T Quotes
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“The oldest form of the Choral Dance is the circle. Even the chimpanzees dance in a circle, and people of every continent still do it.”
“The oldest form of theater is the dinner table.”
“The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot.”
“The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.”
Source: If I lived my life again
“The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs.”
Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth
“The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.”
“The oldest philosophy in the world is conservatism, and I go clear back to the first Greeks. ... When you say 'radical right' today, I think of these moneymaking ventures by fellows like Pat Robertson and others who are trying to take the Republican Party away from the Republican Party, and make a religious organization out of it. If that ever happens, kiss politics goodbye.”
“The oldest principle of composition: repeat everything.”
Source: Orfeo
“The oldest problem in economic education is how to exclude the incompetent. A certain glib mastery of verbiage-the ability to speak portentously and sententiously about the relation of money supply to the price level-is easy for the unlearned and may even be aided by a mildly enfeebled intellect. The requirement that there be ability to master difficult models, including ones for which mathematical competence is required, is a highly useful screening device.”
“The oldest profession [prostitution] is the most honest, for it exposes the bare bones of what civilization is all about. It's the root of all professions.”
Source: The Man Who Quit Money
“The oldest sibling always knows things that the younger ones don't.”
“The oldest sin is certainty. The second oldest is enforcing it.”
“The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.”
Source: Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)
“The oldest theory of art belongs to the Greeks, who regarded art as an imitation (mimesis) of reality. The strength of that theory is that it explains the way in which art takes its materials from real life.”
Source: The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing
“The oldest tree on earth has seen 5067 New Year; the oldest man, only 122 New Year! Can you see how limited number of New Years you have? And when something is very limited, it is damn precious!”
“The oldest Vedantic school, Advaita [‘Not two’], represents an extreme and purist position in arguing that Brahman alone is real. The self and the world are within Brahman, with any apparent difference arising from illusion [maya] and ignorance [avidya]. It is as with a rope, which seems to be a snake, or a seashell, which seems to be of silver. This world is like the foam on the sea, or a peacock’s egg, created simply for play [lila]. Since Brahman is all, Brahman is without attributes. When the mind, which is given to maya, tries to conceive of Brahman, it sees Ishvara in one of his many forms. If certain Upanishadic statements appear to be theistic, it is because their author (nominally, Brahman) is catering to his audience. Only in deep sleep, when we are no longer dreaming, might we experience something of the formlessness of Brahman. We are then pure, disengaged consciousness, like the sun after it has set. This is the experience of disembodied Atma, of death, of home.”
Source: Indian Mythology and Philosophy: The Vedas, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Kama Sutra… And How They Fit Together
“The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought.”
“The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.”
Source: Opera and Drama
“The Oldfields of the future are beyond hearing; they are shut up in the factories and the workshops, leading a rackety and mechanical existence, to the damage of their bodies and the peril of their souls, for the sake of an extra pound or so a week, which they promptly spend on mental or physical narcotics.”
Source: Merry Hall
“The oldness lies not always in the years and white or gray hairs; it may also depend on the mental and physical structure.”
“The oldness lies not always on the years and white or gray hairs; it may also depend on the mental and physical structure.”
“The oldOld winds that blewWhen chaos was, what doThey tell the clattered trees that IShould weep?”
“The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich.”
Source: Heretics
“The oligarchs are not philosophers; they pay people to be philosophers for them, and so the regnant ideology of the terminal phase of the American Empire is a mish-mash of Darwin, Nietzsche, and Foucault, as stitched together by Hollywood directors like Guillermo del Toro, (whose name translates into English as “of the bull”) and Bryan Singer for mass consumption. What they share is Nietzsche’s penchant for the transvaluation of all values (die Umwertung aller Werte) which entails role reversal as well.”
“The oligarchs do not care what justice is, only what seems just. They do not care what mercy is, only what appears merciful. Thus justice and mercy will always escape them.”
Source: In the Night Garden
“The oligarchs think that the people are both dangerous and stupid. Their point is moot. But we do know that the oligarchs are a good deal more dangerous to the polity than the people at large.”
Source: Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia
“The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something.”
Source: El color púrpura
“The Olive Garden is bringing back its 'Pasta Pass,' which lets you eat as much pasta as you want for seven weeks. In a related story, Chris Christie just suspended his campaign.”
“The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.”
“The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.”
“The olives are pressed for oil, the wood is burned cooking soup. Both are consumed. Art has a magic quality: the more minds that digest it, the longer it lives.”
Source: the Agony and the Ecstasy
“The Olivet Discourse is not about the Second Coming of Christ. It is a prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70.”
“The Olympian doesn't mind the pain in training, but his eyes are still on the prize; which is the gold medal at the end of the game.”
“The Olympian gods cannot have grand passions because they cannot die.”
“The Olympians were a reminder that there was always someone better than you, so you shouldn't get a big head.”
“The Olympic Charter says winter sports must be played on snow or ice, so the Chess Federation says they'll play with ice pieces. The Olympic charter also says sports must be sports.”
“The Olympic flag [] has a white background, with five interlaced rings in the centre: blue, yellow, black, green and red []. This design is symbolic; it represents the five continents of the world, united by Olympism, while the six colours are those that appear on all the national flags of the world at the present time.”
“The Olympic Games are always in the head of every sports athlete. We work for that.”
“The Olympic Games are for 'the youth of the world,' but they're organized and scored by countries. It's no surprise that countries treat them as vehicles of national pride, and assume that their people will be most interested in their own athletes. So anybody who was saving up to write an angry letter, blog post, or op-ed about NBC's chauvinistic coverage: don't bother! They're actually more above-the-fray than most. Also, their coverage is not shown anywhere except America - I know, it's because I can't get it that I'm watching Women's Air Pistol - so can't ruffle feathers elsewhere.”
“The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.”
“The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth. . . celebrated by each succeeding generation as it arrives on the threshold of adulthood.”
“The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.”
“The Olympic Games belong to the athletes and not to the politicians.”
“The Olympic Games is a celebration of discipline.”
“The Olympic Games is holy. Athletes from around the world, including myself, of course, dream to participate.”
“The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast program of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.”
“The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens.”
“The Olympic games should be a matter between individual athletes and the gods. Noisy flag-waving dishonors gods and men alike.”
“The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.”
“The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.”