T Quotes
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“The member of a primitive clan might express his identity in the formula "I am we"; he cannot yet conceive of himself as an "individual," existing apart from his group.”
Source: Sane Society Ils 252
“The member of Congress who forgets his constituents' needs usually serves only one term.”
“The member of Congress who is not making a career of politics looks quite differently at the world.”
“The members of a body-politic call it "the state" when it is passive, "the sovereign" when it is active, and a "power" when they compare it with others of its kind. Collectively they use the title "people," and they refer to one another individually as "citizens" when speaking of their participation in the authority of the sovereign, and as "subjects" when speaking of their subordination to the laws of the state.”
“The members of humanity are really and truly souls. We're all part of one great oversoul.”
“The members of my group are the ones who know me the best. They've watched me grow the most, so only my hyungs can see the things that other people can't. It may not just be 1 thing, but 10 other things.”
“The members of our secret service have apparently spent so much time under the bed looking for communists that they haven't had the time to look in the bed.”
“The members of the Atlantean Mystery School were the earliest human explorers of the frontiers of inner space. Through their meditative journeys and explorations, they discovered many secret astral passageways that led to an infinite variety of other worlds and dimensions.”
Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure
“The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming.”
“The members of the department became like the Athenians who, according to the Apostle Paul, "spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing." Anyone who thought he had a bright idea rushed out to try it out on a colleague. Groups of two or more could be seen every day in offices, before blackboards or even in corridors, arguing vehemently about these 'brain storms.' It is doubtful whether any paper ever emerged for publication that had not run the gauntlet of such criticism. The whole department thus became far greater than the sum of its individual members.”
“The members of the functional and socially mobilized under class must, in some very real way, be seen as the architects of their own fate. If not, they could be, however marginally, on the conscience of the comfortable. There could be a disturbing feeling, however fleeting, of unease, even guilt.”
Source: The Culture of Contentment
“The members of the legislative department . . . are numerous. They are distributed and dwell among the people at large. Their connections of blood, of friendship, and of acquaintance embrace a great proportion of the most influential part of the society . . . they are more immediately the confidential guardians of their rights and liberties.”
Source: The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution
“The members of the Mystery school, during the time of Atlantis, had psychically seen the subsequent ages of darkness.”
“The membership of our party is necessarily a small portion of the Chinese people. Only if that small portion reflects the opinions of the majority of the people's, and only if it works for their interests can the relationship between the people and the party be healthy.”
“The membership survey was a great moment for inner-party democracy. We can't go back, nor do we want to. Our members are pouring their hearts into this campaign. But people don't join the Social Democrats party just to put up posters. They join because they want to help steer the party.”
“The membrane between where we are right now and a very different reality, is so much thinner than we like to think. Things can go back, and things can go to the side, and things can go to places where we might not even have been on guard that they might go. I think that if there is a great gift that this [Donald Trump] election gave us, is this sort of sense of vigilance, the sense that we have to remain on guard. We have to support our free press.”
“The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.”
Source: The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition
“The memo's chief function ... is as a track-coverer, so that you can turn on someone six months later and snarl: 'Well, you should have known about it, I sent you a memo.”
“The memoir as a somewhat indistinct form is absolutely true. So many of the memoirs I've read, and the ones I have gravitated toward most, somehow upend what I expect from memoir and the project seems greater than just the exposition of a life.”
“The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature."”
“The memoir was a very personal book. I wrote it as a personal journey and search about who my father was and how my family had come together and come apart - sorting all that out, you know, issues of personal identity.”
“The memoirist, like the poet and the novelist, must engage the world, because engagement makes experience, experience makes wisdom, and finally it's the wisdom-or rather the movement toward it-that counts.”
Source: The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
“The memoirs I love are all very intense. If you're going to do a memoir and protect yourself, what the hell's the point? Just do fiction.”
“The memoirs of call girls are much in demand these days - a millennial craze.”
Source: Confessions of a High-Priced Call Girl
“The memorable days are few. Most days are a blur of chores and errands and activities that don’t really add up to anything significant. But there is value in savoring the simple joys that each day brings. There is power in being able to choose not just your home and its contents but how you see your life and its context.”
Source: Rewriting My Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery
“The Memorial Dedication was a momentous occasion”
“The memories are scattered along the pathway, and the unremembered times come back to life. There I see the enigma of reminiscence, how can it pull a heart into the light, yet break it in pieces, how agony and ecstasy blend with one another.....”
“The memories come back
like the rainbow after the rain
with all the hues and shades of color
and an unending train
the bougainvillea tree nearby my parents house where I grew up
did not ask me my name
she embraced me as she had done
in my schooldays in every way the same
the little squirrel just now
tip-toed down the lane
looking at the spectacle
unfolding in the rain
after all these years
I have come back to my parents home
the clouds have different shapes
but the air smells the same ...”
“The memories flower in the sky as the stars appear as peacemakers in the night...”
“The memories hurt, but the ones before Richard—the good ones—hurt even more because they gave her the hope of what had been.”
Source: You Were Always There
“The memories made along the way someday arise to defeat the time and become timeless......”
“The memories of beautiful moments are magical.”
“The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light. The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.”
Source: The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings
“The memories of his friends reminded him of something important. It is through the help of others that we are able to progress.”
Source: マッシュル-MASHLE- 9
“The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep.”
“The memories of our glories fade, and rot away into half-arsed anecdotes, thin and unconvincing as some other bastard's lies. The failures, the disappointments, the regrets, they stay raw as the moments they happened.”
Source: Best Served Cold
“The memories of our past can open new doors to understanding today.”
“The memories of sensei I carry with me are more cruel than sensei himself.”
Source: ひるなかの流星 9 [Hirunaka no Ryuusei 9]
“The memories of some
pass by, pale shadows
with laughter-- songs I remember.
-- Letter-Back Chairs (a poem)”
Source: organic
“The memories of the day played in his mind, but this time, his thoughts were of his daughter and the way she'd clung to Katie, her little face buried in Katie's neck. The last time he'd seen that, he reflected, was when Carly had been alive.”
“The memories of you are dead in my mind, but alive in my heart.”
“The memories seem like snapshots from someone else’s life.”
Source: Requiem (Delirium Trilogy 3)
“The memories seem to come in layers. For example, the first memory might be of incest; then they remember robes and candles; next they realize that their father or mother or both were present when they were being abused. Another layer will be the memory of seeing other people hurt and even killed. Then they remember having seen babies killed. Another layer is realizing that they participated in the sacrifices. One of the most painful memories may be that they even sacrificed their own baby. With each layer of memory comes another set of problems with which they must deal.
— Glenn L. Pace; "Ritualistic Child Abuse," memo”
“The memories stayed with him for so long, and stayed vivid. And it didn't matter to me that he'd already repeated that before. I could hear it forever.”
“The memories that most affect your life are the ones that stick with you.”
Source: Taking chances
“The memories we have for those who left are our ultimate consolation.”
Source: Lemon Twist
“The memories were strange clingy things like burrs knotted in his hair. He could choose to let them be, he only felt them when he pulled them, and he could pretend they weren't there like positioning his head on a pillow so as not to notice the lumps against his scalp. But amidst the commotion of the parade—a strange cocoon—he recalled things sharply. He had a part in Dam leaving the palace, and ever since that point, his best friend was headed down a dangerous path.”
Source: The Seventh Pleiade
“The memories which come to us through music are not accompanied by any regrets; for a moment music gives us back the pleasures it retraces, and we feel them again rather than recollect them.”
“The memories which peaceful country scenes call up, are not of this world, nor of its thoughts and hopes. Their gentle influence may teach us how to weave fresh garlands for the graves of those we loved: may purify our thoughts, and bear down before it old enmity and hatred; but beneath all this, there lingers, in the least reflective mind, a vague and half-formed consciousness of having held such feelings long before, in some remote and distant time, which calls up solemn thoughts of distant times to come, and bends down pride and worldliness beneath it.”
Source: Oliver Twist
“The memories you have are just recordings of things past, not chains to bind you.”