T Quotes
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“The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out of the spring and sings while combing her dripping long hair, which makes a sound sweeter than a violin. It is a song of perdition for whomever hears it. There is no sign of the Cross, no "Our Father" to save him. Her curse takes him like a fish in a net and the Mistress of the Water awaits him on the edge of the spring and smiles upon him and tells him to follow her to the depths, from which he will never return.”
“The old metaphysical prejudice that man 'always thinks' has not yet entirely disappeared. I am myself inclined to hold that man really thinks very little and very seldom.”
Source: Lectures on Human and Animal Psychology (Psychology Revivals)
“The old middle-class prerogative of being permanently in a most filthy temper.”
“The old model of the industry was founded largely upon business folk trying to make money off artists. At EMP, we let the music make the money, not the other way around. We have flipped the model to make the artistry be at the forefront of everything we do. Music makes the business and that's what makes it work.”
“The old morality, which told us that selling the body is incompatible with giving the self, touched on a truth. Sexual feeling is not a sensation that can be turned on and off at will: it is a tribute from one self to another and—at its height— an incandescent revelation of what you are. To treat it as a commodity, that can be bought and sold like any other, is to damage both present self and future other. The condemnation of prostitution was not just puritan bigotry; it was a recognition of a profound truth, which is that you and your body are not two things but one, and by selling the body you harden the soul. And that which is true of prostitution is true of pornography too. It is not a tribute to human beauty but a desecration of it.”
Source: Beauty
“The old moves come back. Dick always went off-book. Jason hated practicing them. But Tim… he loved it. The teamwork. We had each other’s backs.”
Source: Batman (2016-) #130
“The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.”
“The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.”
“The old must be torn down for the new to be raised; to have a resurrection you must have a crucifixion, but God wastes nothing, not even the wrong we have imagined into existence. In every building torn down there is much that remains that was once true and right and good, and that gets woven into the new; in fact, the new could not be what it is without the old. It is the refurbishing of the soul.”
Source: Cross Roads
“The OLD must give way to the NEW!”
“The old must pass away. It has served its purpose in the cycles of evolution and must now make way for a new, more expanded and more fruitful manifestation.”
“The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.”
Source: Selected Speeches of Indira Gandhi: The years of challenge, January 1966-August 1969
“The Old Norse cosmology gives us the awareness that while lightness may bring enlightenment, it is the darkness that initiates
change.”
Source: Runic Book of Days: A Guide to Living the Annual Cycle of Rune Magick
“The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.”
Source: There's a Country in My Cellar
“The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many of us nice middle-class folk could make it without our mortgage reduction”
“The old notion that the savage is the freest of mankind is the reverse of the truth. He is a slave, not indeed to a visible master, but to the past, to the spirits of his dead forefathers, who haunt his steps from birth to death, and rule him with a rod of iron.”
“The old novels are all about Jane Austen and Dickens heroines who'd as soon put bullets through their heads as let a man kiss them. And, the new novels are...about Brett Ashley, who sleeps with any guy who really insists, but is a poetic pure tortured soul at heart....She talks Lady Brett and acts Shirley, handling the situation on the whole with remarkable willpower----'...'It doesn't take too much willpower, ' Marjorie burst out,...'with most of the boys, who are plain animals, and just need slapping down. And it doesn't take much willpower either wth the conceited intellectuals who try to disarm you by telling you that you're frigid. They're just amusing.”
Source: MARJORIE MORNINGSTAR
“The Old Oak died just after sunset that day to an audience of a hundred pilots, all of them long dead and somehow all killing. None of them wept for her, not even Paxton, force-fed so much emotion he had no time to digest. But he could pity, and he did - he pitied the life she had lived and the future they had created for her. But not pity, no. She didn't deserve pity. The Old Oak deserved love, and he did, he loved her.”
Source: Androne
“The old oak, utterly transformed, draped in a tent of sappy dark green, basked faintly, undulating in the rays of the evening sun. Of the knotted fingers, the gnarled excrecenses, the aged grief and mistrust- nothing was to be seen. Through the rough, century-old bark, where there were no twigs, leaves had burst out so sappy, so young, that is was hard to believe that the aged creature had borne them. "Yes, that is the same tree," thought Prince Andrey, and all at once there came upon him an irrational, spring feeling of joy and renewal. All the best moments of his life rose to his memory at once. Austerlitz, with that lofty sky, and the dead, reproachful face of his wife, and Pierre on the ferry, and the girl, thrilled by the beauty of the night, and that night and that moon- it all rushed at once into his mind.”
Source: War and Peace
“The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well.”
Source: The poetical works of Samuel Woodworth
“The old
Old winds that blew
When chaos was, what do
They tell the clattered trees that I
Should weep?”
Source: Verse
“the old ones
hold their kiss
in stones.”
Source: Orbul de la Cină
“The Old Ones knew that life is not rare, but precious; not fragile, but vulnerable. Life is as deep as the seas in which it was born, as strong as the mountains that give it shelter, as universal as the stars themselves.”
Source: Mars Life
“The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen.”
Source: The Classic Horror Stories
“The old orchid hunter lay back on his pillow, his body limp... 'You'll curse the insects,' he said at least, 'and you'll curse the natives... The sun will burn you by day and the cold will shrivel you by night. You'll be racked by fever and tormented by a hundred discomforts, but you'll go on. For when a man falls in love with orchids, he'll do anything to possess the one he wants. It's like chasing a green-eyed woman or taking cocaine... it's a sort of madness.”
“The old order changes yielding place to new.”
“The old order changeth yielding place to new And God fulfills himself in many ways Lest one good custom should corrupt the world. Comfort thyself: what comfort is in me I have lived my life and that which I have done May he within himself make pure but thou If thou shouldst never see my face again Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.”
“The old order changeth, yielding place to new, and god fulfills himself in many ways, lest one good custom should corrupt the world.”
“The old order, it is good for the old. A farmer wants his son to be afraid of beautiful women, so that he will not leave home too soon, so he tells a story about how one drowned his brother’s cousin’s friend in a lake, not because he was a pig who deserved to be drowned, but because beautiful women are bad, and also witches. And it doesn’t matter that she didn’t ask to be beautiful, or to be born in a lake, or to live forever, or to not know how men breathe until they stop doing it.”
“The old Oriental shamans had a much different view when they recalled the movements of kung fu.”
Source: The Art of Stalking Parallel Perception: The Living Tapestry of Lujan Matus
“The old paradigm taught that if you had the right teaching, you will experience God. The new paradigm says that if you experience God, you will have the right teaching.”
“The old paradigm was pay to play. Now you get back what you authentically put in. You've got to be willing to play to play.”
“The old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal's heart).”
“The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century
“The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power. It was good for the skin to touch the earth and the old people liked to remove their moccasins and walk with bare feet on the sacred earth. Their tipis were built upon the earth and their altars were made of earth. The birds that flew into the air came to rest upon the earth and it was the final abiding place of all things that lived and grew. The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing.”
Source: Land of the Spotted Eagle
“The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power. The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing.”
Source: Land of the Spotted Eagle
“The old people must start talking and the young people must start listening.”
“The old people, they struggled, they fought the elements, they fought everything was against them here. The river, the summers and the heat. So finally when they settled Hurricane there and got the water on that bench, most of them left.”
“The old philosophy was that parents, especially mothers, caused their kids to become schizophrenic. Now we see that when a kid is this crazy, he'll make the family begin to seem crazy.”
“The old poets knew all along: the wilderness has an awful tongue, which teaches doubt.”
Source: The Sport of Kings
“The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.”
Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs
“The Old Poets Of China
Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe
that I do not want it. Now I understand
why the old poets of China went so far and high
into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.”
Source: Why I Wake Early
“The old politician maintain the chair for a lot of decades. So if we will lose the referendum, this is not a problem for me. It's a problem for the new generation of Italians. Because it's a lost opportunity.”
“The old pond, ah! A frog jumps in: The water's sound.”
“The old priest Peter Gilligan
Was weary night and day;
For half his flock were in their beds,
Or under green sods lay.”
Source: When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales
“The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.”
“The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North or the colonies - buying those houses and restoring them, and doing the three-generation thing, mouldering into the landscape, and the 'community,' identifying with the place in a familiar way.”
“The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.”
“The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse.”
Source: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography
“The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.”
Source: Romance and Reality