T Quotes
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“The Man who never in his Mind & Thoughts travel'd to Heaven Is No Artist.”
“The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors.”
“The man who never makes a mistake must get tired of doing nothing.”
“The man who never reads lives only one.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five
“The man who never tells an unpalatable truth 'at the wrong time' (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.”
Source: American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier
“The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange and dangerous game.”
“The man who never weakens when things are against him will grow stronger and stronger until all things will delight to be for him. He will finally have all the strength he may desire or need. Be always strong and you will always be stronger.Picture in your mind your own best idea of what a strong, well-developed individuality would necessarily be, and then think of yourself as becoming more and more like that picture. In this connection it is well to remember that we gradually grow into the likeness of that which we think of the most. Therefore, if you have a very clear idea of a highly developed individuality, and think a great deal of that individuality with a strong, positive desire to develop such an individuality, you will gradually and surely move towards that lofty ideal.”
“The man who now confronted Gashford, was a squat, thickset personage, with a low, retreating forehead, a coarse shock head of hair, and eyes so small and near together, that his broken nose alone seemed to prevent their meeting and fusing into one of the usual size.”
Source: A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens
“The man who obeys is nearly always better than the man who commands.”
“The man who occupies the first place in an undemocratic state can give himself any award that takes his fancy, but it does not increase his authority - rather, the contrary. This was something Brezhnev and Chernenko did not understand. In all, Stalin had about as many decorations as, say, Mekhlis, and four or five times fewer than Brezhnev”
“The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.”
Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German
“The man who offers an insult writes it in sand, but for the man who receives it, it's chiseled in bronze.”
“The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst.”
“The man who only ever exposes himself to good messages issued from shallow spirits is more likely to adopt that shallowness of spirit than the goodness of the message.”
Source: Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity
“The man who only loves beautiful things is dreaming, whereas the man who knows absolute beauty is wide awake.”
Source: History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition
“The man who pardons easily courts injury.”
“The man who partakes in the breaking of the bread dares to build his house on the very core of love. He becomes, as it were, Godlike, but regardless of the strength he derives from it, his free will remains. We are always free to disown this immense grace, to abuse it. The Greatest Love may be betrayed. Fed on the Living Bread, we nevertheless conceal a part of ourselves which longs for swine's food.”
“The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.”
Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows
“The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. Look her in the eyes before you kill her. See her tears, hear her last words. You owe her that much at least." - Eddard Stark”
“The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.”
“The man who persists in knocking will succeed in entering.”
“The man who pets a lion may tame it, but the man who coddles the body makes it ravenous.”
Source: John Climacus (CWS)
“The man who prays ceases to be a fool”
Source: Our Ultimate Refuge: Job and the Problem of Suffering
“The man who prays grows, and the muscles of the soul swell from this whipcord to iron bands.”
“The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.”
Source: Mortality
“The man who preaches the cross must be a crucified man.”
Source: Evangelism
“The man who preaches truth and applies it to the lives of his hearers will feel the nails and the thorns. He will lead a hard life, but a glorious one. May God raise up many such prophets. The church needs them badly.”
“The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.”
Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)
“The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.”
Source: Complete writings: with variant readings
“The man who procrastinates is always struggling with misfortunes.”
“The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin.”
“The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.”
Source: Ayn Rand Reader
“The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.”
Source: The Collected Works
“The man who pursues happiness wisely will aim at the possession of a number of subsidiary interests in addition to those central ones upon which his life is built.”
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“The man who pursues moral ends with unmoral means is involved in a
contradiction of motives, and nullifies the object at which he aims,
since he denies it by his actions.”
“The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, ‘Limit yourself’; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian.”
“The man who puts into the marriage only half
of what he owns will get that out.”
Source: Reagan: A Life In Letters
“The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.”
“The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.”
“The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged.”
Source: A Preface to Politics
“The man who reacts to the universe with a cry of impotent anguish is acceptable as an artist only if he can persuade us that he has sanely considered the other possible reactions and found them inadequate.”
Source: Tynan on theatre
“The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one's mind with other men's thoughts is to have no thoughts of one's own.”
“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
“The man who reads only for improvement is beyond the hope of much improvement before he begins.”
“The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.”
Source: The Rosicrucian Cosmo-conception: Or, Mystic Christianity ; an Elementary Treatise Upon Man's Past Evolution, Present Constitution and Future Development
“The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic -- the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done.”
“The man who receives gifts from God, receives an appointment from God; namely, that of donor; and the wisdom to discharge the functions connected with this appointment will surely not be withheld, if it be ingenuously asked.”
“The man who receives kindness get inspired to be kind to others.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is the man responsible for all the blood that is now spilled in the world. Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life. Whether you live or die is an absolute. Whether you have a piece of bread or not, is an absolute. Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's stomach, is an absolute.
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice. But the man in the middle is the knave who blanks out the truth in order to pretend that no choice or values exist, who is willing to sit out the course of any battle, willing to cash in on the blood of the innocent or to crawl on his belly to the guilty, who dispenses justice by condemning both the robber and the robbed to jail, who solves conflicts by ordering the thinker and the fool to meet each other halfway. In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromise is the transmitting rubber tube.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged