T Quotes
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“The NBAs a Fortune 500 company. Thats how you look at it. And all the other Fortune 500 companies out there in the world, you dont see their CEOs and COOs going to work with white tees and baggy clothes and stuff like that. So I have to take that same approach.”
“The NCAA has to establish their own rules and enforce their own rules.”
“The NCAA is probably the most reprehensible organization God ever created.”
“The NCAA is so mad at Kentucky theyre going to give Cleveland State another year of probation.”
“The NCAA wants to control the images; they say they own your image forever. If you look through this façade, it's crazy.”
“The NCI sent (,)...to review our funding(,)...people connected with the nuclear establishment...It was a pretty much foregone conclusion, that if you send people in to review the funding, who stand most to be hurt by this research, the funding will be denied.”
“The ne plus ultra of wickedness ... is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity.”
“The NEA is a terrorist organization.”
“The Neanderthal graves and bear sanctuaries, our earliest certain evidences of religious ritual, point to an attempt to cope with the imprint of death.”
Source: The Masks of God, Volume 1: Primitive Mythology
“The Neapolitan novels have a lot of references to things outside, to things of the world, to culture, politics, the city of Naples. People have mentioned that Naples is like a character in the novels.”
“The near absence of bargains works as a reverse indicator for us. When we find there is little worth buying, there is probably much worth selling.”
“The near cousin of optimism is hope: knowing the steps needed to get to a goal and having the energy to pursue those steps. It is a primal motivating force, and its absence is paralyzing.”
Source: Working with Emotional Intelligence
“The near end of the street was rather dark and had mostly vegetable shops. Abundance of vegetables - piles of white and green fennel, like celery, and great sheaves of young, purplish, sea-dust-coloured artichokes . . . long strings of dried figs, mountains of big oranges, scarlet large peppers, a large slice of pumpkin, a great mass of colours and vegetable freshness. . . .”
Source: Sea and Sardinia
“The near enemy of love is attachment. Attachment masquerades as love. It says, “I will love this person because I need them.” Or, “I’ll love you if you’ll love me back. I’ll love you, but only if you will be the way I want.” This isn’t love at all - it is attachment - and attachment is rigid, it is very different from love.”
Source: Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are
“The near impossible. If no one believed in the impossible there would be nothing left to dream about”
“The near side of a galaxy is tens of thousands of light-years closer to us than the far side; thus we see the front as it was tens of thousands of years before the back. But typical events in galactic dynamics occupy tens of millions of years, so the error in thinking of an image of a galaxy as frozen in one moment of time is small.”
Source: Cosmos
“The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.”
“The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“The near-term attacks ... will either rival or exceed the 9/11 attacks... And it's pretty clear that the nation's capital and New York city would be on any list.”
“The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close. To know is to lose.”
Source: Fantasia of the Unconscious: Top Novelist Focus
“The nearer a man gets to God, the greater he sees his sin.”
Source: Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures
“The nearer a man lives to God, the more intensely has he to mourn over his own evil heart." -Charles Spurgeon”
“The nearer a person approaches the Lord, a greater power will be manifested by the adversary to prevent the accomplishment of His purposes.”
“The nearer any disease approaches to a crisis, the nearer it is to a cure. Danger and deliverance make their advances together; and it is only in the last push that one or the other takes the lead.”
Source: The American Crisis
“The nearer Christ comes to a heart, the more it becomes conscious of its guilt; it will then either ask for his mercy and find peace, or else it will turn against Him because it is not yet ready to give up its sinfulness. Thus He will separate the good from the bad, the wheat from the chaff. Man's reaction to this Divine Presence will be the test: either it will call out all the opposition of egotistic natures, or else galvanize them into a regeneration and a resurrection.”
Source: Life of Christ
“The nearer emotional life approaches to hysteria, to continual outward show, the less genuine it becomes. Feeling becomes equated with vehemence of expression, so that insincerity becomes permanent.”
“The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.”
“The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple.”
“The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.”
“The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.”
Source: Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis
“The nearer persons come to each other, the greater is the room and the more are the occasions for courtesy; but just in proportion to their approach the gentleness of most men diminishes.”
“The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.”
Source: Works
“The nearer the cutting off point lies to the main force of the enemy, the more immediate the effect; whereas the closer to the strategic base it takes place, the greater the effect.”
“The nearer to the church, the further from God.”
Source: The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...
“The nearer we approach great men, the clearer we see that they are men.”
“The nearer we are to God, the less we will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from God, the more will long faces come. The more we know God, the more misery vanishes.”
“The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.”
“The nearer we come to the full military suppression of the bourgeoisie, the more dangerous becomes to us the high flood of petty-bourgeois Anarchism. And the struggle against these elements cannot be waged with propaganda and agitation alone. ... The struggle must also be waged by applying force and compulsion.”
“The nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when we die.”
Source: Bible commentary - The gospel of John
“The nearer you approach to God, the less you reason and argue. When you attain Him, then all sounds—all reasoning and disputing—come to an end. Then you go into samadhi—sleep—, into communion with God in silence.”
“The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.”
“The nearer you take anything to the light, the darker its spots will appear; and the nearer you live to God, the more you will see your own utter vileness.”
Source: The life and remains, letters, lectures, and poems of [the Rev] Robert Murray McCheyne
“The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about himself.”
Source: Young Men and Fire
“The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.”
Source: The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain
“The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.”
Source: Spealing Frankly
“The nearest approach to the infallible in literary judgment is represented in the colossal work of the teacher of all these three [Edmund Gosse, Edward Dowden and George Saintsbury], the greatest critic that ever lived - not an Englishman, but a Frenchman, the wonderful Sainte-Beuve.”
“The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“The nearest arched window poured its soft light over him, allowing me to see
every inch. Dressed smartly in black loafers and slacks, he wore a thigh-length, black
coat. He'd brushed his golden hair back, tucked behind his ears, and his cheeks looked
flushed, no doubt due to the bitter, evening air.
He looks like an angel in the winter snow. The thought made me growl in irritation.
"Hello, Magpie."
I couldn't move. "Adrian.”
Source: Stepping Stones
“The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth.”
Source: Critical Path
“The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare.”