T Quotes
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“The status quo (of development) pre-ordains failure from the very beginning.”
“The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted.”
“The status quo cannot work.”
“The status quo helps liberals. We're going to change the country.”
“The status quo is a product of our culture or our culture is a product of the status quo - I'm sure which is the effect and which is the product - there is probably a feedback loop there that is mutually reinforcing. But we have a culture that says "Hey, look around. This place called Earth was created for you and you can do anything you want with it."”
“The status quo is a very powerful opiate and when you have a system that seems to be working and producing profits by the conventional way of accounting for profits. It's very hard to make yourself change. But we all know that change is an inevitable part of business. Once you have ridden a wave just so far, you have to get another wave. We all know that. For us, becoming restorative has been that new wave and we have been riding it for 13 years now. It's been incredibly good for business.”
“The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.”
“The status quo is more tenacious than anyone would ever imagine. The human mind prefers continuity rather than change. So it really has to be committed to eliminating a bad habit to even start down that path.”
“The status quo is never news, only challenges to it.”
Source: Knife Edge
“The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they've got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.”
Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
“The status quo is simply unacceptable.”
“The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.”
Source: The Uses of the University
“The status quo is working.”
“The status quo sucks.”
“The status quo was rote memorization and recitation in classrooms thronged with passive children who were sternly disciplined when they expressed individual needs.”
Source: Family matters: why homeschooling makes sense
“The staunchest conservatives advocate a range of changes which differ in specifics, rather than in number or magnitude, from the changes advocated by those considered liberal…change, as such, is simply not a controversial issue. Yet a common practice among the anointed is to declare themselves emphatically, piously, and defiantly in favor of 'change.' Thus those who oppose their particular changes are depicted as being against change in general. It is as if opponents of the equation 2+2=7 were depicted as being against mathematics. Such a tactic might, however, be more politically effective than trying to defend the equation on its own merits.”
Source: The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
“The Steadfast Love of the Lord is not Seasonal; His Mercies do not have winter or summer days... They are new every now and then.”
“The steadfast practice of being with what is real is one of the truest ways I have come to understand the nature of reverence.”
“The steadily inward look leads us all to death, nations as well as persons, and is equally infantile in them all. Perhaps the most useful thing I have learned in my lifetime is that the process of maturing gradually turns the mind away from the small-self to the greater-self that is only served by serving others.”
“The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor; and notwithstanding the efforts of the papers to disseminate early discontents, I expect that a just, dispassionate and steady conduct, will at length rally to a proper system the great body of our country. Unequivocal in principle, reasonable in manner, we shall be able I hope to do a great deal of good to the cause of freedom & harmony.”
Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson
“The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.”
“The steady improvement in [home] sales will support price appreciation...[despite] all the wild projections by academics, Wall Street analysts, and others in the media.”
“The steady pressure to consume, absorb, participate, receive, by eye, ear, mouth, and mail involves a cruelty to intestines, blood pressure, and psyche unparalleled in history.”
“The steady progress made by North Korea on its nuclear and missile programs is deeply concerning. The US cannot solve this problem alone. However, in order to take steps that could fundamentally affect the North Korean leadership and its decision-making, we need to work even more closely with our allies in the region who feel this threat acutely. I would urge China, in particular, to intensify its leadership role in helping to solve this crisis.”
“The steady soul and the ego pretender / walk with their arms round each other's shoulders / through the mirage.”
“The steady state of disks is full.”
“The steady state theory is aesthetically and philosophically pleasing to many people, to whom it is a matter of regret that observations indicate that it is not the correct model.”
Source: The Ultimate Fate of the Universe
“The steady states of the fluid matrix of the body are commonly preserved by physiological reactions, i.e., by more complicated processes than are involved in simple physico-chemical equilibria. Special designations, therefore, are appropriate:—“homeostasis” to designate stability of the organism; “homeostatic conditions,” to indicate details of the stability; and “homeostatic reactions,” to signify means for maintaining stability.”
“The steak ain't right without the A-1
So I stay dipped in sauce and they come”
“The stealth bomber is supposed to be a big deal. It flies in undetected, bombs, then flies away. Hell, I've been doing that all my life.”
“The steam at the kettle’s spout,
The flame at the candle’s wick,
Rest on an emptiness
Invisible, quick.
The word at the poet’s lip,
The line at the painter’s brush,
Rest on an emptiness.
Hush.
*Shrine poem.* Welling-in-the-Mountains.”
Source: Roadsouls
“The steam engine has done much more for science than science has done for the steam engine.”
“The steam from the train curled around them, all-encompassing like the mist of early morning fog.
Edward gripped both of Beryl’s hands in his. “I’ll write.”
The promise fell heavy between them and rang dull. Edward knew his words wouldn’t make up for his absence. He wished for another way in which he could make the money they needed, but there simply was none. His gut wrenched, and guilt rose in his throat, choking him with uncertainty.”
Source: In a Grove of Maples
“The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit...One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts.”
“The steam trains crossed the country, the gleaming tracks clumsy sutures across wounded miles of stolen land.”
Source: Lair of Dreams
“The steam was thicker than expected and surprisingly easy to scoop up. Inside her mouth it swelled twice its original size and then burst into a series of delicate favors: savory cream sauce, then toasted cheese, and finally vanilla ice cream with a tinge of hazelnut.”
Source: The Lost Track of Time
“The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire.”
Source: Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle
“The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for the mariner's guidance in them, the power of rendering surgical operations painless, the measures for preserving public health, and for preventing or mitigating epidemics,-such are among the more important practical results of pure scientific research, with which mankind have been blessed and States enriched.”
“The steamship whose machinery is broken may be brought into port and made fast to the dock. She is safe, but not sound. Repairs may last a long time. Christ designs to make us both safe and sound. Justification gives the first - safety; sanctification gives us the second - soundness.”
“The steel door of the incinerator went up and the muted hum of the eternal fire became a red roaring. The heat lunged out at them like a famished beast. Then Rahel's Ammu was fed to it. Her hair, her skin, her smile. Her voice. They way she used Kipling to love her children before putting them to bed: We be of one blood, though and I. Her goodnight kiss. The way she held their faces steady with one hand (squashed-cheeked, fish-mouthed) while she parted and combed their hair with the other. The way she held knickers out for Rahel to climb into. Left leg, right leg. All this was fed to the beast, and it was satisfied.
She was their Ammu and their Baba and she had loved them Double.”
Source: The God of Small Things
“The steel suddenly touched her heart. Ah, jealousy, it was jealousy, the cold hand mashing her slowly, squeezing her, diminishing her soul.”
Source: Near to the Wild Heart
“The Steelers drafted guys who were bigger, stronger and faster than me, but they never found one who could take my job away from me.”
“The steep ride up the and down the energy curve is the most abnormal thing that has ever happened in human history. Most of human history is a no-growth situation. Our culture is built on growth and that phase of human history is almost over and we are not prepared for it. Our biggest problem is not the end of our resources. That will be gradual. Our biggest problem is a cultural problem. We don't know how to cope with it.”
“The steeper the ascent, the harder the path, the grander the view at journey’s end.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“The steeper the climb, the more incentive to reach the top.
Even in the midst of the darkness, there is always a shard of light if we will but search for it hard enough and believe in it strongly enough.
A name portrays the nature of its wearer. The meaning of a name, however, portrays the trueness of its wearer in depths that very few ever come to comprehend.
May God bless you and keep you and give you peace in all that you do, and may we rest assured of this: that though we travel far apart and in many different directions and for long periods of time, we will meet again, if not in this lifetime, then in eternity, and there we will never have to say ‘good-bye’ again.
Courage is not found in lacking fear, courage is found in not allowing your fear to rule you.
Courage is really just facing fear.
Do not put too much stock in the stars my boy, they are fickle and distant and do not affect the lives of men by very great a margin.”
“The steeper the mountain the harder the climb the better the view from the finish line ;)”
“The steeper the trail, the nearer we’re to the top.”
“The steeples swam in amethyst, the news like squirrels swam.”
Source: Selected poems
“The steering wheel was yesterday. With AI in cars, imagination itself is the new driver’s seat. – AIinCars”
“The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.”