T Quotes
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“The serious people have gone, I build my team again and again I just the un-sirious people if this is sirious let's see a bus which can be handled in the air by the weakest person on the Earth.”
“The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with egg-shell china.”
Source: The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)
“The serious person becomes handicapped, he creates barriers. He cannot dance, he cannot sing, he cannot celebrate. The very dimension of celebration disappears from his life. He becomes desert-like. And if you are a desert, you can go on thinking and pretending that you are religious but you are not.”
“The serious problem is the education of the peasantry. The peasant economy is scattered, and the socialization of agriculture, judging by the Soviet Union's experience, will require a long time and painstaking work. Without socialization of agriculture, there can be no complete, consolidated socialism.”
Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung
“The serious problems facing the world today will never be solved until women are able to use their full potential on behalf of themselves, their families, and their global and local communities, as the World Bank and others have discovered”
“The serious problems in life...are never fully solved. If ever they should appear to be so it is a sure sign that something has been lost. The meaning and purpose of a problem seem to lie not in its solution but in our working at it incessantly.”
“The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer or bludgeon. She reads on planes to picket the antiseptic nature of modern travel, on commuter trains to insist on individualism in the midst of the herd, in hotel rooms to boycott the circumstances that separate her from her usual sources of comfort and stimulation, during office breaks to escape from the banal conversation of office mates, and at home to revolt against the pervasive and mind-deadening irrelevance of television.”
“The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.”
Source: A Human Eye: Essays on Art in Society, 1997-2008
“The serious study of dissociated minds will allow us to map out the basic neurologic networks that will shed light on what constitutes a normal personality.”
“The serious Sylvia was agonizing over the execution of the Rosenbergs and McCarthyism; others were delighting to dream over trousseau lingerie at Vanity Fair's showroom.”
Source: Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
“The serious work for feminism in the 21st century is across the globe. Instead of retreating into "safe spaces" and focusing on their own imagined oppression, today's feminists should be reaching out to women's groups in the developing world.”
“The seriousness of being part of Operation Desert Storm-the first major foreign crisis for the United States after the end of the Cold War- was never lost upon us.”
Source: The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
“The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit of sacrifice must become a part of everyday life.”
“The seriousness of my situation started to sink in, and again I fought panic. I pushed it down, but it was harder this time, like my insides were an open can of shaken soda and I was trying to keep it from bubbling up out of the top.”
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
“The seriousness or otherwise of the subject matter is often irrelevent to the question of whether a book is any good. F Scott Fitzgerald wrote a great and beautiful novel which mainly involved shallow people going to parties in a rich guy's house. By contrast, all sorts of terrible books are published every month about men slaughtering people for no reason - a serious matter which, in itself, does not make the author worthy of serious consideration.”
“The sermon begins in the parking lot.”
Source: Deep and Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend
“The sermon is now the true poppy of literature.”
“The sermon of your life in tough times ministers to people more powerfully than the most eloquent speaker.”
Source: The Journey Home: Finishing with Joy
“The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a merely human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience. The whole history of man proves it.”
Source: The Life, Eulogy, and Great Orations of Daniel Webster
“The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ.”
Source: Writings of John Quincey Adams
“The Sermon on the Mount does not provide humanity with a complete guide to personal, social and economic problems. It sets forth spiritual attitudes, moral principles of universal validity, such as " Love your enemies," "Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them," and it leaves to Christians the task-the admittedly difficult task-of applying them in any given situation.”
“The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is getting his way with us.”
Source: The Psychology of Redemption: Making All Things New
“The Sermon on the Mount...went straight to my heart. I compared it with the Gita. My young mind tried to unify the teaching of the Gita, the `Light of Asia' and the Sermon on the Mount. That renunciation was the highest form of religion appealed to me greatly.”
“The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack what he thought of the sermon afterwards, and he said, "There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.”
Source: Hocus Pocus
“The sermon which does not lead to Christ, or of which Jesus Christ is not the top and the bottom, is a sort of sermon that will make the devils in hell laugh, but make the angels of God weep.”
Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series
“The serpent eating itself, tail-first. We live to repeat the same mistakes, to push away the ones we love, to move on when we want to stay, to wait in silence when we should speak. In the life we have chosen to lead, loss is the only constant. Loss, that eats up everything – like the snake, even itself.”
Source: The Strawberry Thief
“The serpent hisses where sweet birds sing.”
Source: Beauty Queen
“the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.”
“The serpent is helpless unless he finds an apple to work with.”
Source: Hand-made Fables
“The Serpent? Oh, I’m just one of them. There are many more. We’re in the time of deception now, and soon it will be the time of destruction. After that, there will be peace and prosperity for a time, but the destruction that follows that will be even worse. It will seem like the end of the world.", FADE by Kailin Gow”
Source: Fade
“The serpent’s objective is clear. He seeks to drive a wedge of doubt into Adam and Eve’s confidence in what God has told them. Satan knows the power of undermining a human being’s confidence in what God has revealed. Sadly, the serpent’s temptation was successful. Adam and Eve second-guessed God’s trustworthiness and then rejected his command. They sinned and ate the forbidden fruit. This was the beginning of the fallen world we all experience. All generations following would have a natural bent for rebelling against God and being skeptical or indifferent to what he has said. To this day, Satan’s objective has not changed. Though his questions look a little different at times, they all contain the same idea”
Source: Clear Minds & Dirty Feet: A Reason To Hope, A Message To Share
“The Serpent, to my interpretation, was pain.”
Source: The Princess Bride
“The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.”
“The serpentine line, or the line of grace, by its waving and winding at the same time different ways, leads the eye in a pleasing manner along the continuity of its variety.”
Source: Anecdotes of Mr. Hogarth: And Explanatory Descriptions of the Plates of Hogarth Restored
“The serum has to enter your bloodstream for it to be properly effective. I assure you, it will not hurt. It will only be a little prick. You will barely even notice it.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“THE SERUM WEARS off five hours later, when the sun is just beginning to set. Tobias shut me in my room for the rest of the day, checking on me every hour. This time when he comes in, I am sitting on the bed, glaring at the wall. “Thank God,” he says, pressing his forehead to the door. “I was beginning to think it would never wear off and I would have to leave you here to … smell flowers, or whatever you wanted to do while you were on that stuff.”
“The servant leader is servant first. It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve.”
“The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.”
Source: Machiavelli, More & Luther
“The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness”
“The Servant who really studies his Master gradually becomes like his master; gradually learns that he himself is the one who in the end does all the work and has all the power.”
Source: Theology's Strange Return
“The servant-leader is servant first... It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first.”
Source: The Power of Servant-leadership: Essays
“The servants called them malenchki, little ghosts, because they were the smallest and the youngest, and because they haunted the Duke’s house like giggling phantoms…”
Source: Shadow and Bone
“THE SERVANTS CALLED them malenchki, little ghosts, because they were the smallest and the youngest, and because they haunted the Duke’s house like giggling phantoms, darting in and out of rooms, hiding in cupboards to eavesdrop, sneaking into the kitchen to steal the last of the summer peaches.”
Source: Shadow and Bone
“The servants must wait like ninjas for me to leave so they could render this place spotless again.”
Source: Twice Tempted: A Night Prince Novel
“The servants of a queen, even a queen under arrest, were not usually supposed to be physically higher than she was. Did the women with her sink to the ground as well, a startled beat behind?”
Source: The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens
“The servants of God...whether provoked by word or work, by keeping themselves tranquil and peaceful, evince a perfect nobleness of soul.”
“The servants of Mary are as sure of getting to Paradise as though they were already there. Who are they who are saved and who reign in Heaven? Surely those for whom the Queen of Mercy intercedes ... The clients of Mary will necessarily be saved.”
“The Servants
The words are like invisible dutiful servants.
We tell words to each other.
We tell words in a blaze of anger.
We tell words in beauty of love.
A whole host of servants…
These servants embody the words in life.
The words of hatred may become a war.
The words of love may become a baby.
The words of childlike admiration may become an inspiration.
The invisible dutiful servants...”
“The servants used to say, 'he read himself silly.”
Source: Crime and Punishment
“The serve is the only thing you know about yourself when you play tennis. If you make it right, you make it right. Nobody can touch you when you serve. Nobody can disturb you. You have the ball in the hand.”