T Quotes
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“The lust for chaos wrenched reason from my mind. She wanted the power I’d called before. She wanted to burn it all; to slice open the veil and summon the fires of hell to dance for her. She burned for it, and so did I." ~ Muse”
Source: Devil May Care
“The lust for comfort kills the passions of the soul.”
Source: The Prophet
“The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.”
Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet
“The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.”
Source: Escape from Freedom
“The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.”
“The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.”
“The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.”
“The lust of dominion innovates so imperceptibly that we become complete despots before our wanton abuse of power is perceived; the tyranny first exercised in the nursery is exhibited in various shapes and degrees in every stage of our existence.”
“The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.”
“The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay
“The lust of money and the lack of love are the roots of all evil.”
“The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.”
Source: Picture Palace: A Novel
“The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.”
“The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.”
“The lust that drives others to enslave an empire, had become, in her limits, a passion for power over him. She had set out to break him, as if, unable to equal his value, she could surpass it by destroying it, as if the measure of his greatness would thus become the measure of hers, as if the vandal who smashed a statue were greater than the artist who had made it, as if the murderer who killed a child were greater than the mother who had given it birth.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.”
Source: Life and Writings
“The lustful glances thrown his way made me wish he wasn’t such a damned bowl of eye candy." - Cat re: Bones”
“The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.”
Source: Afterthoughts
“The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere; it is not this sort of license that distinguishes New York. It is rather, a lust of the total ego for recognition, even for eminence. More than elsewhere, everybody here wants to be somebody.”
“The Lutheran formula for a good life: commit as many as sins as possible then absolve yourself of all accountability by saying, “But I believe!” No wonder Lutheranism became so popular.”
Source: Evangelical Protestants: Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know
“THE LUXE IS . . . Pretty girls in pretty dresses, partying until dawn. Irresistible boys with mischievous smiles and dangerous intentions. White lies, dark secrets, and scandalous hookups. This is Manhattan in 1899.”
Source: The Luxe
“The Luxembourg financial centre is based on several pillars, we are characterised by the breadth of our product range, we are an active participant in the international credit business.”
“The luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.”
Source: The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctica, 1910-1913
“The luxuries of the few were becoming necessities of the many.”
Source: Lark Rise to Candleford
“The luxuries of tomorrow will only come with the continued explorations of today.”
“The luxurious ache of tired but not weary limbs.”
Source: The roadmender: and other writings
“The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.”
Source: TransAtlantic
“The luxury of being half-asleep, exploring the fringes of psychosis in safety.”
Source: Saturday
“The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment.”
“The luxury of one's own opinion.”
“The luxury of ostentation affords a much less substantial and solid gratification, than the luxury of comfort, if I may be allowed the expression.”
Source: A treatise on political economy, or, the production, distribution, and consumption of wealth
“The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue.”
“The luxury of television is that you get more than one shot at who you think the guy is that you're playing.”
“The luxury of today is the necessity of tomorrow. Every advance first comes into being as the luxury of a few rich people, only to become, after a time, an indispensable necessity taken for granted by everyone. Luxury consumption provides industry with the stimulus to discover and introduce new, things. It is one of the dynamic factors in our economy. To it we owe the progressive innovations by which the standard of living of all strata of the population has been gradually raised.”
Source: Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist
“The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it.”
“The Lybian army is capable of destroying America and breaking its nose.”
“The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.”
“The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne. Th' assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge, The dredful joye, alwey that slit so yerne; Al this mene I be love... For out of olde feldes, as men seith, Cometh al this new corn fro yeer to yere; And out of olde bokes, in good feith, Cometh al this newe science that men lere.”
“The lying was killing me! But I have high pain tolerance, especially self- inflicted pain. As I nearly emptied the bottle, I swore I saw Satan in the shadows of the darkened room. His voice dripped with sarcasm as he taunted me. “Congratulations on your diaconal ordination, Stephen.”
Source: A Saint and a Sinner: The Rise and Fall of a Beloved Catholic Priest
“The Lynburns built this town on their blood and bones." "That was their first mistake," Jared said. "They should've built a city on rock and roll.”
Source: Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)
“The lynx raised his hind leg and licked his nether regions. 'Tis what I think of the doctor's foolish prediction.”
Source: A Highlander's Passion
“The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The good gray conservative obliterating snow. Smoothing (in one white lacy euphemism after another) out all the black bleak angular unangelic nauseous ugliness of the blasted sterile world: dry buds, shrunken stone houses, dead vertical moving people all all all go under the great white beguiling wave. And come out transformed. Lose yourself in a numb dumb snow-daubed lattice of crystal and come out pure with the white virginal veneer you never had.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.”
“The lyric self is the self; the narrative self is not.”
“The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order.”
Source: Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison
“The lyrics and the rhythms of the stars and galaxies are in the 114 chakras in your body. You just need to attune them.”
Source: 72000 Nadis and 114 Chakras in Human Body for Healing and Meditation
“The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.”
“The lyrics are critical of dogmatic belief, too, as I see it in many lifestyles and philosophy religious or otherwise.”
“The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.”
“The lyrics are not an important thing to me. In fact, it can be a distraction. If I knew the language enough to know it was a horrible love song with stupid lyrics - like most of the popular songs are today in the English language that I hear - then it would be much more of a turnoff then if it would allow me to interpret it from the expressive capabilities of the vocalizing or of the sound itself, which allows me to create my own meaning for it, which elevates it into a higher piece of work for me.”