T Quotes
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“The very first lesson we must learn in life is that we are here to learn. In the process of learning, I am always curious and attracted to things which I can’t define.”
“The very first marriage illustrates the point.It was initiated in a perfect environment between two perfect people and they were perfect in every way: spiritually, mentally, emotionally and physically. The word marriage was never used and the ceremony - if you could call it that - was sparse. After making Eve from one of Adam's rib - a portion of the service we thankfully forgo today - the Bible says God:
Brought her (Eve) to the man (Adam)!
And that was it. No solemnization. No vows taken. No preaching, no warning, no blessing. Just here is the love of your life. There was no discussion about sex: how, when, where, and what happens when you do. There was no threat, no fear and no worry. It wasn't the best day of their lives or their relationship. It was simply the first. [ ]
That first couple connected easily and immediately, no social formalities required. They were naturally drawn to each other. No encouragement, pushing, enticement,or manipulation involved.
And once connected the didn't abuse, ignore, consume, neglect, or control each other. They were neither shy nor aggressive towards one another. Their relationship was natural and comfortable. Nothing insecure about it.”
Source: In Defense of Divorce: Why A Marriage Should Never Be Saved At The Expense of a Life
“The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.”
Source: Jane Austen on Love and Romance
“The very first part in healing is shattering the silence.”
Source: Living for Today: From Incest and Molestation to Fearlessness and Forgiveness
“The very first practice we [Woody Weatherman, Mike Dean & myself ] did it was like, "Oh ok, I get it." We were jamming on some crazy ass, out of the box, weird time signature riffs and I got it, whereas anyone else who was playing with them recently would have been like, "What? What are you doing?" So I think there's something unspoken between the three of us that makes us Corrosion of Conformity.”
“The very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom -- Lucifer.”
Source: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
“The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.”
“The very first schoolbook that was written had God all over it.”
“The very first show I did was 'Fame L.A.' Everyone had talent it was either dancing or acting or something like that. I was a singer, so I got my first role.”
“The very first song I wrote was about a boy that I was obsessed with.”
“The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.”
Source: The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: The voice of truth
“The very first step toward giving to others is grateful recognition of our own assets.”
“The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. Locke put this in a very happy way when he said, give a pupil "a relish of knowledge" and you put life into his work.”
Source: The philosophical essays
“The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.”
Source: The Quotable Osler
“The very first stock I bought right out of college was Berkshire Hathaway.”
“The very first task of leadership is to set the vision for the organization. If you don't set the vision, you're not the leader.”
“The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart.”
Source: The voyage of the Dawn Treader
“The very first temptation in the history of mankind was the temptation to be discontent...that is exactly what discontent(ment ) is - a questioning of the goodness of God.”
“The very first thing an executive must have is a fine memory. Of course it does not follow that a man with a fine memory is necessarily a fine executive. But if he has the memory he has the first qualification, and if he has not the memory nothing else matters.”
“The very first thing I saw was his eyes, bluer and brighter than the sea itself. They gazed at me, so dazzling, and for an instant I couldn't even feel the pain. I was too overcome by the handsomeness of this sandy haired boy”
Source: Colliding Worlds
“The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason they write so very little. But we do. We have so much we want to say and figure out.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“The very first thing the President [Truman] did was to show me the new Presidential Seal, which he had just redesigned. He explained, 'The seal has to go everywhere the President goes. It must be displayed upon the lectern when he speaks. The eagle used to face the arrows but I have re-designed it so that it now faces the olive branches ... what do you think?' I said, 'Mr. President, with the greatest respect, I would prefer the American eagle's neck to be on a swivel so that it could face the olive branches or the arrows, as the occasion might demand.'”
“The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.”
“The very first time I had Whitney Houston on my show, however many years ago, I thought, "You are 'the voice.'" You are the voice, that was my name for you.”
“The very first time I realized what unconditional love meant ; was the very first time I held each one of my children in my arms. It was love at first sight.”
“The very first time I saw you, I wished you to be mine...”
Source: It's Not Straight
“The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car.”
Source: Following the Color Line: An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy
“The very first tournament I watched is the U.S. Open when I was 13. And that was the year Juli Inkster won.”
“The very first Walnut Whales recording was recorded just a few weeks after I had started singing, out of the blue, started singing. And the voice, you can hear how uncomfortable I am with it, and how terrified I am with it.”
“The very first word out of Jesus; mouth in is ministry in the New Testament is clear: repent.”
Source: Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.
“The very first words that we, the American nation, spoke were right here in Philadelphia. You know those words: "We the people." It wasn't, "We the conglomerates." It wasn't, "We the corporations." It was, "We the people."”
“The very first writers from the beginning of time had nothing to read except the world around them.
And look where we are today.”
Source: Top County: Case Closed
“The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand.”
Source: Macbeth Thrift Study Edition
“The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget.”
Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)
“The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate --a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes --he may be left, in a month, destitute of all.”
Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)
“The very flowers are sacred to the poor.”
Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth
“The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty.”
Source: Love and Ethics
“The very foundation of our science is only an inference; far the whole of it rests an the unprovable assumption that, all through the inferred lapse of time which the inferred performance of inferred geological processes involves, they have been going on in a manner consistent with the laws of nature as we know them now.”
“The very foundation of private property and free contracting wears away in a nation in which its most vital, most concrete, most meaningful types of private property and free contracting disappear from the moral horizon of the people.”
Source: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
“The very foundation of science is to keep the door open to doubt.”
“The very foundation of science is to keep the door open to doubt. Precisely because we keep questioning everything, especially our own premises, we are always ready to improve our knowledge. Therefore a good scientist is never ‘certain’. Lack of certainty is precisely what makes conclusions more reliable than the conclusions of those who are certain: because the good scientist will be ready to shift to a different point of view if better elements of evidence, or novel arguments emerge. Therefore certainty is not only something of no use, but is in fact damaging, if we value reliability.”
“The very foundation of the living of life lies in the desire of every man to give service to fulfill the needs of his neighbor.”
“The very foundations of truth are inherently subjective.”
Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief
“The very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more.”
“The very freedom and expressiveness we find missing in life we find present in art.”
“The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant.”
Source: Life of Christ
“The very function of creativity, of the elaboration of the human condition only enlarges the human spirit and, I mean, as a writer I don't want to read political literature all the time. It would be terribly boring and, you know, abrasive, but just reading the insights, you know, partaking of the insights of a writer into phenomena, into society, into human relationships, both on a micro level and on a macro level, is already a function.”
“The very funny thing about "Like A Rolling Stone" is it was a six minute song, there was no music to read from. And there I was playing this unfamiliar instrument. So I would come in on the upbeat of one. I would wait until the band played the chord, and then as quickly as I could come in play the chord.”
“The very general occurrence of the homosexual in ancient Greece, and its wide occurrence today in some cultures in which such activity is not taboo suggests that the capacity of an individual to respond erotically to any sort of stimulus, whether it is provided by another person of the same or opposite sex, is basic in the species.”
Source: Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
“The very genetic determinism I posited in World's End as a way of shaking off my inherited demons is being proven in fact as we map out the human genome.”