T Quotes
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“The refusal to belong to any school of thought, the repudiation of the adequacy of any body of beliefs whatever, and especially of systems, and a marked dissatisfaction with traditional philosophy as superficial, academic, and remote from life-that is the heart of existentialism.”
Source: Existentialism From Dostoevsky To Sartre
“The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.”
“The refusal to feel takes a heavy toll. Not only is there an impoverishment of our emotional and sensory life, flowers are dimmer and less fragrant, our loves less ecstaticâ but this psychic numbing also impedes our capacity to process and respond to information. The energy expended in pushing down despair is diverted from more creative uses, depleting the resilience and imagination needed for fresh visions and strategies.”
“The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.”
Source: Assorted Prose
“The refusal to take part in all war under any conditions is an unworldly view bound to remain a sectarian doctrine. It no more challenges the state's authority than the celibacy of priests challenges the sanctity of marriage.”
Source: A Theory of Justice
“The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction.”
“The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?”
Source: All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms
“The ‘Regal Seven (key) Ingredients of a Successful Company’ is:
Pursue the goal of Profit Maximization keeping in mind the shareholders interests.
To be achieved by developing and rendering Quality Goods and Services at a Reasonable Price.
By inculcating Value and Ethics within the structure
Through Sound People Management principles devised and effectively implemented.
Further organizing Learning Programs and instill concept of ‘Learning and Earning’
Develop/Construct Customer Satisfaction.
Build-Build-Build ; Build vision based values, Build your staff, Build customer satisfaction ; and witness your organization being built in the market.”
“The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.”
“The Regency,' said Laurent, addressing the troop, 'thought to take us outnumbered. It expected us to roll over without a fight.'
Damen said: 'We will not let them cow us, subdue us or force us down. Ride hard. Don't stop to fight the front line. We are going to smash them open. We are here to fight for our Prince!'
The cry rang out, For the Prince! The men gripped their swords, slammed their visors down, and the sound they made was a roar.”
Source: Captive Prince: Volume Two
“The regenerate man's desires are rectified; they are set on God himself, and the things above... Before, he saw no beauty in Christ, for which he was to be desired; but now he is all he desires, he is altogether lovely... regenerating grace sets the affections so firmly on God, that the man is disposed, at God's command, to quit his hold of every thing else, in order to keep his hold of Christ... If the stream of our affections were never thus turned, we are, doubtless, going down the stream into the pit.”
“The regenerated do not go to war, nor engage in strife. They are children of peace who have beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning forks, and know no war.”
“The regenerating power of God is only found in the narrow way as this is the way separated unto Christ.”
Source: Purgatory; A place of pruning Book 1: Shaylee Escapes Hell
“The regenerating Spirit is compared to the wind. His first attempts on the soul may be so secret that the creature knows not whence they come, or whither they tend; but, before he hath done, the sound will be heard throughout the soul.”
Source: The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War
“The regeneration of a sinner is an evidence of power in the highest sphere--moral nature; with the highest prerogative--to change nature; and operating to the highest result--not to create originally, which is great; but to create anew, which is greater.”
“The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.”
“The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself:
Are my trousers long enough?
Is my veil in place?
Can my make-up be seen?
Are they going to whip me?
No longer asks herself:
Where is my freedom of thought?
Where is my freedom of speech?
My life, is it liveable?
What's going on in the political prisons?”
Source: The Complete Persepolis
“The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself: Are my trousers long enough?' Is my veil in place?' Can my make-up be seen?' Are they going to whip me?' No longer asks herself: Where is my freedom of thought?' Where is my freedom of speech?' My life, is it livable?' What's going on in the political prisons?”
“The Regime has become so smug it can't tell the difference among the revolutionary, the innovative, or the merely various. The high command knows so little about the outside that if I came back with a fully equipped chemical laboratory and told them I'd found it in a cave, they'd probably believe that, so long as I brought it back piecemeal in my saddle bags, thus proving I hadn't known it was there beforehand.”
“The regime has turned us into monsters so it can justify killing us by saying that it's fighting monsters... I imagine this man who loses his kids- the one thing that defines his future. I completely understand if he turns into a monster. But even a monster has hope. He hopes that someday he'll go back to being a normal human being.”
Source: We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria
“The regime is in trouble economically and can no longer offer anything to its citizens. That's why [Vladimir] Putin has to pursue an aggressive foreign policy, so he can serve his people the fairy tale of Russian pride and regaining its strength as a major power.”
“The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States. We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.”
“The regime must allow immediate and unrestricted access to every site, every document, and every person identified by inspectors. Iraq can be certain that the old game of cheat-and-retreat tolerated at other times will no longer be tolerated.”
“The regime of control tightens inexorably in our schools, many of which now have video cameras, police patrols, chain-link fences, random unannounced locker searches, metal detectors, drug-sniffing dogs, networks of informants, undercover police posing as students, and a comprehensive system of passes so that there is a record of each student's authorized whereabouts at all times. What a perfect preparation for life in a prison or a totalitarian society!”
“The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.”
“The regime's policies, whether intentionally or unintentionally, had engendered a sharp divide between Muslims and Christians, in spite of the fact that generations of Muslims and Coptic Christians had lived together peacefully in the past. The regime was good at utilizing this divide to create a perception that without Mubarak in power, Egyptians would break out into sectarian warfare. As a result, Mubarak managed to market his police state successfully to the international community as the lesser of two evils.”
Source: Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People is Greater Than the People in Power: A Memoir
“The regime which is destroyed by a revolution is almost always an improvement on its immediate predecessor, and experience teaches that the most critical moment for bad governments is the one which witnesses their first steps toward reform.”
Source: The Old Regime and the French Revolution
“The region belonging to the pure intellect is straitened: the imagination labours to extend its territories, to give it room. She sweeps across the boarders, searching out new lands into which she may guide her plodding brother. The imagination is the light which redeems from the darkness for the eyes of the understanding. Novalis says, 'The imagination is the stuff of the intellect' -affords, that is, the material upon which the intellect works.”
Source: The Imagination: And Other Essays
“The region of the mysterious is rapidly shrinking.”
Source: The origin of life
“The region of the senses is the unbelieving part of the human soul.”
Source: The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more
“The regional security in the Middle East cannot be further compromised by an Iranian loose cannon.”
“The regional tags are often pejorative and dismissive. Don't think of place-bound stories, in other words, but of stories with a strong sense of place.”
“The regional voice is the universal voice.”
Source: The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art
“The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .”
Source: The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition
“The registering of doubts hath two excellent uses: the one, that it saveth philosophy from errors and falsehoods; when that which is not fully appearing is not collected into assertion, whereby error might draw error, but reserved in doubt: the other, that the entry of doubts are as so many
suckers or sponges to draw use of knowledge; insomuch as that which, if doubts had not preceded, a man should never have advised, but passed it over without note, by the suggestion and solicitation of doubts, is made to be attended and applied.”
“The registrar, who was very experienced and wise, immediately ordered an industrial dose of diamorphine. This was possibly my first experience of a competent and humane doctor going outside guidelines to better serve the patient’s needs… His thoughts on when, and when not to, discontinue resuscitation bought perspective to the existing didactic protocols.”
Source: Bodily Fluids: Five Decades of Blood, Phlegm and Bile on the Hospital Frontline
“The regret and humiliation hurt much more than the cold.”
Source: Let It Snow
“The regret of loving the wrong person is more than the regret of not having anyone to love.”
“The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.”
“The regret of not expressing feelings eventually turns into pain.”
“The regret of unfinished business is particularly oppressive, even haunting in its oppressive grief.”
“The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.”
“The regrets about all she had let go flooded her. Where had all that enterprise gone? All that energy? Why had she never traveled? Or had more sex when she could? She had bleached and annihilated every waking moment of the last twenty years. Anything, rather than feel.”
Source: The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry
“The regrets are like yesterday: they announce only the future. (Les regrets sont comme hier: - Ils n'annoncent que le futur)”
“The regrets began to swarm together. In fact, while staring at the open pages of the book, the pain was actually worse than it had been wandering around Bedford.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“The regrets I have are so minor. You know, would I leave my Keith Richards hat, with the silver skull on it, on the stool at the coffee shop at LaGuardia? I wouldn't do that again. But overall, no, I don't have any regrets.”
Source: Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson
“The regrets in the theatre have always been the shows that you know ought to have worked but for one reason or another haven't.”
“The regrets of today cannot make up for the mistakes of the past. They can only guide us in a better direction.”
“The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.”
“The regrettable fact of our reality is that life is always lived in the retrospect. We never know what is to come, and most of us haven’t learned how to live in the now. As such, all we have is the past.”
Source: Elsewhere and Otherwise: Essays