T Quotes
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“The more privilege you have, the more opportunity you have. The more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have.”
“The more problems you have, the more potential you have to help people. One of the most paralyzing mistakes we make is thinking that our problems somehow disqualify us from being used by God. [...] If you don’t have any problems, you don’t have any potential. Here’s why. Your ability to help others heal is limited to where you’ve been wounded.”
Source: In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars
“The more profound problem, however, is the degree to which many academic intellectuals, especially in the humanities, have lost their ability to distinguish the 'state' from 'society'.”
“The more profoundly we study this wonderful book [the Bible], and the more closely we observe its divine precept, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.”
“The more profoundly we study this wonderful Book, and the more closely we observe its divine precepts, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.”
“The more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of centre to which they all converge. We may even judge the degree of perfection to which a science has arrived by the facility with which it may be submitted to calculation.”
“The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be. The more laws are promulgated, the more thieves and bandits there will be.”
Source: Tao Te Ching
“The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. The more weapons you have, the less secure people will be. The more subsidies you have, the less self reliant people will be.”
“The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.”
“The more propaganda . . . conservatives spread for capitalist economics while at the same time preaching collectivism morally and philosophically , the more nails they’ll drive into capitalism’s coffin.”
Source: Letters of Ayn Rand
“The more prose I wrote, the more the pendulum swung back toward the middle, merging some poetic sensibilities with the more fundamental elements of creative prose.”
“The more prosperity you have, the quicker you ... attract the looters and the plunderers.... And so when a country becomes richer it falls apart sooner.”
“The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend.”
“The more pure and chaste is a soul, the more it hungers for this Bread [Jesus in the Eucharist], from which it derives strength to resist all temptations to sins of impurity, and by which it is more intimately united with the Divine Spouse; 'He who eats My Flesh and drinks My Blood, abides in Me and I in him'”
“The more purely God's word is preached, the more deeply it pierces and the more kindly it works.”
“The more qi-full you are, the more cheerful you are.”
“The more quickly we loosen our grip on the things of the world the more firmly we can take hold of the things of eternity.”
“The more rapidly the water moves, the lighter it seems.”
Source: Literal Madness: Three Novels
“The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.”
Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
“The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.”
Source: The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings
“The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, or tremble because we are sorry, angry, or fearful as the case may be.”
Source: Psychology: The Briefer Course
“The more readily we admit the possibility of our own cherished convictions being mixed with error, the more vital and helpful whatever is right in them will become; and no error is so conclusively fatal as the idea that God will not allow us to err, though He has allowed all other men to do so.”
Source: The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation
“The more readily we make household names and the more numerous they become, the less are they worthy of our admiration... We can make a celebrity, but we can never make a hero. In a now-almost-forgotten sense, all heroes are self-made.”
Source: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
“The more readings a novel has, even contradictory, the better. In journalism, you talk about what you know; you have provided yourself with records, you have gathered information, you have performed interviews. In a novel, you talk about what you don't know, because the novel comes from the unconscious. They are very different relationships with words and with the world. In journalism, you talk about trees; in the novel, you try to talk about the forest.”
“The more ready you are to give yourselves to God and to others, the more you will discover the authentic meaning of life.”
Source: Saint John Paul the Great: His Five Loves
“The more real things get, the more like myths they become.”
“The more real things get, the more like myths they become. There have always been myths, but the myths of earlier times were, Im convinced, bad ones, because they made people sick. So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.”
“The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.”
“The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.”
“The more real you get, the more unreal things get.”
“The more realistic US policy becomes, the better.”
“The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.”
Source: Conversations with Saul Bellow
“The more reality we face, the more we realise that unreality is the main programme of the day. The more real we become, the more abuse we take, so it does radicalise us in a way, like being put in a corner. But it would be better if there were more of us.”
“The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“The more reasons you have for achieving your goal, the more determined you will become.”
“The more recent effort to encourage everyone to pray in common involves so many people.”
“The more recent, historic waves of extinctions of megafauna and other ecologically naive wildlife on oceanic islands followed the tract of colonizations by Pacific Islanders—ultimately exterminating at least seventeen of Madagascar’s largest lemurs and all of the ten or so species of New Zealand’s giant flightless birds—the moas. The saga of anthropogenic extinctions was repeated countless times across the marine realm as hundreds, and possibly thousands of species of flightless birds and other insular endemics suffered extinctions at the hands, teeth, and claws of our colonizing populations and the legion of rats, mice, cats, weasels, goats, and other species we introduced to even the most remote islands. Not only did we severely reduce the distinctiveness of oceanic islands by driving thousands of endemic species to extinction, but we compounded this by introducing a redundant suite of commensal species to these islands. The result was a global-scale homogenization of nature; a dissolution of biogeography’s most fundamental pattern, Buffon’s Law—the biological distinctiveness of place.”
Source: Biogeography: A Very Short Introduction
“The more recently power has originated, the less it can remain stationary - first because those who created it have become accustomed to rapid further movement and because they are and will be innovators per se; secondly, because the forces aroused or subdued by them can be employed only through further acts.”
Source: Judgements on History and Historians
“The more red meat and blood we eat, the more bloodthirsty we get, the more violent we get. The more vegetarian food we eat, the more peace is taken into us.”
“The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.”
“The more refined one is, the more unhappy.”
“The more relaxed the muscles are, the more energy can flow through the body. Using muscular tensions to try to 'do' the punch or attempting to use brute force to knock someone over will only work to opposite effect.”
“The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything.”
“The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.”
“The more relaxed you can get, the better you'll do”
“The more repression there is, the more need there is for irreverence toward those who are responsible for that repression. But too often sarcasm passes for irony, name-calling passes for insight, bleeped-out four-letter words pass for wit, and lowest-common-denominator jokes pass for analysis. Satire should have a point of view. It doesn't have to get a belly laugh. It does have to present criticism.”
“The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.”
“The more respect I had for myself, and the more I took care of myself, the more I understood what I needed out of a partner.”
“The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.”
“The more responsible we are with what God has entrusted to us, the more God will entrust to us. And yet the more irresponsible we are with God's provision, the more in danger we are of having it all taken away.”
Source: 21-Day Journey Toward a Generous Life