T Quotes
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“The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all those who have failed to get what they want and feel that we do not deserve to get what we want either. We forget about all the obstacles we overcame, all the suffering we endured, all the things we had to give up in order to get this far.”
Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition
“The mere possibility provides no warrant for denying what I clearly grasp.”
“The mere power of saving what is already in our hands must be of easy acquisition to every mind; and as the example of Lord Bacon may show that the highest intellect cannot safely neglect it, a thousand instances every day prove that the humblest may practise it with success.”
“The mere presence of PASSION within you is all you need to fulfill your DREAMS.”
Source: Excuses Begone!: How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits
“The mere presence of the shepherd puts the sheep at peace. When he is near, they don't panic, and they don't fight. They can lay down in peaceful slumber. It's the same with you and me. Nothing reduces stress like the presence of the Shepherd. When you are living in close connection to Jesus, you can sleep, you can relax, you can rest.”
Source: The Shepherd: Reflections on Psalm 23
“The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.”
“The mere pronunciation of the word luxurious feels lush, luxuriant.”
“The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom, no doubt, as many vain fears as idle hopes, but lends much oftener to the illusions it calls up a gay flattering hue than one which inspires terror.”
“The mere sight of coffin sends people quivering and shivering with nausea and phobia”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“The mere sight of the food weakened our resolve. Eventually, we abandoned any pretence of self-control.”
“The mere size of the brain has been proved to be no measure of superiority. The woman has greater moral courage than the man; she has also special gifts which enable her to govern in moments of danger and crisis. If necessary she can become a warrior.”
“The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.”
Source: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: The structure of everyday life
“The mere state of being without funds is a neutral fact constitutionally an irrelevance, like race, creed, or color.”
“The mere stuffing of the mind with a knowledge of facts is not education. The mind must not only possess a knowledge of the truth, but the soul must revere it, cherish it, love it as a priceless gem; and this human life must be guided and shaped by it in order to fulfill its destiny.”
Source: Gospel Doctrine
“The mere suggestion of fame and fortune casts a glamour all its own. It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else's fiction into fact in order to support their own fictions of themselves.”
Source: Rebel Angels
“The mere summoning of a witness and compelling him to testify against his will, about his beliefs, expressions or associations, is a measure of governmental interference. And when those forced revelations concern maters that are unorthodox, unpopular, or even hateful to the general public, the reactions in the life of the witness may be disastrous.”
Source: The Public Papers of Chief Justice Earl Warren
“The mere telling of how a need was met is often like telling of a need, which is asking crookedly instead of straight out. But this much I will say--with every fresh need has come a fresh supply.”
“The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.”
“The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.”
“The mere thought of having to enter into contact with someone else makes me nervous. A simple invitation to have dinner with a friend produces an anguish in me that’s hard to define. The idea of any social obligation whatsoever – attending a funeral, dealing with someone about an office matter, going to the station to wait for someone I know or don’t know – the very idea disturbs my thoughts for an entire day, and sometimes I even start worrying the night before, so that I sleep badly. When it takes place, the dreaded encounter is utterly insignificant, justifying none of my anxiety, but the next time is no different: I never learn to learn.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“The mere thought of losing her had been a drawn-out torture, she could see that on their faces, and she could only imagine what it would have done to them if she hadn't kept fighting - then or now. She was so glad she had, and so guilty that she almost hadn't.”
Source: The Project
“The mere title of lawyer is sufficient to deprive a man of the public confidence. ... The most innocent and irreproachable life cannot guard a lawyer against the hatred of his fellow citizens.”
“The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.”
Source: De Quincey's Writings: Miscellaneous essays. 1851
“The mere word freedom is the only one that still excites me. I deem it capable of indefinitely sustaining the old human fanaticism. It doubtless satisfies my only legitimate aspiration. Among all the many misfortunes to which we are heir, it is only fair to admit that we are allowed the greatest degree of freedom of thought. It is up to us not to misuse it. To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery-even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness-is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself.”
“The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.”
Source: Aims of Education
“The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans, was a shepherd and not a goatherd. They have quite different ways of looking at the world, and the whole of history might have been different. For sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.”
“The merest trifles sometimes rivet the attention in the deepest misery; the intellect has so little to do with grief.”
Source: Phantastes
“The merging of two lives, the threshold of possibility: it's an energy unlike anything else.”
Source: The Best Kind of Magic
“The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that,
if you let it alone,
it will let you alone.”
Source: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1852-1855
“The merit in action lies in finishing it to the end.”
“The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities.”
“The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.”
Source: The Three Musketeers: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“The merit of Locke's 'Essay Concerning Human Understanding' is its adequacy, and not its consistency. . . He should have widened the title of his book into 'An Essay Concerning Experience.”
Source: Process and reality: an essay in cosmology
“The merit of Mahomet is that he founded a religion without an inferno.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“The merit of Marx is that he suddenly produces a qualitative change in the history of social thought. He interprets history, understands its dynamic, predicts the future, but in addition to predicting it (which would satisfy his scientific obligation), he expresses a revolutionary concept: the world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny.”
“The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.”
Source: Works
“The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.”
Source: Works
“The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No human inquiry can be a science unless it pursues its path through mathematical exposition and demonstration.”
“The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.”
Source: A serious call to a devout and holy life. with an intr. essay by D. Young
“The merit of poetry, in its wildest forms, still consists in its truth-truth conveyed to the understanding, not directly by the words, but circuitously by means of imaginative associations, which serve as its conductors.”
“The merit of the cross does not consist in its heaviness, but in the manner in which we carry it. I would even say that it is sometimes more virtuous to carry a cross of straw than a heavy cross because we have to be more attentive for fear of losing it.”
“The merit was universally attributed to the visit of Lord Oxford, whose timely reprimand had, like the shot of a cannon dispersing foul mists, awakened the Duke from his black and bilious melancholy.”
Source: Anne of Geierstein Volume 2: Volume 2
“The merits of deeper debt cancellation, when accompanied by conditions of accountability and transparency on the part of recipient countries, have been shown to generate much needed resources for health, education and poverty reduction for some of the world's poorest people.”
“The merits of rival causes are never absolute. Even in the Second World War, the Western allied struggle against fascism was compromised by its reliance upon the tyranny of Stalin to pay most of the blood price for destroying the tyranny of Hitler. Only simpletons of the political Right and Left dare to suggest that in Vietnam either side possessed a monopoly of virtue.”
Source: Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
“The mermaid is an archetypal image that represents a woman who is at ease in the great waters of life, the waters of emotion and sexuality. She shows us how to embrace our instinctive sexuality and sensuality so that we can affirm the essence of our feminine nature, the wisdom of our bodies, and the playfulness of our spirits. She symbolizes our connection with our deepest instinctive feelings, our wild and untamed animal nature that exists below the surface of outward personalities. She is able to respond to her mysterious sexual impulses without abandoning her more human, conscious side. What happened to the girls who dreamed of being mermaids?”
Source: Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationship with Food Through Myths, Metaphors, and Storytelling
“The Merry Chrismouse by Stewart Stafford
What a time for the merry Chrismouse,
Making toys in his workshop/house,
Everyone contributes, even his spouse,
With Christmas cheer, no one will douse.
A sprig of holly for a present tree,
Blizzard snow is grated cheese,
The kindly rodent set to please,
When he comes on Christmas Eve.
Nuts and seeds on their button table,
Playing games and telling fables,
Discarded tinsel on the wall of gable,
In midwinter's icy spell unstable.
A time for amnesia that felines exist,
Kindness and joy at their fingertips,
Baby mice excitedly make lists,
To have many gifts when they insist.
© Stewart Stafford, 2021. All rights reserved.”
“The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded.”
Source: Spenser's Sonnets
“The merry recognition of a new soul emerging and gracing our lives is a profound experience.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“The merry-go-round was running, yes, but... It was running backward. The small calliope inside the carousel machinery rattle-snapped its nervous-stallion shivering drums, clashed its harvest-moon cymbals, toothed its castanets, and throatily choked and sobbed its reeds, whistles, and baroque flutes.”
Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel
“The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in which they were placed.”