T Quotes
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“The optimization of cosmic darkness and of Earth's location within the dark universe that sacrifices neither the material needs of human beings nor their capacity to gain knowledge about the universe reflects masterful engineering at a level far beyond human capability- and even imagination. It testifies of a supernatural, superintelligent, superpowerful, fully deliberate Creator.”
“The optimum committee has no members.”
“The optimum frequency with which comedians should do a series is every year. I do one every three years. My audience is literally dying off.”
“The optimum human population of earth is zero.”
“The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.”
Source: The end of Utopia: a study of Aldous Huxley's Brave new world
“The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.”
Source: The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons
“The optimum portfolio depends on the various expectations of choices available and the degree of variance in performance which is tolerable. The greater the number of selections, the less will be the average year-to-year variation in actual versus expected results. Also, the lower will be the expected results, assuming different choices have different expectations of performance.”
“The option I'd really like," he says matter-of-factly, "is to build a life with you. A strong, put-together kind of life. I know you're pretty good at assembly yourself, probably better than I am, in fact. So maybe it could be... a joint project?”
Source: The Party Crasher
“The option is always on the table. When we [with Bjork] were starting as creative kids in the Eighties, we found each other. I was 19, she was 16 and a friendship was made.”
“The option of quitting has long been undervalued and underused... Quitters must not be frightened by the potentially cataclysmic outcome of a particular quit.”
Source: The Art of Quitting: When Enough is Enough
“The optometry industry profits immensely from most people’s blindness to the fact that civilization has made eye exercises a necessity for most people.”
“The opulence of Wilde is a bit too florid for Sherlock, who is a much darker character, ... fascinated by the human condition, but also overwhelmed by it.”
“The opulent cars, driving by maniac males on the boulevard,
A needy girl impetrating down on the roadway,
Desperate humans, varied lifestyle, fallacious feelings.
Everything ends in ones death!”
Source: Sensation of a Soul
“The Oracle at Delphi contained three maxims emblematic of Greek life. "Know yourself." "Nothing in excess." and, "Offer a guarantee and disaster threatens.”
Source: The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire
“The Oracle rose. As one, the three witches bowed. "See?" Bran jerked his thumb at the three women. "That's how a woman should treat a man. Next time you see me, I want you to do just like them.”
Source: Magic Burns
“The oracle’s mirror
waiting for the earth to unveil her
The wolf’s howl over snow
The quiet place inside you –
the vast knowing of the soul”
Source: Mystical Tides
“The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving.”
Source: Poetical Works: To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author
“The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Edition of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster, and Thomas Warton, to which is Prefixed, Newton's Life of Milton
“The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences.”
Source: The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition
“The orange juice was sweet, yet sour.
The taste of sorrow.”
Source: Orange: The Complete Collection, Volume 1
“The orange of the golden carp appeared at the edge of the pond. . . . We watched in silence at the beauty and grandeur of the great fish. Out of the corners of my eyes I saw Cico hold his hand to his breast as the golden carp glided by. Then with a switch of his powerful tail the golden carp disappeared into the shadowy water under the thicket.”
Source: Bless Me, Ultima
“The Orange Revolution in Ukraine is a good example of how people, who are robbed of their right to vote, can protest and put an end to dictatorship.”
“The Orange Revolution was a powerful example of democracy around the world. The people of Ukraine are continuing to shape their own future.”
“The orange sky is rolling across the sky like a severed head, gentle light glimmers in the ravines among the clouds, the banners of the sunset are fluttering above our heads. The stench of yesterday’s blood and slaughtered horses drips into the evening chill.”
“The orange tree took time to create this masterpiece.”
“The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.”
“The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.”
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished
“The orator yields to the inspiration of a transient occasion, and speaks to the mob, before him, to those who can hear him; but the writer, whose more equable life is his crowd which inspire the orator, speaks to the intellect and heart of mankind, to all in any age who can understand him.”
Source: Walden or, Life in the Woods
“The orator, who may be silent without danger, may praise without difficulty and without reluctance; and posterity will confess that the character of Theodosius might furnish the subject of a sincere and ample panegyric. The wisdom of his laws and the success of his arms rendered his administration respectable in the eyes both of his subjects and of his enemies. He loved and practised the virtues of domestic life, which seldom hold their residence in the palaces of kings.”
Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II: A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185 (A Modern Library E-Book)
“The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.”
Source: Plato
“The orb came about because I wanted to do this kitsch sweater for Prince Charles when he went hunting and fishing with his kilt on.”
“The orb of faelight bobbed ahead, illuminating the stone-hewn cell.
Cassian growled at what it revealed. Who it revealed.
Wholly different, no doubt, from the same young boy who now smiled at me.
Dark-haired, with eyes of crushing blue.
I started at the child's face- what I had not noticed that first time. What I had not understood.
It was Rhysand's face. The colouring, the eyes... it was my mate's face.
But the Carver's full, wide mouth curled into that hideous smile... That was my mouth. My father's mouth.
The hair on my arms rose. The Carver inclined his head in greeting- in greeting and in confirmation, as if he knew precisely what I realised. Who I had seen and was still seeing.
The High Lord's son. My son. Our son. Should we survive long enough to bear him.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“The orbit of every planet is an ellipse with the sun at one of the two foci.”
“The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it.”
Source: Max Bill
“The orca’s big brain was bigger than he had hoped—five times the size of a human’s and weighing in at nearly fifteen pounds. And this was from a young whale, not a mature adult. The brain was also more complicated than McGeer had imagined—more complicated than a human brain. Dolphin brains were impressive, but this brain was spectacular.”
Source: The Killer Whale Who Changed the World
“The orchard where they stood was on higher ground than the farmhouse, which nestled like a white dove beneath hemlocks and the tall protecting elms. The fields, checkered by stone walls, undulated gently toward the sapphire strip of the distant Sound. A late October haze, faintly lavender, filtered the clear air, and intensified the perfume of burning leaves. Maples on the Cat Rock Hills blazed red and gold, colors repeated even more strongly by a riot of sumach and goldenrod against the gray wall of the little burying ground. Buttercup's bell tinkled rhythmically, as Seth guided her toward the barn and the evening milking.”
Source: Dragonwyck
“The orchestra concludes to a merry burst of applause and the orchestra slides into a waltz—a much-needed chance for the dancers to catch their breath, perhaps even an opportunity for the whispering of urgent secrets and tender promises...”
Source: Marley
“The orchestra was composed of Rivan musicians under the direction of a fussy Arendish concertmaster, who strove mightily to keep the independent Rivans from improvising on those melodies which pleased them.”
Source: Enchanters' End Game
“The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies, It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess'd them”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
“The orchestra's an amazing instrument, but I don't want to just arrange my songs for it. I think that might be kind of boring and a little bit overdramatic, perhaps. I'm still just having too much fun doing it my way, for the time being.”
“The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.”
“The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment.”
“The orchid is Mother Nature's masterpiece.”
“The orchid, queen of exoticism, a mute observer slow to reveal the mysteries of her petals. Would that I had such patience, too. -DB”
Source: Scent of Triumph
“The orcs grew closer, the dark smudge growing.
He felt, more than saw, the elf take her place at his side. Ash knew there was no way two fighters—even good ones—could stop an onslaught like this. The elf was young. Inexperienced. It pained him that she’d die here.”
Source: Switchback
“The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy.”
Source: The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private Not Hitherto Published
“The ordeal is not that truth does not win; it is that it wins in the end.”
“The ordeal is part of the commitment"
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“The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.”
Source: Population: The First Essay
“The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.”
Source: Ethics: with The Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect and Selected Letters