T Quotes
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“The very best kind of Saddam Hussein is the very dead kind.”
“The very best of vineyards is the cellar”
Source: DON JUAN
“The very best parts of me go into my writing, it is the best version of myself, and I don't think it's hubristic to believe that that's worth something, worth someone else's time. It's the most I have to offer the world.”
“The very best people are like that. They don't entangle you like flypaper.”
Source: The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle
“The very best pictures adapt themselves to many changes in meaning.”
“The very best place to be in all the world is St. Mary's parish, Jamaica. And the best spot in St. Mary's is Port Maria, though all of St. Mary's is fine. Old Maker put himself to a lot of trouble to make that part of the island of Jamaica, for everything there is perfect.”
Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader
“The very best players, when they are practicing, put everything they've got into it. But then they leave it for a while. And it's the same in dharma practice.”
“The very best proof that something can be done is that someone has already done it.”
“The very best reason parents are so special . . . is because we are the holders of a priceless gift, a gift we received from countless generations we never knew, a gift that only we now possess and only we can give to our children. That unique gift, of course, is the gift of ourselves. Whatever we can do to give that gift, and to help others receive it, is worth the challenge of all our human endeavor.”
Source: Many Ways to Say I Love You: Wisdom for Parents and Children from Mister Rogers
“The very best relationship has a gardener and a flower. The gardener nurtures and the flower blooms.”
“the very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents. The more extreme they become, the more powerful the reaction they will have to face.”
“The very best thing that could happen to a voice, if it shows any promise at all, is when it is very young to leave it alone and to let it develop quite naturally, and to let the person go on as long as possible with the sheer joy of singing.”
“The very best thing we can do for others isn’t soaking up their pain, it is actually holding space for them. Holding space for a person means giving them the room to grieve or vent while still maintaining our own boundaries.”
Source: Awakened Empath: The Ultimate Guide to Emotional, Psychological and Spiritual Healing
“The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.”
Source: THE SCIENCE OF GETTING RICH
“The very best thing you can do for your kids is to love your spouse.”
Source: Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier
“The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.”
“The very best thing you can give someone is what they want.”
Source: Passion Profit Power
“The very best way in all the world to overcome self-consciousn ess and shyness is to get interested in other people and to think of them and, almost miraculously, your timidity will pass. Do something for other people. Practice deeds of kindness, acts of friendliness, and you'll be surprised to see what happens.”
“The very best way that you can help yourself is to develop and sustain a positive attitude. The way you think and feel about everything will make all the difference to your experience.”
Source: Menopause: The Guide for Real Women
“The Very Big Stupid is a thing which breeds by eating The Future. Have you seen it? It sometimes disguises itself as a good-looking quarterly bottom line, derived by closing the R&D department.”
Source: Real Frank Zappa Book
“The very bulk of scientific publications is itself delusive. It is of very unequal value; a large proportion of it, possibly as much as three-quarters, does not deserve to be published at all, and is only published for economic considerations which have nothing to do with the real interests of science.”
“The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth.”
“The very centre of your heart is where life begins - the most beautiful place on earth.”
“The very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book is worth anything which is not worth much; nor is it serviceable, until it has been read, and re-read, and loved, and loved again; and marked, so that you can refer to the passages you want in it.”
Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings
“The very common error of young or unconfident cooks is to keep putting more of their own personal ideology into a plate until there's so much noise that you really can't even hear a tune. You can say more in an empty space than you can in a crowded one.”
“The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.”
Source: The Conqueror: Being the True and Romantic Story of Alexander Hamilton
“The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science would be impossible if our intelligence were not adapted to the intelligibility of the world. The match between our intelligence and the intelligibility of the world is no accident. Nor can it properly be attributed to natural selection, which places a premium on survival and reproduction and has no stake in truth or conscious thought. Indeed, meat-puppet robots are just fine as the output of a Darwinian evolutionary process.”
“The very concept of an Iranian university is an oxymoron. There are no free and open places of learning in that repressive theocracy. Dissenters are not given tenure; they are murdered, after first being tortured. Blasphemy, which is broadly defined, is punished. Gays are not only excluded from Iranian universities, but are imprisoned and killed.”
“The very concept of evil challenges the wisdom of God because He would never create anything that is not desirable or not needed. Everything has been created in this world with a purpose.”
Source: Good and Evil: Two Sides of the Same Coin
“The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.”
“The very concept of home has become tarnished, misty, elusive. As never before, we are living in a rootless age. So many of us are refugees, living out of suitcases, car trunks, cardboard boxes, desperate to go back to a home that no longer exists.”
Source: The Hunger Star: Volume 2, The Wolfe Files
“The very concept of law that protects us from tyranny has been lost. No longer the people's shield, law has become a weapon in the hands of government.”
“The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.”
Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays
“The very concept of sin comes from the Bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making! Would you be thankful to a person who cut you with a knife in order to sell you a bandage?”
Source: Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist
“The very concept of solid ground is a myth. The galaxy itself is adrift.”
Source: Isabelle the Navigator
“The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy.”
Source: Capistalist Civilisation
“The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question "Do you see the same truth?" would be "I see nothing and I don't care about the truth; I only want a Friend," no Friendship can arise - though Affection of course may. There would be nothing for the Friendship to be about; and Friendship must be about something, even if it were only an enthusiasm for dominoes or white mice. Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.”
“The very condition of life is expansion.”
Source: Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism
“The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next.”
Source: Ladies Almanack: Showing Their Signs and Their Tides, Their Moons and Their Changes, the Seasons as it is with Them, Their Eclipses and Equinoxes, as Well as a Full Record of Diurnal and Nocturnal Distempers
“The very constitution of twilight is a fabulous reconstruction of fear, fear bottom-out and wrong side up. Every day is thought upon and calculated, but the night is not premeditated.”
Source: Nightwood
“The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.”
Source: Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation
“The very conventions of poetry were devised to encode experience, to make it less obvious and thereby more true. To make a metaphor, after all, is to describe something in terms of what it is not, the better to apprehend what it is.”
Source: Love Speaks Its Name: Gay and Lesbian Love Poems
“The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it.”
“The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.”
“the very day we get to know the enough is enough of our lives; the very day we get to know that enough is lacking enough”
“The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.”
“The very definition of news is something that hardly ever happens. If an incident is in the news, we shouldn't worry about it. It's when something is so common that its no longer news - car crashes, domestic violence - that we should worry.”
Source: Bruce Schneier on Trust Set
“The very definition of the innate hollowness of leading a political life when you end up on your nearest and dearest moments or most personal evenings with donors. That should - that should tell you all you need to know about the ramble that is politics.”
“The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.”
“The very definition of tyranny is when all powers are gathered under one place.”