”
“The line we draw between animals that are socially acceptable and those we find repugnant can be awfully arbitrary.”
“The Line welcomed rain and sun. Seeds germinated in mass graves, between skulls and femurs and broken pick handles, tendrils rose up alongside dog spikes and clavicles, thrust around teak sleepers and tibias, scapulas, vertebrae, fibulas and femurs.”
Source: The Narrow Road to the Deep North
“The line you ignore at your "peak", you will experience as golden words at your worst.”
“The line you tow is a sign that all will be fine!”
Source: Dream big!: See your bigger picture!
“The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.”
“The line-by-line, sequential, continuous form of the printed page slowly began to lose its resonance as a metaphor of how knowledge was to be acquired and how the world was to be understood. "Knowing" the facts took on a new meaning, for it did not imply that one understood implications, background, or connections. Telegraphic discourse permitted no time for historical perspectives and gave no priority to the qualitative. To the telegraph, intelligence meant knowing of lots of things, not knowing about them.”
Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift, The road is forlorn all day, Where a myriad snowy quartz stones lift, And the hoof-prints vanish away. The roadside flowers, too wet for the bee, Expend their bloom in vain. Come over the hills and far with me, And be my love in the rain.”
Source: Selected Early Poems of Robert Frost
“The linear 'Take - Make - Dispose' system, which depletes natural resources and generates waste, is deeply flawed and can be productively replaced by a restorative model in which waste does not exist as such but is only food for the next cycle”
“The linear design of FFXIII had a great advantage in providing players with enough time to become familiarized with the new battle system and the unique world. But on the other hand, it led to players feeling like the majority of the game was a tutorial.”
“The linear order of time then is only true during wakeful states, only during the OUT cycle of consciousness. But again, wakefulness is not a constant linear thing, it is constantly fluctuating even when most of us think that we are quite awake and alert. The only way for humanity to maintain any linear order within physical time at all, is to use external physical devices (like clocks) or to focus the attention and record changes (like in calendars) in the First World. In this way, we may keep track of the physical cycles like the shift of the sun, the moon, the stars, and the seasons. Indeed, the written word, and the keeping of historical records, are ways for the outer self, the conscious ego, to maintain a semblance of linear and stable order within time.”
Source: The Way of the Projectionist: Alchemy’s Secret Formula to Altered States and Breaking the Prison of the Flesh
“The linear, mechanistic view of the world which pervades orthodox economics is simply not capable of capturing the richness and complexity of the rhythms and fluctuations of developed economies.”
“The linear-programming was - and is - perhaps the single most important real-life problem.”
“The linebacker has to make multiple, multiple decisions on every play. Not only what his assignment is and what the play is, but all the way along the line, different angles, how to take on blocks, how to tackle, the leverage to play with, the angle to run to and so forth, the technique. So many different things happen in a split second during the course of the play, just like it is for a quarterback. The more of those things that you can do right, slow down, get the most important things, not get distracted by all the stuff that's happening, but just really zero in on a target.”
“The lines between neuroscience, philosophy, poetry, theology and sociology do not exist in my works. Divisions exist only in the world of amateurs - the deeper you go in mind, the more undivided you become, until you finally realize, it's all one.”
Source: Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect
“The lines between sectors may be vanishing; when will the line between human and machine also fade?”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“The lines, high on her cheeks, were the dams she used to keep the tears in her eyes. Unspoken, unanswerable questions parted her full, red lips, whenever she was alone, or absorbed in her work.”
Source: Shantaram
“The lines in your hand, that foretell your future, is drawn by you.”
“The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.”
“The lines of communication between the conscious and the unconscious zones of the human psyche have all been cut, and we have been split in two.”
Source: The Hero with a Thousand Faces
“The lines of fate on my hand, once so bright, faded into echo.
The memory of his face in my dreams, once so luminous passed into shadow.”
“The lines of her face, turned up to the sky, would have broken your heart.”
Source: The Secret Place
“The lines of Pearl Art Glass are clean, certainly not cluttered.”
“The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.”
“The lines of the protagonist of my book:
You will write me off. You will not give me my due. You will classify me a failure. You will say that I was a fool. You will call me mediocre. You will call me a man who had no talents. And all these are mere labels. Nothing will matter to me. But what will matter is that the children and grandchildren of the coming generations will read my words and get inspired to keep up their struggle. The struggle to chase your dreams. The struggle to never give up on your dreams! And I may be hailed as a hero by the next generation. That is all that will matter!”
“The lines of the protagonist of my book:
“You will write me off. You will not give me my due. You will classify me a failure. You will say that I was a fool. You will call me mediocre. You will call me a man who had no talents. And all these are mere labels. Nothing will matter to me. But what will matter is that the future generations will read my words and get inspired to keep up their struggle. The struggle to chase your dreams. The struggle to never give up on your dreams! And I may be hailed as a hero by the next generation. That is all that will matter!”
“The lines we draw that make us who we are are potent by virtue of being non-negotiable, and even, at some level, indefensible.”
Source: Up in the Air: A Novel
“The linesman flagged initially because he thought I was an Oldham player. Fair enough, I did have a replica shirt on - but I also have a big furry head.”
“The Lingerer by Stewart Stafford
Another lonely start,
O shadow companion,
My twin bereft of heart,
On grief’s stormy galleon.
Each step disbelief,
Strangers pass in proximity,
In motion an artist’s relief,
Abstract as infinity.
The quickening pulse of streets,
Tears on cheeks reflective,
This scarred heart missing beats,
Damaged and defective.
Home now just where memory sits,
Perspective greatly shifted,
This shapeless form no longer fits,
The body it was gifted.
And if, my love, you see me now,
I beg you, look away,
Love’s blush departed with a bow,
Then withered and decayed.
© Stewart Stafford, 2021. All rights reserved.”
“The lingerie department is the only one that she can reach in her wheelchair. Nevertheless, she is fired the next day because of complaints that a woman who is so obviously not sexually attractive selling alluring nightgowns makes customers uncomfortable. Daunted by her dismissal, she seeks consolation in the arms of the young manager and soon finds herself pregnant. Upon learning
of this news, he leaves her for a
nondisabled woman with a fuller
bustline and better homemaking skills in his inaccessible kitchen.”