T Quotes
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“The real issue is not whether baking biscuits is meaningful, but the extent to which the activity can seem to be so after it has been continuously stretched and subdivided across five thousand lives.”
“The real issue is not whether two and two make four or whether two and two make five, but whether life advances by men who love words or by men who love living.”
Source: The Outsider
“The real issue is that we chose to punish and shame everyone except the offender. We are directing blame at everyone but the one responsible. Instead of confronting the truth, we have decided to hide it, make excuses, and protect the offender. Misplaced anger won’t solve our problems. It only makes them worse. We turn good people into enemies because of the hate and pain we carry in our hearts.”
“The real issue is, how much goodwill do you invest in the work? And goodwill is not something that we can buy with money. It's very hard to buy goodwill with money.”
“The real issue lies in the North beyond the Wall. Stannis becomes one of the few characters fully to understand that, which is why in spite of everything he is a righteous man.”
“The real issue, my dear friend, is our lack of courage to take a stand that reflects dignity and justice. Instead, we lavish undue respect on others, even when we know they have caused pain to many—simply because we have yet to suffer at their hands.”
“The real issue of dealing with proliferation of weapons of mass destruction: nuclear, chemical or biological is: What is your tolerance for risk? And my tolerance for risk for WMD proliferation is pretty close to zero. Because otherwise, we and our allies are at the mercy of regimes like Ahmadinejad and the mullahs in Tehran, or Kim Jong Il and the Hitler-in-the-bunker mentality in Pyongyang, or others who don't share our calculus on the value of human life.”
“The real issue relating to exclusiveness is whether or not the Christian actually has a relationship with God, a presence of God, which non-Christians do not have. Apart from Christian spiritual formation as described here, I believe there is little value in claiming exclusiveness for the Christian way.”
“The real issue, as far as Democrats are concerned, is the number of people receiving something from the government. This is exactly what Franklin Delano Roosevelt had in mind when he created this monster. And Clinton is planning to expand it beyond Roosevelt's wildest dreams.”
Source: See, I Told You So
“The real issues I don't think most people touch. The Clinton jokes are all about Monica Lewinsky and all that stuff and not about the important things, like the fact that he wouldn't ban landmines...I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirize George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporize them. And that's not funny....OK, well, if I say that, I might get a shock laugh, but it's not really satire.”
“The real jewel of my disease-ridden woodlot is the prothonotary warbler. ... The flash of his gold-and-blue plumage amid the dank decay of the June woods is in itself proof that dead trees are transmuted into living animals, and vice versa.”
Source: Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)
“The real Jihad is an internal process, not an external one.”
Source: Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism
“The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.”
“The real joke that history played on American women is not the one that makes people snigger, with cheap Freudian sophistication, at the dead feminists. It is the joke that Freudian thought played on living women, twisting the memory of the feminists into the man-eating phantom of the feminine mystique, shriveling the very wish to be more than just a wife and mother.”
Source: the year's most controversial bestseller the feminine mystique
“The real joy in life comes from finding your true purpose and aligning it with what you do every single day.”
“The real joy in life comes from giving. It comes from service. It comes from doing things for other people. That is what is so powerful about this. Nothing will make you happier than giving.”
“The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.”
“The real joy is in discovering that the twigs and branches of my practice are all firmly rooted in a single tree, even as time goes by and I become increasingly aware of the fleetingness of all things.”
“The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty. It is the real joy of living.”
Source: Christianizing the Social Order
“The real juice of life, whether it be sweet or bitter, is to be found not nearly so much in the products of our efforts as in the process of living itself, in how it feels to be alive.”
Source: Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment
“The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over the sound track.”
Source: Imperial Bedrooms
“The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model.”
“The real key is time management and being able to focus on what you need to, on using every available minute to accomplish something that needs to be done.”
“The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.”
“The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge”
“The real key to Jack's [Nicklaus] success was his fantastic ability to score. His drives sometimes went into the rough, but he could plow the ball out of the tallest grass and get it on the green; bad lies simply didn't affect him as they did the others. Jack also got tremendous height with his one-iron and two-iron, which meant that he could stop them better than his rivals.”
“The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.”
Source: Beating the Street
“The real key to wealth is the gradual accumulation, it's something Jesus talked about I call the law of use and you couple with the exponential curve.”
“the real killer was when you married the wrong person but had the right children.”
Source: Falling in Place
“The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.”
“The real king of the jungle is not the lion, the real king of the jungle is the jungle itself! Being a king is not just about having power! To be a true king means to offer equal beauty and opportunities to all, to protect the subjects with love, just like a forest!”
“The real knife to a man's heart was his woman's tears.”
Source: Savage Nature
“The real knowledge is in black and white so guess what? You have to read.”
“The real ladder of opportunity is ascending levels of consciousness.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“The real leader holds the power, not just the position.”
Source: The Law of E. F. Hutton
“The real leaders intend to do definitely that good task for which a pretender has provoked them by saying that it can't be done, but the good number of pretenders tend to do only that job for which a real leader has cautioned them by showing the things that should not be done.”
“The real leaders of tomorrow are already working on the next big idea, the one that will drive growth into future. They're already far beyond the ideas that created today's results.”
“The real leadership of the opposition is never, ever gonna do anything but continue to ramp up efforts to stop [Donald] Trump or destroy Trump.”
“The real lesson of 9/11 that I think we have still to learn is that this is a world of interdependence, in which all of the challenges of environment and climate change, of jobs, of disease, of war and terrorism, are cross-border problems that cannot be met one nation at a time.”
“The real lesson Orville (Redenbacher) taught me was the power of a good brand to trump all rhyme or reason in the marketplace.”
“The real lessons is the reality of living life.”
“The real liberation dwells in the discipline.”
Source: Procrasdemon - The Artist's Guide to Liberation from Procrastination
“The real liberators of American women were not the feminist noise-makers, they were the automobile, the supermarket, the shopping center, the dishwasher, the washer-dryer, the freezer.”
“The real life begins as soon as you leave your house.”
“The Real Life from the Heart is not to Discover the Value of Money.”
“The real life is not before you; the real life is not behind you; the real life, dear friend is where you are because where you are belongs to now, to this very moment and only this moment is real!”
“The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.”
“The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)
“The real long term objective of the Welfare Plan is the fulfilling of character in the members of the Church, givers and receivers, rescuing all that is finest down deep inside of them, and bringing to flower and fruitage the latent richness of the Spirit, which, after all, is the mission and purpose and reason for being of this Church.”
“The real loser of our times is the one who is expected to win.”