T Quotes
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“The private sector is doing fine.”
“The private sector is first of all much larger than the public sector. The waste we see in that sector does not result from the fact that people spend their money carelessly. Mostly, it occurs because what one family must spend to achieve its goals often depends heavily on what other families spend.”
“The private sector must play a role in ensuring the prosperity and health of the people who comprise its market. It is time for the private sector to become a proactive partner contributing to the efforts of governments and philanthropies.”
“The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.”
Source: The idol and the octopus: political writings, on the Kennedy and Johnson administrations
“The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!”
Source: Two Gentlemen Verona: Third Series
“The privatization law draft was recently released and I believe that very soon we will start applying it, of course taking into consideration the provisions of United Nations Mission in Kosovo.”
“The privatization of the organs will only begin with the shame felt by man at the sight of man.”
“The privatization plan weakens Social Security and threatens our economic security by creating trillions of dollars in new debt.”
“The priviledges we didn't get, let us make sure that those coming after us get it.
Let us clear the way, remove the stones, level the ground and decorate the side walks so that the coming generation of young Christians can run without having to struggle so much because of the road.”
“The privilege against self-incrimination is one of the great landmarks in man's struggle to make himself civilized... The Fifth is a lone sure rock in time of storm ... a symbol of the ultimate moral sense of the community, upholding the best in us.”
“The privilege and pleasure That we treasure beyond measure Is to run on little errands for the Ministers of State.”
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
“The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.”
“The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.”
Source: Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 and 1948
“The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.”
Source: Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil
“The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things.”
“The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.”
“The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.”
“The privilege of God's grace shows the mercy of his goodness.”
“The privilege of leaning on God, and others, when I couldn’t stand strong on my own may not have been the reasons why tragedy and suffering had visited us. But these blessings would not have been experienced if tragedy and suffering had not visited us.”
Source: The Life She Once Knew: The Incredible True Story of Queena, The Bloomingdale Library Attack Survivor
“The privilege of living a long life comes at a price -the increasing loss of those we know and love around us.”
“The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs, which we seek to condemn and punish, have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated. That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that power has ever paid to reason.”
“The privilege of prayer to me is one of the most cherished possessions, because faith and experience alike convince me that God himself sees and answers, and His answers I never venture to criticize. It is only my part to ask. If it were otherwise, I would not dare to pray at all.”
“The privilege of privilege is that the terms of privilege are rendered invisible. It is a luxury not to have to think about race, or class, or gender. Only those marginalized by some category understand how powerful that category is when deployed against them.”
“The privilege of protection is often perceived as power. Those who are protected often tend to assume that they’re strong. That’s true for immature children who have known nothing but the over-protection of their parents. That’s true for ungrateful citizens who have experienced nothing but the safety provided by their governing state. And that’s true for unchallenged, complacent bartenders who have grown accustomed to the protections of a simple, uncomplicated life.”
Source: Heaven and Hurricanes
“The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to the laws laid down for him.”
“The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks.”
“The privilege of struggling artists is ... the life being buried in what we can't really afford of* what a gorgeous life!!”
“The privilege of the living is to misquote the dead.”
“The privileged classes can afford psychoanalysis and whiskey. Whereas all we get is sermons and sour wine. This is manifestly unfair. I protest, silently.”
“The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.”
“The privileged individuals and families who comprise the global elite will happily bankrupt their own countrymen, decimate their own community and evict their neighbors from houses in their desperate bid to increase their wealth.”
“The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.”
“The privileged position of whiteness doesn't allow for someone with one drop of Negro blood to be considered white, which allows whiteness to be a fairly pure category while blackness has to absorb an expansive reality of representation.”
“The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.”
“The privileges of the Nobles of the Sword are not democratic ... Across the country, peasants have been burning crops and châteaux. If the King does not willingly change taxation, I fear commoners and peasants will force him.”
Source: Her Own Legacy
“The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.”
Source: Martin Chuzzlewi
“The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of the child in connection with them.”
Source: The Montessori Method
“The prize at the end of the path is handsome: the freedom to make the deliberate, guiltless choice of which untruth to live. Exercising this choice wisely is the art of life.”
Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief
“The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.”
“The prize I value most was given to me 60 years ago. I was named the girl with the cleanest fingernails.”
“The prize is always worth the rocky ride.”
“The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur.”
“The prize of all too precious you.”
“The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.”
“The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”
“The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.”
“The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can; to act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us. In the hundred-yard race the winner doesn't cross the tape line a dozen strides ahead of the field. He wins by inches. So we find it in ordinary business life. The big things that come our way are seldom the result of long thought or careful planning, but rather they are the fruit of seed planted in the daily routine of our work.”
“The prizes of life are at the end of each journey, not near the beginning; and it is not given to me to know how many steps are necessary in order to reach my goal. Failure I may still encounter at the thousandth step, yet success hides behind the next bend in the road. Never will I know how close it lies unless I turn the corner.”
Source: The Greatest Secret In The World
“The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich.”