T Quotes
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“The self-righteous feel no need to be charming, and thus double their offensiveness.”
“The self-righteous have their fig leaves so tightly bound that they have forgotten the seeping wounds beneath the foliage.”
“The self-righteous never apologize.”
“The self-righteous rule out the possibility that they are what has gone wrong.”
“The self-righteousness and other ego-puffery that makes missionaries and evangelists out of Christians is in truth a measure of how far they are from even the one thing they think is most certainly true, i.e. the confidence that they are truly Christians.”
“The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.”
“The self-same atoms which, chaotically dispersed, made the nebula, now, jammed and temporarily caught in peculiar positions, form our brains; and the 'evolution' of brains, if understood, would be simply the account of how the atoms came to be so caught and jammed.”
Source: The Principles of Psychology
“The self-styled practical man of affairs who pooh-poohs philosophy as a lot of windy notions is himself a pragmatist or a positivist, and a bad one at that, since he has given no thought to his position.”
“The self-sufficient does not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than his prayer life.”
“The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.”
Source: The Outsider
“The self-talk of the ego-mind is so busy describing what is happening, judging whether it is good or bad for us, and telling us what we should think and do, that there is little opportunity for our inner knowing to be heard. Instead we remain attached to our assumptions, dreaming of the fulfillment we believe they will bring.”
“The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to die; it is a dramatic effect arising diffusely from a scene that is presented.”
“The self...can split off from itself without being less. You are not a mini self, an adjunct to some super-being, never to share fully in its reality... you are that superself looking out through only one eye, or using just one finger.”
“The selfie era offers a big opening: everybody can do it; nowadays even five-year-olds know how to take a nude self-portrait.”
“The selfie has become a new autograph, but it takes twice as long to do as a real autograph. I do it because I'm like, "What am I going to do, these people bought me my house." Why am I not going to take a picture with them except I always say, "You have to hold it up! Shoot down or it's really ugly if you shoot up!" So not only does it take longer, you have to teach them camera angles.”
“The selfie is the new way to look someone right in the eye and say, 'Hello, this is me.'”
“The selfish and usually pointless approach is to try to get both done simultaneously - accomplish your work at hand while begging forgiveness of those close to you while you're basically working in front of them during what could've been specifically 'quality time.'”
“The selfish are seldom secure.”
“The selfish leader will attempt to lead others for their own gain and for the detriment of others.”
“The selfish man cuts away the sand from under his own feet, he digs his own grave; and every time, from the beginning of the world until now, God Almighty pushes him into the grave and covers him up.”
“The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.”
Source: The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The selfish scheme called “property rights” has superseded human rights and created four times more useless work than is required to produce and distribute all the comforts and luxuries of life.”
“The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin
“The selfishness makes for a million "butts and farts" running around, convinced they'll never be happy unless they get precisely what they want. I don't know whether it's what personal freedom persuades us to think we need or it's just because, with so many things around us so readily available, like information and technology, we have developed an addition to instant gratification. Either way, we're all a bunch of spoiled brats wandering th galactic pebble, yelling and arguing when we don't get what we want.
LIFE'S NOT THE INTERNET, FUCKHOLES!”
Source: You're Making Me Hate You: A Cantankerous Look at the Common Misconception That Humans Have Any Common Sense Left
“The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.”
Source: No Man Is an Island
“The selfishness of humanity is rooted in the self-destructive nature of man through sin. Romans 6:23”
Source: God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible
“The selfless giving, the service, the kindness which you give out into this world that is the currency of (the) meaning (of life).”
“The selfless love that we give to others, to the point of being willing to sacrifice our lives for them, is all the proof I need that human beings are not mere animals of self-interest. We carry within us a divine spark, and if we chose to recognize it, our lives have dignity, meaning, hope.”
Source: Seize the Night: A Novel
“The selling of food matters as much as the food itself… if not more.”
Source: Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
“The Sellout is about friends and relatives who have touched me in real ways.”
“The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.”
“The Semantic Web isn't inherently complex. The Semantic Web language, at its heart, is very, very simple. It's just about the relationships between things.”
“The semanticists are exactly wrong in regarding language as an obstruction or series of pitfalls. Language, on the contrary, appears as a great storehouse of universal memory, or it may be said to serve as a net, not imprisoning us but supporting us and aiding us to get at a meaning beyond present meaning through the very fact that it embodies others' experiences.”
Source: Ideas Have Consequences
“The semblance of possibility lingers just as close as he does, both of us afraid of what's to come but fearless enough to do it anyway.”
Source: Cancer Perks
“The semi-colon is a burp, a hiccup. It's a drunk staggering out of the saloon at 2 a.m., grabbing your lapels on the way and asking you to listen to one more story.”
“The semicolon was born in Venice in 1494”
Source: Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark
“The semimetaphysical problems of the individual and society, of egoism and altruism, of freedom and determinism, either disappear or remain in the form of different phases in the organization of a consciousness that is fundamentally social.”
“The seminal elements of what makes a story great - challenge, struggle, resolution - are the same whether we're talking about story content for a movie such as 'Rain Man,' or telling a purposeful story to forge new business relationships or conclude a fruitful transaction, such as acquiring an NBA franchise.”
“The seminal work of Stephen Porges ... suggests that presence becomes possible when there is a felt sense of safety ...
When we are in the role of practitioner, if our autonomic nervous system is receiving what it needs to have a neuroception of safety (our system's felt sense, below the level of conscious awareness, that we are safe) then our social engagement system (the ventral vagal parasympathetic) will be alive in the room as our patients arrive.
In this state, we become a potentially safe landing strip for them. When we are able to offer this safe haven, the possibility of the other person moving toward a similar felt sense of safety awakens the healing space between us through resonance.”
Source: The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
“The seminar in economic theory conducted by Hayek at the L.S.E. in the 1930s was attended, it came to seem, by all of the economists of my generation - Nicky Kaldor , Thomas Balogh, L. K. Jah, Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, the list could be indefinitely extended. The urge to participate (and correct Hayek) was ruthlessly competitive.”
“The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.”
“The seminaries must face the fact that they are not turning out well-trained professional clergy. They must realize that preaching is creative work and that some element of creativity should be required as a condition for ordination.”
“The seminary programs will help you as a young man or woman to lay a foundation for happiness and success in life.”
“The Senate as an institution is broken. We're not doing the work of the American people and the rules are being abused. The only way to get us back to the traditions where the Senate is doing the work of the American people is to change the rules.”
“The Senate being tied is a start. Now, if only it could be gagged.”
“The Senate came one vote short of granting approval to build the Keystone pipeline. Democrats say the pipeline could accelerate global warming. Then people who've been outside today said, 'Sounds good to me. Let's accelerate that global warming.'”
“The Senate decided they will be smoke-free. They ordained that all public areas in the Senate are now smoke-free. However, the senators themselves will still be allowed to blow smoke up each other's asses.”
“The Senate gathered to say goodbye to Vice President Joe Biden. Biden has been a presence there for more than 40 years.”
“The Senate has been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity.”
“The Senate has passed a new bill that requires TV stations to lower the volume level on commercials. This is great, a hundred of the most powerful people in the nation have managed to do the same thing my remote does.”