T Quotes
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“That a joint stock company should be able to carry on successfully any branch of foreign trade, when private adventurers can come into any sort of open and fair competition with them, seems contrary to all experience.”
Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations
“That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.”
“That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.”
“That a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.”
Source: Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays
“That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.”
“That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.”
“That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.”
Source: Leviathan, Parts I and II
“That a man can change himself…and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought.”(Christian D. Larson)”
Source: The Secret
“That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.”
Source: The World As I See It
“That a man is a king only due to the circumstances of birth should be considered just as terrible as when a man is untouchable only due to the accident of his birth.”
Source: Ratno Dholi - The best stories of Dhumketu
“That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.”
Source: Confucius: The Analects
“That a man might do something very audacious and desperate for money, power or fame, was to the general apprehension quite possible; but, in face of plainly-written law, in face of constitutional guarantees protecting each state against domestic violence, in face of a nation of forty million of people, that nineteen men could invade a great State to liberate a despised and hated race, was to the average intellect and conscience, too monstrous for belief.”
Source: John Brown
“That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.”
Source: Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism
“That a modern battleship of 48,000 tons would have to defend itself against wood and fabric biplanes with its main armament was a salutary reminder of the changing face of sea warfare.”
Source: Great naval battles of the 20th century
“That a mouse of scandal whisks its foolish tail across the church's floor is not sufficient cause for clamorous leaping out of its windows.”
“That a new humanity will be brought forth from this Christ consciousness in each person.”
“That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only.”
Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle
“That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.”
Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson
“That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise the person who has neither the ability nor the good will for revenge whether it be a man or a woman.”
Source: The Gay Science
“That a Poet describes nothing so happily, as what he has seen; nor talks masterly, but in his native Language, and proper Idiom; nor mimicks truly other Manners, than those whose Originals he has practised and known.”
Source: An Enquiry into the Life and Writings of Homer
“That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.”
Source: Pascal's Pensees
“That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given muscle develop inhibition and excitation concurrently is not surprising.”
“That a system evolved in a given environment only proves it’s best at replicating itself in that environment. […] That doesn’t make it a system that we should want to live in, nor, more importantly, is it any indication of its ability to survive over the longer term. Environments change, sometimes rapidly, sometimes because of the system’s own ill-effects. Out-competing other systems rather than living harmoniously with them can eventually be self-destructive. Viruses are a good case and point. [...] The question is not whether share-trading and capitalism have out-competed other systems up until now, but whether their effects are consistent with their hosts’ survival.”
Source: Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present
“That a text is untranslatable is too grandiose a
statement to utter. But in the matter of translating the Qur’an, a translator – though competent and discriminating as he might be – shall find it a persuasively challenging undertaking if not an impossible one. These
difficulties stem from many factors including semantic, linguistic, syntactic and lexical ones.”
Source: The Magnificent Quran
“That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like man not more unnatural than most of the virtues.”
“That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through centuries in fact, can survive natural catastrophe, neglect, and even mistreatment, has always filled me with wonder. Sometimes in museums, looking at a humble piece of pottery from ancient Persia or Pompeii, or a finely wrought page from a medieval illuminated manuscript toiled over by a nameless monk, or a primitive tool with a carved handle, I am moved to tears. The unknown life of the maker is evanescent in its brevity, but the work of his or her hands and heart remains.”
“That a universe exists within every human being. That to the blood cells and organs in your body, you are god. That this universe is only one individual among infinite others.”
Source: United States of Japan
“That a viewer does not see what the artist intended does not make the composition a failure... In reality all artists speak first to themselves and then to an audience.”
“That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.”
“That a woman—of age, well-read, and well-educated—could not be expected to comprehend the stirrings of the heart when men grew passionate for a cause, or grew restless for change, was a grave affront indeed. That her beloved father, who carefully nurtured her every curiosity, and her brother, who lovingly shared every lesson learned, would believe her to be insensible or incapable of aspiring to better the world tore at her heart. She strove to maintain some sort of equanimity but the nature of the events was far too implausible to allow.
“It is a bitter pill to swallow,” she murmured at length. “It seems the men in my family deemed it necessary to withhold their dearest worldly concerns from me, after all we had been to one another.”
Source: Celestial Persuasion
“That a woman’s place is in the home and that a woman’s work is never done are both correct. Where then is a man’s place, in the swamp? If in the same home, then they are in a 50-50 partnership.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“That a work of creation struggles and insistently demands to be brought into being is a fact that no genuine artist would think of denying.”
“That Abbie is such a freaking brat who doesn’t know anything! My William is wasting away in that castle and that stuck up, self-righteous cow doesn’t even care because now she’s just all ooooo, Peter I love you! Well I don’t love Peter and he’s a jerk. Let’s go bust down the door!” She sat back and calmly pushed her hair from her face, “Now would you get me a soda?”
Source: Lipstick & Bolsheviks
“That ability to pop back up is true of anyone who succeeds in their field.”
“That ability to press immediately, within five or six seconds to get the ball, is important”
“That ability to see the right choice, but not until several hours have passed since making the wrong one? That's what makes a person a dumbass, folks.”
Source: John Dies at the End
“That abominable and sensual act called reading the newspaper, thanks to which all the misfortunes and cataclysms in the universe over the last twenty-four hours, the battles which cost the lives of fifty-thousand men, the murders, the strikes, the bankruptcies, the fires, the poisonings, the suicides, the divorces, the cruel emotions of statesmen and actors, are transformed for us, who don't even care, into a morning treat, blending in wonderfully, in a particularly exciting and tonic way, with the recommended ingestion of a few sips of cafe au lait.”
“That absolute pure honesty of the horse, man that's just the greatest thing there is”
“That ache for Dav’s presence struck her heart again, and she felt it in her whole body, a frantic pulse that nearly over- whelmed her with feeling. It scared her, the way it crashed like a wave, no words to give it shape. If only she could describe it, maybe the dark void would shrink and shift and become something she could hold in her palm. When it was in her fingers, she would study it, and then tuck it away in her pocket, or perhaps toss it out into the Plains and let it disap- pear among the grass. But no – she could not throw it away, not when it was all she had left of her mentor. She needed some piece of him to tell her what to do, to remind her who she was.”
Source: A Vision in Smoke
“That acknowledgment of weakness which we make in imploring to be relieved from hunger and from temptation is surely wisely put in our daily prayer. Think of it, you who are rich, and take heed how you turn a beggar away.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)
“That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.”
“That action is not warrantable which either fears to ask the divine blessing on its performance, or having succeeded, does not come with thanksgiving to God for its success.”
“That actually is one of my huge challenges right now because I write best at night, no question. I can focus. You know you're not getting any phone calls, I can shut everything down, and I'm just more creative at night.”
“That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.”
“That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.”
Source: Yanni in Words
“That admirable woman thought so humbly of her own potboiling that to hear it stigmatised by a critic of Stoker’s mental powers as rubbishy stuff didn’t depress her in the least. If she could have made it more rubbishy, and so sold more thousands of copies than she did, she would willingly have done so, but the artist in her, on whose existence George Knox and Adrian always insisted, kept her standard up, firmly if spasmodically.”
Source: The Demon in the House
“That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green.”
Source: The Poetry of Architecture - Cottage, Villa, Etc - To Which Is Added Suggestions on Works of Art
“That adolescent me, the girl who was, as I remember her, insecure, unsure, dreaming, yearning, longing, that girl who was hard on herself, who was cowardly and brave, who was confused and determined-that girl who was me-still exists. I call on her when I write. I am the me of today-the person who has become a woman, a mother, a writer. Yet I am the me of all those other days as well. I believe in the reality of that past.”
“That advice applies to you, too. Asking for and accepting help would be a good idea for you." Tarts & Turnovers”
Source: Tarts & Turnovers
“That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.”