T Quotes
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“The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.”
Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets
“The very God whom we have offended has Himself provided the way whereby the offense has been dealt with. His anger, His wrath against sin and the sinner, has been satisfied, appeased and He therefore can now thus reconcile man unto Himself.”
“The very good people didn't convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you had felt the world outside tugging at one with all its golden hands — and yet you hated the things it asks of one; you hated happiness bought by disloyalty and cruelty and indifference.”
“The very good thing about MFA programs is their democratizing. They bring a lot of different people to the table.”
“The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great pleasure in stating them, believing that they serve to demonstrate further the merit of the system pursued.”
Source: Letter on Corpulence
“The very greatest genius, after all, is not the greatest thing in the world, any more than the greatest city in the world is the country or the sky. It is the concentration of some of its greatest powers, but it is not the greatest diffusion of its might. It is not the habit of its success, the stability of its sereneness.”
Source: Leigh Hunt's Works
“The very greatest is the alphabet, for in it lies the deepest wisdom; yet only he can fathom it, who truly knows how to put it together.”
“The very greatest mystery is in unsheathed reality itself.”
“The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.”
Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct
“The very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.”
“The very heart of worship, as the Bible makes clear, is the business of expressing, from the depths of our spirits, the highest possible honor we can offer before God.”
Source: How Then Shall We Worship?: Biblical Principles to Guide Us Today
“The very helplessness of the public which makes it necessary for them to consult the experts also makes it impossible for them to judge how expert they are.”
“The very high altitude Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) are unsafe for sea level adapted humans to work in. They always have been hazardous to health and always will be.”
“The very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea is a bad place to be during a solar radiation storm.”
“The very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea was always cold and the telescope domes were chilled to the nighttime temperature which was often below freezing in wintertime.”
“The very highest is barely known.
Then comes that which people know and love,
Then that which is feared,
Then that which is despised.
Who does not trust enough will not be trusted.”
Source: 道德经
“The very highest thoughts, pierced with this dread, plummet to earth, snapping the branches of trees.
The hunter comes upon it, not quite, it is not quite dead. A wing lifts, goes limp, and lifts again. Not quite, not quite dead.”
Source: Camp Concentration
“The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people... have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.”
“The very hope of experimental philosophy, its expectation of constructing the sciences into a true philosophy of nature, is basedon induction, or, if you please, the a priori presumption, that physical causation is universal; that the constitution of nature is written in its actual manifestations, and needs only to be deciphered by experimental and inductive research; that it is not a latent invisible writing, to be brought out by the magic of mental anticipation or metaphysical mediation.”
Source: Darwinism: Being an Examination of Mr. St. George Mivart's 'Genesis of Species'
“The Very Hungry Caterpillar” story is about hope. You, like the little caterpillar, will grow up, unfold your wings and fly off into the future”
“The very idea of "managing" a forest in the first place is oxymoronic, because a forest is an ecosystem that is by definition self-managing.”
Source: The Trees in My Forest
“The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds - how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives - and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!”
Source: The Writings of John Burroughs: Birds and poets, with other papers
“The very idea of an infinite in place would be a contradiction in terms, as a place must begin and continue in time.”
Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge
“The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.”
“The very idea of freedom incites fear in the hearts of terrorists across the world.”
“The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about moral values is eternally incompatible with democracy. We and our rulers are of one kind only so long as we are subject to one law. But if there is no Law of Nature, the ethos of any society is the creation of its rulers, educators and conditioners; and every creator stands above and outside his own creation.”
Source: Christian Reflections
“The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“The very idea of having children brings out this deep revulsion in me.”
“The very idea of law originates in men's natural rights. There is no other standard, than natural rights, by which civil law can be measured. Law has always been the name of that rule or principle of justice, which protects those rights. Thus we speak of natural law.”
Source: The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
“The very idea of love, of family, was beaten out of me. I was taught that love is weakness. And I… I don’t know how that will ever change.”
Source: Rebel Moon Part One - A Child Of Fire: The Official Movie Novelization
“The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind.”
“The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.”
“The very idea of massified advertising meant that large cirulation newpapers were not in the business of selling information to people but rather of selling the attention of their readers to commercial concerns... to tap into the resorvoir of resources constitutred by the growing urban populations”
Source: A thousand years of nonlinear history
“The very idea of photography is as Oliver Wendell Holmes said in the 19th century, "it's a mirror with a memory."”
“The very idea of printing my diary has always struck me as completely superficial.”
“The very idea of the nude is only a neutralization of a primitive and violent act.”
“The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.”
Source: Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States
“The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!”
“The very idea that a child that is almost born into the world could still have their life taken from them is just anathema to me, and I can't conscious about a party that supports that.”
“The very idea that there is no truth, but only the filter of narrative through which truth is invented is something I learned at the feet of the most leftist professors at Yale and am learning again from Sarah Palin during the Vice Presidential debate, and I find that very disorienting.”
“The very idea that there is some kind of conflict between science and religion is completely mistaken. Science is a method for investigating experience... Religion is the fundamental, necessary internalization of our system of more permanent values.”
“The very idea that there should be a certain class of people who give orders by virtue of their ownership of wealth and another huge class who take on orders and follow them because of their lack of access to wealth and power, that's unacceptable. So, sure it should be abolished.”
“The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as a matter of fact we don't.”
“The very idea that you can pursue happiness, that you can deserve it, that you can demand it, that you have the right to be happy, is foolish. Nobody has the right to be happy. You can be happy, but there is nothing like a right about it. And if you think that it is your right you will go on missing, because you have started to look in the wrong direction from the very beginning.”
“The very implausibility of the restoration of pared down fingernails and amputated limbs at the end of time underlines, for me, the despicableness of human beings who, in fact, torture and mutilate their fellow human beings. Yet, the implausible, even risible doctrine of the resurrection of the body asserts that—if there is such a thing as redemption—it must redeem our experience of enduring and even inflicting such acts. If there is meaning to the history we tell and the corruption (both moral and physical) we suffer, surely it is in (as well as in spite of) fragmentation. Bodily resurrection at the end of time is, in a technical sense, a comic—that is, a contrived and brave—happy ending.”
Source: Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion
“The very important thing you should have is patience.”
“The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discloses to me His existence.
[Fr., L'impossibilite ou je suis de prouver que Dieu n'est pas, me decouvre son existence.]”
“The very impossibility which I find to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.”
“The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning.”
Source: Conversations with Arthur Miller
“The very inclusion of the right to keep and bear arms in the Bill of Rights shows that the framers of the Constitution considered it an individual right.”