T Quotes
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“The very nature of the Chinaman holds him back. If his fellow should fall, John thinks it quite proper that he stamp on the underdogs face.”
“The very nature of the quantum theory ... forces us to regard the space-time coordination and the claim of causality, the union of which characterizes the classical theories, as complementary but exclusive features of the description, symbolizing the idealization of observation and description, respectively.”
“The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all.”
“The very next day after Miss West and I’d talked about her son and missions, she was the same as she’d always been: volatile and unhappy with a hatred that spewed out of her like missiles. I thought I understood why. She must have hated us for being alive when her son was dead.
Lately the class has been turning against her. They’re openly hostile, and they whisper plots for revenge. It seems unfair, the way unhappiness flows out of a person, just to ricochet.
“Adam…do you think we have a missions?”
He looks at me with a confused expression. “What kind of missions?”
“I don’t know. Do you think you have a mission?”
I shrug, disappointed. If Adam doesn’t know, then I guess no one does.
A girl turns onto our hall, eyes red and sad, and she passes, Adam sends her a smile. Her whole face brightens and she sends him a smile back.
Hate ricochets, but kindness does too. Page 178.”
“The very next morning, Toan woke up with fresh determination in his heart. He would no longer drink. He would no longer smoke. He would quit his old ways 'cold turkey' and begin to walk by faith. 'I do not want to prize anything more than I prize Jesus,' he explained to me. Wow, had God captured his heart.”
“The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most.”
“the very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst.”
Source: Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race
“The very notion of superiority of one kind over another will have to disappear, although differences among kind will remain.”
“The very notion of tabu is one of the rightest notions in the world. Better any old tabu than none, for a man cannot be said to be"on the side of the stars" at all, unless he makes refusals.”
Source: Modes and Morals
“The very notion that millions of workers displaced by the re-engineering and automation of the agricultural, manufacturing, and service sectors can be retrained to be scientists, engineers, technicians, executives, consultants, teachers, lawyers and the like, and then somehow find the appropriate number of job openings in the very narrow high-tech sector, seems at best a pipe dream, and at worst a delusion.”
“The very object of an art, the principle of its artifice, is precisely to impart the impression of an ideal state in which the man who reaches it will be capable of spontaneously producing, with no effort of hesitation, a magnificent and wonderfully ordered expression of his nature and our destinies.”
“The very odd thing about sagas ... is that they very rarely mention dry mouths and full bladders.”
“The very old and the very young have something in common that makes it right that they should be left alone together. Dawn and sunset see stars shining in a blue sky; but morning and midday and afternoon do not, poor things.”
“The very old certainly do not go back on lunch remains but they do bite back at old conversational topics.”
Source: No Sweetness Here and Other Stories
“The very old lady in black looked up at a notice over the window:
TO STOP THE TRAIN PULL DOWN THE CHAIN
PENALTY FOR IMPROPER USE, FIVE POUNDS.
She smiled the gentlest, sweetest smile. "All my life I have been afraid that one day the temptation would prove too much for me," she said.
"Don't suppose there's anyone who doesn't feel like that, ma'am," said the soldier, grinning.”
Source: Enemy Brothers
“The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter words.”
Source: George Steiner: A Reader
“The very paradigm of revolution, of right versus wrong, good versus bad, is a relic with no bearing on the present. Yet artists, exhibitions, and curators valorize the sixties. People who wrote about these artists 30 years ago still write about them in the same ways, often for the same magazines.”
“The very people who burst with proofs of exuberant vitality could easily be taken for prepared corpses, from whom the news of their not-quite-successful decease has been withheld for reasons of population policy. Underlying the prevalent health is death. All the movements of health resemble the reflex-movements of beings whose hearts have stopped beating.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“The very people who shudder over the cruelty of the hunter are apt to forget that slaughter, in the grimmest sense of the word, is a process they entrust daily to the butcher; and that unlike the game of the forests, even the dumbest creatures of the slaughterhouse know what is in store for them.”
“The very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing.”
Source: The Secret of the Indian
“The very person you find it hardest to forgive is the one you need to let go of the most. Forgiveness means letting go. It has nothing to do with condoning behavior, it's just letting the whole thing go. We do not have to know how to forgive. All we need to do is be willing to forgive. The Universe will take care of the hows.”
“The very persons who have taken away my time and space are those who have given me something to say.”
“The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“The very phrase 'Oscar night' used to accelerate my pulse. For one thing - dating myself - it meant Bob Hope. He always had good, strong jokes, that faultless delivery, and always a new joke about his own films' failure - once again - to be honored.”
“The very pink of perfection.”
“The very places that we presume God not to be are the very places that are filled with His footprints and littered with His fingerprints.”
“The very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light.”
Source: The works of Frederick Schiller
“The very point of Labor's Zionist program is to have as much land as possible and as few Arabs as possible!”
“The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is ‘doing’ his ‘English prep’ and has no notion that ethics, theology, and politics are all at stake. It is not a theory they put into his mind, but an assumption, which ten years hence, its origin forgotten and its presence unconscious, will condition him to take one side in a controversy which he has never recognized as a controversy at all.”
“The very power of evil is that it is not recognizable to us most of the time. It is not repellent at all. It does not attack, it seduces.”
“The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views. Which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.”
“The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of changing their views to fit the facts, they try to change the facts to fit their views.”
“The very practice of reading [the Bible] will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart. Let nothing take the place of this daily exercise.”
Source: Peace with God: The Secret of Happiness
“The very precariousness of weather excites a large amount of earnest prayer.”
Source: Lectures to My Students
“The very premise of emotional blackmail is: If you don't agree to my demands, I will harm myself, which will, in turn, harm you too. I was subject to this pure emotional blackmail.”
Source: Once Again Beautiful And Pure: A Tale of Strength and Redemption
“The very presence of an angel is communication. Even when an angel crosses your path in silence, God has said to us, I am here. I am present in your life.”
“The very principles of economics suggest that scarcity, validity, and demand can transform anything, even a stone, into a Store-of-Value (SoV). Such an event will happen only once in an era and we are extremely fortunate to be witnessing the birth of a new type of SoV, the Crypto.”
“The very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of division as this particular theme. In its discussion are reflected the splitting off from each other of religion, morals and science; the divorce of philosophy from science and of both from the arts of conduct. The evils which we suffer in education, in religion, in the materialism of business and the aloofness of "intellectuals" from life, in the whole separation of knowledge and practice -- all testify to the necessity of seeing mind-body as an integral whole.”
“The very process of being alive means that we are constantly being inundated with fractious elements which work against our body’s integrity. We need a healthy, quiet body to do whatever it is we have come to do. Connecting with the earth is one of the quickest, most effective ways of helping our body restore itself.”
Source: Touched by Love
“The very process of living is a continual interplay between the individual and his environment, often taking the form of a struggle resulting in injury or disease.”
Source: Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change
“The very properties of the human mind that provide an enormous scope for human genius in some domains will serve as barriers to progress in other domains, just as the properties that enable each child to acquire a complex and highly articulated human language block the acquisition of other imaginable linguistic systems.”
“The very purpose for being in this body, for every one of us, is to live and rejoice in that virgin area, that untouched, pure and ever green,blissful area of our Self”
“The very purpose of a bill of rights is to withdraw certain subjects from...political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities.”
“The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy. One's right to life, liberty and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly may not be submitted to vote; they depend on no elections.”
“The very purpose of a knight is to fight on behalf of a lady.”
Source: Le morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the legends of the Round Table
“The very purpose of Christ's coming into the world was that He might offer up His life as a sacrifice for the sins of men. He came to die. This is the heart of Christmas.”
“The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.”
“The very purpose of life is to reach the highest possible flowering.”
“The very purpose of meditation is to discipline the mind and reduce afflictive emotions.”