T Quotes
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“The perfection of life with a gun dog, like the perfection of an Autumn, is disturbing because you know, even as it begins, that it must end. Time bestows the gift and steals it in the process”
“The perfection of mathematical beauty is such...that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent.”
“The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.”
Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
“The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.'”
“The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“The perfection of rottenness.”
“The perfection of Tawheed is found when there remains nothing in the heart except Allaah”
“The perfection of the effect demonstrates the perfection of the cause, for a greater power brings about a more perfect effect. But God is the most perfect agent. Therefore, things created by Him obtain perfection from Him. So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.”
Source: On the Truth of the Catholic Faith: God
“The perfection of the human state, al-insân al-kâmil, means the perfection of both the masculine and feminine qualities together, and is symbolized by the marriage of Imam 'Ali (the nephew and brother-in-law of Muhammad) and Fatima (the daughter of Muhammad).”
Source: Jesus, Muhammad and the Goddess
“The perfection of the soul is God's grace, it's totally depends on your humbleness, kindness and the main holiness.”
“The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
“The perfection of yoga is to become detached. And the perfection of detachment is to become completely attached, attached to God.”
“The perfection of yoga, therefore, does not terminate in voidness or impersonalism; on the contrary, the perfection of yoga is attained when one actually sees the Personality of Godhead in His eternal form.”
“The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.”
Source: The Edge of the Sword
“The perfection you see in others is the result of their hard work to overcome their imperfections, through timely corrections and adjustments, and by constantly learning from their failures and successes.”
Source: Science Behind A Perfect Life
“The perfectionist has difficulty achieving their goals, for they become bogged down in minute inconsequential details.”
“The perfectionist in her wanted to be sure he'd done it correctly, so she took a cautious step toward the edge of the roof, only to get here foot caught in the gauze. Cade jerked up on the roll, just as she stepped down. The fabric slipped between her legs. Up her thighs, all the way to her crotch. She froze. Her eyes went wide. Embarrassment colored her cheeks.
"Grace?" Cade's voice was deep, amused, questioning. He gave the webbing a tug, attempting to pull it free. Instead it rubbed intimately, at the crease between her sex and thigh. His gaze on her groin, he gave a second slow pull. His eyes darkened. A muscle jerked in his jaw. His nostrils flared. He rolled his shoulders and released the tautness of the gauze. The clearing of his throat cut the tension, the silence. "Snared in a spider's web," he joked, lightening the moment.”
Source: The Cottage on Pumpkin and Vine
“The perfectionist is another name for someone who is getting ready to become mad.”
“The perfectionist is bound to be a neurotic, he cannot enjoy life, until he is perfect. And perfection as such never happens, it is not in the nature of things. Totality is possible, perfection is not possible.”
“The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.”
Source: A Happy Half-century: And Other Essays
“The perfectly ordinary girl and the great philosopher are alike: for both, the smallest triviality can become the vision that wipes out the world.”
Source: The Decay of the Angel
“The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English.”
“The performance group The Ant Farm redoing JFK's assassination in Dallas was an event that struck a chord with me, especially when one of the members said they'd only intended to do it once, but the Dallas audience insisted they repeat the performance.”
“The performance is created by the director. The actor is the material. And I think that has to be true.”
“The performance of a lifetime is the perfect thing to be doing at this age because I can use the age.”
“The performance of an action is worthless in itself, if it is not done out of charity. Charity must be our motive; then everything we do, however little and insignificant, bears a rich harvest. After all, what God takes into account is not so much the thing we do, as the love that went to the doing of it.”
Source: The Imitation of Christ
“The performance of buggery is no more inevitable a part of homosexuality than an orange syllabub is an inevitable part of a dinner: some may clamour for it and instantly demand a second helping, some are not interested, some decide they will try it once and then instantly vomit.”
Source: Moab is My Washpot
“The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.”
Source: Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt
“The performance of performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.”
Source: Dialogues
“The performance on the stage has its reasons in the performance induced in thousands of separate minds and this second performance is no less prodigious than the first.”
“The performances had to be live. When you play it back, you can see if the hands aren't really doing the right thing, and then the whole magic falls apart.”
“The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint.”
“The performances in the future would be like an audience wired to somebody who was sort of instigating, and then moment-to-moment creation would be transmuted individually.”
“The performances make you want to get back out there and try something new and challenge yourself.”
“The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public.”
“The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities”
“The performances that I love are ones like Gena Rowlands in 'A Woman Under the Influence,' where women are allowed to be messy and imperfect. It's that kind of woman that has always inspired me to seek roles that are a little out of the box. I just haven't always had the opportunity to do them.”
“The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.”
“The performing part of it, that's what I live for. I've always told people that's what I was born for. I believe, with the proper things around me, and everything I need as a performer; band, and all that kind of stuff, I still feel to this day there's no one that can touch me. Still.”
“The perfume of incense reminds us of the pervading influence of virtue, the lamp reminds us of the light of knowledge and the flowers, which soon fade and die, reminds us of impermanence.”
Source: Good Question Good Answer
“The perfume of natures does not usually come forth without bruising.”
Source: Lives of Girls who Became Famous
“The perfume of the flowers and of the bay tree are wafted on high, like incense. The birds sing sweet songs of praise to their Creator. In the tops of the trees, the soughing of the wind is like the hushed prayers of the multitude in some vast cathedral. Here the heart of man becomes impressionable.”
Source: Documents on the Life and Art of William Wendt, 1865-1946, California's Painter Laureate of the Paysage Moralisé
“The perfumer fakes nature by blending different types of materials to reproduce their scent.”
“The peril of the hour moved the British to tremendous exertions, just as always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible. Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.”
“The peril of this century is spiritual apathy. As the body requires sunlight, good food, proper exercise and rest, so the spirit of man requires the sunlight of the Holy Spirit; proper exercise of the spiritual functions; the avoiding of evils that affect spiritual health, that are more ravaging in their effects than typhoid fever, pneumonia, or other diseases that attack the body.”
“The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope.”
Source: Conditions of Progress in Democratic Government
“The peril of unconscious bias is greatest when it seeps into all levels of society and becomes group thinking.”
Source: Curious About Culture: Refocus your lens on culture to cultivate cross cultural understanding
“The peril we face today is not only that America might fail to live up to its promise, but that Americans might stop believing in that promise or the need to fight for it. The increasing belief on the left that this promise was always a lie, or on the right that it has always been true and has already been achieved, are two sides of the same coin.”
Source: Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations
“The perils of being a genius, I guess. Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity.”
Source: Inferno
“The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently by TV.”