T Quotes
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“The pressure was always there, but I feel like it was almost invisible to me. I had too much going on once I got rolling with Evolution and won my first title. They say the cream rises to the top, and I felt like the cream. I rose to the top real quick, and I was surrounded by Triple H, Ric Flair, Shawn Michaels, Undertaker, these guys who were very well respected in the profession, and they wanted to work with me.”
“The pressure we put on ourselves to produce this perfect... operatic... version of ourselves really puts an inordinate amount of stress and tension on us.”
“The pressure you are facing is not going to break you. It's going to make you.”
“The pressure, the heat, the almost impossibly fast pace at which you need work - this is the reality of working in the culinary industry. This is what professional chefs do night after night.”
“The pressure... It's not real unless you let it be real.”
“The pressures and penalties of existence in the modern capitalist system are intense; and they are penalties not for what is consciously chosen, but for ways of life which are forced like strait-jackets on people. At its superficial level, there is a common feeling of being conned by mass communications, extorted by commerce, lied to by politicians and treated like dirt by bureaucrats.”
“The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.”
“The pressures for human cloning are powerful; but, although it seems likely that somebody, at some time, will attempt it, we need not assume that it will ever become a common or significant feature of human life.”
Source: The Second Creation: Dolly and the Age of Biological Control
“The pressures having grown up in this business can be really rough. And it is a testament to you that you have remained focused and NOT lost your mind.”
“The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.”
“The pressures on gay teens can be overwhelming--to keep secrets, tell lies, deny who you are, and try to be who you're not. Remember: you are special and worth being cared about, loved, and accepted just as you are. Never, ever let anyone convince you otherwise.”
“The pressures, I don't really like to think about the pressures, I like to solve them, you know what I mean. I could sit here and complain about pressures but nobody wants to hear about pressures.”
“The prestige carried by people in modern industrial society varies in inverse proportion to their closeness to actual production.”
Source: Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
“The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.”
Source: Ideas and Opinions
“The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.”
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
“The presumed causes of Americas troubles can be summed up simply: the evils of unlimited competition, and abuses by those with economic power.”
Source: The Greening of America
“The presumption of divine intervention in human affairs violates my sense of an orderly and comprehensible universe.”
Source: Bowl of Cherries
“The presumption of innocence is not just a legal concept. In commonplace terms, it rests on that generosity of spirit which assumes the best, not the worst, of the stranger.”
“The presumption of innocence only means you don't go right to jail.”
“The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents.”
Source: First Principles
“The presumption that Jesus who had wiped out the ancient bias against women in the common priesthood of the faithful, would reintroduce it in ministerial priesthood defies all logic. The contention that Jesus, who brought worship 'in spirit and in truth' and for whom love and service were the supreme characteristics of his ministry, would then introduce maleness as an essential requirement offends the inner consistency of the Gospel.”
Source: The Ordination of Women in the Catholic Church ; Unmasking a Cuckoo's Egg Tradition
“The presumption that the law can tell us what natural institution is supposed to be is a formula for totalitarianism. There's not equality in a family; there never is. And yet for that reason, the family is condemned as patriarchal. The goal of this sort of legislation is about the destruction of the traditional family, not just marriage.”
“The presumptuous sin of Uzzah was that He assumed his hands were less polluted than the dirt.”
“The pretence leads up to the real thing. When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is put on a friendly manner and behave as if you were a nicer person than you actually are. And in a few minutes, as we have all noticed, you will be really feeling friendlier than you were. Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.”
“The pretence that numbers are not the humble creation of man, but are the exacting language of the Universe and therefore possess the secret of all things, is comforting, terrifying and mesmeric.”
“The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)
“The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while they are here in this world, are nothing but self-deceiving imaginations.”
Source: Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ: In Two Parts. I. In His Person, Office, and Grace; with the Differences Between Faith and Sight: Applied Unto the Use of Them that Believe. II. The Application of the Same Meditations Unto Unconverted Sinners, and Saints Under Spiritual Decays
“The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.”
“The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye, He would see that no one is weaker than himself.”
“The pretense in disputed elections is that the great conflict is between the two major parties. The reality is that there is a much bigger conflict that the two parties jointly wage against large numbers of Americans who are represented by neither party and against powerless millions around the world." (p. 65)”
Source: A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
“The pretense that humans are superior to nonhumans is entirely unsupportable. I have seen no compelling evidence that humans are particularly more "intelligent" than any other creature. I have had long and fruitful relationshis with many nonhuman animals, both domesticated and wild, and have reveled in the bouquet of radically different intelligences - different forms, not different "quantities" that they have introduced to me, each in his or her own time, in his or her own way.”
Source: Thought to Exist in the Wild: Awakening from the Nightmare of Zoos
“The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.”
“The pretention that some of us are better than others, I don't think is a very good thing. And who is contributing what to our progress in science is not so obvious and many who don't get that Nobel Prize are better than people... than some of us that do get the Nobel Prize. I think we should not be interested in prizes, we should be interested in learning about nature.”
“The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them.”
Source: Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead
“The prettier the wine bottle, the higher the likelihood sorority girls will buy it.”
“The prettiest bottle, made of glass molded in a pattern of leaves, was half-filled with a colorless liquor. Her attention was caught by the sight of a pear inside the bottle.
Lifting the bottle, Lillian examined it closely and gently swirled the liquid until the pear lifted and turned with the motion. A perfectly preserved golden pear. This must be a new variety of eau-de-vie, as the French called it... "water of life," a colorless brandy distilled from grapes, plums, or elderberries. Pears as well, it seemed.”
Source: It Happened One Autumn
“The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.”
“The prettiest flowers earn their honor in the ugliest dirt.”
“The prettiest girls shine brightest in the dark.”
“The prettiest of them all is a girl who is pretty on the inside.”
“The prettiest people do the ugliest things.”
“The prettiest, selfless, adorable and innocent smiles I have ever received are from the people whom I met traveling alone”
“The prettiest women are almost always the most boring, and that is why some people feel there is no God.”
“The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.”
Source: The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
“The pretty girl is always right.”
Source: 2 States: The Story of My Marriage
“The Pretty Lady's brains were almost entirely in her fingers.”
Source: The Sick-a-Bed Lady: And Other Tales
“The pretty landlady was desolate. She would have taken D'Artagnan not only as her husband, but as her God, he was so handsome and had so fierce a mustache.”
Source: Premium Collection - 27 Novels in One Volume: The Three Musketeers Series, The Marie Antoinette Novels, The Count of Monte Cristo, The ... Hero of the People, The Queen's Necklace...
“The pretty nurse had just injected her with something that totally rocked, and if she wanted to think about boinking a bronzed, tattooed, impossibly handsome doctor who was so far out of her league she need a telescope to see him, then screw it. Screw him. Over and over.”
“The pretty ones are usually unhappy. They expect everyone to be enamored of their beauty. How can a person be content when their happiness lies in someone else's hands, ready to be crushed at any moment? Ordinary-looking people are far superior, because they are forced to actually work hard to achieve their goals, instead of expecting people to fall all over themselves to help them.”
Source: Jordan's Brains: A Zombie Evolution
“The prevailin' weakness of most public men is to Slop Over!.... G. Washington never slopt over.”