T Quotes
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“The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. . . . The force of character is cumulative.”
Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays
“The Voyager
We are all lonely voyagers sailing on life's ebb tide,
To a far off place were all stripling warriors have died,
Sometime at eve when the tide is low,
The voices call us back to the rippling water's flow,
Even though our boat sailed with love in our hearts,
Neither our dreams or plans would keep heaven far apart,
We drift through the hush of God's twilight pale,
With no response to our friendly hail,
We raise our sails and search for majestic light,
While finding company on this journey to the brighten our night,
Then suddenly he pulls us through the reef's cutting sea,
Back to the place that he asked us to be,
Friendly barges that were anchored so sweetly near,
In silent sorrow they drop their salted tears,
Shall our soul be a feast of kelp and brine,
The wasted tales of wishful time,
Are we a fish on a line lured with bait,
Is life the grind, a heartless fate,
Suddenly, "HUSH", said the wind from afar,
Have you not looked to the heavens and seen the new star,
It danced on the abyss of the evening sky,
The sparkle of heaven shining on high,
Its whisper echoed on the ocean's spray,
From the bow to the mast they heard him say,
"Hope is above, not found in the deep,
I am alive in your memories and dreams when you sleep,
I will greet you at sunset and with the moon's evening smile,
I will light your path home.. every last lonely mile,
My friends, have no fear, my work was done well,
In this life I broke the waves and rode the swell,
I found faith in those that I called my crew,
My love will be the compass that will see you through,
So don't look for me on the ocean's floor to find,
I've never left the weathered docks of your loving mind,
For I am in the moon, the wind and the whale's evening song,
I am the sailor of eternity whose voyage is not gone.”
“The VRA was nevertheless a seismic shift in thought, action, and execution for the U.S. government when compared with the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and its equally enfeebled companion legislation of 1960. Rather than passively waiting for locales to violate the rights of American citizens and then sitting still until those who had been routinely brutalized by this system made a formal complaint, the VRA put the responsibility for adhering to the Constitution onto state and local governments.”
Source: One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
“The vulgar and common esteem is seldom happy in hitting right; and I am much mistaken if, amongst the writings of my time, the worst are not those which have most gained the popular applause.”
Source: Montaigne's Essays in Three Books: With Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator
“The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, being the prologue to the satires. Satires, epistles, and odes of Horace imitated. Epitaphs. The Dunciad, in four books
“The vulgar charge that the tendency of democracies is to leveling, meaning to drag all down to the level of the lowest, is singularly untrue; its real tendency being to elevate the depressed to a condition not unworthy of their manhood.”
“The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.”
“The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.”
“The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.”
Source: The Big Bow Mystery
“The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages.
[Lat., Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.]”
“The vulgar look upon a man, who is reckoned a fine speaker, as a phenomenon, a supernatural being, and endowed with some peculiargift of Heaven; they stare at him, if he walks in the park, and cry, that is he. You will, I am sure, view him in a juster light, and nulla formidine. You will consider him only as a man of good sense, who adorns common thoughts with the graces of elocution, and the elegancy of style. The miracle will then cease.”
“The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.”
“The vulgar Marxist concept of 'private enterprise' was totally misconstrued by man's irrationality; it was understood to mean that the liberal development of society precluded every private possession. Naturally, this was widely exploited by political reaction. Quite obviously, social development and individual freedom have nothing to do with the so-called abolishment of private property. Marx's concept of private property did not refer to man's shirts, pants, typewriters, toilet paper, books, beds, savings, houses, real estate, etc. This concept was used exclusively in reference to the private ownership of the social means of production, i.e., those means of production that determine the general course of society. In other words: railroads, waterworks, generating plants, coal mines, etc. The 'socialization of the means of production' became such a bugbear precisely because it was confounded to mean the 'private exploitation' of chickens, shirts, books, residences, etc., in conformity with the ideology of the expropriated.”
Source: The Mass Psychology of Fascism
“The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.”
Source: More Lay Thoughts of a Dean
“The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh.”
“The vulgar Turk is very different from what is spoken at court, 'tis as ridiculous to make use of the expressions commonly used in speaking to a great man or lady, as it would be to talk broad Yorkshire or Somershetshire in the drawing room.”
“The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.”
“The vulgarization of Darwinism that sees the "struggle for existence" as nothing but the competition for some environmental resource in short supply ignores the large body of evidence about the actual complexity of the relationship between organisms and their resources.”
“The Vulgate, from which the Douay derives, not only resulted from manuscripts hundreds of years older than those used by King James' men but derived from a canon which the whole Church for 1600 years before Luther held to be Sacred. In fact, the Septuagint Greek Bible, the Bible used by Greek−speaking Jews and gotten together long before is the true index to the books which the pre-Christian Jews and all the first Christians held sacred. The Septuagint has the same books as the Vulgate and, in fact, it was used as a guide by the translators of the Vulgate 1200 years before the first Protestant was born and just about the time that the Jewish rabbis were deciding that they wanted no part of some of the texts their ancestors had venerated.”
Source: The Reign of Antichrist: A Sourcebook of Catholic Prophecies about "The Man of Sin"
“The vulnerability of opening your heart fully and deeply to another is terrifying, but at a point in my 50s, I realized that I had to step up to the plate.”
“The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence. The destruction of Troy. The fall of the petals from fruit trees in blossom. To know that what is most precious is not rooted in existence - that is beautiful.”
Source: Gravity and Grace
“The vulnerability undid him even as the strength brought him pride. And the whole of her brought him love beyond the measuring of it. Of all he'd craved in his life, all he'd dreamed of having, all he'd fought to gain by fair means or foul, he'd never imagined having such such as she as his own. Never imagined himself the man he'd come to be because she was.”
“The vulture Nekhbet, who'd one possessed my gran (long story); the crocodile Sobek, who'd tried to kill my cat (longer story); and the lion goddess Sekhmet, whom we'd once vanished in hot sauce ( don't even ask) - page 9”
“The Vulture. Of all the creatures in the jungle, he has it the easiest. The hard work of others becomes his work; their failure to survive becomes his nourishment. Keep an eye on the Vulture - while you are hard at work, he is circling above. Do not fight him, join him.”
Source: The 48 Laws Of Power
“The vulture would never stand again, would never feel a warm column of air under its great wings, would never incubate an egg or feed a chick.”
Source: Vulture: The Private Life of an Unloved Bird
“The vultures will make sculptures out of our flesh.”
Source: Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal
“The VVV Visors had the weird knack of twisting your worldview: the more you looked at the world through their tangerine lenses, the more reality distorted and shifted to fit your new point of view.
This made Veravisum Virtual Visors incredibly unreliable, given their proclivity to redact your reality, confirm your private opinions and magnify your cognitive bias.”
Source: 5 Stars
“The VW doesn’t make you think of Hitler and genocide. It’s a breast on wheels, a puffy little dream.”
Source: The Flamethrowers: A Novel
“The vyavahaar (worldly interaction) which has come into being should never be pushed away. First comes vyavahaar, then Nischay.”
Source: Right Understanding to Helping Others Benevolence
“The Vygotskian model of inner speech proposes that it develops from conversations with other people, and thus retains that quality of switching between different points of view. In her private speech, Athena asked herself a question (‘What am I doing?’) and then answered it by treating it as if it had come from another person (‘I’m going to make a train track’).”
Source: The Voices Within
“The W. M. Keck Foundation would be wise to establish how profound the health, safety, worker sickness and harassment issues are at the toxic W. M. Keck Observatory.”
“The W. M. Keck Observatory is the only employer that has surprise drug tested me during my employment.”
“The W. M. Keck Observatory is the only employer that has surprised me during my employment with urine tests for illegal drugs.”
“The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees.”
“The wacky thing about those bad guys is that you can't count on them to be obvious. They forget to wax their mustaches and goatees, leave their horns at home, send their black hats to the dry cleaner's. They're funny like that.”
Source: White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files
“The wage earner relies upon the ventures of confident and contented capital. This failing him, his condition is without alleviation, for he can neither prey on the misfortune of others nor hoard his labor.”
Source: Special message, August 8th, 1893. Extract from third annual message, December 2nd, 1895
“The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.”
“The wage of a people has meaning only when it arises from production. Every increase in production should benefit the whole people and raise the people's standards of living.”
Source: The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939
“The wage-earning class the world over are the victims of society.”
Source: The Rebel Girl: an autobiography, my first life (1906-1926).
“The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to $.15 a day”
Source: Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
“The wages of courage is death, lad, but it's the wages of everything else, too.”
Source: The Drawing of the Dark
“the wages
of dying is love.”
Source: A New Selected Poems
“The wages of Gin is Debt.”
“The wages of pedantry is pain.”
“The wages of sin are an expensive infection.”
“The wages of sin are death, but the hours are good and the perks are fantastic.”
Source: The Complete Alan Moore Future Shocks
“The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.”
“The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.”
Source: Gene Stratton-Porter Collection: A Girl of the Limberlost, Freckles, Laddie, The Harvester, A Daughter of the Land, At the Foot of the Rainbow, Her Fatther's Daughter, Michale O'Halloran
“The wages of sin is alimony.”
“The Wages Of Sin Is Death”