T Quotes
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“The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.”
Source: Felix Holt: The Radical
“The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence; it enlarges the imagined range for self to move in: but in after years it can only continue to be joy on the same terms as other long-lived love--that is, by much suppression of self, and power of living in the experience of another.”
Source: Felix Holt: The Radical
“The mother's love is not given to us to spoil us with indulgence, but to soften our hearts, that we may in turn soften others with kindness.”
“The mother- poor invaded soul- finds even the bathroom door no bar to hammering little hands.”
Source: Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Short Stories, Novels, Poems and Essays: The Yellow Wallpaper, What Diantha Did, Women and Economics, The Crux, Moving the Mountain, Herland and other works from the prominent American feminist, sociologist and novelist
“The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.”
“The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.”
“The mother-in-law came round last week. It was absolutely pouring down. So I opened the door and I saw her there and I said, 'Mother, don't just stand there in the rain. Go home.'”
“The mother-in-law had an accident at work. A hot rivet dropped down her drawers and she fell off the oil rig.”
“The mother-in-law is the centre of a family.”
“The mother-in-laws themselves weren't natural jokes but most comedians used to use that.”
“The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings when any harm, real or imaginary, threatened their precious brood. They were women who idolized their children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels.”
Source: The Awakening
“The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood.”
“The mothers always jump.”
Source: A Charm of Finches
“The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder. By the elimination of superfluous detail, the spectator should be led along the road that the artist indicates to him, and from the first be made to notice what the artist has felt.”
“The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.”
“The motion of the mind is conveyed along a cloud of meaning.~ There is this paradox that we get to meaning only when we strip the meaning from symbols.”
Source: The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World
“The motion of the stars calculated by the Hindus before some 4500 years vary not even a single minute from the tables of Cassine and Meyer (used in the 19-th century). The Indian tables give the same annual variation of the moon as the discovered by Tycho Brahe - a variation unknown to the school of Alexandria and also to the Arabs who followed the calculations of the school ... The Hindu systems of astronomy are by far the oldest and that from which the Egyptians, Greek, Romans and - even the Jews derived from the Hindus their knowledge.”
“The motion of the stars over our heads is as much an illusion as that of the cows, trees and churches that flash past the windows of our train.”
Source: the Stars in their Courses
“The Motion Picture Association of America wipes the sweat off its brow and sings the PG-13 song.”
“The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes, you might be intrigued. If she wore no clothes at all, you might be shocked. But the way it is, you are occupied with noticing that her knees are too bony and that her toenails are too large. The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.”
Source: Raymond Chandler Speaking
“The motion picture is like journalism in that, more than any of the other arts, it confers celebrity. Not just on people - on acts, and objects, and places, and ways of life. The camera brings a kind of stardom to them all. I therefore doubt that film can ever argue effectively against its own material: that a genuine antiwar film, say, can be made on the basis of even the ugliest battle scenes ... No matter what filmmakers intend, film always argues yes.”
“The motion picture is the people's Art.”
Source: Love, Laughter and Tears: My Hollywood Story
“The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom.”
“The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.”
“the motion
was authentic, it was from another place, it was
planetary, it was model-of-the-solar-
systemic.”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“The motionless person was once full of life in one moment in time. What a misery?”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“The motivating factor behind God's redemptive plan for every man and woman is His love for us. He not only loves us, He so loves us!”
Source: The Joshua Code: 52 Scripture Verses Every Believer Should Know
“The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live.”
Source: What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt
“The motivation comes from the embarrassment of having lost and the way it sits with you.”
“The motivation for me is just the game itself, just playing the game the right way and trying to win, compete every time I step out there on the floor. That's motivation enough for me to go out there and play well.”
“The motivation for me, was them telling me what I could not be.”
“The motivation for taking on debt is to buy assets or claims rising in price. Over the past half-century the aim of financial investment has been less to earn profits on tangible capital investment than to generate “capital” gains (most of which take the form of debt-leveraged land prices, not industrial capital). Annual price gains for property, stocks and bonds far outstrip the reported real estate rents, corporate profits and disposable personal income after paying for essential non-discretionary spending, headed by FIRE [Finance, Insurance, Real Estate]-sector charges.”
Source: The Bubble and Beyond
“The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.”
“The motivation is doing for doing, not [for] having done.”
“The motivation is fighting the right fight. The type of fight I know I can fight. That's the motivation and showing the people the way Sugar Shane really fights.”
“The motivation is in my heart to work toward my goals and my dreams.”
“The motivation is really to say people can find the game of getting involved interesting and find the problem and really have the passion and the enthusiasm to solve it and move forward, but that's all I know.”
“The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'.”
Source: Dandy in the Underworld
“The motivation of all religious practice is similar: love, sincerity, honesty. The way of life of practically all religious persons is consistent. The teachings of tolerance, love, and compassion are the same.”
“The motivation part is all essential in keeping my voice, but there are the human factors of discipline.”
“The motivation sometimes comes when you least expect it. I try to keep an open mind.”
“The motivation to break even is so tempting that you'll even consider doing so at greater levels of risk than you'd typically accept. If you've heard the expression "double or nothing," you've seen this bias in action.”
Source: Unbiased Investor: Reduce Financial Stress and Keep More of Your Money
“The motivation to me is to make money and not be dependent upon the shallow pool called the entertainment world or the rap world or the hip-hop world.”
“The motivation to paint seems more pure, or at least more personal, when the artist is doing it for herself.”
“The motivations of a scientist are always mixed and complex... every medical student has the desire to do good in the world. Making a small contribution to that effort is really in a sense the last significant thing that I want to do with my life.”
“The motivations of desire are obscure even to the desirous, the desiring and the desired.”
Source: The Golden House
“The motivations of men. They never make sense. And they always make sense.”
Source: Warbreaker
“The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.”
Source: Killosophy
“The motive for criticizing myth, that is, its objectifying representations, is present in myth itself, insofar as its real intention to talk about a transcendent power to which both we and the world are subject is hampered and obscured by the objectifying character of its assertions.”