T Quotes
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“The PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award is a way of spotlighting individual cases. If you look at the history of the award, the freedom rate is very high: a very high percentage of people who receive those awards are freed in the next six months to a year. The only weapon there is attention, but interestingly it works.”
“The penal code deals with things like theft, false testimony, adultery, fornication, etc. and then there's the law of the state, the law of the individual and the law of the public.”
“The penalties for being an accessory to the attempt to flee the [GDR] were greater than the crime of trying to flee itself.”
“The penalties for homosexual conduct were - would vary from state to state, but they were - it was a felony in most states punishable with prison terms of varying lengths.”
“The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.”
“The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.”
“The penalty for getting the woman you want is that you must keep her.”
“The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.”
“The penalty for planting the wrong thing in the wrong place is death.”
Source: Mrs. Greenthumbs Plows Ahead: Five Steps to the Drop-Dead Gorgeous Garden of Your Dreams
“The penalty for procrastination is the loss of hopes and dreams.”
“The penalty for sin is death. The simple fact that we die means there is sin in our lives - even when we are doing many good works. The only way we can enter into life is by receiving the life of Jesus Christ. He is the only righteous one, so it is by His Spirit indwelling us that we receive righteousness and life. Good works will not cut it. That is a spiritual law.”
Source: The Seduction Of Eve
“The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.”
“The penalty is death: yet hope of gain Hath lured men to their ruin oftentimes.”
Source: Antigone
“The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.”
“The penalty of affluence is that it cuts one off from the common lot, common experience, and common fellowship. In a sense it outlaws one automatically from one's birthright of membership in the great human family.”
“The penalty of death is the only one that makes an injustice absolutely irreparable; from which it follows that the existence of the death penalty implies that one is exposed to committing an irreparable injustice; from which it follows that it is unjust to establish it. This reasoning appears to us to have the force of a demonstration.”
“The penalty of greatness is to write autographs.”
“The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.”
“The penance and renunciation that one is told to do is actually under the authority of the non-Self (parsatta). So how can that happen? Penance-renunciation, it is all a resultant effect of the non-Self (parparinaam). It is neither an effect of the Self (Swaparinaam) nor is it independent (swadhin).”
Source: The Science Of Karma
“The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.”
“The pencil is mightier than the pen.”
“The pencil marks on the kitchen wall
still show our heights at age seven.
He’s twenty now.
We haven’t spoken in five.
There is no equation for that kind of distance.
Only a shelf of fractions,
and an ache
still growing
against the wall.”
Source: A Shelf of Things I Never Said
“The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.”
“The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.”
“The pencil you leave it there, and it's dead. It doesn't do anything and it doesn't move by itself. It doesn't offer anything; it's totally submissive to you.”
“The pencil-stroke is like cutting into the heart.”
“The pending merger with XM will offer unprecedented choice for consumers and create tremendous value for stockholders.”
“The pendulum has overcorrected from the cruel era of rapping a disobedient child’s knuckles with a ruler to
giving every child a trophy for showing up. Every child should have the experience of being loved unconditionally, supported, and encouraged,
but this requires more than a standing ovation every time he or she enters the room.”
Source: Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Surviving a Relationship with a Narcissist
“The pendulum is swinging back toward misogyny as liberal Europe changes to accommodate migrant cultures. Adaptation is happening, but it’s happening the other way around. Progress is not only not inevitable; in this case, it is reversing.”
Source: Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
“The pendulum of cookery techniques became more significant than the actual experience. And when that happens, the customer's satisfaction becomes secondary to the chef's satisfaction. And in that case, you have an upside-down equation. Because the customer is the basis of our restaurant, first of all, and if the chef becomes the most important person at the table - even more so than the guests - then suddenly you're left with something that doesn't really work.”
“The pendulum of economic power might well begin to shift from capital back to labor.”
“The pendulum of mathematics swings back and forth towards abstraction and away from it with a timing that remains to be estimated.”
Source: Indiscrete Thoughts
“The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
“The pendulum of your mind is going to the extremes because you are going with it. Leave it alone. It will slow down and ultimately stop. Just remain at the center and watch how it tries to tempt you to get a push.”
“The pendulum oscillates between these two terms: Suffering-that opens a window on the real and is the main condition of the artistic experience, and Boredom ... that must be considered as the most tolerable because the most durable of human evils.”
Source: The collected works of Samuel Beckett
“The pendulum swings between Light and Darkness”
“The penetrating brilliance of swords, wielded by followers of the Way, strikes at the evil enemy, lurking deep within, their own souls and bodies.”
Source: The Art of Peace
“The penetration of society by the Internet and the penetration of the Internet by society is the best thing that has ever happened to global human civilisation.”
“The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.”
Source: The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940
“The penguin doesn't know it's cute, and the leopard seal doesn't know it's kind of big and monstrous. This is just the food chain unfolding.”
“The penguins that spent most of their time fighting were the ones with no chicks...It's like they're supposed to be taking care of their chicks. But because they don't have any, they have nothing to do with all their energy. So they just pick fights.”
Source: Where'd You Go, Bernadette
“The Peninsula is what we have and there is no more where it came from.”
“The penis is always depicted as
sufficient in itself, the genital equivalent of the Eye of Sauron.”
“The Pennsylvania Game Commission has charged a man with going deer hunting with a handgun in a Wal-Mart parking lot. He is being charged with reckless endangerment, but may plead guilty to the lesser charge of being a redneck.... Hunting in a Wal-Mart parking lot. That's got to be some good eating a deer that lives on leftover Twizzlers and Mountain Dew.”
“The penny-papers of New York do more to govern this country than the White House at Washington.”
Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters
“The Penobscot took an initial poll of people in the state to determine if there was support for opening a casino, and the poll came back very favorable. As we moved forward, a commercial was aired that said if the tribe opened a casino the law would allow kids to gamble and had an image of a kid pulling a slot machine. Here it was our idea and we got massacred, and someone else ended up with what we wanted; it's sort of like history repeating itself.”
“The pens sharpen – Islamophobia! No such thing. Primitive Middle Eastern religions, and most others, are much the same – Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust for women's bodies.”
“The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.”
“The Pension Dressler stood in a side street and had, at first glance, the air rather of a farm than of a hotel. Frau Dressler's pig, tethered by one hind trotter to the jamb of the front door, roamed the yard and disputed the kitchen scraps with the poultry. He was a prodigious beast. Frau Dressler's guests prodded him appreciatively on the way to the dining-room, speculating on how soon he would be ripe for killing. The milch-goat was allowed a narrower radius; those who kept strictly to the causeway were safe, but she never reconciled herself to this limitation and, day in, day out, essayed a series of meteoric onslaughts on the passers-by, ending, at the end of her rope, with a jerk which would have been death to an animal of any other species. One day the rope would break; she knew it, and so did Frau Dressler's guests.”
Source: Scoop
“The Penster is a capitalism lens of guiding development of the global civilization of human being; the book is coverage the tension of life.”