T Quotes
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“The values of a nation that contradict the values of reason and science have no importance! Respecting such values is an insult to reason and disrespect to science!”
“The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labor employed.”
Source: Value, Price and Profit
“The values of commodities are directly as the times of labour employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labour employed.”
Source: Wage-Labour and Capital & Value, Price and Profit
“The values of His Kingdom are upside down compared to the world's values—the first shall be last, and the last shall be first.”
“The values of Islam are expressed by Muslims clearly. September 11 changed the world, and put Muslims on the spotlight.”
“The values of life are most important.”
“The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable. Science and democracy began - in their civilized incarnations - in the same time and place, Greece in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. . . . Science thrives on, indeed requires, the free exchange of ideas; its values are antithetical to secrecy. Science holds to no special vantage points or privileged positions. Both science and democracy encourage unconventional opinions and vigorous debate. Both demand adequate reason, coherent argument, rigorous standards of evidence and honesty.”
“The values of solidarity, collectivism, and internationalism are not so much desirable as they are actually mandated by nature and reality itself.”
Source: The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens
“The values of the Left come and go like fashion trends. Every 3rd generation tie-dye shirts, Socialism, and bell bottoms come back into fashion.”
“The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.”
“The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So that informs everything about me, my politics and all that stuff. I mean, politically, I vote against my own self-interest at every election. I actively ask these people to raise my taxes.”
“The values that reside in art are anarchic, they are every man's loves and hates and his momentary divine revelation.”
“The values that we share - freedom of speech, freedom of religious practice, freedom for civil society, free and fair elections, all the innovation that's been created through a market-based economy - those things are ultimately going to be the path for us to continue into a better future. I hope that, despite some of the challenges we have, that people appreciate that.”
“The values that we talked about, the values democracy and free speech and international norms and rule of law, respecting the ability of other countries to determine their own destiny and preserve their sovereignty and territorial integrity. Things are not something that we can set aside.”
“The values that you bring to Sharia are whatever values you yourself have, if you are a bigot, misogynist and a violent person, your interpretation of Sharia will be bigoted, violent and misogynistic, if you are a democrat and a pluralist and someone who is peace loving, that's how you'll see the Sharia.”
“The values we care about the deepest, and the movements within society that support those values, command our love. When those things that we care about so deeply become endangered, we become enraged. And what a healthy thing that is! Without it, we would never stand up and speak out for what we believe.”
Source: You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor
“The values within your church will trickle down to the families in it. God’s standards for congregational authority should reflect Jehovah’s documented standards—not the whims of leadership.
Lamentations, pg 4”
Source: Lamentations: how narcissistic leaders torment church and family
“The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped.”
“The Valyrians were more than dragonlords. They practiced blood magic and other dark arts as well, delving deep into the earth for secrets best left buried and twisting the flesh of beasts and men to fashion monstrous and unnatural chimeras. For there sins the gods in their wroth struck them down.
Valyria is accursed, all men agree, and even the boldest sailor steers well clear of its smoking bones... but we would be mistaken to believe that nothing lives there now.”
Source: Fire & Blood
“The vamp in McMann’s stared at me. I guess he didn’t like the Goth look. Most of them don’t; somehow they think I’m making fun of them. Which I totally am.”
“The vampire bible, bound in human skin, written in blood, and full of prophecies that were never wrong. Trouble was, if you read the thing too long, it drove you nuts. Not "I'm having a bad day and feel bitchy" nuts or PMS nuts. "I think I'll commit felony assault on my friends and rape my boyfriend" nuts.”
Source: Undead and Unreturnable: A Queen Betsy Novel
“The vampire craze is kind of fascinating. We're interested in the idea of immorality and I think we're drawn to people or creatures who can give in to those base impulses and just be bad and not feel bad about it.”
“The Vampire Diaries is the story of Elena falling in love with Damon.”
“The vampire is an outsider. He's the perfect metaphor for those things. He's someone who looks human and sounds human, but is not human, so he's always on the margins.”
“The vampire is not a bad man, and he loves you”
Source: Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel
“The vampire moved as a unit, talons extended, fangs sprung free of their houses of flesh.
They came to where the delectable smell of fresh blood was released. A quality without compare. It was as if a thousand year old bottle of wine lay breathing.
On a cold stone floor, but paces away from consumption.”
Source: Blood Singers
“The vampire movies I embraced as a kid used vampirism as a metaphor that expressed deep sadness and a lot of human qualities.”
“The vampire or the bad guy, that's what people do remember. Lars von Trier, like Guy Maddin, their films are made for a group of exclusive people who like special films. And they are special films, they are art films. And I started with commercial films at the beginning, and later on, because you know, when you are an actor, you have the same cliché like everybody else, you want to be in big films, you want to be known and all that.”
“The vampire sleeping deep within the earth stirred, aroused by the scent of fresh prey in town. Gathering his senses, he deduced that the newcomer was young, healthy, and female. But it was the rich, warm scent of her life's blood that called to him, drawing him to full awareness.
Just a single whiff, and he knew he would not rest until she was his.”
Source: As Twilight Falls
“The vampire stared at me, his mouth slack as Ghastek assessed his options. I took a couple of forms from my desk, put them into the vamp's mouth, and pulled them up by their edges. "What are you doing?" Ghastek asked. "My hole puncher broke." "You have no respect for the undead.”
Source: Magic Burns
“The vampire thing always works for some reason. Always works.”
“The vampire underworld is much larger than most people could imagine. It exists in all the cities mentioned in the book, but also in many, many more. Teenagers, especially, seem to like to act out vampire fantasies.”
“The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.”
“The vampire was real. It was only that his true story had never been told.”
Source: I Am Legend
“The vampire was talking to Baz about England. Raids and fires.
Penny sneered at the phone. "Oh, come off it. It's not genocide. You're the genocide.”
Source: Wayward Son
“The vampire was the third theological concoction made for the culture to drink from the mixologists of religion and the main ingredient of rabies. The vampire throughout the world arose concurrently with the werewolf and its origin again stemmed from the tortures of being “zombies” tied down in the wilderness.”
Source: Revenants, Retroviruses, and Religion: How Viruses and Disease Created Cultural Mythology and Shaped Religious Perspectives
“The vampire's eyes were open, and he was staring at her intently. It was as though he were trying to speak to her with simply the power of a glare. Alexia did not speak glare-ish.”
“The Vampires have a plan to take over the world?" I asked. I felt a bit dumb, gasping in surprise at every twist to the story and incredulously repeating all the important of bits. But somehow Carter's version of things made sense. I felt like Dorothy at the end of The Wizard of Oz when the green curtain is pulled back to reveal the truth.”
Source: The Farm
“The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.”
“The vampires took everything from me, but I'm looking into the eyes of one who has the power to give me back a reason to live, who can heal my gaping hole of sorrow.”
Source: Darkness Before Dawn
“The vampire’s true appearance was grotesque--but it wasn’t as bad as some of the things I had seen in my day. Some demons were a lot worse, and some of the Elder Things could rip your mind apart just by letting you look at them”
Source: Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files
“The van’s front window had a knot of cracks in it like a spider’s web, and more cracks striding out to the edges like the creature’s legs.”
Source: The Silencer
“The vandalization of Space must stop.”
“The vanished lives of all are filled with many shames. Therefore do not judge.”
“The vanished lives of all men are dark with many shames. Human conduct is ever unreliable until anchored in the Divine”
“The vanishing point leads to the missiles of today, which can take us out of this world. It could be that the west's greatest mistakes were the 'invention' of the external vanishing point and the internal combustion engine.”
“The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the adamantine.”
Source: The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away.”
Source: Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120
“The vanities of life:pleasure, possession, position and power.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“The vanity extended most of all to his library, arguably the real love of Cicero's life. It is difficult to name anything in which he took more pleasure, aside possibly evasion of the sumptuary laws. Cicero liked to believe himself wealthy. He prided himself on his books. He needed no further reason to dislike Cleopatra: intelligent women who had better libraries than he did offended him on three counts.”