T Quotes
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“The talents lost--the moments run
To waste--the sins of act, of thought,
Ten thousand deeds of folly done,
And countless virtues cherish'd not.”
Source: Matins and vespers: with hymns and occasional devotional pieces
“The talents of an artist, small or great, are God-given. They've nothing to do with the private person; they're nothing to be proud of. They're just a sacred trust... Having been given, I must give. Man shall not live by bread alone, and what the farmer does I must do. I must feed the people - with my songs.”
“The talents of an artist, small or large, are God-given... They are a sacred trust.”
“The tales are quite hard to remember and I found that going back to it between bouts of writing fiction, I was having to retrace my steps quite a lot, because the stories are very intricate and the material is elusive, and possibly with age, my memory is not as malleable as it used to be.”
“The tales lovers tell each other about how they met are hushed and secret things. They change year by year, for we all meet many times as we grow up and become different and new and exciting people--and this never stops, even for a minute, even when we are ninety.”
Source: The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home
“The tales of a sybil
Speak of an ancient diary
Shared between angels
and the diabolical devil
Each page of the diary is split
vertically in three-
The left column enlists the dreams,
And the next two columns are empty.
The fields are left blank
To be entered with details,
Such as the date and the time
The middle one is filled by the angels
when the dreams are born,
and the right one is done by the devil
for he takes delight when they are to die.
But they say one day,
And that it happened only once,
when devil was scrawling
Eagerly in the right column
He stumbled on a particular cell-
On the horns of dilemma
He ratified the row
and reread the dream,
A shiver ran down his spine,
his brutal hands trembled,
Sweats formed on his temple
and even the devil let out a sigh.
It was a dream in which you were mine.”
Source: Dear Nick
“The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other.”
Source: Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood
“The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself,' he said. 'And even after that, when the robots recall the human absurdities of sacrifice and compassion, they will remember us.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.”
“The tales Stolen men and women handed down to their children included the adventures of Buba Yalis, or flying Africans. According to the stories, certain Stolen had been gifted with the power of flight. After chanting buba yali and other phrases now forgotten, they rose above their misery and flew back to our homeland. Others could do the same, the story went, if only they could remember the magic words.”
Source: Yonder
“The tales we tell ourselves about ourselves makes us who we are.”
Source: Perfect Fifths: A Jessica Darling Novel
“The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn’t stop our minds from thinking.”
“The Taliban has a huge leadership problem at a critical political moment, another caliph has announced himself to the world, and the Taliban has been silent. And that is getting noticed by militants across South Asia.”
“The Taliban has asked Osama bin Laden to voluntarily leave the country.They said they delivered him a note asking him to leave, which is a pretty goodtrick considering they claim they don't even know where he is.”
“The Taliban is resilient.”
“The Taliban is the worst...great heroin though.”
“The Taliban should keep it in mind that one of us has to die one day. And if I die early, it does not matter. I will continue my campaign and I'm going back to Pakistan as soon as possible. And I want to be a politician. And, through politics, I am going to serve my mission, and I'm going to work for education for every child.”
“The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and paintings. They jailed filmmakers, musicians, painters, and sculptors.”
“The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.”
“The talk and the clatter, the noise and the fume,
Of stale gossip and chatter and old ladies' Perfume, conjured in sin a hideous gloom,
Which settled upon me like a shadow in the room.”
“The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life's most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in amazement at being so valued. The past is searched for the first signs and each one is in haste to declare all that he is so that no part of his being escapes the hallowing touch.”
Source: The Bell
“The talk of pale, burning-eyed students, anarchists and utopians all, over tea and cigarettes in a locked room long past midnight, is next morning translated, with the literalness of utter innocence, into the throwing of the bomb, the shouting of the proud slogan, the dragging away of the young dreamer-doer, still smiling, to the dungeon and the firing squad.”
Source: Where Joy Resides: An Isherwood Reader
“The talk of sheltering woman from the fierce storms of life is the sheerest mockery, for they beat on her from every point of thecompass, just as they do on man, and with more fatal results, for he has been trained to protect himself, to resist, to conquer.”
“The talk of sin is of course to many a big turn-off; to others, an even bigger myth - because in reality, sin is like the spiritual equivalent of a microscopic parasite, or a virus, or better yet even, an infectious disease. And just as one might never know of, until visiting a competent doctor, the tiny pathogens progressively eroding one's body, so we might never know that in sin we are eroding our being and losing direction until hearing the Word of God rightfully applied. Therefore I ask, which of the doctors would then be the more competent: the one who finds the problem and gives the solution, or the one who willfully ignores the problem (or rather finds the problem when it is much too late)? Seldom does anyone write off the knowledge of medicine for the physical body as primitive practice, so neither must the knowledge of the Word of God for one's spiritual well-being remain written off as primitive practice - quite the opposite really. As it is written thus: 'Lean not on your own understanding.”
Source: Healology
“The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success.”
“The talk show, as a genre, has been in decline for a while. It started with Jerry Springer, when the talk shows suffered a metamorphosis, going from the real and social issues to the hair-raising.”
“The talk shows are stuffed full of sufferers who have regained their health--congressmen who suffered through a serious spell of boozing and skirt-chasing, White House aides who were stricken cruelly with overweening ambition, movie stars and baseball players who came down with acute cases of wanting to trash hotel rooms while under the influence of recreational drugs. Most of them have found God, or at least a publisher.”
“The talk went on like a rattle of small artillery, always slightly sententious, with a sententiousness that was only emphasised by the continual crackling of a witticism, the continual spatter of verbal jest, designed to give a tone of flippancy to a stream of conversation that was all critical and general, a canal of conversation rather than a stream.”
“The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it.”
“The talkative listen to no one, for they are ever speaking. And the first evil that attends those who know not to be silent is that they hear nothing.”
“The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.”
“The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women.”
“The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .”
Source: Saint's Progress: England Literature
“The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.”
“The Talker needs attention. The Talker needs validation. The Talker would rather talk about an idea than confront the complexities, its obstacles. The Talker wants the glory but none of the hard work.”
Source: The Writer's Idea Book 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Develop Great Ideas for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Screenplays
“The talkers and writers resent being left on the sidelines by the doers.”
“The talkers are rising above the thinkers.”
“The talking oak To the ancient spoke. But any tree Will talk to me.”
“The talking works most of the time. Sometimes though, it isn’t enough. Then, many turn to drugs. It’s widespread in Vietnam. Pot is the drug of choice for most casual users. Only the hardcore users step up to the harder drugs like cocaine, opium or heroin.”
Source: Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969
“The talks were like blood transfusions, moments of realness and hope that were pinpricks of light in the dark fabric of small-town life.”
Source: I Was Here
“The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects.”
“The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century.”
“The tall team takes the low road into the lead”
“The tall thief rushed down the stairs and grabbed her, swinging her around as he laughed. "And I've been thinkin' you forgot me," he said, placing her on her feet once more. "Just look at you! Tan and fit and wearin' the clothes of a Bazhir-" Alanna looked up into his friendly hazel eyes and broke into tears.”
Source: The Woman Who Rides Like a Man
“The tall trees, compassionate, understood everything:
grief - they stood stock-still, branches drooped in despair;
fear - they exposed their many roots, tugged their gold hair;
anger - they shook in the storm, pointed their bony fingers.
- The World of Trees (inspired by the Forest of Burnley)”
Source: Red, Cherry Red
“The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours.”
Source: An Arrangement of the Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Rev. Isaac Watts
“The taller a tree the deeper its roots.”
“The taller a tree the taller the wind that comes against it.”
“The taller they are, the longer they fall.”
“The taller you stand, the more possibilities you see.”
Source: The Little Book of Big Quotes: Volume I