T Quotes
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“The reason you suffer is because you're poor judges of character. You misjudge good people as bad and bad people as good. Your suffering is a result of your poor decision making.”
“The reason you’ve been dragging your feet for so many years is most likely because your motivation to change is far less than the powerful force of inertia which is probably due to the comfort zone.”
Source: Let's Get Real: 42 Tips for the Stuck Manager
“The reason you want every single thing that you want, is because you think you will feel really good when you get there. But, if you don't feel really good on your way to there, you can't get there. You have to be satisfied with what-is while you're reaching for more.”
“The reason you want your kids to pay attention in school is you haven't the faintest idea how to do their homework.”
“The reason you were born is for a purpose”
“The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.”
Source: William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck
“The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.”
“The reason you're put in the CEO chair is because a company is facing these issues and you've been designated the person best to organize around them. I think that people are pretty energized around trying to figure this out.”
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
Source: Man and Superman
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
“The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.”
“The reasonableness of the agency of the national courts in cases in which the state tribunals cannot be supposed to be impartial, speaks for itself. No man ought certainly to be a judge in his own cause, or in any cause in respect to which he has the least interest or bias.”
Source: The Federalist
“The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must kill himself. Kirilov must therefore kill himself to become god. That logic is absurd, but it is what is needed.”
“The reasoning isn't crazy. It's technically correct. If you're being true to the idea that government must not take positions on religious questions, then the Ninth Circuit opinion is quite persuasive.”
“The reasoning man who rejects the superstitions of simpletons necessarily becomes their enemy; he must expect as much and be prepared to laugh at the consequences.”
“The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.”
Source: Letters from prison
“The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies.”
Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
“The reasons for Emma's illness and for her decision to allow life in, rather than die, are intertwined and involve the beginnings of her feelings of belonging, of safety and of competence to be in the world.”
Source: To Die For
“The reasons for legal intervention in favour of children apply not less strongly to the case of those unfortunate slaves and victims of the most brutal part of mankind - the lower animals.”
Source: Principles of Political Economy (Abridged): With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy
“The reasons for sadness
will be lost in madness,
and all that will be left is,
deep depressing distress...”
Source: The Poetic Refuge: An Anthology
“The reasons for this paring back of synapses is a mystery, but synaptic pruning is thought to sharpen and reinforce the "correct" synapses, while removing the weak and unnecessary ones. "It reinforces an old intuition," a psychiatrist in Boston told me. "The secret of learning is the systematic elimination of excess. We grow, mostly, by dying.”
Source: The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
“The reasons for weaponizing division are not mysterious. Racial fear prevents Americans from building community with one another and community is the lifeblood of a functioning democratic society. Throughout our history, racist language has been used to turn American against American in order to benefit the wealthy elite. Every time Mr. Trump attacks refugees is a time that could be spent discussing the president's unwillingness to raise the federal minimum wage for up to 33 million Americans. Every racist attack on four members of Congress is a moment he doesn't have to address why his choice for labor secretary has spent his career defending Wall Street banks and Walmart at the expense of workers. When he is launching attacks on the free press, he isn't talking about why his Environmental Protection Agency just refused to ban a pesticide linked to brain damage in children.
(7/25/2019 in the New York Times)”
“The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable.”
Source: Twilight of the Idols
“The reasons I keep on hoping
outweigh the souls I pray for.”
“The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?”
“The reasons of even the tiniest human gesture are the only thing that separate us from a rock that falls because of gravity. Reasons are all we have, so we might as well make them beautiful ones. Everything expires, except our decisions. Choice is immortal. They are like indelible soulwaves to the universe. Why climb higher and higher when you can ride the straight, rare line that is truth?”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“The reasons of the poore weigh not.
[The reasons of the poor weigh not.]”
“The reasons that center on others are easy to manipulate. All hollow things are light.”
Source: Girl With Curious Hair
“The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.”
“The reasons there are so many clichés about universes inside of dewdrops is because there are universes inside of dewdrops.”
Source: The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance
“The reasons we can't sleep at night are usually the same reasons we don't truly live during the day.”
“The reasons we don’t sleep at night are usually the same reasons we don’t truly live during the day.”
“The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.”
Source: Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
“The reasons why executives are scared of social selling are well documented. That being said, there are some hugely successful global business leaders using social selling tactics incredibly well - some of which even admit they could not operate without it!”
“The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work. And I didn't think about the material as much. But sometimes I've thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn't work out.”
“The reassuring bulk of the college buildings showed ahead of her, and she looked fondly up at them and smiled. As she had never been before, she was now alone, and grown-up, and powerful, and not at all afraid.”
Source: Hangsaman
“The Rebecca Riots by David Williams is an unassuming book, but its significance is universal. The book and its author determined my life; they made me want to be a historian of Wales and of the world.”
“The Rebecca Schwartz who’d fallen apart after their breakup was gone. Captain Becks had taken her place—tougher, smarter, and absolutely determined to succeed.”
Source: Rekindled Flame
“The rebel army in Libya is just like 1,000 guys in Toyota trucks. The world is asking the question; can 1000 anti-government guys in pick-up trucks with small arms, take over a country of millions? To which I say, ask the Teabaggers.”
“The Rebel bullet that can kill me has not yet been molded.”
“The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all - he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly.”
Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“The rebel is committed to giving a form and pattern to the world. It is a pattern born of the indomitable thrust of the human mind, the mind which makes out of the mass of meaningless data in the world an order and a form.”
Source: Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence
“The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“The rebellion against fascism is immensely important to society when its grip on our dreamers strangles the creativity out of our ambition, finally snuffing out all progress as we know it, and as if implanting a tombstone, parks institutions in its place.”
“The rebellion against the logic of efficiency is also evident in the "slow movement," an idea that has been building {slowly, of course} since a protest against the opening of a McDonald's in Rome in 1986 started the "slow food movement".”
Source: The Typewriter Revolution: A Typist's Companion for the 21st Century
“The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.”
“The Rebellions were the first gang in The Bahamas, to come up with a popular logo/brand in the wearing of Raiders clothing. However, other neighborhoods gave birth to their own gangs using popular sporting team images as their official colors and name. You had the Hoyas Bull Dogs out of Kemp Road; the Coconut Grove area took on the name Nike, which became their clothing of choice. Miami Street took on the name Hurricanes, and wore Miami Hurricanes clothing. However, when you look at it closely, because of the lack of involved fathers, a lot of us were simply lacking an image and a positive identity of ourselves.”
Source: The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
“The rebellious mood of the country during those [60th] years allowed me to plug right back into my old hatreds. I could scream and holler, as I did on the albums, against religion, government, big business - all those assholes and their values. That hatred was very real.”
“The rebels did more in one night than my whole army would have done in one month.”
“The rebels had no need for stealth, some of them even chanting about useless kings, corrupt nobility, the price of bread, and the need for the commoners to take back what was owed to them. I took their ideals less seriously every time I passed a body in the streets. If they wanted a revolution and a restructuring of power, killing the people who never had power to begin with wasn't the way to do it.”
Source: The Kingdom of Liars