T Quotes
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“The Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality.”
“The Obama campaign was smarter, quicker on their feet than the Clinton camp.”
“The Obama damage is two-fold. First, his success relied on a coalition that likely will not survive, or at least survive at full strength, without Obama himself on the ticket. Secondly, Obama drove a significant portion of white voters away from the Democratic Party.”
“The Obama experiment has failed.”
“The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster.”
“The Obama legacy is actually disastrous. It features lies, spying on Americans, spying on American reporters. Criminalizing, weaponizing the IRS against certain Americans. Lying to people about their health care plans and their doctors. Lying to people about the cost of health care. Lying to people about how great it was all gonna be. Lying to people about the stimulus, the impact. Lying about economy.”
“The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.”
“The Obama presidency, and liberalism in general, are based on not trusting the American people - a belief that big government is better for people.”
“The Obama-Clinton economy has done enormous damage to the Hispanic community.”
“The ObamaCare premiums, the numbers started moving away from Hillary Clinton he moment there was a problem with.”
“The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage. They've forgotten Rule No. 1 of politics: No one sheds tears for anyone lucky enough to live at the White House.”
“The Obedience of Children to their Parents is the Basis of all Government, and set forth as the measure of that Obedience which weowe to those whom Providence hath placed over us.”
Source: The Spectator, no. 90-505
“The obedience of men is to imitate the obedience of angels, and rational beings on earth are to live unto God, as rational beings in heaven live unto Him.”
Source: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, adapted to the State and Condition of all Orders of Christians, Volume 4
“The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.”
“The ‘Oberge des Mailletz’ is by far the oldest tavern of which any record can found in the City archives. In 1292, Adam des Mailletz, inn-keeper, paid a tithe of 18 sous and 6 deniers.This we learn from the Tax Register of the period. At the time it was founded, the Trois-Mailletz was the meeting place of masons, who under the supervision of Jehan de Chelles, carved out of white stone the biblical characters destined to grace the north and south choirs of Notre-Dame. Underneath the building, there are two floors of superimposed cellars: the deeper ones date from the Gallo-Roman period. What remains of the instruments of torture found in the cellars of the Petit-Châtelet have been housed here, along with some other restored objects.
A modest bar counter, a long-haired patron who bizarrely manages never to be freshly shaven or downright bearded. A stove in the middle of the shabby room; simple straightforward folk, less drunk than at Rue de Bièvre, and less dirty. Just what we needed.”
Source: Paris Noir: The Secret History of a City
“The obese are eating the worst diet in the country if you define
worse as ratio of calories to essential micronutrients. They're just eating
empty calories.”
“The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy.”
“The obesity epidemic among American children is becoming so bad that I think there's a growing realization across the country that we've got to change what we're feeding our kids and that school may be a really good place to start.”
“The obesity epidemic coincided with the deployment of cell phone towers.”
“The obituary writers drew their incomplete sketches, touring through his life like travelers to England who do not ever see swans, sheep, bicycles, and blue eyes.”
Source: Winter's Tale
“The object . . . is to discover methods of condensing information concerning large groups of allied facts into brief and compendious expressions suitable for discussion.”
“The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they're known to be friends. Here you have a million crabs living in a million crevices. ... But the garden's greatest benefit, I feel, as not relief to the eyes, but to make the eyes sees our neighbors.”
“The object in being on the spiritual path is not to have just a little influx of energy, but to be the energy itself - consciously.”
“The object is evident in the name of the discipline. Similarly, theology (theologia) is the study of God. The object of theology is not the church's teaching or the experience of pious souls. It is not a subset of ethics, religious studies, cultural anthropology, or psychology. God is the object of this discipline.”
“The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one's thing the Revolution.”
“The object is freedom.”
Source: A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theatre
“The object is not so much to get you to keep a journal while you are young, as it is to get you to continue it after you become men and women, even through your whole lives. This is especially needed in the generation in which you live, for you live in as important a generation as the children of men ever saw, and it is far more important that you should begin early to keep a journal and follow the practice while you live, than that other generations should do so.”
“The object is not to make the tree look like a bonsai, but to make the bonsai look like a tree.”
“The object is that which is objected against me.”
“The object is to keep busy being something...as opposed to doing something. We are all sent here to bring more gratitude, more kindness, more forgiveness and more love into this world. That is too big a job to be accomplished by just a few.”
“The object is to make a great record and you have to do whatever it takes.”
“The object is to make beautiful music for people to have forever. Music that stays - not just becomes a ringtone. Longevity.”
“The object is to try to get the (movie) system to work for you, instead of against you. And the only way you can do it is through success, I'm afraid.”
“The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules, but to win.”
“The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that.”
“The object isn't to be perfect. The goal isn't to hold back until you've created something beyond reproach. I believe the opposite is true. Our birthright is to fail and to fail often, but to fail in search of something bigger than we can imagine. To do anything else is to waste it all.”
“The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.”
“The object of (Christian) faith is not the teaching but the Teacher.”
“The object of a bunker or trap is not only to punish a physical mistake, to punish lack of control, but also to punish pride and egotism.”
“The object of a comedy is not to correct morals or ridicule the vices of society; no, a comedy should depict the discrepancies between life and purpose, should be the fruit of bitter indignation aroused by the degradation of human dignity, should be sarcasm, and not an epigram, convulsive laughter and not an amused grin, should be written with bile and not diluted salt, in a word, it should embrace life in its highest significance.”
“The object of a Constitution is to restrain the Government, as that of laws is to restrain individuals.”
Source: REPORTS AND PUBLIC LETTERS
“The object of a dialogical-liberterian action is not to 'dislodge' the oppressed from a mythological reality in order to 'bind' them to another reality. On the contrary, the object of dialogical action is to make it possible for the oppressed, by perceiving their adhesion, to opt to transform an unjust reality." "In order for the oppressed to unite they must first cut the umbilical cord of magic and myth which binds them to the world of oppression; the unity which links them to each other must be of a different nature.”
“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes.”
Source: A Chesterton calendar
“the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.”
“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.”
“The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.”
Source: Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings
“The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining”
Source: The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work
“The object of all religious activity is to mingle the human and the non-human, and the lower gods represent that which is cast back to the human from the non-human - human gods merely, practice-gods who embody the errors which man makes in first conceiving the non-human.”
“The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge.”
Source: A Voyage to the South Sea Undertaken by Command of His Majesty: For the Purpose of Conveying the Bread-fruit Tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty's Ship the Bounty, Commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh. Including an Account of the Mutiny on Board the Said Ship, and the Subsequent Voyage of Part of the Crew, in the Ship's Boat, from Tofoa, One of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch Settlement in the East Indies ...