T Quotes
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“the patriotic or religious bumper stickers always seem to be on the biggest, most disgustingly selfish vehicles driven by the ugliest, most inconsiderate and aggressive drivers, who are usually talking on cell phones as they cut people off in order to get just twenty stupid feet ahead in the traffic jam...”
Source: This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
“The patriotic spirit demands loyal and strict adherence to nonviolence and truth.”
“The Patriotic Trait is to Improve.”
“The Patriots deflated balls are but an allegory for America's deflated balls in dealings with Putin, the Mullahs in Iran, and Islamic terrorists.”
“The Patriots erred in the Boston Tea Party: they seized Oligarch tea & dumped it in the sea but left Oligarch gold untouched. It's that gold that has troubled the nation from that day to this. Next time, go for the gold. Hence these words: "... yes, not British tea but Oligarch gold must down Boston harbour go ...”
Source: The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock
“The Patriots had picked Brady in the sixth round, and he soon turned out to be one of the two or three best quarterbacks in the League, and absolutely perfect for the Belichick system and for the team's offense. So, as the team continued to make a series of very good calls on other player personnel choices, there was a general tendency to talk about how brilliant Pioli and Belichick were, and to regard Pioli as the best young player personnel man in the League. Just to remind himself not to believe all the hype and that he could readily have screwed up on that draft, Pioli kept on his desk a photo of Brady, along with a photo of the team's fifth-round traft choice, the man he had taken ahead of Brady: Dave Stachelski. He was a Tight End from Boise State who never a played a down for New England. Stachelski was taken with the 141st pick, Brady with the 199th one. 'If I was so smart,' Pioli liked to say, 'I wouldn't have risked an entire round of the draft in picking Brady.”
Source: The Education of a Coach
“The patriots of 1776 had far more to fear from Benedict Arnold than they did King George. An enemy easily identified is much less formidable than one who marches in the uniform of an ally.”
“The patrol system leads each boy to see that he has some individual responsibility for the good of his patrol.”
Source: Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium
“The patron gets comfortable in bed and opens up the book -- it opens tentatively -- and the patron bends the open book backward until there is a satisfying crack and the book is a little more supple, a little easier to read. The book spine has just been broken, and a broken spine means a more submissive book.”
“The Patron of true Holinesse,
Foule Errour doth defeate:
Hypocrisie him to entrappe,
Doth to his home entreate.”
Source: Spenser. Book i of The faery queene, ed. by G.W. Kitchin
“The patronage state is an arrogant state. It assumes it can spend your money better than you do. Yet it expects you to work for it in the first place.”
“The patter of tentative footfalls reached my ears. I flipped on my side to face the door and saw Ansel wander by. I rolled onto my back, rubbing sleep from my eyes. I'd crashed on my bed as soons as I'd gotten back from school, collapsing under the weight of the day.
The floorboards squeaked as Ansel passed by my door again. I caught his nervous glance in my direction before he hurried down the hall.
'Ansel, I'm not the sun; stop orbiting and get in here,' I called.”
Source: Nightshade
“The patter of their feet as they walk through Jim Crow barriers to attend school is the thunder of the marching men of Joshua, and the world rocks beneath their tread.”
“The pattern didn’t change…
your awareness did.”
Source: Life Is Not Random: Enter the system that shapes your life
“The Pattern has a great deal to answer for. I don't know that any man is worth this.”
Source: The Great Hunt
“The pattern is clear: if we could speed up time, it would seem as if the global economy is crashing against the earth - the Great Collision.”
Source: The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability
“The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.The Sunday World was a dry-stall interlude in my wanderings.”
Source: Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer
“The pattern of American presidential elections is that the more optimistic candidate, whether it's John Kennedy and let's get America moving again, Ronald Reagan, it's morning in America, or Barack Obama, yes, we can, always wins, or nearly always wins.”
“The pattern of discrimination that allows this discrimination was set in the founding of the United States.”
“The pattern of disease or injury that affects any group of people is never a matter of chance. It is invariable the expression of stresses and strains to which they were exposed, a response to everything in their environment and behavior.”
Source: Bones, Bodies and Disease: Evidence of Disease and Abnormality in Early Man
“The pattern of life is plain enough. The world shrinks. It will eventually be unified.”
Source: The Wild Flag: Editorials from the New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters
“The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.”
“The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.”
Source: Absolute Answers to Prodigal Problems
“The pattern of your breathing affects the pattern of your performance. When you are under stress, deep breathing helps bring your mind and body back into the present.Over the years I have handed out thousands of little stickers to athletes that read ‘Breathe and Focus.’ A baseball player will place the bright orange circle on the shoulder of his uniform or underneath the bill of his cap, or on the barrel of his bat. A hockey player might affix it to his stick. Firefighters I have worked with place the stickers on their self-contained breathing apparatus. The stickers serve as a reminder. Whenever they feel themselves growing anxious, breathe in energy. Breathe out negativity. Breathe in relaxation. Breathe out stress.”
“The pattern often has been entrenched since childhood... [abusive people] don't think that there is anything wrong with them because that is the way they were brought up in their family.”
“The pattern recognition power in our minds helps us see a helical structure in our DNA, and yet we are more focused on finding the face of God in clouds.”
Source: Random Cosmos
“The pattern sees you before you see it—slipping between moments, between thoughts. By the time you notice, it’s everywhere. Some doors open on their own—some were never closed.”
“The pattern's laid out on the bed With dozens of colors of thread But you've got the needle I guess that's the point in the end”
“THE PATTERNS - A HAIKU
Seven colors dance,
Random thoughts in time and space,
Patterns form our world.”
Source: On My Way To Infinity: A Seeker's Poetic Pilgrimage
“The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies; frequent coffeehouses and other liquid networks; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle; reinvent. Build a tangled bank.”
Source: Where Good Ideas Come From
“The patterns became even more vivid at Cardinal Hayes High School. That's when I began failing subjects and running away from home for days at a time.”
“The patterns have become unmistakable and undeniable. ... We have to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America.”
“The patterns of activity of neurons in sensory areas can be altered by patterns of attention. Experience coupled with attention leads to physical changes in the structure and future functioning of the nervous system. This leaves us with a clear physiological fact…moment by moment we choose and sculpt how our ever-changing minds will work. We choose who we will be in the next moment in a very real sense, and these choices are left embossed in physical form in our material selves.”
“The patterns of gratification are simple, and seem to fall into two patterns, the Great Bitch and the Poison Maiden.”
Source: the female eunuch
“The patterns that are normalized in the family - the whole idea that some people cook and some people eat, that some listen and others talk, and even that some people control others in very economic or even violent ways - that kind of hierarchy is what makes us vulnerable to believing in class hierarchy, to believing in racial hierarchy, and so on.”
“The patterns the whales used for communication, the three-dimensional shapes, as transparent to sound as solid objects, could express any concept. Any concept except, perhaps, vacuum, infinity, nothingness so complete it would never become anything. The nearest way she could try to describe it was with silence.”
Source: Superluminal
“The Patty Winters Show I taped this morning hasn't been watched yet. It's sixty minutes about women who've had mastectomies, which at seven-thirty, over breakfast, before the office, I couldn't bear to sit through, but after today - hanging out at the office, where the air-conditioning broke down, a tedious lunch with Cunningham at Odeon, my fucking Chinese cleaners unable to get bloodstains out of another Soprani jacket, four videotapes overdue that ended up costing me a fortune, a twenty-minute wait at the Stairmasters - I've adapted; these events have toughened me and I'm prepared to deal with this particular topic.”
Source: American Psycho
“The Patty Winters Show this morning was about Nazis and, inexplicably, I got a real charge out of watching it. Though I wasn't exactly charmed by their deeds, I didn't find them unsympathetic either, nor I might add did most of the members of the audience. One of the Nazis, in a rare display of humor, even juggled grapefruits and, delighted, I sat up in bed and clapped.”
Source: American Psycho
“The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.”
Source: Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)
“The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.”
“The pause in my story is a plot twist you must await for.”
“The pause is a part of the walk.”
“The pause is where wisdom takes its first breath.”
Source: The Calm Within the Storm: Leading Beyond Ego
“The pause isn't about perfection. It's about presence. Not every pause will yield profound insights. But every pause strengthens your capacity to see clearly when it matters most.”
Source: AI and the Art of Being Human: A practical guide to thriving with AI while rediscovering yourself in the process
“The pause makes you think the song will end. And then the song isn't really over, so you're relieved. But then the song does actually end, because every song ends, obviously, and THAT. TIME. THE. END. IS. FOR. REAL.”
“The pauses make it better. They make me wonder whether he's going to come to me, like the anticipation before a kiss. Will he or won't he?
But this is not a love story.”
Source: Cracked
“The paved path at Bald Hill always felt more like a promise than a trail—broad, human, predictable.”
Source: KILLER
“The pavement artist thought for a bit, then agreed. 'I can start tomorrow morning.'
'Good, good. But one question. Will you be able to draw enough to cover 300 feet? I mean, do you know enough different gods to fill the whole wall?'
The artist smiled. 'There is no difficulty. I can cover 300 miles if necessary. Using assorted religions and their gods, saints, and prophets. Hindu, Sikh, Judaic, Christian, Muslim, Zoroastrian, Buddhist, Jainist. Actually, Hinduism alone can produce enough. But I always like to mix them up, include a variety in my drawings. Makes me feel I am doing something to promote tolerance and understanding in the world.”
Source: Such a Long Journey
“The pavements were blocks of ice under my feet, and I could feel the cold through the soles of my shoes. I thought about the past ... The terrifying blackouts of my youth. I thought about never seeing my sister again. I thought about [girl]. First scared, then alone, then dead.”
Source: Sirens
“The Pavlik fight was the first time I heard the masses put the word knockout attached to my opponent. I'm real keen on what people say. Ninety percent of it might be garbage, but something in there might be the plan. That woke me up and I knew I wanted to destroy.”