T Quotes
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“The papers were pleased. "She is kept by the nation as a spectacle," claimed the Penny Satirist, establishing a current of thought that would flow through Victoria's whole reign, "and it is right that she should be seen. In fact, it is her duty to come out and show herself, that we may have value for our money.”
Source: Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow
“The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.”
Source: 1984
“The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there: Then looking up and round the prospect wide, When did Praxiteles see me thus? she cried.”
“The paprika was in fact brought to Europe by the Spaniards, probably from Southern Mexico or Peru. The first shipment was apparently sent by a colleague of Columbus in 1494. It seems to have arrived in Hungary sometime in the sixteenth century, brought by people fleeing from the Turks, for the plant had found its way from Spain to the Balkans and was known in Hungary as 'heathen' or 'Turkish' pepper. Since then it has become the characteristic spice of Hungarian cuisine.”
Source: Roads That Move: A Journey through Eastern Europe
“The parable of the prodigal son, the most beautiful fiction that ever was invented; our Saviour's speech to His disciples, with which He closed His earthly ministrations, full of the sublimest dignity and tenderest affection, surpass everything that I ever read; and like the spirit by which they were dictated, fly directly to the heart.”
Source: Letters of William Cowper; being a selection from his correspondence: with a sketch of his life, and biographical notices of his correspondents. [With a portrait.]
“The parable of the talents is a good analogy of what happens when we give. When we merely try to hold on to what is given or entrusted to us, life may seem to take away even that. But when we choose to use what life has given us, the return of abundance can include friendship, companionship, financial blessings, homes, transportation, and security in wonderful ways. The universe holds nothing back from the one who lovingly and sincerely gives.”
“The parade was here, but it disappeared around a corner.”
“The paradigm helps a person identify the thought system, which is almost always false, that is behind the rationale for the continuation of excuses. It helps them really look at excuses from an objective point of view and realize that everything they've been thinking is just as likely to be not true as it is to be true.”
“The paradigm I want to change is that, you can have a car that is beautiful, manufacturable, affordable, safe, fast, and oh, by the way, does 100 mpg, or its energy equivalent. Why wouldn't you?”
“The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way.”
Source: Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman
“The paradigm of 'Humanism' even if it's ' SPIRITUAL' separates humans from God and it's a natural feeling to separate you
from the divine after all you're simply corporeal and the divine is not.”
“The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.”
“The paradigm of the development of natural resource-based industry - meatpacking, lard, timber, iron and coal, grain. Cincinnati's lard processing plants looked a lot like JDR's oil refineries thirty years later.”
“The paradigm of Western culture is that the essence of persons is dangerous; thus, they must be taught, guided, and controlled by those with superior authority.”
Source: A Way of Being
“The paradise of prayers is like a palace full of precious things.”
“The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.”
Source: The Man Who Laughs
“The paradox for boys is that in order to be worthy of connection they must prove themselves invulnerable, button down warriors in the world's emotional market place.”
Source: How Can I Get Through to You?: Closing the Intimacy Gap Between Men and Women
“The paradox in China is that while some things change very rapidly, others don't. The appearance of its cities may be entirely different, but the inner workings behind these changes still persist: the regulation of society, the hierarchies of power, the relationship of the individual to the majority.”
“The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard of measure and the end is superhuman; and there is only one relationship possible: faith.”
“The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction in and by its very effort to transcribe visual appearance with ever greater fidelity.”
“The paradox is “a situation, person, or thing that combines contradictory features or qualities.”
Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as
“The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.”
Source: Science and the Modern World
“The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.”
“The paradox is that by the time you get to be senior, the decisions that matter the most are the ones that would be best made made by people who are junior.”
“The paradox is that exactly the reverse is true. Everything that’s really worthwhile in life came to us free; our minds, our souls, our bodies, our hopes, our dreams, our ambitions, our intelligence, our love of family and children and friends and country. All these priceless possessions are free.
But the things that cost us money are actually very cheap and can be replaced at any time. A good man can be completely wiped out and make another fortune. He can do that several times. Even if our home burns down, we can rebuild it. But the things we got for nothing, we can never replace.”
Source: How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds
“The paradox is that hedonism, the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake,
leads to anhedonia, which is the inability to enjoy pleasure of any kind.”
Source: Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
“The paradox is that no love can prove so intense as the love of two narcissists for each other.”
Source: The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing
“The paradox is that, we attempt to disown our stories to appear whole and acceptable, but our wholeness is grounded in the acknowledgement of our brokenness. Hanging from the ragged edge, you learn to resurface with what is truly whole.”
“The paradox is that we can only truly love each other when we also love something beyond each other.”
Source: The Secret Tradition of the Soul
“The paradox is that we have this amazing capacity in our minds and hearts to learn and gain insights and then to build a kind of personal storehouse of knowledge. The underside is that those insights harden and fill the spaces in our hearts and minds. They become assumptions, conclusions and judgments.”
Source: Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred
“The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.”
“The paradox is that when you plan to avoid suffering, you spend most of your time thinking about suffering, which traps you in a prison of suffering.”
“The paradox is that, by children taking shortcuts through computer games, through fantasies, through movies that load on all the emotional stimulation of encountering life in a stylized way - all of this is the equivalent of mainlining of paleolithic emotions, emotions about combat, about personal success, about overcoming monsters, about making powerful friendships, about winning wars and entering new territory.”
“The paradox is that, while a concern with past and future is obviously central to psychological functioning, to behave as though one were indeed in the past or future, as many do, pollutes the lively possibilities of existence.”
Source: Gestalt therapy integrated: contours of theory and practice
“The paradox is the seed of truth. This germ just needs a fertile ground to flourish and bear fruit.”
“The paradox of acceptance: When our mind becomes less attached and dependent on things being a certain way our happiness in life dramatically improves.”
“The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows.”
“The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.”
“The paradox of challenges; we become what we ought to be.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“The Paradox of Choice: Faced with hundreds or even thousands of profiles, we can become overwhelmed and indecisive.”
Source: The Therapist's Handbook for Modern Dating: From First Move to First Date
“The paradox of choice: the more options we're given, the less satisfied we become with whatever we choose, because we're aware of all the other options we're potentially forfeiting. ...Pursuing a breadth of experience denies us the opportunity to experience the rewards of depth of experience. ...commitment, in its own way, offers a wealth of opportunity and experiences that would otherwise never be available to me, no matter where I went or what I did. When you're pursuing a wide breadth of experience, there are diminishing returns to each new adventure.”
Source: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
“The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.”
Source: Age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914-1991
“The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.”
“The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.”
“The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions, to say to himself this is black or this is white, to decide for himself whether there is a God in heaven or not. To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity. But no society is really anxious to have that kind of person around.”
“The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and lasting happiness.”
“The paradox of friendship is that it is both the strongest thing in the world and the most fragile. Wild horses cannot separate friends, but whining words can. A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.”
Source: Strictly personal
“The paradox of impact is that while design shapes the world in profound ways, it is also being shaped by the world. Design as a process necessarily interfaces with many other systems to shape and redefine the world and our human experience within it. Designers and design in general is, however, uniquely situated to be critical mediators between the various entities, forces, and agendas that are constantly at work in developing the future that we collectively and individually want.”
Source: Solving Critical Design Problems: Theory and Practice
“The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.”
“The paradox of innovation is this: CEO's often complain about lack of innovation, while workers often say leaders are hostile to new ideas.”