T Quotes
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“The same people that tell me what I ought to have is the same people asking for an autograph.”
“The same people the Americans sent over - that we sent over to advise the Russians, we also sent over to advise the Poles about how to build a post-communist economy. Same people, same advice, with radically different results, which leads to suspicion it's not our advice which was the crucial variable. It was the Poles, on one hand, and the Russians on the other. The Poles succeeded; the Russians didn't. Don't blame us.”
“The same people who accuse America of coddling dictators are sputtering with bilious fury because we actually deposed one.”
“The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.”
Source: Situationism: A Compendium
“the same people who are taking this approach to any idea of sending an American accused to a court in the Hague are the very people demanding that my friend must be sent by Britain to the United States to disappear for the rest of his life for publishing documents which revealed war crimes.”
“The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.”
Source: Table-talk: To which are added Imaginary conversations of Pope and Swift
“The same people who claim to despise the very name of narcissism are the same people who advise us to turn to self-esteem and self-love.”
“The same people who'd mocked her for her love of reading, and gossiped about her father, now cozied up with a good book while enjoying a fire fueled by wood cut with her father's wood-chopping machine. Many minds had been changed those past few years.
Particularly when word of her father's prize-winning invention had spread and Monsieur René le Prince, an entrepreneur (a new profession, funnily enough, born out of the word adventurer,) proposed a partnership. With Monsieur le Prince's resources, Maurice's knack for machinery, and Belle's cleverness, they had formed a formidable team. They traveled to other fairs and looked for new innovations to support, Belle often finding successes in the inventors no one else would take a chance on.”
Source: A Twisted Tale Anthology
“The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world.”
“The same people who recognize I came out with no medals should recognize I could have won three.”
“The same people who refuse to wear masks and claim it's all just a hoax, also claim that China hid how deadly the virus is.
Those two thoughts clearly contradict each other, but somehow they're too brainwashed to notice.”
Source: American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America
“The same people who say winners don’t give up on their dreams call you a loser for sleeping all day.”
Source: Afterthoughts: or Some Pistachios Won't Open – Wisdom for the Unreflective
“The same people who smile in my face would be the same ones to talk behind my back.”
“The same people who tell us that smoking doesn't cause cancer are now telling us that advertising cigarettes doesn't cause smoking.”
“The same people who thought Bitcoin at $100 was expensive, now think it is fairly valued at $30,000.”
“The same person is coming through in a different medium.... My art is simple, direct and definite.”
“The same person who would never raise his hand in a lecture hall of two hundred people might blog to two thousand, or two million, without thinking twice. The same person who finds it difficult to introduce himself to strangers might establish a presence online and then extend these relationships into the real world.”
Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
“The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience.”
Source: The Paris Diary & The New York Diary: 1951–1961
“The same polarity of the male and female principle exists in nature; not only, as is obvious in animals and plants, but in the polarity of the two fundamental functions, that of receiving and penetrating. It is the polarity of earth and rain, of the river and the ocean, of night and day, of darkness and light, of matter and spirit.”
Source: THE ART OF LOVING
“The same political parties which now agitiate the US have existed through all time. And in fact the terms of whig and tory belong to natural as well as to civil history. They denote the temper and constitution and mind of different individuals.”
“The same pot that gave birth to the angels created the demons too. And eventually, there came a time where the differences between both races perished. What came out of the pot next shook the whole universe, and turned it into a graveyard of dreams.”
Source: The Abandoned Paradise: Unraveling the beauty of untouched thoughts and dreams
“The same power is in every man, the one manifesting more, the other less; the same potentiality is in everyone.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“The same power that brought Christ back from the dead is operative within those who are Christ’s. The Resurrection is an ongoing thing.”
“The same Power that brought the slave out of bondage will, in His own good time and way, bring about the emancipation of women, and make her the equal in power and dominion that she was in the beginning.”
Source: Life and Writings of Amelia Bloomer
“The same power that stopped the sun and raised Christ from the grave lives in every believer!”
Source: Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible
“The same powerful Scripture text that brings a loving person to even greater love will be mangled and misused by a fearful or egocentric person. This is surely what Jesus means when he talks about the one who has being given more and those who have not losing what little they have.”
“The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history.”
Source: A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency
“The same principle held in black universities, where students demanded more and more black teachers. White professors who had virtually dedicated their lives and their academic careers as historians, anthropologists, sociologists, to the problems of racism and its cures, thinking they did this for the good of the oppressed victims of racism (and often suffering social and academic insults as a result), were asked to leave schools in favor of black teachers. Some of them turned very bitter.”
Source: Black Like Me
“The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool.
[Fr., Du meme fonds dont on neglige un homme de merite l'on sait encore admirer un sot.]”
“The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to tell the truth.”
“The same principles that make a spiral galaxy also create the structure of a seashell and unfurling of a fern. This is why ancient spiritual people used natural symbols to convey universal concepts.”
Source: Return to Source: How Enlightenment is the Process of Creation in the Universe in Reverse
“The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.”
Source: Works
“The same process that makes AA so effective—the power of a group to teach individuals how to believe—happens whenever people come together to help one another change. Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.”
“The same progressive activists who campaign against microaggressions might also call for the banning of conservative speakers, for the forbidding of displays of support for certain political candidates, and for the creation of safe spaces where progressive ideas can go unchallenged by opposing views.”
Source: The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars
“The same protection you create for yourself becomes the wall that imprisons you.”
“The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence
“the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982”
“The same rain that drowns the rat will grow the hay.”
“The same ratios that govern music give laws to optics and to the movement of the heavens as well. Simple. Elegant. Predictable.”
Source: The Blind Astronomer's Daughter
“The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way ... an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.”
Source: Selected essays of Montaigne: in the translation of John Florio
“The same rebellion, the same impatience, the same anger that exists in the hearts of the dark people in Africa and Asia is existing in the hearts and minds of 20 million black people in this country who have been just as thoroughly colonized as the people in Africa and Asia.”
“The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.”
“The same regions of the brain light up when someone touches their smartphone as when they touch a family member or a pet.”
“The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other.”
“The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbling, 'Better red than eating hamburgers.”
“The same rule that teaches the propriety of a partition between the various branches of power, teaches us likewise that this partition ought to be so contrived as to render the one independent of the other.”
Source: The Fœderalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favor of the New Constitution, as Agreed Upon by the Fœderal Convention, September 17, 1787. Reprinted from the Original Text. With an Historical Introduction and Notes
“The same rumour continued: Patroni made love the same way he did everything else – with a long, thin cigar stuck jauntily in the side of his mouth. This was untrue, at least nowadays. Marie, having coped with several pillow fires during their early years in marriage- drawing on her training as a TWA air hostess to extinguish them – had emphatically forbidden any more cigars in bed.”
Source: Airport
“The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha!”
“The same sensitivity that opens artists to Being also makes them vulnerable to the dark powers of non-Being. It is no accident that many creative people--including Dante, Pascal, Goethe, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Beethoven, Rilke, Blake, and Van Gogh--struggled with depression, anxiety, and despair. They paid a heavy price to wrest their gifts from the clutches of non-Being. But this is what true artists do: they make their own frayed lives the cable for the surges of power generated in the creative force fields of Being and non-Being. (Beyond Religion, p. 124)”