T Quotes
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“The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little difference whether they are young or old; and they die as they have lived, with graceful resignation.”
Source: Twenty-two Essays of William Hazlitt
“The only true riches are those that make us rich in virtue. Therefore, if you want to be rich, beloved, love true riches. If you aspire to the heights of real honor, strive to reach the kingdom of Heaven. If you value rank and renown, hasten to be enrolled in the heavenly court of the Angels.”
“The only true rule for cavalry is to follow the enemy as long as he retreats.”
“The only true satisfaction a player receives is the satisfaction that comes from being part of a successful team, regardless of his personal accomplishments.”
“The only true satisfaction we can seek is the satisfaction of being obedient to the Lord.”
“The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.”
“The only true solutions to complex systemic problems are piecemeal, multi-pronged answers, and they will vary wildly from forest to desert, from city to city, and even between neighborhoods within a single city. Life is messy and civilization even messier. If your answer is ever any less messy, you’re fooling yourself.”
Source: The Siege of Skyhold
“The only true source of inspiration is to be an inspiration.”
“The only true source of politeness is consideration,--that vigilant moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, and the sensibilities of others. This is the one quality, over all others, necessary to make a gentleman.”
Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside
“The only true source of politeness is consideration.”
Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside
“The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.”
Source: Circle of Flight: The Ellie Chronicles 3: The Ellie Chronicles
“The only true test of loyalty is fidelity in the face of ruin and despair.”
Source: Loyalty: The Vexing Virtue
“The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.”
“The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself; the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his.”
Source: Essays of Elia
“The only true “us and them” situation is the cult owned leaders versus the citizens in every country. Sadly though, the “us and them” psychological manipulation weapon which was realized in ancient times by the cult, is so effective that the majority of citizens in every country will probably never realize this until it is too late, and the New World Order with a one world government policed by a universal police force and army will be implemented, unless the majority of citizens wake up to this plan to enslave and depopulate the entire human race, which has existed for many centuries.”
“The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.”
Source: Seventh Son and Red Prophet
“the only true vote we have (and have retained for the entirety of modern American history) is spending power. The almighty dollar is still more influential than speeches and campaigns.”
“The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.”
Source: Remembrance of Things Past
“The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes.”
“The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is; and this we do [with great artists]; with artists like these we do really fly from star to star.”
Source: The captive, The fugitive
“the only true way to be victorious is to surrender. To each other. To love. To the higher power.”
Source: Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
“The only true worship is extreme worship, and only extreme worship brings extreme results – transformation.”
Source: Face to Face with God
“The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.”
“The only truly alien planet is Earth.”
Source: Concrete Island
“The only truly anonymous donor is the guy who knocks up your daughter.”
“The only truly consistent are the dead.”
“The only truly dependable production technologies are those that are sustainable over the long term. By that very definition, they must avoid erosion, pollution, environmental degradation, and resource waste. Any rational food-production system will emphasize the well-being of the soil-air-water biosphere, the creatures which inhabit it, and the human beings who depend upon it.”
“The only truly individualistic health-care choice - where you receive care that is unpolluted by anyone else’s funds - is to forgo insurance altogether, paying out-of-pocket for health services as you need them.”
“The only truly intersting side of the matter was the intimate design of the injury, the fact that it was so penetrating, custom-made exactly to your measure. It's fascinating that hatred should be so personal as to be almost loving. The knife and the wound aching for each other.”
Source: Herzog
“The only truly new ideas [the right] has come up with in the last twenty years are (1) supply side economics, which is a way of redistributing the wealth upward toward those who already have more than they know what to do with, and (2) creationism, which is a parallel idea for redistributing ignorance out from its fundamentalist strongholds to those who know more than they need to.”
Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
“The only truly safe thing you can do is to try over and over again. To go for it, to get rejected, to repeat, to strive, to wish. Without rejection there is no frontier, there is no passion, and there is no magic.”
“The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards.”
“The only truly shocking thing about last Tuesday's election is that the Democrats didn't do far worse, or as badly as they deserved.”
“The only Trump constant seems to be his unpredictability. America lives in a state of constant turmoil. There were those who thought maybe that would calm down when he became president, but what has happened is that the pressures of the presidency have actually exaggerated those tendencies.”
“The only trust required is to know that when there is one ending there will be another beginning.”
Source: Women Who Run With the Wolves
“The only trust we need is that of our own judgment and choices about what is best for us.”
Source: Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead
“the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your
mouth
and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are”
Source: Odes
“The only truth is love beyond reason.”
“The only truth is music.”
Source: The Portable Jack Kerouac
“The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.”
Source: Near to the Wild Heart
“The only truth is that we cannot speak the truth . The only acceptable viewpoint is that we cannot express a viewpoint.”
“The only truth is within you
Pessimist people
Refute and dispute
I speak from deep in the root
The spirit
The soul
The self
Guide me through life's commute
I'm just admiring the view”
Source: Awakenigma Allegory Anomalous
“The only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.”
Source: The Name of the Rose
“The only ‘truth’ that we can bring to bear in the pursuit of our greed is the truth of its absence in the pursuit.”
“The only truth was whatever you could make someone believe.”
“The only truth which she could discover was the truth of what she herself felt.”
Source: Night and Day
“The only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away.”
Source: The Name of the Rose
“The only truths we can point to are the ever-changing truths of our own experience.”
Source: Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman
“The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.”