T Quotes
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“The necessity of the idea creates its own style. The material itself dictates how it should be written.”
“The necessity of the moment is meeting a need.”
“The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance.”
Source: The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773
“The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.”
Source: Miscellaneous works
“The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally.”
“The neck is kind of what's sexy in Japan, so you have to have the kimono a little bit back. It was just a whole different way of appealing to what was sexy.”
“The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.”
Source: Handy Andy: A Tale of Irish Life
“The necklace is the anchor; it's the classification of jewelry that says what the whole idea is about.”
“The necklace, Marcos,” she said firmly, leveling the gun at his heart once more. “I’ll take it now.”
“It’s not here, querida. You waste your time.”
Francesca lowered the gun to point at his groin. “Killing you would be too good. Perhaps I will simply have to deprive the female world of your ability to make love ever again. I am quite a good shot, I assure you.”
She’d learned out of necessity. And though she never wanted to harm another human being, she had no compunction about making this man think she would do so if it meant she could save Jacques.
His voice dropped to a growl. A hateful, angry growl. “You won’t get away with this. Whoever you are, Frankie, I will find you. I will find you and make you wish you’d never met me.”
Her heart flipped in her chest. She ignored it. “I already wish that. Now give me the jewel before you lose the ability to ever have children.”
Bitterness twisted inside her as she said those words. Ironic to threaten someone with something she would never wish on another soul. But she had to be hard, cold, ruthless – just like he was.
He stared at her in impotent fury, his jaw grinding, his beautiful black eyes flashing daggers at her. Very slowly, he reached up with one hand and slipped his bowtie free of its knot.
Then he jerked it loose and let it fall.”
Source: The Devil's Heart
“The necklace was a good excuse," he murmured.
"For what?"
"I thought maybe I could go to Charleston and show up at your front door to give this back and maybe… you might let me in. Or something. I was worried that another male would court you, so I've been trying to go as fast as I could. I mean, I figured maybe if I could read, and if I took a little better care of myself, and if I tried to stop being such a mean-ass motherfucker…" He shook his head. "But don't misunderstand. It's not like I expected you to be happy to see me. I was just… you know, hoping… coffee. Tea. Chance to talk. Or some shit. Friends, maybe. Except if you had a male, he wouldn't allow that. So, yeah, that's why I've been hurrying."
His yellow eyes lifted to hers. He was wincing, as if he were afraid of what might be showing on her face.
"Friends?" she said.
"Yeah… I mean, I wouldn't disgrace you by asking for more than that. I know that you regret… Anyway, I just couldn't let you go without… Yeah, so… friends.”
Source: Lover Awakened
“The necklace we are after is called the Wild Heart," Jack said. "It last sold at auction in November 2015 for $25 million. It features twenty-six oval-shaped flawless pink diamonds and a forty-carat heart-shaped pink diamond. Each diamond is enhanced by a cluster of oval-shaped green marquise emeralds supposedly crafted to resemble the leaves of the phalaenopsis orchid, but which in fact are more like dendrobiums that produce leaves that are opposite one another. The diamonds and emeralds are strategically placed to create a floral effect that makes the necklace resemble Orchidaceae. The gems are set in eighteen-carat white gold and precious platinum."
"He likes plants," I explained when I saw a few blank stares. "We met in the hellebore."
"It wasn't as romantic as it sounds," Jack said. "She trampled it underfoot like a herd of elephants. I had to go back the next night to repair the damage."
"I wasn't trying to make it sound romantic." I heaved a sigh. "I was explaining how I knew that you liked plants."
"They probably understood when you said, 'He likes plants.'" Jack's gaze drifted to Cristian. "At least some of them.”
Source: To Have and to Heist
“The necropolitical core of patriarchal capitalism is snuff pornography, the abject centre that no one wants to face. It is the logical conclusion of a system that treats women as “things”, of an irrational hatred that rapes and murders countless women every minute of the day simply because they are not male. We have entered the era of shock and awe misogyny.”
Source: Misogyny Re-Loaded
“The nectar of compassion is so wonderful. If you are committed to keeping it alive, then you are protected. What the other person says will not touch off the anger and irritation in you, because compassion is the real antidote to anger. Nothing can heal anger except compassion. That is why the practice of compassion is a very wonderful practice.”
Source: Anger
“The nectar of life is sweet only when shared with others.”
“The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called 'the two greatest gifts of God-the soul and the speech which communicates it.' People became hypocritical, cunning, mistrustful, cynical, silent, cruel, and indifferent to the fate of others as a result of the destruction of their own souls.”
“The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available.”
“The need for a global structure of control in the form of a world environment court is now more urgent than ever before.”
“The need for a permanent status resolution approved by Congress is made even more clear to me because of my experience as a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.”
“The need for a pro-life point of view undergirds everything you do.”
“The need for a quick, satisfactory copying machine that could be used right in the office seemed very apparent to me-there seemed such a crying need for it-such a desirable thing if it could be obtained. So I set out to think of how one could be made.”
“The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.”
“The need for a solution suggests the existence of a problem. The existence of a problem suggests the presence of a mistake. And a mistake suggests the existence of a less than wise choice that was probably mine.”
“The need for acceptance can cause you to enslave yourself.”
Source: I Can Do This
“The need for beauty and the [artistic] creation which embodies it is inseparable from man, and without it man would possibly not want to live in the world.”
“The need for bold and aggressive federal action to create jobs and restore confidence in our battered economy is clear.”
“The need for certainty, homogeneity, rationalization and good road traffic organization, as well as the need to clearly identify the areas of an urban centre, took a back seat in respect to prevailing nationalization, driven by the need to reduce minorities and to make the State's cultural structure almost monistic. Toponymy became a cultural asset, inevitably losing its function as a "historical turnaround, or scientific furnishings that might be compared, in the order of physical events, to the different deposits studied by geologists".”
Source: Topographical Names and Protection of Linguistic Minorities
“The need for certainty is the greatest disease the Mind faces”
Source: Mastery
“The need for challenge, the need to burst through the constrictions of tasks and situations already seen and mastered, can affect anyone, even those enjoying the greatest gains from success.”
Source: The plateauing trap: how to avoid today's #1 career dilemma
“The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.”
Source: The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou
“The need for civility in society has never been more important. The foundation of kindness and civility begins in our homes. It is not surprising that our public discourse has declined in equal measure with the breakdown of the family. The family is the foundation for love and for maintaining spirituality. The family promotes an atmosphere where religious observance can flourish. There is indeed beauty all around when there's love at home.”
“The need for clean clothing outlived disasters. The end of the world could come, but that would only mean more bloodstains to wash.”
Source: Oathbringer (1 of 6) [Dramatized Adaptation]
“The need for collecting large campaign funds would vanish if Congress provided an appropriation for the proper and legitimate expenses of each of the great national parties, an appropriation ample enough to meet the necessity for thorough organization and machinery, which requires a large expenditure of money. Then the stipulation should be made that no party receiving campaign funds from the Treasury should accept more than a fixed amount from any individual subscriber or donor; and the necessary publicity for receipts and expenditures could without difficulty be provided.”
Source: THEODORE ROOSEVELT - Ultimate Collection: Memoirs, History Books, Biographies, Essays, Speeches &Executive Orders: America and the World War, The Ancient Irish Sagas, The Naval War of 1812, Hero Tales From American History, Winning of the West, Through the Brazilian Wilderness, History as Literature...
“The need for comprehensive reform must not blind us to the urgency of addressing the massive debt that's already crushing our young people.”
“The need for control always comes from someone that has lost it.”
“The need for de-development presents our economists with a major challenge. They must design a stable, low-consumption economy in which there is a much more equitable distribution of wealth than in the present one. Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential if a decent life is to be provided for every human being.”
“The need for devotion to something outside ourselves is even more profound than the need for companionship. If we are not to go to pieces or wither away, we all must have some purpose in life; for no man can live for himself alone.”
“The need for education for the individual student should be recognized... home, neighborhood. But instead of that, we have the future being determined by standardized testing.”
“The need for empowering investors to have information on the way their own money is invested is not going away.”
“The Need for Encouragement Is Universal; It Supersedes the Desire to be Popular or Successful”.”
“The need for general scientific understanding by the public has never been larger, and the penalty for scientific illiteracy never harsher. Lack of scientific fundamentals causes people to make foolish decisions about issues such as the toxicity of chemicals, the efficacy of medicines, the changes in the global climate.”
“The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.”
“The need for growth - what we might call immaturity - is not a negative state of being.”
“The need for growth, for development, for change, is fundamental to life.”
“The need for improved technical support in schools has expanded as the Government and schools have increased their investment in information and communications technologies.”
“The need for innovation – the lifeblood of business – is widely recognized, and imagination and play are key ingredients for making it happen.”
“The need for intimacy with the Creator never left us; it was embedded in our very nature.”
Source: Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God
“The need for justice grows out of the conflict of human interests. That is to say, if there were no conflict of interests among mankind we should never have invented the word justice, nor conceived the idea for which it stands.”
Source: Essays in Social Justice
“The need for Kitsch arises when genuine emotion has become rare.”
Source: Meaning of Modern Art
“The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, and air.”
“The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence.”
Source: In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy