T Quotes
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“The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.”
“The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.”
“The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.”
“The truth, she found, felt smooth, like a skipping stone in the palm of your hand.”
Source: Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy
“The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.”
Source: The Art of the Theatre
“The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. Little men are dissolved in it. If there is any gold, truth makes it shine more brightly. . . .Truth, even in the mouth of an informer, a spy, a briber, can become bigger than anybody who tries to destroy it. Truth survives.”
“The truth, whether we admit it or not, is that grace scares us to death. It scares us primarily because it wrestles control and manageability out of our hands - introducing chaos and freedom.”
“The truth--a hideous spectacle!”
“The Truth-power must be brought down from above into that state of peace, and this higher power - Parashakti - will directly guide the vehicle - ādhāra - and transform it.”
“The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.”
“The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it.”
“The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.”
Source: The Gathering
“The truth... When they have a similar structure to and are organized in as truthful a way as nature. When I look out of the window, then truth for me is the way nature shows itself in its various tones, colours and proportions. That's a truth and has its own correctness. This little slice of nature, and in fact any given piece of nature, represents to me an ongoing challenge, and is a model for my paintings.”
Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007
“The truth: you have what you need. Watch out for excuses. Whenever you're tempted to whine about what you don't have, remember that God has given you everything you need to do everything He wants you to do.”
Source: It: How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It
“The truthe wakes up once and never dies.”
“The truthful man ends up realizing that he always lies.”
“The truthful man is usually a liar.”
“The truthfulness and historical exactitude of the artistic image must be linked with the task of ideological transformation, of the education of the working people in the spirit of socialism. This method in fiction and literary criticism is what we call the method of socialist realism.”
Source: On Literature, Music and Philosophy
“The truthfulness of materials of constructions, concrete, bricks and stone, shall be maintained in all buildings constructed or to be constructed. The seed of Chandigarh is well sown. It is for the citizens to see that the tree flourishes.”
“The truths I shun follow me, mumbling.”
“The truths of Christianity are constant, unchanging, and meant for all people, times, and places. But the methods by which truth is articulated and practiced must be culturally appropriated, and therefore constantly translated. If doctrine is constant and practice is constantly changing, the result is living orthodoxy.”
“The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching it to an emotion which, we know not how, the mind transmutes into thought.”
Source: The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
“The truths of nature are one eternal change, one infinite variety. There is no bush on the face of the globe exactly like another bush; there are no two trees in the forest whose boughs bend into the same network, nor two leaves on the same tree which could not be told one from the other, nor two waves in the sea exactly alike.”
Source: Modern Painters
“The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.”
“The truths of religion are unprovable; the facts of science are unproved.”
Source: The Uses of Diversity
“The truths of the Bible are never just abstract concepts; they're always related to real people.”
“The truths of the gospel do not change. If you will follow the Christ, follow his prophet, and follow his Spirit, you will always choose the right. As a result of your wise choices, your testimony will grow stronger, and great blessings of joy, happiness, and peace will be yours.”
“The truths of the Judaic-Christian tradition, are infinitely precious, not only, as I believe, because they are true, but also because they provide the moral impulse which alone can lead to that peace, in the true meaning of the word, for which we all long. . . . There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women in democratic societies cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves.”
“The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero.”
“The truths of Upanishadas are before you. Take them up, live up to them, and the salvation of Bharat will be at hand.”
“The truths that are found in the Bible are universal truths. And it shapes who you are and guides you throughout your life.”
“The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.”
“The truths that matter most to us come always half spoken.”
“The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to be either half truths or lies.”
“The truths we conceal don't disappear Raheen, they appear in different forms”
Source: Kartography
“The truths which are represented in England and Western countries generally, are those which refer to force of character, earnestness of purpose, conscientious strictness, noble charity, practical duty, whilst the truths which I find peculiarly developed in India - developed to a greater extent than anywhere else, - and in the Eastern countries generally, are those which have reference to sweetness of communion, sweetness of temper, meekness and resignation unto God.”
“The tryptamine molecule has this unique property of releasing the structured self into the over-self.”
“THE TRYST
O luely, luely cam she in
And luely she lay doon:
I kent her by her caller lips
And her breists sae sma' and roun'.
A thru the nicht we spak nae word
Nor sinder'd bane frae bane:
A' thru the nicht I heard her hert
Gang soundin' wi' my ain.
It was aboot the waukrife hour
When cocks began to craw
That she smool'd saftly thru the mirk
Afore the day wud daw.
Sae luely, luely cam she in
Saie luely was she gaen;
And wi' her a' my simmer days
Like they had never been.”
Source: Into a Room: Selected Poems
“The TS American Sailor was built in Seattle, Washington, in 1919. Like the TS American Seaman, she was launched too late for World War I. Originally the two ships were intended to be used as dry cargo ships, but not knowing what to do, the government assigned them to the United States Coast Guard. In 1941, with the start of World War II the Bethlehem Steel Company in Baltimore, Maryland, converted both vessels into Maritime Commission training ships. By the time I arrived at the Academy, the TS American Seaman had already been scrapped, and the TS American Sailor was well past her time. During my first year at the Academy she was towed to the breakers, thus making room for a newer training vessel. To accommodate the expected ship, coming from the government’s “Defense Reserve Fleet,” a new sturdier dock had to be built…. In the interim, the school borrowed New York Maritime College’s vessel, the TS Empire State II. Upperclassmen, including my friend Richard Cratty, whom I have known from my days at Admiral Farragut Academy, were assigned the task of going to New York to bring her back to Castine for our 1953 training cruise.”
“The TSA is under fire for major security lapses. The TSA has let through pipe bombs, knives, and the last three Nicolas Cage movies.”
“The TSA liked having fresh agents on the job. Fresh agents with a clear mind and steady hand. Time travel wasn’t for the faint of heart. The pay was good though, but as Scrooby had decided long ago, that even if he didn’t get paid for it, the thrill alone was payment enough. Then again, the TSA realized they couldn’t afford to have disgruntled employees with too much time on their hands and the power of the gods at their fingertips, so the pay was very, very good. Debriefing was routine. And how he hated routine! His supervisor was a senior agent called Guy Krummeck, a rather drab character who liked his shiny silver suits almost as much as he liked to go over every little detail at least three times. Minimum. This time everything went right, so it went quick. Twenty minutes later, tired, he clocked out and went home to his small apartment. Tomorrow, after all, was another day again.”
Source: The Time Saving Agency
“The TSA must think we're mushrooms. You know, the way they are trying to keep us in the dark, and the way they keep feeding us a fertilizing agent that comes from the south end of a north-bound cow.”
“The TSA tears through your bags at the airport and the NSA watches what books you buy and what you say over the telephone and online. It doesn't feel like anything is private anymore.”
“The TSA's airport body scanners have been shown to be so ineffective, the Homeland Security chairman suggested using traditional metal detectors. While LaGuardia will continue to just have a scarecrow dressed as a cop.”
“The tsar [Nicholas II] is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions.”
“The Tsarnaev brothers, the elder brother made a public call to jihad and the [Barack] Obama administration didn't target it.”
“The tub helps me relax, and it's a great place to read.”
“The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.”
“The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas.”
Source: My own story, Donahue
“The tubes are tiny. They are hollow. They weigh nothing. All they carry is light. I can’t presume to explain this. It is one of the things that still continues to fill me with wonder.”
Source: Twist