T Quotes
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“The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands.”
“The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.”
“The survival of love depends on the management of change.”
Source: How to Keep Love Alive
“The survival of mankind is depending on you voting for the Green Party.”
“The survival of my own ideas may not be as important as a condition I might create for others’ ideas to be realized.”
“The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity.”
Source: Healology
“The survival of the fittest is going to make some man very lonesome some day.”
“The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the qualifications for adaptation, the ability to accept the inevitable and conform to the unavoidable, to harmonize with existing or changing conditions.”
“The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more — if more should be required — the future of human civilization is at stake.”
“The survival or preservation of certain favoured words in the struggle for existence is natural selection.”
Source: The Descent of Man: The Concise Edition
“The survival rate of Dr Burton's patients approximately doubled the maximum survival rate of conventionally treated patients. Had these findings pertained to a chemotherapy drug instead of IAT, massive amounts of funding would have been allocated to investigate the drug. Once again, the politics of cancer barred a potentially valuable treatment from reaching the public.”
“The survival value of intelligence is that it allows us to extinct a bad idea, before the idea extincts us.”
“The survived souls give strength to the suffering souls.”
“The survived suffered-soul strengthens the suffering souls.”
“The surviving church is one that has a holistic view of the scriptures and doesn’t simply cherry-pick themes and teachings that are more to individual likings and aptitude’s. It is a church that preaches to felt needs, to be sure, but emphasizes that when we stand in the presence of a holy God, our greatest felt need will be for the righteousness of Christ. It is a church that teaches us how to live on earth but with the greater purpose of preparing for the life to come. It is a church that is not afraid of talking about hell.”
Source: The Church in Babylon: Heeding the Call to Be a Light in the Darkness
“The surviving intelligent life form on Earth is not going to be carbon-based; it's going to be silicon-based.”
“The survivor spoke to us though, or tried to. Mumbling through that matted brown beard of his, pale as death itself. I can’t say now if it was weakness from his wounds or what it was – but we struggled to understand him. In fact we got nothing intelligible from him at all then. He seemed afraid, like any dying man probably would be, but he did seem more terrified than any dying man I’ve seen before – and I’ve seen a few in my time. Let me tell you, Corsair or not, he grabbed whatever hand would hold his, and clenched it so tight his knuckles turned white! He kept fading out as we carried him on the stretcher board the medics brought with them. Looking back, I think he tried to warn us, poor bastard. He tried to tell us to leave him behind and go, but we wouldn’t listen. We thought we were better than the Corsairs, remember? We thought we would be all moral and upright and try to help him. ‘Don’t say I didn’t warn you.’ were the last words he said before losing consciousness. At least, those that we could make out. At the end of it all, he was right – as it turned out, we couldn’t even help ourselves.”
Source: Space Vacation
“The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead.”
“The survivors by and large went on with their lives.
Three of them committed suicide.
An unknown number found their way to alcohol and drugs.
None were unscathed.
But most found a way to survive, as they had for so long alone. They rediscovered their families; they attended school and church; they attended counseling sessions. They walked through shopping malls in wonder. They were occasionally seen to break down crying in the middle of a grocery store.”
Source: Light
“The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.”
Source: The spectator
“The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.”
“The sushi rice was topped with thin strips of omelet, grilled conger eel, steamed prawns, boiled shiitake mushrooms, ginkgo nuts, and large green soybeans. There was also a scattering of something reddish pink--- probably dried and shredded fish.
Taking care not to touch the bowl again, Shuji used his chopsticks to scoop up some of the mushi-zushi and slip it into his mouth.
It was so hot that he found himself wondering how it was even possible for food to retain such a high temperature. He opened his mouth wide as he chewed, releasing clouds of steam.
The rice itself was packed with minced conger eel; he could feel its rich umami flavor racing across his tongue. Now he saw what a bit of warmth could bring to a bowl of sushi.”
Source: The Menu of Happiness
“The suspect was resisting arrest’ is a police officers license to kill.”
“The suspense in a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist himself, who is intensely curious too about what will happen to the hero.”
“The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last.”
“The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the racking thoughts that crowd upon the mind, and make the heart beat violently, and the breath come thick, by the force of the images they conjure up before it; the desperate anxiety to be doing something to relieve the pain, or lessen the danger, which we have no power to alleviate; the sinking of soul and spirit, which the sad remembrance of our helplessness produces; what tortures can equal these; what reflections of endeavours can, in the full tide and fever of the time, allay them!”
Source: Oliver Twist
“The suspicion and antagonism of academics, clerics and intellectuals towards the market... go hand in hand with their disdain for the preference and habits of ordinary people.”
“The suspicion is in the air nowadays that the superiority of one of our formulas to another may not consist so much in its literal 'objectivity,' as in subjective qualities like its usefulness, its 'elegance,' or its congruity with our residual beliefs”
Source: Pragmatism and Other Writings
“The suspicion that certain ancient authorities possessed good knowledge of the real shape of the Atlantic and its islands, and of the lands on both sides of it, must also arise from any objective reading of Plato's world-famous account of Atlantis.
[...], this story is set around 11,600 years ago -- a date that coincides with a peak episode of global flooding at the end of the Ice Age. The story tells us that 'the island of Atlantis was swallowed up by the sea and vanished', that this took place in 'a single dreadful day and night' and that the event was accompanied by earthquakes and floods that were experienced as far away as the eastern Mediterranean. But of more immediate interest to us here is what Plato has to say about the geographical situation in the Atlantic immediately before the flood that destroyed Atlantis:
'In those days the Atlantic was navigable. There was an island opposite the strait [the Strait of Gibraltar] which you [the Greeks] call the Pillars of Heracles, an island larger than Libya and Asia combined; from it travellers could in those days reach the other islands, and from them the whole opposite continent which surrounds what can truly be called the ocean. For the sea within the strait we are talking about [i.e. the Mediterranean] is like a lake with a narrow entrance; the outer ocean is the real ocean and the land which entirely surrounds it is properly termed continent ... On this land of Atlantis had arisen a powerful and remarkable dynasty of kings who ruled the whole island; and many other islands as well, and parts of the continent ...'
Whether or not one believes than an island called Atlantis ever existed in the Atlantic Ocean, Plato's clear references to an 'opposite continent' on the far side of it are geographical knowledge out of place in time. It is hard to read in these references anything other than an allusion to the Americas, and yet historians assure us that the Americas were unknown in Plato's time and remained 'undiscovered' (except for a few inconsequential Viking voyages) until Colombus in 1492.”
Source: Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
“The suspicion that European travellers in the Indian Ocean in the sixteenth century may from time to time have stumbled across charts and maps containing the remnants of a lost geography (perhaps even the maps of Marinus of Tyre, said to have been superior to those of Ptolemy) is intriguingly enhanced by the first of Alfonso de Albuquerque's two letters. It introduces a 'piece of a map' that Albuquerque has acquired in his travels in the Indian Ocean and that he is sending to King Manuel. The fragment, he explains, is not the original but was 'traced' by Francisco Rodrigues from: 'a large map of a Javanese pilot, containing the Cape of Good Hope, Portugal and the land of Brazil, the Red Sea and the Sea of Persia, the Clove islands [effectively a world map, therefore], the navigation of the Chinese and the Gores [an unidentified people, thought by some to be the Japanese, or the inhabitants of Taiwan and the Ryukyu archipelago] with their rhumbs and direct routes followed by the ships, and the hinterland, and how the kingdoms border on each other. It seems to me, Sir, that this was the best thing I have ever seen, and Your Highness will be very pleased to see it; it had the names in Javanese writing, but I had with me a Javanese who could read and write.”
Source: Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
“The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“The suspicious parent makes an artful child.”
“The Sussex lanes were very lovely in the autumn ... spendthrift gold and glory of the year-end ... earth scents and the sky winds and all the magic of the countryside which is ordained for the healing of the soul.”
Source: I Leap Over the Wall: Contrasts and Impressions After Twenty-eight Years in a Convent
“The sustainability is a costly affair, but act before it becomes unaffordable.”
Source: SuaaS : Sustainability as-a-Service
“The sustainability revolution will be organic. It will arise from the visions, insights, experiments and actions of billions of people. The burden of making it happen is not on the shoulders of any one person or group. No one will get the credit, but everyone can contribute.”
Source: Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
“The sustainability revolution will, hopefully, be the third major social and economic turning point in human history, following the Neolithic Revolution - moving from hunter-gathering to farming - and the Industrial Revolution”
“The sustainable alternative is one in which smaller and smaller regions produce more and more of the goods they need closer to where they are consumed. These economies will contribute little to the greenhouse effect and will survive the exhaustion of oil.”
Source: Sustaining the Common Good: A Christian Perspective on the Global Economy
“The sustaining interest and enthusiasm of many friends and colleagues are, of course, the nutrition that every writer needs, and can never adequately acknowledge.”
Source: Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color
“The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.”
Source: Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age
“The sustaining taste of victory can never be replaced by the cold metal of a trophy.”
“The sutra pictures Vimalakirti living his bodhisattva vow, that is, caring as much about the well-being of others as he does about his own. He lives selflessly, as though he has or is "no isolated self," because his sense of identity now encompasses his relations with others. The self/other dichotomy has been transformed in the paramita of morality. The boundaries that once defined his identity in opposition to others have been enlarged to include others. That is a significant dimension of what it means to live selflessly. Although Buddhist texts routinely refer to this as an experience of "no-self," it could just as easily be described as an expansion of the self, an enlargement empowered by a profound reverence for the whole of life.”
Source: Living Skillfully: Buddhist Philosophy of Life from the Vimalakirti Sutra
“The SUV was the only car moving. Josh had his foot pressed flat to the floor, and the needle on the speedometer hovered close to eighty. He was becoming more comfortable with the controls—he hadn't hit anything for at least a minute.”
Source: The First Codex
“The Suzuki Wagon R should be avoided like unprotected sex with an Ethiopian transvestite”
“The swabhaav bhaav (inherent state) of the Self is itself liberation (moksha), and its vishesh bhaav (extra intent of 'I am Chandubhai') is worldly life. Worldly life is not an adverse intent.”
Source: Aptavani-2
“The swallow follows not summer more willing
than we your lordship.
TIMON (aside)
Nor more willingly leaves winter. Such
summer birds are men.”
Source: Timon of Athens
“The swallow is not ensnared by men because of its gentle nature.
[Lat., At caret insidiis hominum, quia mitis, hirundo.]”
“The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning.”
Source: Wild Thoughts from Wild Places
“The swamp isn't a useless piece of land. A swamp is a kind of wetland. Wetlands are important to humans.”
Source: The Salamander's Trial: Wetland
“The Swamp of Despond is that place set before the narrow gate where true and false pilgrims alike are assaulted by their own internal corruption and pollution. The dirt and scum that has attached itself to our hearts and minds is agitated and revealed by both the workings of a guilty conscience and the devouring avarice of the enemy of our souls.The”
“The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.”