T Quotes
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“The lucky ones are those who take every opportunity and turn every life experience onto truth seeking adventure. They end up full filled with deeper dimensions of pleasure and spirit satisfaction.
~Inspired by: Rania Rageh~”
“The lucky person passes for a genius.”
Source: The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides
“The lucky renew their energy through the activity in which they're engaged.”
“The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence.”
“The Luddite impulse is strong among Christians, and our first reaction is to rage against the machine.”
Source: Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem
“The Luddites knew exactly who owned the machinery they destroyed. They saw that automation is not a faceless phenomenon that we must submit to. And they were right: Automation is, quite often and quite simply, a matter of the executive classes locating new ways to enrich themselves.”
Source: Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
“The Luddites were also excellent trolls. They were, like the movement that was massacred at Peterloo a few years later, a prototypical class insurrection: but they carried it off with tremendous elan. The very name ‘Luddite’ deliberately evoked a fictitious leader, Ned Ludd, a product of legend and fantasy, fear of whom had British authorities and spies searching high and low for sign of him. His supporters decided that Mr Ludd lived in Sherwood Forest, home of the equally legendary Robin Hood, and signed their letters, ‘Ned Ludd’s Office, Sherwood Forest’. They cross-dressed and marched as ‘General Ludd’s wives’.”
Source: The Twittering Machine
“The ludicrous element in our feeling does not make them any less authentic.”
“The Ludicrous Pragmatic by Stewart Stafford
Love is anaesthesia,
Of the human condition,
Honeyed, layman's nostrum,
healing body and mind.
An auction won unbidden,
Self-created, human-sustained,
Unlike energy, destructible,
morphing into vicious hatred.
Convalescing in a void,
baby steps towards others,
a sentient river to the sea,
Until love's exhumed again.
© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
“The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.”
Source: The Republic
“The Ludolphian number is fixed in eternity— not a digit out of place, all characters in their proper order, an endless sentence written to the end of the world by the division of the circle’s diameter into its circumference.”
Source: Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science
“The luge is the only Olympic event where you could have people competing in it against their will, and it would look exactly the same. Take people off the street, 'Hey, hey, hey, what is this?! I don't wanna be in the luge!' Once you put that helmet on them, 'You're in the luge, buddy!' 'aaaAAAaaaAAAaaaAAA... aaaAAAAA...' World record. Didn't even wanna do it. I'd like to see that next Olympics, the Involuntary Luge.”
“the lugubrious grandeur that characterizes the places where blood flows”
“The Luidaeg sighed and put her arms around me, pulling me close. "Come here," she said. "I need to hold someone, and you need to be held. It's a fair trade. Just for a little while, and then we can go on being what we are." I thought about objecting, but dismissed the idea and nestled against her, enjoying the feeling of security given by knowing someone bigger and stronger than I was would stop anything from hurting me. That's all childhood is, after all: strong arms to hold back the dark, a story to keep the shadows dancing, and a candle to mark the long journey into day. A song to keep the flights of angels at bay. How many miles to Babylon? Sorry. I don't care.”
“The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.”
“The lumbermen...regarded forest devastation as normal and second growth as a delusion of fools....And as for sustained yield, no such idea had ever entered their heads. The few friends the forest had were spoken of, when they were spoken of at all, as impractical theorists, fanatics, or "denudatics," more or less touched in the head. What talk there was about forest protection was no more to the average American that the buzzing of a mosquito, and just about as irritating.”
“The luminaries in the horoscope are truly instructors, reflecting what we could one day become, portraying in symbolic form the best of what might be achieved.”
Source: The Luminaries: The Psychology of the Sun and Moon in the Horoscope, Vol 3 (Seminars in Psychological Astrology)
“The lunar flights give you a correct perception of our existence. You look back at Earth from the moon, and you can put your thumb up to the window and hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything youve ever known is behind your thumb, and that blue-and-white ball is orbiting a rather normal star, tucked away on the outer edge of a galaxy.”
“The lunar light which lures us back toward regressive fusion with mother and the safety of the uroboric container is also the light which teaches us how to relate, to care for ourselves and others, to belong, to feel compassion. (...) The solar light which leads us into anxiety, danger and loneliness is also the light which instructs us in our hidden divinity and—as Pico della Mirandola put it in the 15th century—our right to be proud co-creators of God's universe.”
Source: The Luminaries: The Psychology of the Sun and Moon in the Horoscope, Vol 3 (Seminars in Psychological Astrology)
“The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.”
“The lunatic fringe is more like a Spanish shawl, where the fringe makes up the entire garment.”
“The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars.”
Source: Foucault's Pendulum
“The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision.”
“The lunatic populism that preceded the Pearl Harbor bombing is astonishing in its permutations, its crisscrossings. Guys like [Catholic priest and controversial radio broadcaster] Father Coughlin and [racist and anti-Semitic agitator and founder of the Christian Nationalist Crusade] Gerald L.K. Smith started out as share-the-wealth socialists.”
“The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.”
Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience
“The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.”
Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience
“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.”
“The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum.”
“The lunatics have taken over the asylum and we can do anything we want.”
“The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.”
“The lungs cannot be completely deflated at first without considerable effort. With perseverance, however, the desired results can be accomplished and with increasing power, gradually and progressively develop the lungs to their maximum capacity.”
“The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like the trust in paper money: it makes no sense when you really think about it. New artistic images are so vulnerable to opinion that it wouldn't take much more than a whim for a small group of collectors to decide that a contemporary artist was not so wonderful anymore, was so last year.”
“The lure of deep water
and gathering night,
held in the mystery
I kneel to taste
at the earth altar.”
Source: Stranger to the Beautiful
“The lure of flying is the lure of beauty.”
Source: Last flight
“The lure of happiness and the fear of pain . . . are the two forces which have through untold millenniums kept what we usually call life from destruction by the ever encroaching outside forces of destruction.”
“The lure of heady profits of the late 1990's spawned abuses and excesses. With strict enforcement and higher ethical standards, we must usher in a new era of integrity in corporate America.”
“The lure of quantity is the most dangerous of all.”
Source: First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge
“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.”
Source: The Writings of John Burroughs: Leaf & tendrill
“The lure of the front is like an opiate.”
Source: Invasion Diary
“The lure of the marvelous blunts our critical faculties.”
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself.”
Source: Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
“The lure of the sea is some strange magic that makes men love what they fear. The solitude of the desert is more intimate than that of the sea. Death on the shifting barren sands seems less insupportable to the imagination than death out on the boundless ocean, in the awful, windy emptiness. Man's bones yearn for dust.”
“The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.”
“The lurking tragedy: The chances are that an accident will some day happen to you at a friend's dinner table ... As long as water and coffee and jelly exist, a certain percentage of each will necessarily be overturned upon a like number of snowy white tablecloths. Usually the tragedy is really no one's fault.”
Source: Etiquette Every Child Should Know
“The lush green of the fields became a rich gold that swayed sturdily under the wind and fell at last before the hands of the reapers.”
Source: The Mad Carews
“The lush greenness of the pastures infused Shiloh. Overhead, she saw a red-tailed hawk flying in higher and higher circles in the sky. There were bluebirds everywhere, many of them sitting on fence posts. When they took off, that flash of brilliant blue always made her gasp with delight; it was almost an unearthly gorgeous color.”
Source: Wind River Wrangler
“The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel - I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship.”
“The lust and the hunger? The thirst for power? And thus it is brewed, clearly, the heart's deadliest poison to integrity.”
“The lust for affluence in contemporary society has become psychotic; it has completely lost touch with reality.”
Source: Freedom of Simplicity: Revised Edition: Finding Harmony in a Complex World