T Quotes
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“The moral of the story couldn’t be clearer: you already know if your partner is fucking around behind your back, you just need to decide if you’re done being a doormat. You need to wake up one morning and decide that those rose-colored glasses are so last fucking season.”
Source: Drinking and Tweeting and Other Brandi Blunders
“The moral of the story is even though that seemed like the end of the world back then, right now I can look back on it and laugh. And if anyone is going through something similar right now just know it will get better.”
“The moral of the story is, faith does not always bring you happiness, wealth or a comfortable lifestyle filled with fun things to do. What faith does bring us is hope while living out God's attitudes of: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control, all for the glory of God and the establishment of his kingdom.”
Source: How To Understand And Live Your Faith
“The moral of the story is if some stupid idiot is trying to push you around, don't be afraid to show some attitude, stand your ground, and rock them like a hurricane.”
“The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine.”
“The moral of the story is that seeking truth, rather than fear of pain or the desire for happiness, is the correct orientation toward inner work, since seeking happiness makes you its prisoner just as surely as does pain.”
Source: The Enneagram of Passions and Virtues: Finding the Way Home
“The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.”
“The moral of the story is: We thrive when we have a positive goal to move toward, not just a negative state we’re trying to move away from.”
Source: Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
“The moral of the story is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around.”
“The moral of the story of the Pilgrims is that if you work hard all your life and behave yourself every minute and take no time out for fun you will break practically even, if you can borrow enough money to pay your taxes.”
Source: The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody
“The moral of the story: you can't ruin something that you don't like, especially if it doesn't have much value to begin with.”
Source: The Nesting Place: It Doesn't Have to Be Perfect to Be Beautiful
“The moral of the story: perceptions are everything. During each moment you are in contact with a customer, you are the organization.”
“The moral of the tale is this: whoever allows himself to be whipped,
deserves to be whipped.”
Source: Venus in Furs
“The moral of this story is not everything that's slick is non-stick, and not everything non-stick is slick.”
“The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it... some stories just don't have a happy ending.”
Source: Leaving Time
“The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.”
“The moral peril to humanity of thoughtlessly accepting these conveniences [of materialism] (with their inherent disadvantages) as constituting a philosophy of life is now becoming apparent. For the implications of this disruptive materialism... are that human beings are nothing but bodies, animals, machines.”
“The moral person contemplates evil, the evil person commits it. And a person without a sense of humor can't distinguish between the two.... I know a lot of people who live in Marin County and contemplate spirituality and never get out of the hot tub.”
“The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.”
Source: A Susan Sontag reader
“The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws.”
Source: History of the United States: to which is prefixed a brief historical account of our [English] ancestors, from the dispersion at Babel, to their migration to America, and of the conquest of South America, by the Spaniards
“The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws . . . The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and his Apostles . . . This is genuine Christianity and to this we owe our free constitutions of government.”
“The moral principles and values are very important for people, but mental slavery is the silent poison for an independent society and its culture.”
“The moral problem of abortion is of a pre religious nature because the genetic code is written in a person at the moment of conception. A human being is there. I separate the topic of abortion from any specifically religious notions. It is a scientific problem. Not to allow the further development of a being which already has all the genetic code of a human being is not ethical. The right to life is the first among human rights. To abort a child is to kill someone who cannot defend himself.”
“The moral qualities are more apt to grow when a human being is useful, and they increase in the woman who helps to support the family rather than in the one who gives herself to idleness and fashionable frivolities.”
Source: History of Woman Suffrage ...: 1883-1900
“The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.”
Source: MARK TWAIN: 12 Novels, 195 Short Stories, Autobiography, 10 Travel Books, 160+ Essays & Speeches (Illustrated): Including Letters & Biographies – The Complete Works of Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, The Innocents Abroad, Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Life on the Mississippi…
“The moral sense in mortals is the duty
We have to pay on mortal sense of beauty.”
Source: Lolita
“The moral sense is a gadget, like stereo vision or intuitions about number. It is an assembly of neural circuits cobbled together from older parts of the primate brain and shaped by natural selection to do a job.
That does not mean that morality is a figment of our imagination, any more than the evolution of depth perception means that 3-D space is a figment of our imagination. [...] But it does mean that the moral sense is laden with quirks and prone to systematic error-moral illusions, as it were just like our other faculties.”
Source: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
“The moral sense is a natural faculty in us like the sense of smell or of touch.”
Source: Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings
“The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.”
Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
“The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin. Reports and opinions while Secretary of State
“The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise.”
Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson
“The moral sentiments that constrain economic life also promote it.”
“The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and artistic spheres.”
“The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.”
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects
“The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.”
“The moral task of man is a process of spiritualization. All creatures are go-betweens, and we are placed in time that by diligence in spiritual business we may grow liker and nearer to God. The aim of man is beyond the temporal - in the serene region of the everlasting Present.”
“The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ... the elderly.”
“The moral thing I should wish to say to them is very simple; I should say: "Love is wise - Hatred is foolish." In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other.”
“The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.”
Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace
“The moral truth here is obvious: anyone who feels that the interests of a blastocyst just might supersede the interests of a child with a spinal cord injury has had his moral sense blinded by religious metaphysics.”
Source: Letter to a Christian Nation
“The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.”
Source: The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography
“The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football.”
“The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.”
Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics
“The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions, fills it with the most sublime ideas, and warms the soul with more than sensual pleasures.”
“The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.”
Source: Vanity Fair: (A Modern Library E-Book)
“The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.”
“The moral, then, is that familiar categories of behavior - marriage customs, food taboos, folk superstitions, and so on - certainly do vary across cultures and have to be learned, but the deeper mechanisms of mental computation that generate them may be universal and innate.”
Source: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
“The moral: Don't settle for anything less than the biggest dream for your future Fight to make the dream come true.”
Source: Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part
“The morale and the camaraderie that we had for one another earlier in the year is starting to come under duress because of all the losses. Some of the guys are feeling the pressure now from the last year when they were not successful.”