T Quotes
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“The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of speech that tends the earthly rootedness of human language. For narrated events always happen somewhere. And for an oral culture, that location is never merely incidental to those occurrences. The events belong, as it were, to the place, and to tell the story of those events is to let the place itself speak through the telling.”
Source: The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-human World
“The telling of your stories is a revolutionary act.”
“The temerity to believe in nothing.”
Source: Fathers and Children
“The temper of mind that sees tragedy in life has not for its opposite the temper that sees joy. The opposite pole to the tragic view of life is the sordid view.”
Source: The Greek way ; The Roman way
“The Temper Sonnet
Where you need to be calm,
You burst out in rage.
Where you need to be on fire,
You walk in silence and not engage.
Where you need to listen,
You scream like a loudspeaker.
Where you need to speak out,
Somehow your words disappear.
Where it requires to be humble,
Pride takes over your humility.
Where your blood needs to boil,
Your veins seem to run empty.
The right use of temper is an act of revolution.
Put it to good use and you'll nourish civilization.”
Source: Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law
“The temperament of a dandelion or cosmic preservation. Where does wonder begin?”
Source: Necessary secrets: the journals of Elizabeth Smart
“The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.”
“The temperate person’s pleasures are durable because they are regular; and all their life is calm and serene, because it is innocent.”
“The Temperature is Rising
The heartbeat quickens my breath is controlled,my senses are illuminated like a mother to her young. This feeling I have I've know it before, when the gates are opened I'll remember the beginning. Awaiting, dreaming imagining the endless possibilities of moments together as I give into my desires. My body reacts it has a mind of its own leaving little clues yet I continue on.
Poised and professional I cross my origin the passion that awaits it stirs like a simmer. The sweet aroma a treat being made just for him I know he will like, the hunger in his eyes his mouth soft and strong it only took me a moment as he continued to look on. I didn't even recognize my sound as I was in a sphere all alone I hoped and imagined it would be but my mind was left in awe like sweet chocolate after a meal.”
“The temperature of the tropic oceans is warmer than it's been in 150 years”
“The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall.”
“The tempest unleashes an alphabetletters fall through the apertures of crazy anglesto spell out the futureuprooting the course of inventionand enslaving the masters”
“The tempest was terrible and separated me from my [other] vessels that night, putting every one of them in desperate straits, with nothing to look forward to but death. Each was certain the others had been destroyed. What man ever born, not excepting Job, who would not have died of despair, when in such weather seeking safety for my son, my brother, shipmates, and myself, we were forbidden [access to] the land and the harbors which I, by God's will and sweating blood, had won for Spain?”
“The tempests of youth are mingled with days of brilliant sunshine.”
Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
“The Templars' mental confusion makes them indecipherable. That's why so many people venerate them.”
Source: Foucault’s Pendulum
“The temple and the holy ordinances are indeed sacred, and we should be spiritually sensitive to them. It is a sacred blessing to attend the temple to worship the Lord.”
“The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.”
“The temple endowment was given by revelation. Thus, it is best understood by revelation, prayerfully sought with a sincere heart.”
“The temple in which the Lord Jesus delights most, is a broken and contrite heart, renewed by the Holy Spirit.”
Source: Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke
“The temple is a place of holiness. It is the most sacred and holy place on earth and should be treated with the greatest degree of reverence and respect.”
“The temple is a place of worship. Reverence is a supernal form of worship. It is the form of worship found in the celestial kingdom.”
“The temple is a point of intersection between heaven and earth. In this sacred place, holy work will be performed through selfless service and love. The temple reminds [us] of all that is good and beautiful in the world.”
“The temple is a sacred edifice, a holy place, where essential saving ceremonies and ordinances are performed to prepare us for exaltation. It is important that we gain a sure knowledge that our preparation to enter the holy house and that our participation in these ceremonies and covenants are some of the most significant events we will experience in our mortal lives.”
“The temple is concerned with things of immortality. It is a bridge between this life and the next. All of the ordinances that take place in the house of the Lord are expressions of our belief in the immortality of the human soul.”
“The temple is holy because it is not for sale.”
“The temple is the foundation to acquire the spiritual knowledge and the eternal wisdom.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“The temple is the house of the Lord. The basis for every temple ordinance and covenant…is the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Every activity, every lesson, all we do in the Church, point to the Lord and His holy house.”
“The temple of art is built in words.”
“The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.”
“The Temple of Dendur," Zia said. "Actually it was built by the Romans - " "When they occupied Egypt," Carter said, like this was delightful information. "Augustus commissioned it." "Yes," Zia said. "Fascinating," I murmured. "Would you two like to be left alone with a history textbook?”
Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid
“The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.”
Source: A complete dictionary of poetical quotations: comprising the most excellent and appropriate passages in the old British poets; with choice and copious selections from the best modern British and American poets
“The temple of silence and reconciliation.”
“The temple of the sylvan goddess, indeed, has vanished, and the King of the Wood no longer stands sentinel over the Golden Bough.”
“The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.”
“The temple of truth is built indeed of stones of crystal, but, inasmuch as men have been concerned in rearing it, it has been consolidated by a cement composed of baser materials.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“The temple through which alone lies the road to that of Liberty.”
Source: 1816-1828: 1816-1828
“The temple was a place of learning for the Savior when He was on the earth; it was very much a part of His life. Temple blessings are available once again in our day.”
“The temple will be an ever-present reminder that God intended the family to be eternal.”
Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
“The Temple will not be completed until every living stone is there. And then what? The next thing will be that which our Masonic friends make so much of, and which we make so much of namely: the glorification of the temple.”
“The temples are a refuge from life's storms even a never-failing beacon guiding us to safety.”
“The temples of those who deny the Real Presence are like corpses. The Lord was taken away and we do not know where they have laid Him.”
“The temples perish, but the God still lives.”
Source: Festus: a poem
“The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.”
“The tempo of modern life, the extension of the reading habit to classes of society whose time for leisure is more restricted or whose education has not trained them to concentrate on reading of an imaginative kind in too large quantities, education, the distraction of other competing interests, and the opportunities offered in the use or abuse of leisure — these are but a few of the intangibles in the complex of literary influences.”
Source: Time and the Novel
“The temporal cannot know the Eternal, so to the extent that the Sufi contemplates God in his heart, God Himself is the contemplator: Ultimately, the Witness, the Witnesser, and the Witnessing are all one. (p. 288)”
Source: The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi
“The temporal, contingent world is, as Leibniz said, a “collection of finite things.” It is possible only because it is underpinned by an eternal, necessary world, comprising a collection of zero-infinity things, i.e. monads.”
Source: God Is Mathematics: The Proofs of the Eternal Existence of Mathematics
“The temporal heart resonates at whispers
From a Truth overarching
Of whose countenance
Timeless Intellect yearns vainly to fathom”
Source: Sinew of the Social Species
“The temporary alliance between the elite and the mob rested largely on this genuine delight with which the former watched the latter destroy respectability. This could be achieved when the German steel barons were forced to deal with and to receive socially Hitler's the housepainter and self-admitted former derelict, as it could be with the crude and vulgar forgeries perpetrated by the totalitarian movements in all fields of intellectual life, insofar as they gathered all the subterranean, nonrespectable elements of European history into one consistent picture. From this viewpoint it was rather gratifying to see that Bolshevism and Nazism began even to eliminate those sources of their own ideologies which had already won some recognition in academic or other official quarters. Not Marx's dialectical materialism, but the conspiracy of 300 families; not the pompous scientificality of Gobineau and Chamberlain, but the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion"; not the traceable influence of the Catholic Church and the role played by anti-clericalism in Latin countries, but the backstairs literature about the Jesuits and the Freemasons became the inspiration for the rewriters of history. The object of the most varied and variable constructions was always to reveal history as a joke, to demonstrate a sphere of secret influences of which the visible, traceable, and known historical reality was only the outward façade erected explicitly to fool the people.
To this aversion of the intellectual elite for official historiography, to its conviction that history, which was a forgery anyway, might as well be the playground of crackpots, must be added the terrible, demoralizing fascination in the possibility that gigantic lies and monstrous falsehoods can eventually be established as unquestioned facts, that man may be free to change his own past at will, and that the difference between truth and falsehood may cease to be objective and become a mere matter of power and cleverness, of pressure and infinite repetition. Not Stalin’s and Hitler's skill in the art of lying but the fact that they were able to organize the masses into a collective unit to back up their lies with impressive magnificence, exerted the fascination. Simple forgeries from the viewpoint of scholarship appeared to receive the sanction of history itself when the whole marching reality of the movements stood behind them and pretended to draw from them the necessary inspiration for action.”
Source: The Origins of Totalitarianism
“The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.”