T Quotes
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“The real thing was how I felt: like a root groping in darkness for water it knows is there, that it must have. Nall was that water.”
Source: Listening at the Gate
“The real thing we tried to look at is what happens to a society when the state is absent. At that point, the state had really withdrawn from Lagos; the city was left to its own devices, both in terms of money and services. That, by definition, created an unbelievable proliferation of independent agency: each citizen needed to take, in any day, maybe 400 or 500 independent decisions on how to survive that extremely complex system.”
“The real thing you do is you ask a lot of questions.”
“The real thing, when done right , is always better than a daydream”
“The real things about man are not his body.”
“The real things are apt to be deviant.”
Source: The Setting Sun
“The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.”
Source: A Little House sampler
“The real things to know is that folks will stand to lose more than they will to win. Thats the most important percentage there is. I mean, if they lose, theyre willin to lose everything. If they win, theyre usually satisfied to win enough to pay for dinner and a show. The best gamblers know that.”
“The real thinkers of the world aren't the best dressed. Staying on top of the latest fashions, accessorizing, and presenting oneself is time consuming. It takes a lot of effort, energy and concentration to be incessantly happy and perfectly groomed. You meet somebody like that- ask yourself what they're running from.”
Source: Shadowfever: Fever Series
“The real threat isn't intelligence. It's the mirror.”
Source: A Signal Through Time
“The real threat to freedom is not from men hiding in caves in the Middle East wearing turbans, or from Russians entering Ukraine. The real threat to freedom is from men and women wearing suits in Washington D.C.”
“The real threat to Linux adoption is Apple, not Microsoft. If you didn't know, now you know.”
“The real threat to reading isn’t the time we spend hanging out, it’s the time we spend online.”
“The real threat to U.S. military power is nuclear proliferation, because if every little country has nuclear weapons it becomes very tricky for the United States to engage in military action.”
“The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species.”
“The real threat to world stability is not too much American power. It is too little American power.”
“The real threat, as seen by the ACLU, is that religious behavior might give secular behavior a bad name, and that is, surely, unconstitutional.”
“The real tight interface is between the book and the reader-the world of the book is plugged right into your brain, never mind the [virtual reality] bodysuit.”
“The real tough thing is working with actors. I'm a designer and used to working with artists, so there is some familiarity with the personalities that come up, but actors are their own animal.”
“The real tragedy in life is a lack of desire for the love of the truth.”
“The real tragedy is that we're all human beings, and human beings have a sense of dignity. Any domination by one human over another leads to a loss of some part of his dignity. Is one's dignity that big it can be crumbled away like that?”
“The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.”
“The real tragedy of England, as I see it, is the tragedy of ugliness. The country is so lovely: the man-made England is so vile.”
Source: D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles
“The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape our history.”
Source: Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history
“The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
“The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who are hurt most by higher minimums are the most poverty stricken.”
“The real tragedy of our postcolonial world is not that the majority of people had no say in whether or not they wanted this new world; rather, it is that the majority have not been given the tools to negotiate this new world.”
“The real tragedy of the library at Alexandria was not that the incendiaries burned immensely, but that they had neither the leisure nor the taste to discriminate.”
Source: On The Art of Reading
“The real training is building character for a good conduct.”
“The real traitor is not the one who questions the state, but the one who kills for it, without questioning why.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“The real transformation of society will come only in love, in work, and in stillness.”
“The real transformation of the world comes not from what we are doing but from the consciousness from which we are doing it.”
Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of
“The real transgression occurs when religion wants government to tell citizens how to live uniquely personal parts of their lives. The failure of Prohibition proves the futility of such an attempt when a majority or even a substantial minority happens to disagree. Some questions may be inherently individual ones, or people may be sharply divided about whether they are. In such cases, like Prohibition and abortion, the proper role of religion is to appeal to the conscience of the individual, not the coercive power of the state.”
“The real transphobia is the fear of disagreeing with a trans person, accepting a trans-identity in the fear of being rejected, and worrying whether it is "trans person or transperson" because getting it wrong can get you cancelled.”
“The real trap of fame is its irresistibility.”
“The real traveller is the one who continues his journey even when the road ends!”
“The real trick for me as a director is to make sure that people don't start pushing because the harder you push as a perform the less funny it becomes.”
“The real trick in highly reliable systems is somehow to achieve simultaneous centralization and decentralization.”
“The real trick in life is to turn hindsight into foresight that reveals insight.”
“The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it. - Karla”
Source: Shantaram: A Novel
“The real trick is to stay alive as long as you live.”
Source: Since You Ask Me
“The real trick to producing great work isn't to find ways to eliminate the edgy, nervous feeling that you might be swimming out of your depth. Instead, it's to remember that everyone else is feeling it, too. We're all in deep water. Which is fine: it's by far the most exciting place to be.”
“The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.”
“The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that it hasn't stayed put and all has to be done over again.”
“The real trouble about women is that they must always go on trying to adapt themselves to men's theories of women, as they alwayshave done. When a woman is thoroughly herself, she is being what her type of man wants her to be. When a woman is hysterical it's because she doesn't quite know what to be, which pattern to follow, which man's picture of woman to live up to.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“The real trouble comes from not knowing what we really want in the first place.”
“The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. Thus a man easily comes to console himself for all his other vices by a conviction that 'his heart's in the right place' and 'he wouldn't hurt a fly,' though in fact he has never made the slightest sacrifice for a fellow creature. We think we are kind when we are only happy: it is not so easy, on the same grounds, to imagine oneself temperate, chaste, or humble.”
“The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.”
Source: Interviews
“The real trouble with reality is that there is no background music.”
“The real trouble with the doctor image in America is that it has been grayed by the image of the doctor-as-businessman, the doctor-as-bureaucrat, the doctor-as-medical-robot, and the doctor-as-terrified-victim-of-malpractice-suits.”