T Quotes
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“The more I teach, the more I realize that I know nothing.”
“The more I think about it, the more I am convinced that a cover is a sort of translation, that is, an interpretation of my words in another language- a visual one. It represents the text, but it isn't part of it. It can't be too literal. It has to have its own take on the book.
Like a translation, a cover can be faithful to the book, or it can be misleading.”
Source: The Clothing of Books: An Essay
“The more I think about it, the more I believe there has to be a subtle yet satisfying method of revenge.”
Source: Identical
“The more I think about it, the more I realize that schools are just factories for turning out robots, that's all. They get you when your small and vulnerable and they take all the human parts away, bit by bit, until you're just a wind-up toy. Turn the key and set it running. And the toy goes to university, gets a job, settles down with someone nice.”
“The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.”
“The more I think about it, the more there is to be said for the sloth. He sleeps fifteen to eighteen hours a day and is known to have taken forty-eight days to travel four miles. He hangs in the trees after he's dead. But he lives longer than the cheetah.”
“The more I think about language, the more it amazes me that people ever understand each other at all.”
“The more I think about myself, the more I'm persuaded that, as a person, I really don't exist. That is one of the reasons why I can't believe in any orthodox religion: I cannot believe in my own soul. No, I am a chemical compound, conditioned by environment and education. My "character" is simply a repertoire of acquired tricks, my conversation a repertoire of adaptations and echoes, my "feelings" are dictated by purely physical, external stimuli.”
“The more I think about our species the more I think we just do stuff and make up explanations later when asked. But it's not true that I would rather write than read. I would rather read than write. To be honest I would rather hang upside down in a bucket than write.”
“The more I think about Raff, the more I feel a pull toward him, as though there is an invisible energy cord that is pulling us together.”
Source: Call to Karma
“The more I think about sex, the better it gets!”
“The more I think about sex, the better it gets. Here we have a purpose in life, good for the blood circulation, good for releasing the tension.”
“The more I think of a people calmly developing, in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable by our sages, powers surpassing our most disciplined modes of force, and virtues to which our life, social and political, becomes antagonistic in proportion as our civilisation advances - the more devoutly I pray that ages may yet elapse before there emerge into sunlight our inevitable destroyers.”
“The more I think of all that I have seen in the Confederate States, the more I feel inclined to say...'How can you subdue such a nation as this!'”
“The more I think of it, the more I realize there are no answers. Life is to be lived.”
Source: Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters
“The more I think you over, the more it comes home to me what an unmitigated Middle Victorian ass you are!”
“The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize our action.”
“The more I thought about it, the more I began to grasp the fact that I was being offered a life changing opportunity. A chance to experience something which few people ever even thought about let alone embraced.
‘It will be an adventure,’ she said calmly. ‘For all of us.”
Source: The Adventures of Michael Bayswater.
“The more I thought about it, the more it made sense. Women are profoundly entwined with ghosts and ghost stories. There are several notions in Western culture that connect the intrinsically "female" with death. Of course, the very notion of gender is culturally constructed, just as ghosts are culturally constructed. Edith Wharton once asked, "What in the world constitutes a ghost except the fact of its being known for one." Ghosts and gender both require naming and performing, and are not at all uncomplicated, innate, or inherent things. Part of this constructed identity has to do with the cultural roles of women in the United States in the last two centuries.”
Source: A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts
“The more I thought about the reasons behind my insecurities, the more I realized that my issues with my appearance had nothing to do with reality. I didn’t feel fat because I was sluggish or unable to move my body with ease. I felt fat because I didn’t fit the mold of what society has taught me a woman should look like.”
Source: Cottage Cheese Thighs
“The more I took note of how my body and brain clicked along through the day, the more I realized that I spent a considerable amount of time banging around with a brain full of chatter; a rush of things to do, bills to pay, telephone calls, text messages, e-mails, worrying about my job or my looks, my boobs or my ass; I rushed from thing to thing, multitasking, triple-timing, hoping to cover all the bases, avoiding anything that might disrupt the schedule or routine. At times, I was so caught up in the tempo and pattern, the predictable tap, tap, tap of each day, that there was no time to notice the neighbors had moved out, the wind was sneaking in from the north, the sun was shifting on its axis, and tonight the moon would look like the milky residue floating inside an enormous cereal bowl. I wondered when I had become a person who noticed so little.”
“The more I train the more I realize I have more speed in me.”
“The more I train, the more luckier I become.”
“The more I travel around the world, the more I see people want the same thing - to be happy. We wouldn't be in a monetary system if we didn't have to work, so if my music can contribute to happiness, then that's my main responsibility.”
“The more I travel, the less I know and can fathom out. I have learned a lot about people and places but still haven’t learned to live with myself. It will be a slow process. I suspect my every motive and every action is too conscious.”
“The more I travel, the more I see how important it is to each population to see that their history of the good and the bad is remembered by others.”
“The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.”
“The more I tried to be happy,
Deeper my sorrows grew.
The more I tried to slow the time,
Faster my life flew.”
“The more I trust my intuition and act on its wisdom, the more extraordinary my life becomes.”
“The more I try to be perfect; the more I fail.”
“The more I try to catch up, the farther I fall behind.”
“The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.”
“The more I try to impress people, the more I separate myself from them. Vulnerability attracts love.”
“The more I try to remember, the more the memory recedes from me, like darkness running from the light as the earth turns on its axis.”
Source: And It All Came Tumbling Down
“The more I tug at the metaphorical string that I imagine will lead to uncovering whatever mystery I try to solve, the more it seems that everything is, indeed, connected.”
Source: Vade Mecum: An Always-Present Guide to Your Divine Path
“The more I understand my own appetite, the more I understand how far I am from satiating it. It is as though it spills out from me from every direction. I want to be desired, I want to travel, to paint, or write, to be listened to and respected, needed. I want true family, whether that be children or not. I want, I want, I want.”
Source: Hungerstone
“The more I understand the mind and the human experience, the more I begin to suspect there is no such thing as unhappiness; there is only ungratefulness.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“The more I use a matrix, the easier I make it to blame someone else.”
“The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.”
“The more I view the independence of the press in its principal effects, the more I convince myself that among the moderns the independence of the press is the capital and so to speak the constitutive element of freedom.”
“The more I walk with Christ, the more I'm aware that the battles I'm fighting are not against flesh and blood, but neither is my help.”
Source: Heart Renovation: A Construction Guide to Godly Character
“The more I want a book to be done, the faster I type because I just want to get it out.”
“The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light will not let me be.”
“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.”
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“The more I was afraid of getting hurt, the more cautious I was, and this impacted my ability to deepen my relationships with others.”
Source: Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You
“The more I was treated as a woman, the more woman I became. A adapted willy-nilly. If I was assumed to be incompetent at reversing cars, or opening bottles, oddly incompetent I found myself becoming. If a case was thought too heavy for me, inexplicably I found it so myself.”
Source: Conundrum
“The more I watch politicians in action, it just makes me angry. I watch certain politicians get asked questions that need answers and may just prance around with a big laugh and smile on my face. Politicians have an arrogance. I just do not understand. I've seen more constructive debate since high school.”
“The more I wonder, the more I love.”
“The more I work and practice, the luckier I seem to get.”
“The more I work in fashion, the less I dress up. The first pair of jeans I made was for my own body-my "strange body," as I call it.”