T Quotes
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“The triumphs of a mysterious non-meeting are desolate ones; unspoken phrases, silent words.”
“The triumphs of the warrior are bounded by the narrow theatre of his own age; but those of a Scott or a Shakspeare will be renewed with greater and greater lustre in ages yet unborn, when the victorious chieftain shall be forgotten, or shall live only in the song of the minstrel and the page of the chronicler.”
Source: BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL MISCELLANIES
“The triune God exercises total government over all things, and He requires us as His image-bearers to exercise government in Christ in our own spheres in terms of His law.”
“The Triune God is in the world, nearer to us than we are to ourselves, yet the world is also encompassed by his loving presence. He does have the whole world in his hands, even while he inhabits the whole world. For Christians, being saved means being caught up into this communion, indwelled by God and indwelling in him, and being opened up so that other people have room in us and we in them.”
“The Triune God is in the world, nearer to us than we are to ourselves, yet the world is also encompassed by his loving presence. He does have the whole world in his hands, even while he inhabits the whole world. For Christians, being saved means being caught up into this communion, indwelled by God and indwelling in him, and being opened up so that other people may have room in us and we in them.”
Source: Traces of the Trinity: Signs of God in Creation and Human Experience
“The trivial round, the common task,Would furnish all we ought to ask.”
“The triviality of a question does not make a profound answer an impossibility.”
“The triviality of the current scene usually put her off, but now she supposed that the politics of the moment always looked petty and stupid; only later did it take on the look of respectable statecraft, of immutable History.”
Source: Blue Mars
“The troblemakers in Hungary are the Jews... they demoralize our country and they are the leaders of the revolutionary gang that is torturing Hungary.”
“The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility.”
Source: Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo
“The Trojan box advertised BARESKIN—GET CLOSER.
Was that a problem? Not being close enough? I mean…can a dude really get any closer than being inside a chick’s body cavity? I wouldn’t know.”
Source: The Silent Cries of a Magpie
“The Trojan Horse Sterling had referred to reflected his belief that the truth about Jonestown had never been revealed to the American people. A belief shared by his fellow co-founders. They were certain that while there were undoubtedly suicides at Jonestown, the event could more accurately be described as a mass murder that resulted from an experiment of sorts carried out by various US agencies.”
Source: The Orphan Factory
“The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.”
“The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?”
“The troll language was very difficult to learn, bearing no relation to Njorden or any other language I had heard... As I learned more and more, I was reminded of times I had to pick out the stitches of a particularly complicated piece of sewing. One word might unravel a whole set of words, and then I'd come to a knot and have to begin all over again.”
Source: East
“The Troll Patrol was an institution unique to Dun Hythe. Long ago, the city leaders had recognized the need to control and direct the heavy wagon traffic that flowed to and from the port area. They organized a patrol of citizens for this purpose and all went well for a while. No one knows who allowed the first troll to join up, but word immediately spread throughout the troll community that one of their number had a paying job with unlimited donuts. Soon after that, every opening in the patrol attracted dozens of trolls who brazenly persuaded non-trolls to withdraw their applications. Within a few years, trolls had taken over the organization.
Trolls proved to be particularly inept at traffic control. A member of the Troll Patrol could station himself in the middle of a deserted intersection and, within minutes, he would create a traffic-snarling mess. To keep the enraged wagon drivers under control, the trolls relied upon truncheons. A whack or two in the head always knocked a driver groggy and made him a lot less noisy.”
Source: The King Who Disappeared
“The Troll Sonnet
When someone says, your life is a joke,
Hold your silence 'n smile without outrage.
You do not become an immortal legend,
Without facing a million slurry comments.
Fight injustice, but be silent at mockery,
To retaliate mockery is to become mockery.
Those who mock, don't really mock at you,
They are just validating their own inferiority.
Tremendous spirit for your life's purpose,
And uniform silence towards all who mock,
That is the key to timeless achievement,
Be unperturbed 'n dive in lock, barrel 'n stock.
Silence is the best response to all mockery.
Mockery is the sincerest form of flattery.”
Source: Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers
“The Troll was well over seven feet tall, and smelled of body odour and Germolene.”
Source: A Splendid Salmagundi
“The trombone and side-drums in the chamber music of Stravinsky will do well enough in a very smart house-party where all the conversation is carried on in an esoteric family slang and the guests are expected to enjoy booby-traps. Very different is the outlook of some of our younger masters such as Hindemith, Jarnach, and others, whose renunciation of beauty was in itself a youthfully romantic gesture, and was accompanied by endless pains in securing adequate performance. The work of masterly performers can indeed alone save the new ideas from being swamped in a universal dullness which no external smartness can long distinguish from that commemorated in the Dunciad.”
Source: The Forms of Music
“The trombone is not meant for romance... any instrument that hawks up it's own loogie every ten minutes is not meant for wooin' the ladies.”
“The trombone is too sacred for frequent use.”
“The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my guts and out again crunched like candy thunder. Oh, it was wonder of wonders. And then, a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now, came the violin solo above all the other strings, and those strings were like a cage of silk around my bed. Then flute and oboe bored, like worms of like platinum, into the thick thick toffee gold and silver. I was in such bliss, my brothers.”
“The troops and their ladies had first drunk champagne. There were also remains of sandwiches, and I stepped on one, which I think was either cucumber or watercress. I scraped it off on the curbing, left it there for germs. I'll tell you this, though: No germ is going to leave the Solar System eating sissy stuff like that.
Plutonium! Now there's the stuff to put hair on a microbe's chest.”
Source: Hocus Pocus
“The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success.”
“The troops arrived at the wall together and swept into the village, some through the gates and some through the holes blasted by the artillery. Then the slaughter began as they went from hut to hut, winkling out the defenders at bayonet point. The screaming showed the progress of the individual battles across the village until at last it was quiet.”
Source: No Road to Khartoum
“The troops may whine and moan, but when they meet the standard, there's a sense of pride.”
“The troops must be brought to a state of wild enthusiasm. They must enter the fight with the light of battle in their eyes and definitely wanting to kill the enemy.”
Source: Bernard Montgomery's Art of War
“The troops of other states have their reputation to gain, the sons of the Alamo have theirs to maintain.”
“the troops were composed of peasant serfs and poor burghers who were forcibly compelled to enlist. Recruiting frequently degenerated into sheer manhunts which led to bloody clashes. The whole system of military training was of a piece with these acts of cruelty and violence. ‘A soldier should fear his officer more than his enemy.’ Such was the principle laid down by Frederick II.”
Source: Marx and Engels on Reactionary Prussianism
“The troops were cracking because they could not absorb what was happening to them, because they knew themselves to be utterly powerless (bravery had little survival value when one was on the receiving end of a bombardment), and because they had no confidence that the generals who had put them in danger knew what they were doing. Men whose courage was beyond challenge could and did break down if subjected to enough strain of this kind.”
Source: A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
“The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured south of the Canadian border, and important expeditions were sent against them.”
Source: SERVING THE REPUBLIC
“The tropes are hungry and the hero is in the wrong goddamn story.”
“The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.”
“The tropical sun flickered between the swaying fronds of palm trees overhead. Ray and Ilsa rubbed their necks and blinked as they came out of their stupor. Their hair stood on end in frazzled locks, like quills upon the fretful porcupine. Their clothes were scorched, but they were alive. Or were they? Speechless, they gazed at their surroundings. Above them was an azure sky with fluffy clouds shaped like Spanish galleons sailing across a celestial sea. Birds chattered and sang in the foliage, which was fragrant and brilliant with blue, and pink and yellow flowers. Had they died? Was this heaven? Or, perish the thought, since obviously they were in the tropics, the other place?”
Source: The Duke of D.C.: The American Dream
“The troubadour of the sickening era is as loud as the people let it be.”
Source: Ten Loud Rocks
“The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of stories, you might still be alive when you hit bottom.”
Source: the bell jar
“The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.”
Source: The meaning of treason
“The trouble about most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation, or hope to be one in the next.”
“The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.”
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic
“The trouble began right after Perry proposed. Although we were happy at first, it didn't take long before we discovered that we didn't suit. Perry said I wasn't the same woman he'd known all his life. He said I had changed- and he was right. We'd never argued before, but suddenly it seemed we couldn't agree on anything. I made him very unhappy, I'm afraid."
"So you gave him plenty of lip," Derek commented, looking pleased. His good humor restored, he reached over to pat her familiarly on the thigh. "That's fine. I like my women saucy.”
Source: Dreaming of You
“The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.”
“The trouble begins when a group of people are conditioned in different ways to believe that their heritage is superior to that of others. That is a dangerous kind of conditioning, especially in a country like ours that has a shared heritage. However, many people have convinced themselves about the supremacy of their mythologies over the ideas that their mythologies are trying to convey. So, while our epics warn us against arrogance, we embody the same arrogance to promote our religions. In a way, that is self-defeating. Many of us are stuck up in stagnancy of pride over our heritage, without taking the pain of diving deeper in ancient ideas to understand the essence of those epics. Only if we did, we would realize that in almost every country, majority of the population is brainwashed to commit the same mistake that their holy books warned them against, while ironically celebrating mythological as well as historical figures with empty hero worship.”
Source: Litost: Sliced Stories
“The trouble begins when we start to be so impressed by the strategies of our systematized thought that we forget that it does relate to an obverse, that it is hewn from negation, that it is but very small security against the void of negation which surrounds it.”
“The trouble begins with a design philosophy that equates 'more options' with 'greater freedom.'”
“The trouble for most people is they don't decide to get wealthy, they just dream about it.”
“The trouble for the thief is not how to steal the chief’s bugle, but where to blow it.”
Source: Even the Stars Look Lonesome
“The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old players coming to watch training with football magazines in their hands. Now, more often than not, they are checking the share prices.”
“The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.”
“The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).”
Source: The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life
“The trouble in life is not that you are extraordinarily or ordinarily talented but you are read posthumously.”