T Quotes
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“The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you.”
“The nature of hope is such that it will grow in direct proportion to our lack of belief in it.”
“The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.”
“The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.”
“The nature of human beings is that they'd far rather face the disaster that is happening tonight than the one that is happening tomorrow.”
“The nature of human beings never changes; it is immutable. The present generation of children and the present generation of young adults from the age of thirteen to eighteen is, therefore, no different from that of their great-great-grandparents. Political fads come and go; theories rise and fall; the scientific 'truth' of today becomes the discarded error of tomorrow.”
“The nature of human consciousness is to seek completeness. It’s a good intention, but the nature of human consciousness is also to look for it in the wrong places. We have an instinctive drive that seeks wholeness in every way. At the physical level, it is perceived as joining with another, preferably loved and desired, body. Regardless of the shallow talk and jokes people commonly exchange about sex, most people look for a more profound sense of connection and unity in their sexual relationships.”
Source: Touched by Love
“The nature of humanity, its essence, is to feel another's pain as one's own, and to act to take that pain away,. There is a nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness.”
Source: The Killing Kind
“The nature of ignorance is to lack deep communication with nature or with the universe. It is to separate, to isolate, to create discrimination and differences, so that finally we cannot communicate as a harmonious whole. These differences we create appear as fighting, anger, hatred, and war.”
Source: Returning to Silence
“The nature of illusion is that, when you see through it, it disappears.”
“The nature of immortality is a mystery,' he says, speaking so softly that we have to lean closer to hear.' But everything I know of writing and reading tells me that this is true. I have felt it in these shelves and in others.”
Source: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
“The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.”
“The nature of language may determine what most people say, but I always speak my own meaning.”
“The nature of life is movement and creativity, and goals give you a clear focus and direction in which to channel your natural creative energy. This helps you to outflow and contribute to the world, which enhances your feeling of well-being and satisfaction in life.”
Source: Creative Visualization
“The nature of Life is that at least once in your lifetime, if not more times, the unexpected will come and sock you, it will defy logic and it may even hang you from the edge of a precipice. You will not know what to do. You will be engulfed by darkness. The pain will be unbearable and you will imagine you can’t go on. That’s when Life will send you a lifeboat, a raft…a shepherd may arrive, a door may open, showing you the way forward to last one more day…surely your problems won’t get solved overnight…they may even endure and so will you…such is Life…”
“The nature of life is to be a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty. The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.”
“The nature of life is to grow.”
“The nature of light is a subject of no material importance to the concerns of life or to the practice of the arts, but it is in many other respects extremely interesting.”
Source: A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts: In Two Volumes
“The nature of love had totally escaped her until now. She had thought that if you lost it, you could never get it back, like a stone thrown down a well. But it was like the water at the bottom of the well, there when you can't even see it, shifting in the dark.”
Source: The Story Sisters: A Novel
“The nature of love is that it catches you off-guard, subjects you to rules you have never faced, some of them contradictory.”
“The nature of love is to kill for it, or to die.”
Source: Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel: A Novel
“The nature of making music and making art, what motivates me is that it's interesting. It's interesting to listen, to really listen to other people's point-of-view. Take in their work. Listen to the way they sing. Listen to the way they write lyrics. What they are trying to express.”
“The nature of man is evil; what is good in him is artificial.”
“The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive.”
“The nature of matter, or body considered in general, consists not in its being something which is hard or heavy or coloured, or which affects the senses in any way, but simply in its being something which is extended in length, breadth and depth.”
“The nature of men and of organized society dictates the maintenance in every field of action of the highest and purest standards of justice and of right dealing.... By justice the lawyer generally means the prompt, fair, and open application of impartial rules; but we call ours a Christian civilization, and a Christian conception of justice must be much higher. It must include sympathy and helpfulness and a willingness to forego self-interest in order to promote the welfare, happiness, and contentment of others and of the community as a whole.”
“The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.”
“The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.”
“The nature of mind: much of its power seems to stem from just the messy ways its agents cross-connect. ...it's only what we must expect from evolution's countless tricks.”
Source: Society Of Mind
“The nature of morality must be considered, and preferably before one is exposed to situations where a moral decision is required.”
Source: The Way of Kings
“The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.”
“The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the most intimate areas of our psyche without being tried by prejudices or influences of any kind.”
“The nature of my compulsion was such that I danced in my sleep. The entire household was sometimes awakened by loud thumping sounds coming from my room.”
“The nature of my work is my subjectivity meshed with other people's subjectivity. So there's a correspondence with that... Even if you write about me, it will reflect on you; everything is a kind of weird collaboration.”
“The nature of nature is to heal and energise. Whenever we give it a little of our time and attention, it dissolves our problems, realigns our body, clears our mind, and awakens our spirit. And it’s free.”
Source: Touched by Love
“The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth.”
“The nature of our constitution makes eloquence more useful and more necessary in this country than in any other in Europe.”
“The nature of our histories are always secondary to what we choose to do with them.”
“The nature of our intelligence is such that it is stimulated far less by the will to know than by the will to understand.”
Source: The Historian's Craft
“The nature of our lives rarely reflects the depth of our abilities.”
“The nature of our mind may be displayed in many ways, but Ashe is the fundamental basis.”
“The nature of our motivation determines the character of our work.”
“The nature of our two main political parties has changed in the United States.”
“The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.”
Source: The New Science of Giambattista Vico
“The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948
“The nature of power is such that it can never be understood.”
“The nature of process, to one degree or another, involves failure. You have at it. It doesn’t work. You keep pushing. It gets better. But it’s not good. It gets worse. You got at it again. Then you desperately stab at it, believing “this isn’t going to work.” And it does!”
“The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on their own initiative. The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free. That he is not free is apparent only to other people. His servitude is strictly objective.”
Source: Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
“the nature of rasa has been discussed by Bharata and others in reference to drama. I shall examine it here, according to my own lights, in reference to poetry.”
“The nature of revolutions is that they destroy the perfect and enable the impossible.”