T Quotes
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“The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.”
Source: Camino Real
“The violets whisper from the shade Which their own leaves have made: Men scent our fragrance on the air, Yet take no heed Of humble lessons we would read.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)
“The violin - that most human of all instruments.”
Source: Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys & A Sequel - Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out (Children’s Classics Series – Illustrated Edition)
“The Violin of my dreams. If you wanna play a pianissimo that is almost inaudible and yet it carries through a hall that seats 3,000 people, there's your Strad.”
“The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet.”
Source: Life class: thoughts, exercises, reflections of an itinerant violinist
“The violinist must possess the poets gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.”
Source: Life class: thoughts, exercises, reflections of an itinerant violinist
“The violins seemed to swoon with her every step, or maybe she was simply happy.”
Source: So This is Love
“The Violins waltzed. The Cellos and Basses provided accompaniment. The Violas mourned their fate, while the Concertmaster showed off. The Flutes did bird imitations…repeatedly, and the reed instruments had the good taste to admire my jacket. The Trumpets held a parade in honor of our great nation, while the French Horns waxed nostalgic about something or other. The Trombones had too much to drink. The Percussion beat the band, and the Tuba stayed home playing cards with his landlady, the Harp, taking sips of warm milk a blue little cup. “But the Composer is still dead.”
“The VIP area, which is geared to live entertainment, is a black-lit stage with a neon painting resembling New York City on the walls. It's supposed to resemble New York City, ... Look, we even have the Twin Towers on there.”
“The VIP places in heaven are only reserved for the religious leaders and founders.”
“The viral marketing seeds have already been sown and you can come along with me on this journey...”
Source: Go Viral!: The Social Media Secret to Get Your Name Posted and Shared All Over the World!
“The Virgin (and I'm not speaking here of a sexual virgin) is the one whose search springs from her complete independence, and everything she learns is the fruit of her ability to face challenges alone.”
“The virgin birth has never been a major stumbling block in my struggle with Christianity; it's far less mind boggling than the Power of all Creation stooping so low as to become one of us.”
Source: A Stone for a Pillow: Journeys with Jacob
“The Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, the raising of Lazarus, even the Old Testament miracles, all are freely used for religious propaganda, and they are very effective with an audience of unsophisticates and children”
“The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.”
“The Virgin brand is not a product like Coca-Cola or Famous Grouse whisky. it's an attitude and a way of life to many. That attitude is about giving customers a better time and better value in a fun way that embraces life and seeks to give the customers something new.”
“The Virgin Mary is a girl gang leader in Heaven.
She is a Hell’s Angel and she rides a Harley.
This I know for I come from people
who think axle grease is holy water.
They hold Mass out in the driveway
under the hood on Saturdays.
The engine is their altar.
They genuflect and say prayers all day,
and baptize themselves in crankcase oil.
The soles of their shoes
always smell like gasoline.
I come from people who think Confession
a necessity only the moment before a head-on collision.”
Source: Untie the Strong Woman: Blessed Mother's Immaculate Love for the Wild Soul
“The Virgin Mary is called the [Greek words] (the "book of the Word of life") by the Greek Church. The book of the Gospel, the book of Christ's origins and life, can be written and proclaimed because God has first written his living Word in the living book of the Virgin's being, which she has offered to her Lord in all its purity and humility—the whiteness of a chaste, empty page. If the name of Mary does not often appear in the pages of the Gospel as evident participant in the action, it is because she is the human ground of humility and obedience upon which every letter of Christ's life is written. She is the Theotokos, too, in the sense that she is the book that bears, and is inscribed with, the Word of God. She keeps her silence that he might resonate the more plainly within her.”
Source: Fire of Mercy, Heart of the Word: Meditations on the Gospel According to Saint Matthew, Vol. 1
“The Virgin Mary, being obedient to his word, received from an angel the glad tidings that she would bear God.”
“The virgins are certain there's a circle of hell
dedicated to that fear you'll never find anyone else.”
Source: Virgin
“The virtual community? The word virtual does not mean "virtue." It means "not." When I go to the store and they say: The shirt that you brought in is virtually done. It means it is not done, in the same way that the virtual community is not a community. There is no commitment there. When you log off, you are not a member of it anymore. My flesh and blood community, the sense of knowing my neighbor, knowing the guy across the street, having dinner with the people down the block, getting along with each other and making compromises, that's a genuine community with a commitment.”
“The virtual suppression of ethical discussion after 1845 produces the semblance of purely descriptive analysis, dressed in the mantle of positivist objectivity, analysis which is, in fact, strung to a framework of crude, because unexplicated, moral assumptions.”
Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky
“The virtual world flickered in front of her, but it no longer felt like an escape. It felt like a trap.”
Source: Nowhere Strangers: A Sapphic Coming-of-Age Story of Digital Romance, Heartbreak, and Self-Discovery
“The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not.”
“The virtuality of war is not, then, a metaphor. It is the literal passage from reality into fiction, or rather the immediate metamorphosis of the real into fiction. The real is now merely the asymptotic horizon of the Virtual.
And it isn't just the reality of the real that's at issue in all this, but the reality of cinema. It's a little like Disneyland: the theme parks are now merely an alibi - masking the fact that the whole context of life has been disneyfied.
It's the same with the cinema: the films produced today are merely the visible allegory of the cinematic form that has taken over everything - social and political life, the landscape, war, etc. - the form of life totally scripted for the screen. This is no doubt why cinema is disappearing: because it has passed into reality. Reality is disappearing at the hands of the cinema and cinema is disappearing at the hands of reality. A lethal transfusion in which each loses its specificity.
If we view history as a film - which it has become in spite of us - then the truth of information consists in the postsynchronization, dubbing and sub-titling of the film of history.”
Source: The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact
“The virtue and the strength of UWC is that it provides small, but powerful cells of innovation, catalysts for change, breaking barriers of habit and opening broader vistas of experience for both pupils and educationalists.”
“The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.”
“The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not
realities and creators, but names and customs.”
Source: Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
“The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.”
Source: The Virtue of Selfishness
“The virtue lies in the struggle, not the prize.”
“The virtue of a democratic system with a [constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech] is that it readily enables the people, over time, to be persuaded that what they took for granted is not so, and to change their laws accordingly.”
“The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.”
Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.”
“The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.”
Source: An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice: And Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness
“The virtue of a piece is the writer’s thoughts.”
“The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.”
“The virtue of angels is that they cannot deteriorate; their flaw is that they cannot improve. Man's flaw is that he can deteriorate; and his virtue is that he can improve.”
“The virtue of binary is that it's the simplest possible way of representing numbers. Anything else is more complicated. You can catch errors with it, it's unambiguous in its reading, there are lots of good things about binary. So it is very, very simple once you learn how to read it.”
“The virtue of books is to be readable.”
Source: The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The virtue of Christianity is obedience.”
Source: Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed
“The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given”
“The virtue of democracy is that is has placed limits on the absoluteness of power.”
“The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.”
Source: Selected works: Edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor
“The virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave markets, to gratify the brutal lust of those who bear the name of Christians.”
Source: Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker
“The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.”
Source: Letter to a Priest
“the virtue of imagination has this in common with the virtue of courage. Without it, you are less good: with it, you are not necessarily better.”
“The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“The virtue of losing is we get used to the fact that competing and to lose doesn't kill you. It just makes you stronger. It just helps you get used to it.”
“The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.”
Source: Philosophical Dialogues and Fragments
“The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein.”