T Quotes
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“The want of an international Copy-Right Law, by rendering it nearly impossible to obtain anything from the booksellers in the wayof remuneration for literary labor, has had the effect of forcing many of our very best writers into the service of the Magazines and Reviews.”
Source: Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Short Stories
“The want of faith, as well as faith itself, is best shewn by works. If a sceptic avoid the fire as much as those who believe it dangerous to go into it, we can hardly avoid thinking his scepticism to be feigned, and not real.”
Source: Philosophical works
“The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.”
“The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.”
“The want of purity should lead people to pray.”
“The wanting of advice is the sign that the Spirit in you has not yet spoken with the compelling voice that you ought to obey.”
“The wanting that had waited in the doorways of her body stepped into the room and took a chair.”
Source: Fifth
“The wanting to sublimate the impossible alters a grief-stricken soul into an ecstatic one, who learns how to feel again...how to tremble at even the slightest sensing of joy. This sublimation flows from sensing the godliness in you....”
“The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods.”
Source: Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found
“The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods. It took me four years, seven months, and three days to do it. I didn't know where I was going until I got there.It was a place called the Bridge of the Gods.”
Source: Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found
“The wants of mankind are supplied and satisfied out of the gross values produced and created, and not out of the net values only.”
Source: A treatise on political economy
“The wants which necessarily accompany the cultivation of a wilderness produced among them a state of society which countries long harassed by the quarrels and intrigues of governments had neglected to cherish. In such a situation man becomes what he ought to be. He sees his species... as kindred.”
Source: Rights of Man
“The war affects me less than it ought. But I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.”
“The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.”
“The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.”
“The war against Iraq is as disastrous as it is unnecessary; perhaps in terms of its wisdom, purpose and motives, the worst war in American history... Our military men and women...were not called to defend America but rather to attack Iraq. They were not called to die for, but rather to kill for, their country. What more unpatriotic thing could we have asked of our sons and daughters...?”
“The war against ISIS will pose many new challenges for the next commander-in-chief. The last two presidents [George W. Bush and Barack Obama] pursued a Middle East policy that supported toppling dictators to try to promote democracy.”
“The war against Napoleon was won not by England but by Russia, Austria, and Prussia; but England won the last battle and she won the peace.”
Source: The Age of Napoleon
“The war against Russia is an important chapter in the German nation's struggle for existence. [...] The objective of this battle must be the demolition of present-day Russia and must therefore be conducted with unprecedented severity. Every military action must be guided in planning and execution by an iron resolution to exterminate the enemy remorselessly and totally. In particular, no adherents of the contemporary Russian Bolshevik system are to be spared.”
“The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness.”
“The war against terror is like a war against dandruff. It's a metaphor. It's not about anything.”
“The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.”
“The war against terrorism is one we must win.”
“The war against terrorism is terrorism. The whole thing is just bullshit.”
“The war against terrorism should not be used to interfere with an independent, sovereign state.We need to identify concrete terrorist targets and do no harm to civilians.”
“The war against terrorism will not be finished as long as he [Saddam Hussein] is in power.”
“The war against the Canadian seal hunt is more than a protest. It is a crusade to bring harmony between the natural world and humanity. All of us who oppose it are dedicated to the protection of life and the abolition of cruelty.”
“The war against the war is the only war that shall give you a great honour and a real peace!”
“The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware only of its own history, insensible to everything which isn't part of the local atmosphere.”
Source: Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews
“The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party.”
Source: Writings, 1902-1910
“The war against working people should be understood to be a real war…. Specifically in the U.S., which happens to have a highly class-conscious business class…. And they have long seen themselves as fighting a bitter class war, except they don’t want anybody else to know about it.”
Source: At War with Asia
“The war all over again – that’s exactly what they will have if they do win their complete military victory. When the “knock-out blow” has been dealt, they’ll have to go on keeping big armies and building big ships, to consolidate their position as top-dog. And as long as we have big armies and navies, we shall always have wars. The pretty toys have to be used – they can’t be kept for show…”
Source: Despised and Rejected
“The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming - all these are very clearly tied to energy”
“The war began in 1972. That was the year I awoke to a profound truth: no one on this earth is indispensable, except the enemy. ¶ Without an enemy, human beings are poor things indeed. Their lives are ordeals, crushed between insignificance and boredom. ¶ The enemy is the Savior. His mere existence is enough to revitalize humanity. Thanks to the enemy, that unfortunate accident called life becomes epic.”
Source: Le Sabotage amoureux
“The war between authors and publishers has been a conflict of ages. On the one side, the publisher has been looked upon as a species of Wantley dragon, whose daily food was the brain and blood of hapless writers. ... On the other side, the author has been considered, like Shelley, 'an eternal child,' in all that relates to practical matters, and a terrible child at that, - incapable of comprehending details, and unreasoanably dissatisfied with results.”
“The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.”
Source: The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing
“The war between President Ronald John, Muslim nationals, Muslim immigrants, and the federal judiciary was peaking at the wrong time for Arya Khan and Zachary Blake. Picking a jury and conducting voir dire would be difficult if not impossible.”
Source: Betrayal of Justice
“The war between the Iranians and Iraqis is a touchy issue. To be quite honest, they each other's guts. It was not responsible to let one of our ships be put into a war zone like that.”
“The war between the Pastor and the Prophet will cease with the full emergence of the Apostle.... Are we going to be willing to submit our ministry to a specific Apostolic visionary? This is a critical question that will determine our influence on hastening the coming of the Lord, in our effective contribution to the restoring of all things spoken by the prophets.”
“The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.”
“The War between the States... produced the foundation for the kind of government we have today: consolidated and absolute, based on the unrestrained will of the majority, with force, threats, and intimidation being the order of the day. Today's federal government is considerably at odds with that envisioned by the framers of the Constitution. ... [The War] also laid to rest the great principle enunciated in the Declaration of Independence that 'Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed'.”
“The war brought out all the art in me.”
“The war brought some changes to Colombo. But it was the villages that changed far more than the towns.”
Source: Yuganthaya
“The war brought things to a head, exposing the utter falsity and rottenness of Kautskyism from its very first day.”
“The war brought tragic sacrifices beyond description to the people in Asia and many other people in the world. We must tell the story of war's misery and sacrifice to subsequent generations and search our souls over our own history.”
“The war came as I took a step outside
and my mother knelt whispering to my ear
When the war came
the soldiers carried faces painted with stars
and they fell to our footsteps,
riding without a shadow into the light
Without heat, the sun”
Source: Mystical Tides
“The war came to me in my dreams and showed me its sole purpose: to go on, only to go on.”
“The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.”
“The war comes down to us, Cassandra, to us.”
“He brought you here to remember something; he wanted to give back to you what he took. Now, leave him be, but in memory.”
Source: Mourning Grey: Part Three The Guardians Of The Temple Saga
“The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute.”
Source: Slightly Out Of Focus