T Quotes
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“The longer and the deeper the thought, the shorter the sentence of wisdom will be.”
“The longer hair lengths for men seen with the rise of marijuana use in the United States in the 1960s were a textbook case of an influx of apparently feminine values accompanying the use of a boundary-dissolving plant. The hysterical reaction to such a minor adjustment in folkways revealed the insecurity and sense of danger felt by the male ego in the presence of any factor that might tend to restore the importance of partnership in human affairs.”
“The longer he remained on this earth, the more he was sure that mankind had no clue about God or heaven. Not when they used him as an excuse to kill, to punish, to discriminate.”
Source: From Sand and Ash
“The longer human beings exist, it seems, the less likely we are to choose to be brave.”
Source: The Great Perhaps
“The longer I am in this work, the more I realize that intellectual struggles are merely the hazardous waste of life, blocking the heart from truth. The task of apologetics is to carefully remove that hazardous material and keep it from igniting into a destructive fire. Once that is done, the way to the heart is always through the way of the Cross, God’s love for each and every one of us.”
“The longer I do my job the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.”
Source: Paper Towns
“The longer I go on, the more I am aware of the power of finance.”
“The longer I have been an atheist, the more amazed I am that I ever believed Christian notions.”
Source: Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist
“The longer I have been on the raw food path, the more I tend to come full circle and return to where my original ideas and inspiration of wanting to eat raw food come from - and that’s natural hygiene and its principles.”
Source: RAW FOOD FOR CHILDREN: Protect Your Child from Cancer, Hyperactivity, Autism, Diabetes, Allergies, Behavioral Problems, Obesity, ADHD & More
“The longer I lie, the worse it gets. That's the truth about lies - when they linger, they slowly trick you into believing they're the truth.”
Source: The Upside of Falling Down
“The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.”
Source: The Booker T. Washington Reader
“The longer I live and the more I read, the more certain I become that the real poems about spring aren't written on paper. They are written in the back pasture and the near meadow, and they are issued in a new revised edition every April.”
Source: Hill Country Harvest
“The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your 'civilization'.”
Source: Black-belt Diamonds: Gems from the Speeches, Addresses, and Talks to Students of Booker T. Washington ...
“The longer I live here, the better satisfied I am in having pitched my earthly camp-fire, gypsylike, on the edge of a town, keeping it on one side, and the green fields, lanes, and woods on the other. Each, in turn, is to me as a magnet to the needle. At times the needle of my nature points towards the country. On that side everything is poetry. I wander over field and forest, and through me runs a glad current of feeling that is like a clear brook across the meadows of May. At others the needle veers round, and I go to town--to the massed haunts of the highest animal and cannibal.”
Source: A Kentucky Cardinal, Aftermath, and Other Selected Works
“The longer I live the greater is my respect for manure in all its forms.”
Source: Elizabeth and Her German Garden
“The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.”
“The longer I live the more conscious I am of human frailty, and of the constant, overwhelming need we all have of God’s grace.”
Source: The life and letters of Elizabeth Prentiss
“The longer I live the more convinced I become that God governs in the affairs of men. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine we no longer need His assistance.”
Source: The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Containing the Autobiography, with Notes and a Continuation
“The longer I live the more I am convinced that neither age nor circumstance needs to deprive us of energy and vitality. We are at last awakening to the close relationship between religion and health. . . .our physical condition is determined very largely by our emotional condition, and our emotional life is profoundly regulated by our thought life.”
“The longer I live, the more I am inclined to the belief that this earth is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.”
“The longer I live, the more I am inclined to the belief this earth is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.”
Source: Memnon, or Human Wisdom
“The longer I live the more I believe that the greatest enemy of a victorious Christian life is passivity.”
“The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we are salvaging from the splitting-open of our lives. -from "Transcendental Etude”
“The longer I live the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company . . . a church . . . a home.”
Source: The Life@work Book
“The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.”
“The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.”
“The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)
“The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities. I exact more from myself and less from others.”
Source: The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley ...
“The longer I live, the less chance I'll ever recover from what life keeps doing to me.”
“The longer I live, the less future there is to worry about.”
“The longer I live, the less I trust ideas, the more I trust emotions.”
“The longer I live, the longer I realize that batting is more a mental matter than it is physical. The ability to grasp the bat, swing at the proper time, take a proper stance; all these are elemental. Batting is rather a study in psychology, a sizing up of a pitcher and catcher and observing little details that are of immense importance. It's like the study of crime, the work of a detective as he picks up clues.”
“The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.”
“The longer I live, the more convinced I am that Christianity is one long shout of joy!”
“The longer I live, the more deeply am I convinced that that which makes the difference between one person and another-between the weak and the powerful, the great and the insignificant-is energy-invisible determination.”
“The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.”
“The longer I live, the more I am certified that men, in all that relates to their own health, have not common sense! whether it be their pride, or their impatience, or their obstinancy, or their ingrained spirit of contradiction, that stupefies and misleads them, the result is always a certain amount of idiocy, or distraction in their dealings with their own bodies! ... either by their wild impatience of bodily suffering, and the exaggerated moan they make over it, or else by their reckless defiance of it, and neglect of every dictate of prudence!”
“The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages; from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith
“The longer I live, the more I find I don't know”
“The longer I live, the more I have come to value the gift of eloquence. Every American youth, if he desires for any purpose to get influence over his countrymen in an honorable way, will seek to become a good public speaker.”
“The longer I live, the more I have the feeling like God looks down, like when you've just bitten into a vanilla ice cream cone, you just get the feeling God's going, 'Yes! He enjoys it, and I made his taste buds and I made vanilla and he's putting it together and he's experiencing what I created him to experience.”
“The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.”
“The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know...Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly [with your God]. This is enough.”
“The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!”
“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.”
Source: The Life@work Book
“The longer I live, the more I'm convinced the world is just one big high school, with the cool kids always targeting the uncool.”
Source: Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You
“The longer I live, the more it grieves me to see man, who occupies his supreme place for the very purpose of imposing his will upon nature, and freeing himself and his from an outrageous necessity--to see him taken up with some false notion, and doing just the opposite of what he wants to do; and then, because the whole bent of his mind is spoilt, bungling miserably over everything.”
Source: Maxims and Reflections
“The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon
the beauty and the wonder of the world.”
Source: The writings of John Burroughs
“the longer I live, the more necessary it seems to me to endure, to copy the whole dictation of existence to the end, for it might be that only the last sentence contains that small, perhaps inconspicuous word through which all laboriously learned and not understood orients itself toward glorious sense.”
“The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.”