T Quotes
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“The problem is that modern godlessness undermines all authority, which hollows out institutions, which leaves only individuals. If then the individuals prove unworthy of trust, there seems to be nothing left. That is why many Catholics today cling to unworthy churchmen and follow them in their Liberalism because the only alternative seems to be to abandon the Church altogether.
On the contrary, as the July letter suggested, when Catholics have a robust faith as in the Middle Ages, their faith in the Church as an institution remains unshaken by an misbehavior of the individual churchmen, because the institution is that much greater than the individuals. That is why a Catholic today can severely criticize the recent popes without having to be a sedevacantist, and he should be able to say these popes have been very bad for Catholicism without his needing to be accused of losing the Faith or of seeking to destroy the Church. Letter #118 September 1993.”
Source: Letters from the Rector of St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary: Volume 2 The Winona Letters: part 1
“The problem is that most courses teach what is wrong.”
“The problem is that most members of Congress don’t pay attention to what’s going on.”
“The problem is that most organizations have established neither value streams KPIs more process-level KPIs. This is the primary reason why organizations continue to fight fires, don't capture greater market share, don't generate as much profit as they could, have burned-out workforces, and create self-inflicted chaos that they could otherwise avoid.”
Source: Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation
“The problem is that most people focus on their failures rather than their successes. But the truth is that most people have many more successes than failures.”
“The problem is that most people spend their lives looking but not truly seeing, or, as Sherlock Holmes, the meticulous English detective, declared to his partner, Dr. Watson, “You see, but you do not observe.”
Source: What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People
“The problem is that most people spend their lives looking... but not truly seeing.”
Source: What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People
“The problem is that much of what we have learned is harmful to our system because it was learned in childhood, when immediate dependence on others distorted our real needs. Long-standing habitual action feels right. Training a body to be perfect in all the possible forms and configurations of its members changes not only the strength and flexibility of the skeleton and muscles, but makes a profound and beneficial change in the self-image and quality of the direction of the self.”
“The problem is that neither the M1 nor the M60 or indeed neither any tank, has sufficient ground pressure to drive a [bulldozer] blade into even marginally hard ground. They are not bulldozers, they are tanks, whether you are talking about the M1 or the M60's. So if you are going to dig in a tank, you need to have some kind of equipment.”
“The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.”
“The problem is that no matter how good your intentions, eventually you want to kill someone yourself.”
Source: Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures) : True Stories from a War Zone
“The problem is that nobody talks about what they make. It's shame disguised as humility. Screw that. I'm a thirty-two-year-old assistant and I make $30,000 a year.”
Source: The Assistants
“The problem is that nowadays, with so much information flying around, it is almost impossible to remember anything you saw just a week ago, never mind three years ago!”
“The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?”
“The problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy - and it does not matter whether that philosophy is generally reasonable and high-minded or utterly bizarre and irrational”
Source: But Seriously--: Steve Allen Speaks His Mind
“The problem is that one man's superstition is another man's religion, and vice versa. Many Protestants today still see Catholicism as being rife with superstition, ... while atheists and agnostics would see bien-pensant Protestants as worshiping an equally absurd form of the supernatural.”
“The problem is that our inherent ignorance keeps us in samsara and unable to benefit ourselves and others on a really deep level.”
“The problem is that our whole tribe - if you will, the larger community of humanity itself - is on a death march ecologically and in terms of the intensification of violence and conflict.”
“The problem is that our world and our education remain focused exclusively on external, materialistic values. We are not concerned enough with inner values. Those who grow up with this kind of education live in a materialistic life and eventually the whole society becomes materialistic. But this culture is not sufficient to tackle our human problems. The real problem is here," the Dalai Lama said, pointed to his head.
The Archbishop tapped his chest with his fingers to emphasize the heart as well.
"And here," the Dalai Lama echoed. "Mind and heart..”
Source: The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
“The problem is that people are pulling farther apart, rather than make an effort to get back together. There have been remarkable moments that united this country. It makes everyone feel relieved. Then because of economic stress, political shifts, we get wrenched apart again. I think it's cyclical. I am an optimist by nature. There are moments, the period after 9/11, the way we responded. The election of Barack Obama. There are moments where the country felt good about being American. I'm waiting for that to happen again.”
“The problem is that people basically dangle debt in front of us. And the cost for the poor of course is much higher than for the wealthy.”
“The problem is that people can't sleep when they want to, but if they are forbidden to do so, they can't help dropping off. So the method consisted of keeping your eyes wide open and fixing your gaze on some point of the bedroom wall. If by any chance you shut your eyes, hundreds of nasty little demons would pour out of the spot and eat you up. And you are absolutely not allowed to treat this as a joke.. According to Marc, you invariably fall asleep after ten minutes max, unless of course you replace the little devils with little fairies, which would stop you falling asleep at all.”
Source: The Accordionist
“The problem is that people love music and they love television, but people don't love music on TV.”
“The problem is that people really just don't care and they have been "educated" not to care about the monetary system: that it's boring, it's difficult to understand, we need to have high minded people like "Greenscum" and Bernanke to do things like this (and don't forget Volker, there's the whole cast of them). The thing is that people have been educated or miseducated or brainwashed into believing that this is wayyyy too complicated for regular people to understand and that we need to let PhD economists guide us along in terms of what's right... and that's all bull.”
“The problem is that people really just don't care and they have been "educated" not to care about the monetary system: that it's boring, it's difficult to understand, we need to have high minded people like "Greenscum" and Bernanke to do things like this (and don't forget Volcker, there's the whole cast of them). The thing is that people have been educated or miseducated or brainwashed into believing that this is wayyyy too complicated for regular people to understand and that we need to let PhD economists guide us along in terms of what's right... and that's all bull.”
“The problem is that people think faith is something to be admired. In fact, faith means you believe in something for which you have no evidence.”
Source: God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science and Religion
“The problem is that relativism provides no sure foundation for a safe and orderly society.”
Source: How Now Shall We Live?
“The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.”
“The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding.”
“The problem is that resuscitating old labels doesn't work anymore. I think it is very important to give hope to a new generation of designers, so that one day they really can put their own names out there.”
“The problem is that rich are getting richer by not giving and poor and getting poorer by not receiving.”
“The problem is that she is too pretty. When you are too pretty, the other parts of you do not become strong.”
Source: The Farm
“The problem is that so many of them are not getting told. This is a massive problem, not just in the Middle East but for places from Africa to Afghanistan. There are millions of stories out there, millions of potential Booksellers of Kabul or Valentino Achak Dengs.”
“The problem is that so often we forget that we are in warfare and that Satan's target is our mind.”
Source: Speak to My Heart, God: For Every Need, for Every Moment...
“The problem is that stepping away from Brian, leaving him standing under that pergola on Wednesday, is no longer enough to leave behind how he made me feel in that hour. I could leave him there, we could part as strangers, but God, I know that I would look for him. He would live in my peripheral vision, a ghost nudging me to turn and look behind me, only to find a spot that is emptier than empty”
“The problem is that taxes aren’t used efficiently.”
“The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a show is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed heterosexual boy, the other must be a black Muslim lesbian.”
“The problem is that the atmosphere does not yet exist in which honest police officers can act without fear of ridicule or reprisal from fellow officers.”
“The problem is that the Chicken-Soup-for-the-Soul stuff may feel good, but none of that typical stuff helps when somebody in your neighborhood is murdered.”
“The problem is that the constitution should have been and was an opportunity, exactly as Moncef Marzouki tried to do, to bring together the secularists and Islamists.”
“The problem is that the degradation of women of all races is still thought to be normal.”
Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions
“The problem is that the desire to change is fundamentally a form of aggression toward yourself.”
Source: The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World
“The problem is that the dictator of the tonal wants to eliminate the mystery of life.”
“The problem is that the East is producing missiles and the West is producing pacifists.”
“The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.”
“The problem is that the Enlightenment dream may make too many demands on poor African apes like us. We may just not be up to it.”
“The problem is that the internet IS some kid in a basement with an opinion. The fact that David Bowie and Elton John told me that they were fans of Helmet - or Neil Young - that means something to me because I grew up on their music and they’re great musicians... That means more to me than some guy who hates the fact that my hair is short.”
“The problem is that the Iraqi people are facing atrocities from both sides - Zarqawi and also the American troops at times. The Zarqawi groups uses car bombs, the Americans use other bombs. You also know what they do in the prisons.”
“The problem is that the media rarely discusses the real reasons behind why women leave their jobs. We hear a lot about the desire to be closer to the children, the love of crafting and gardening, and making food from scratch. But reasons like lack of maternity leave, lack of affordable day care, lack of job training, and unhappiness with the 24/7 work culture-well, those aren't getting very much airtime.”
Source: Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity
“The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them.”