T Quotes
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“The people want wholesome dread. They want to fear something. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive.”
“The people wanted to believe that the Negroes couldn't learn to read music but had a natural talent for it. So we never played with no music. I'd get all the latest Broadway music from the publisher, and we'd learn the tunes and rehearse them until we had them all down pat- never made no mistakes. All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music?”
“The people we are in relationships with are always a mirror, reflecting our own beliefs, and simultaneously we are mirrors, reflecting their beliefs.”
Source: The Shakti Gawain Essentials: 3 Books in 1: Creative Visualization, Living in the Light & Developing Intuition
“The people we call the prophets I think are the earliest dissident intellectuals, and they're treated like most dissident intellectuals - very badly. They're imprisoned, driven into the desert. King Ahab, the epitome of evil in the Bible, condemned Elijah as a "hater of Israel." This is the first self-hating Jew, the origin of the term. It goes right up to the present. That's the history of intellectuals.”
“The people we care about are always worth more to us than the people we don't.”
Source: The Evolution of Mara Dyer
“The people we care about are always worth more to us than the people we don't. No matter what anyone pretends.”
Source: The Evolution of Mara Dyer
“The people we care for aren't always the one we should”
“The people we consider successful in our society are all people that seize every moment and make the best of each situation.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“The people we’d want to share it all with die before we get it.”
“The people we elect aren't bipartisan. The American public is bipartisan.”
“The people we find truly anathema are the ones who reduce the past to caricature and distort
it to fit their own bigoted stereotypes. We’ve gone to events that claimed to be historic fashion
shows but turned out to be gaudy polyester parades with no shadow of reality behind them. As
we heard our ancestors mocked and bigoted stereotypes presented as facts, we felt like we had
gone to an event advertised as an NAACP convention only to discover it was actually a minstrel
show featuring actors in blackface. Some so-called “living history” events really are that bigoted.
When we object to history being degraded this way, the guilty parties shout that they are “just
having fun.” What they are really doing is attacking a past that cannot defend itself. Perhaps
they are having fun, but it is the sort of fun a schoolyard brute has at the expense of a child who
goes home bruised and weeping. It’s time someone stood up for the past.
I have always hated bullies. The instinct to attack difference can be seen in every social
species, but if humans truly desire to rise above barbarism, then we must cease acting like beasts.
The human race may have been born in mud and ignorance, but we are blessed with minds
sufficiently powerful to shape our behavior. Personal choices form the lives of individuals; the
sum of all interactions determine the nature of societies.
At present, it is politically fashionable in America to tolerate limited diversity based around
race, religion, and sexual orientation, yet following a trend does not equate with being truly
open-minded. There are people who proudly proclaim they support women’s rights, yet have an
appallingly limited definition of what those rights entail. (Currently, fashionable privileges are
voting, working outside the home, and easy divorce; some people would be dumbfounded at the
idea that creating beautiful things, working inside the home, and marriage are equally desirable
rights for many women.) In the eighteenth century, Voltaire declared, “I disagree with what you
say but I will fight to the death for your right to say it.”3 Many modern Americans seem to have
perverted this to, “I will fight to the death for your right to agree with what I say.”
When we stand up for history, we are in our way standing up for all true diversity. When we
question stereotypes and fight ignorance about the past, we force people to question ignorance in
general.”
Source: This Victorian Life: Modern Adventures in Nineteenth-Century Culture, Cooking, Fashion, and Technology
“The people we get along with, trust, feel simpatico with, are the strongest links in our networks”
Source: Working with Emotional Intelligence
“The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.”
“The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour.”
“The people we live with and work with on a daily basis deserve our full attention. When we give people segmented attention, piecemeal time, switching back and forth, the switching cost is higher than just the time involved. We end up damaging relationships.”
“The people we lose never truly leave, but that only we get to define how they stay.”
Source: A Song of Wraiths and Ruin
“The people we love are the ones who hurt us most, after all.”
Source: The Fifth Season
“The people we love are usually stronger than we give them credit for. It is the nature of love, perhaps, to want to shoulder all the pain rather than see the loved one suffer. But sometimes pain is better than emptiness. I have been so empty Kit. All my life. So full of emptiness. That is strange paradox is nit not - full of emptiness?”
Source: A Summer To Remember: Number 2 in series
“The People We Marry Are Not the People We Divorce”
Source: Please Don't Say You're Sorry: An Empowering Perspective on Marriage, Separation, and Divorce from a Marriage-Loving Divorce Attorney
“The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created.”
Source: The Long Goodbye: A Memoir
“The people we talk about around water cooler at work or at school, they're all the people who are visible in our media whether it's a sports star or a movie star or a writer or a politician. They are people that have received media exposure and have become important to us in a way that's not realistic.”
“The people we think are brilliant today will be presumed wrong years later." Uncle Henry”
Source: Working for Uncle Henry
“The people we want to see devastated in a war are not ordinary people who are innocent victims of war, but despicable politicians who started this war!”
“The people we welcome into our beginnings influence where we go”
Source: The Summer We Forgot
“The people we're related to are the ones we go to for comfort, support. We connect with kin when the rest of the world seems hostile. Within our family, we are free to be ourselves, to have bad mood days, say hurtful stuff, get it off our chests. We know we'll always be forgiven.”
“The people we've known the longest are often the people we know the least.”
“The people were divided into the persecuted and those who persecuted them. That wild beast, which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free. The signal was given, the barriers were down. As has so often happened in the history of man, permission was tacitly granted for acts of violence and plunder, even for murder, if they were carried out in the name of higher interests, according to established rules, and against a limited number of men of a particular type and belief....In a few minutes the business quarter, based on centuries of tradition, was wiped out. It is true that there had always been concealed enmities and jealousies and religious intolerance, coarseness and cruelty, but there had also been courage and fellowship and a feeling for measure and order, which restrained all these instincts within the limits of the supportable and, in the end, calmed them down and submitted them to the general interest of life in common. Men who had been leaders in the commercial quarter for forty years vanished overnight as if they had all died suddenly, together with the habits, customs and institutions which they represented.
p. 11”
Source: Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War
“The people were divided into the persecuted and those who persecuted them. That wile beast, which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free. The signal was given, the barriers were down. As has so often happened in the history of man, permission was tacitly granted for acts of violence and plunder, even for murder, if they were carried out in the name of higher interests, according to established rules, and against a limited number of men of a particular type and belief....In a few minutes the business quarter, based on centuries of tradition, was wiped out. It is true that there had always been concealed enmities and jealousies and religious intolerance, coarseness and cruelty, but there had also been courage and fellowship and a feeling for measure and order, which restrained all these instincts within the limits of the supportable and, in the end, calmed them down and submitted them to the general interest of life in common. Men who had been leaders in the commercial quarter for forty years vanished overnight as if they had all died suddenly, together with the habits, customs and institutions which they represented.
p. 11”
Source: Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War
“The people were just so lovely and accommodating and had really interesting questions and it was just interesting to see how the show is actually received in so many different countries.”
“The people were merely to acknowledge the authority of the Fuehrer, or, let us say, to declare themselves in agreement with the Fuehrer. If they gave the Fuehrer their confidence then it was their concern to exercise the other functions. Thus, not the individual persons were to be selected according to the will of the people, but solely the leadership itself.”
“The people were shocked to find out that their vote is worthless because of the major fraud that takes place in Iraq.”
“The people were wrapped in rags given to them by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA. Rags originally "donated by the American people." The girls walked around wearing baseball hats. Out of the sacks our UNRWA flour rations came in mothers cut underpants for their sons. I often walked around with my behind covered with a handshake and the proclamation that the contents were a "gift from the American people.”
Source: Soul in Exile
“The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.”
“The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.”
“The people who actually make the advances in theoretical physics don't think in these categories that the philosophers and the historians of science subsequently invent for them”
Source: Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
“The people who are abroad are all those that have no religion, neither one based on speculation nor one received by tradition. Such are the extreme Turks that wander about in the north, the Kushites who live in the south, and those in our country who are like these. I consider these as irrational beings, and not as human beings; they are below mankind, but above monkeys, since they have the form and shape of man, and a mental faculty above that of the monkey.”
Source: The Guide for the Perplexed
“The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.”
“The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.”
Source: Poor Russell's almanac
“The people who are behind the curve of the Catholic future are the institutional-maintenance types.”
“The people who are best at any job have their own way of doing things.”
“The people who are buying stocks because they're going up and they don't know what they do, deserve to lose money.”
“The people who are confused about the rebirth process should not even bother to get concerned about the death process but should sit for concentration initially followed by meditation unconditionally.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“The people who are constantly striving to apply skepticism to everything in their lives, the ones who actually care enough about truth and [care to try to] avoid being wrong, and biased, and prejudiced, and clueless; those are the people we need, and need to be.”
“the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”
“The people who are doing really well and who are getting stopped in airports are the people who are going to say the more outrageous things and get on TV and state their opinion on a regular basis.”
“The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.”
“The people who are filing for bankruptcy in increasing numbers every year, it's not the poorest. It's not the people at the economic fringes. It's people who worked hard and played by the rules.”
“The people who are getting rich can't imagine that the world is not a better place.”
“The people who are going into music who hunger, they're going into pop music. There are some badass women who are ambitious and hungry and brave, and they're in pop.”
“The people who are going to be succeeding are not going to be waiting around for anyone's permission.”