T Quotes
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“The longest path leads to the destiny destination.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“The longest piece of literature I've read lately was a tattoo on this biker I picked up last night. It said, If you're this close, you've gotta suck it.”
Source: Another Enchanted April
“The longest relationship in my life has been with ‘Change’.”
“The longest road trip I've ever been on is from Minnesota to Los Angeles.”
“The longest roads often lead to the greatest victories.”
Source: Tales of Habib the Hoaxter: Sometimes Hoaxed, Always Good for a Laugh
“The longest sentence you can form with two words is: I do.”
“the longest silence ever. Like, find a rope and tie it around your neck and hang your fucking self silence.”
Source: The Mistake
“The longest suicide note in history.”
“The longest time that man may live,
The lapse of generations of his race,
The continent entire of time itself,
Bears not proportion to Eternity;
Huge as a fraction of a grain of dew
Co-measured with the broad, unbounded ocean!
There is the time of man--his proper time,
Looking at which this life is but a gust,
A puff of breath, that's scarcely felt ere gone!”
Source: The Maid of Mariendorpt: A Play, in Five Acts
“The longest travel-path leads to the sacred-destination.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“The longest tyranny that ever sway'd
Was that wherein our ancestors betray'd
Their free-born reason to the Stagirite [Aristotle],
And made his torch their universal light.
So truth, while only one suppli'd the state,
Grew scarce, and dear, and yet sophisticate.”
Source: The Poems of John Dryden, Ed., with an Introduction and Textual Notes
“The longest walk of your life does not happen when you walk great distances lonely but it happens when you walk very shortly with the boring people!”
“The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.”
Source: Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Plato, or the philosopher
“The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.”
Source: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
“The longest way round is the shortest way home”
Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
“The longest way round is the shortest way home. (Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons)”
“The longest word in the world is "a word from our sponsor."”
Source: You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson
“The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.”
“The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper.”
“The longest-serving Republican Senator, Alaska's Ted Stevens, found guilty just a few hours ago on all charges in his corruption trial. Do you know this story? He failed to report he had some work done on his house. Yeah, here's the bad part. You know who did the work? Joe the plumber. Unlicensed.”
“The longevity of every relationship is decided by the willingness to forgive”
“The longing comes through Yahweh or Allah, Christ or Krishna, no more and no less than it comes through the books and the music; they are equally the divine, or none of them are the divine, and the distinction makes no difference; they are all it.”
Source: Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
“The longing for a destiny is no nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. All too often forced to share our bed with those who cannot fathom our soul, can we not be forgiven if we believe ourselves fated to stumble one day upon the man or woman of our dreams.”
Source: On Love
“The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers.”
“The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.”
Source: On Love: A Novel
“The longing for happiness and freedom from suffering
expresses the great natural potential of mind.”
“The longing for initiation is universal and for modern youth, it is a desperate need. When nothing is offered in the way of spiritual initiation to prove one's entry into the world of men and women, initiation happens instead in the road or the street, in cars at high speed, with drugs, with dangerous sex, with weapons. However troubling, this behavior is rooted in a fundamental truth; a need to grow.”
“The longing for light is the longing for consciousness.”
“The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order.”
Source: The farewell party
“The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.”
“The longing for paradise is paradise itself.”
“The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.”
“The longing for rain has become almost an obsession. We remember the gentle all-night rains that used to make a grateful music on the shingles close above our heads... But we waken to another day of wind and dust and hopes deferred, of attempts to use to the utmost every small resource, to care for the stock and poultry as well as we can with our scanty supplies, to keep our balance and to trust that upon some happier day our wage may even yet come in.”
Source: Letters from the Dust Bowl
“The longing for solitude is a deeply romantic passion. But then writing is a romantic thing to do, predicated on desire, urgency, and an ideal of human connection, hardly available in what we wistfully call real life.”
Source: The Art of the Wasted Day
“The longing for something beyond yourself, beyond anything you have ever known or dreamed of?”
Source: Simply Magic
“The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or sweetness.”
“The longing in him was a force of its own.”
Source: Hero's Return
“The longing of every heart is to be loved.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the gap with charms.”
“The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.”
“The longing that almost makes you cry... when the earth gets draped in a gold robe..and there you sense the peak of silence, the world seems so tender and selfless...It arouses a desire to conquer the sleeping animal in the human body, to overcome the ruthlessness and the brutal beast, to reshape it into a tender being again...”
“The longing that almost makes you cry when the earth gets draped in a gold robe and there you sense the peak of silence, the world seems so tender and selfless. It arouses a desire to conquer the sleeping animal in the human body to overcome the ruthlessness and the brutal beast, to reshape it into tenderness again.”
“The longing to be holy makes us weep, and we trust tears since they are made of water and come from our body, a double blessing.”
“The longing to behold this pre-established harmony [of phenomena and theoretical principles] is the source of the inexhaustible patience and perseverance with which Planck has devoted himself ... The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.”
“The longing to belong and to be prized by one's peers permeates childhood and adolescence and can be compelling and anxiety provoking at any time in life, as the common dread of cocktail parties in adulthood attests. This need -- as old and as potent as erotic desire -- is a fundamental part of being human; according to object relations theory, we become ourselves by being recognized and loved by others.”
Source: The Golden Condom: And Other Essays on Love Lost and Found
“The longing to love all yet simultaneously craving the solitude; the desiring everything yet simultaneously, desiring nothing, is a powerful paradox that makes human nature an enigmatic beauty.”
“The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing.”
“The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received.”
“The Longs event was the first LPGA event that I played in 8 years ago”
“The longstanding neglect of the fascinating, pioneering group of women writers of the Romantic period is now a thing of the past . . . [but] our merely recognizing their existence does not mean that our work is done.”
Source: The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period