T Quotes
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“The sharpest minds often ruin their lives by overthinking the next step, while the dull win the race with eyes closed.”
Source: Write like no one is reading
“The sharpest sting of adversity it borrows from our own impatience.”
“The sharpest tools in the box are not always the best tools for the job.”
“The Sharzelos Model third rule of reversal emphasizes the importance of considering the age and mental language of underachievers when planning their basic needs.”
“The shattered relationship between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit at the cross provides the basis for our reconciliation. No other relationship ever suffered more than what Father, Son, and Holy Spirit endured when Jesus hung on the cross and cried, ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’ Jesus was willing to be the rejected Son so that our families would know reconciliation. Jesus was willing to become the forsaken friend so that we could have loving friendships. Jesus was willing to be the rejected Lord so that we could live in loving submission to one another. Jesus was willing to be the forsaken brother so that we could have godly relationships. Jesus was willing to be the crucified King so that our communities would experience peace.”
Source: Relationships: A Mess Worth Making
“The shattering [of shalom] moves us from a place of shalom to a place that is harsh and unrelenting. The shattering brings us a keen awareness that we are alone and in danger. We are on our own.”
Source: To Be Told: God Invites You to Coauthor Your Future
“The shaver was the size and shape of a brick and almost too hot to hold in his hand. It hissed like it was angry with Zam and its three rotating shaving heads, behind the flimsy looking protective screen, looked like they wanted to rip the skin from his face before chewing it up and spitting it back out with a triumphant sizzle.”
Source: Xyz
“The she-wolf visibly recoiled. “You speak with the dead? Then you are truly the one spoken of who has come to save us.” She stood immediately and gave a shrill howl to her pack, all the wolves in the glade sitting up with ears pricked. “I give you Two-heads,” called the she-wolf, “the shaman our elders foretold, he comes to save us from the predations of the men from the sky...”
Source: Cerberus
“The shears found his throat this time. He fell down on top of them and was silent.
Something dark like mucilage glistened where he lay.
She had jumped back - not in remorse, but to keep the bottom of her skirt clear of his blood. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")”
Source: The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich
“The sheath that held her soul had assumed significance - that was all. She was a sun, radiant, growing, gathering light and storing it - then after an eternity pouring it forth in a glance, the fragment of a sentence, to that part of him that cherished all beauty and all illusion.”
Source: The Beautiful and Damned
“The shed of leaves became a cascade of red and gold and after a time the trees stood skeletal against a sky of weathered tin. The land lay bled of its colors. The nights lengthened, went darker, brightened in their clustered stars. The chilled air smelled of wood smoke, of distances and passing time. Frost glimmered on the morning fields. Crows called across the pewter afternoons.”
“The sheen of ocean gleams on the blue fish-plate.”
“The sheep are happier of themselves, than under the care of wolves.”
Source: Notes on the State of Virginia
“The sheep can pretty easily distinguish a true shepherd from all the hirelings, especially when times are bad- there is just no other reason to explain why he [Fr. Gruner] would stay in the fight and allow the wolves to tear at him.”
Source: Crucial Truths to Save Your Soul
“The sheep or lamb is considered as a sign of ignorance in the political world, while the same lamb is also considered as the sign of wisdom in religion and spirituality.”
“The sheep vs. goats analogy is presumptuous. I define the world in general to be the people who populate it without assignment of an either/or category in presumption of their final and ultimate choice as to Who and Whose Jesus is".
~R. Alan Woods [2012]”
“The sheep-like tendency of human society soon makes inroads on a child's unsophistications, and then popular education completes the dastardly work with its systematic formulas, and away goes the individual, hurtling through space into that hateful oblivion of mediocrity. We are pruned into stumps, one resembling another, without character or grace.”
“The sheep-people don't think for themselves anymore. You can say anything and it's the gospel truth and they don't have to go research it or anything, and they believe everything the news tells them. People don't go and do their own investigations if it's relationships or politics or anything.”
“The sheepdog trial is a contest of farm and ranch dogs doing the same work they do every day at home. It's a simple test: dog runs out, gathers sheep, and fetches them to his shepherd. Dog drives the sheep through obstacles. Then dog and man sort the sheep and pen them. Any halfway decent sheepdog can do it but some are better than others”
Source: Mr. and Mrs. Dog: Our Travels, Trials, Adventures, and Epiphanies
“The sheepish will vote for Joe Biden and those against government and corporate corruption will vote for Bernie Sanders.”
“The sheer act of listening speaks volumes that even a great speech can't communicate.”
Source: Leadership Promises for Your Week
“The sheer amount of knowledge in our world is overwhelming!”
“The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.”
“The sheer desire to experience every other thing would kill me someday.”
“The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.”
“The sheer folly of trying to defend a nation by destroying all life on the planet must be apparent to anyone capable of rational thought. Nuclear capability must be reduced to zero, globally, permanently. There is no other option.”
“The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction.”
“The sheer magnitude of Speaker Pelosis spending spree is mind boggling. Most of us do not use the number 1,000,000,000,000 in our daily lives, so it is difficult to attach tangible value to the figure.”
“The sheer mystery and majesty of heritage wisdom, contained in each cell, each mitochondria, instills in the farmer who respects and honors the pigness of the pig a daily emotional high. The satisfaction of being nature's nurturer always trumps the short-lived adrenaline high of being nature's conqueror. Such an attitude offers spiritual ascendance over physical domination, which never really happens anyway. And that's why the industrial farmer, for all the smoke and noise and horsepower, never feels in control, but always dreads being drowned by the nature he thinks he's controlling.”
Source: The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs: Respecting and Caring for All God's Creation
“The sheer novelty and glamor of the Western diet, with its seventeen thousand new food products every year and the marketing power - thirty-two billion dollars a year - used to sell us those products, has overwhelmed the force of tradition and left us where we now find ourselves: relying on science and journalism and government and marketing to help us decide what to eat.”
Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
“The sheer number of government employees and welfare recipients effectively transforms the purpose of government from maintaining order to confiscating as much as possible from vulnerable taxpayers.”
Source: Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen
“The sheer number of new businesses that fail speaks to the optimism of entrepreneurs to wander down such a gauntlet, and their willingness to believe that norms don't apply to them. But on average, of course, they do.”
“The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about baseball. The same intellectual resources might have cured the common cold, or put a man on Pluto.”
Source: Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
“The sheer relief washing over me suggests that one of the reasons I felt like I was holding a seven-ton weight of angst on my shoulders the past few days because I couldn't be with Penn. And while I'm his hobby, he is turning out to be my...everything. My solace. My good part. My favorite thing about life.”
Source: Pretty Reckless
“The sheer size of some of the limestome foundation blocks [at Baalbek] are the largest ever quarried on the planet, conservatively estimated at 800 to 1200 tons, and the common belief that the Romans chose to do this work on such a massive scale to 'impress the locals' is absolutely ludicrous. Nowhere else in the Roman world is there any evidence of the quarrying of blocks of this size, so we can clearly presume that they were there when the Romans first appeared, and were used as foundational material. A group of three horizontally lying giant stones which form part of the podium of the Roman Jupiter Temple of Baalbek, Lebanon, go by the name 'trilithon.' Each one of these stones is 70 feet long, 14 feet high, 10 feet thick, and weighs around 800 tons. These three stone blocks are the largest building blocks ever used by any human beings anywhere in the world. The supporting stone layer beneath features a number of stones that are still in the order of 350 tons and 35 feet wide. No one knows how these blocks were moved, cut, placed, and fit perfectly together.”
Source: Aftershock: The Ancient Cataclysm That Erased Human History
“The sheer splendor of the sight made my chest tighten and tears sting my eyes. All the darkness lately made it easy to forget the world contained more than people trying to hurt other people. It had beauty, too, if you knew where to look--and remembered to open your eyes.”
“The sheer violence of it, the howl of air raid sirens and the air-cutting fall of the missiles carried its own political message; not just to President Saddam but to the rest of the world. We are the superpower, those explosions said last night. This is how we do business.”
“The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot of Mount Everest and insisting that you cannot see the mountain.”
“The sheer volumes of songs have come from the hours of cold and darkness that one spends inside with the lights on.”
“The sheer will to power is corrupted not by power itself but by an undeserved power. Undeserved power is only possible through a compromised or corrupt will. Power doesn’t corrupt. Only an undue and excessive power corrupts. If we say that “absolute power corrupts absolutely,” we mean that the insatiable (“absolute”) appetite for power, irrespective of merits, corrupts. But the deserved power or the deserved absolute power, if even possible to imagine, would not be expressed or manifested as such because it would be an actual representation and manifestation of goodness, which is different and opposed to our view of real power.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“The sheer will to try just one more time is the difference between a winner and a loser.”
“The sheets grow heavy as a lecher's kiss.”
Source: Poemas
“THE SHEETS & THE LIGHT
Sombre echoes
that mark the dawning greying on the hill;
the steep streets still wet from rain the small buildings look emptier with each day passing on;
Thoughts are done passing rounds counting circles inside my head.
Pale mirror-faces
crossing me on the way back to the place that felt like home - falling back in time.”
“The sheik is, thank God, still alive and this hurts Bush who promised to his people to kill Osama.”
“The Sheldon Adelsons, the Koch brothers, the George Soroses, what we want to try to do is force them into the parties, not so that Kasich or whoever is going to straight to them and trying to kiss up to special interests, but so the parties have the power and they can direct the money.”
“The shelf is full now.
Heavy with what-ifs and nearlys,
with truths I dressed as jokes
and funerals I disguised as patience.”
Source: A Shelf of Things I Never Said
“The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk.”
“The shelf life of molecules is very short. Ninety-eight percent of all the atoms in my body are gone by next year.”
“The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.”
“The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.”