T Quotes
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“The whole politically correct movement, if it - if that's what it is, was spawned by liberals. So I try to avoid categorizing myself.”
“The whole positioning and atmosphere of the song ["King of the Mountain"] was to build up this thunderstorm that would take us all onstage off into a story where we were suddenly in the middle of the ocean.”
“The whole power of cunning is privative; to say nothing, and to do nothing , is the utmost of its reach. Yet men, thus narrow by nature and mean by art, are sometimes able to rise by the miscarriages of bravery and the openness of integrity, and, watching failures and snatching opportunities, obtain advantages which belong to higher characters.”
Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752
“The whole press thing and who you are in the media, or what you have to project yourself to be, it feels very much like another person. People say to me, "Oh, your life must be changing," and I'm like, "Uh, I guess?" For me, it's such a gradual change, and I don't see it from the outside like everybody else does. It's weird, I see my face on a bus or online or somebody has my picture as their picture on Twitter and it's all a bit weird and I feel very disconnected from it and very much, "I guess that's me." It's very surreal.”
“The whole principle (censorship) is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.”
Source: The Man Who Sold the Moon and Orphans of the Sky
“The whole privatisation of health and education, of natural resources and essential infrastructure - all of this is so twisted and so antithetical to anything that would place the interests of human beings or the environment at the center of what ought to be a government concern - should stop. The amassing of unfettered wealth of individuals and corporations should stop. The inheritance of rich people's wealth by their children should stop. The expropriators should have their wealth expropriated and redistributed.”
“The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes", And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be "No."”
“The whole problem is spirituality-not finances. Spiritually strong = welfare strong.”
“The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.”
“The whole problem is wealth redistribution. How can we create equal opportunities for people around the globe? Seems impossible in short term, but it is the ultimate goal of the future.”
Source: Together: AI and Human. On The Same Side.
“The whole problem of industrial agriculture is putting all of your eggs in one basket. We need to diversify our food chains as well as our fields so that when some of them fail, we can still eat.”
“The whole problem of life is this: how to break out of one's own solitude, how to communicate with others.”
Source: Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950
“The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others.”
Source: This Business of Living
“The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on a page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page.”
Source: Conscientious Objections: Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology and Education
“The whole problem with people is they don't know what matters and what doesn't.”
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves and wiser people so full of doubt.”
Source: The Girl Who Was on Fire
“The whole problem with the world today: private property. If no one owned anything, it would be a lot better. There's even an entire industry devoted to keeping an eye on other people's stuff. This is how stupid it's got. If you decide to get rid of a lot of your stuff, you can give it to a thrift shop or to Goodwill.”
“The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things - bad language and whatever - it's all caused by one basic thing, and that is: religious superstition.”
“The whole procedure [of shooting rockets into space] . . . presents difficulties of so fundamental a nature, that we are forced to dismiss the notion as essentially impracticable, in spite of the author's insistent appeal to put aside prejudice and to recollect the supposed impossibility of heavier-than-air flight before it was actually accomplished. An analogy such as this may be misleading, and we believe it to be so in this case.”
“The whole procedure of his thinking, Jason knew, was an imbecilic exercise; there was no compelling reason for him to seek an answer. And yet his mind bored on and on and he could not stop it, hanging with desperation to an impossibility to which it never should have paid attention.”
Source: A Choice of Gods
“The whole process of getting a book published is just part of the process. The last of the process that I enjo”
“The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter.”
“The whole process of having to put the thing into the world seems so antithetical to the act of writing. Poetry is slightly easier, because there's less money and fewer people involved. You just let a book of poems trickle out in the world, and it finds its own people. Novels are much harder, and you don't think you should have to do some of the things you're made to do.”
“The whole process of life is a process of deterioration in which everything—and this is the most cruel law—continually gets worse.”
Source: Gehen
“The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.”
“The whole process of mental adjustment and atunement can be summed up in one word: Gratitude”
Source: Reference
“The whole process of music for me is something absolutely honest and really naked and bare, so I never forced myself to write in French.”
“The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that happens in it is good or bad. Because you never know what will be the consequences of the misfortune. Or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune.”
“The whole process of working with Steven [Sebring] and being filmed by him helped me psychologically to get my feet back on the ground.”
“The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it.”
“The whole process of writing is a setting at a distance. That is the value of it - to the writer, and to the people who read the results of this process, which takes the raw, the individual, the uncriticized, the unexamined, into the realm of the general.”
Source: Under My Skin
“The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.”
“The whole project of European Union is one in deep trouble.”
“The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia, directed against the workers, must be opposed.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Karl Marx (Illustrated)
“The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded.”
“The whole punk ethic was do-it-yourself, and I've always been very literal, especially as a kid. When they said that anybody can do this, I was like, 'OK, that's me.'”
“The whole punk scene is, of course, responsible for the Go-Go's ever getting created. Because before punk rock happened, you couldn't start a band if you didn't know how to play an instrument. But when punk happened it was like, 'Oh, it doesn't matter if you can play or not. Go ahead, make a band.' And that's exactly what the Go-Go's did.”
“the whole purport of literature...is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.”
“The whole purpose of an adventure is to gain some spiritual or emotional insight. When you compromise the process, you compromise the gain.”
“The whole purpose of climbing something like Everest is to effect some sort of spiritual and physical gain. But if you compromise the process you’re an asshole when you start out and an asshole when you get back.”
“The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.”
Source: The New Freedom: [Illustrated & Biography Added]
“The whole purpose of education is to turn green buds into beautiful flowers.”
“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”
Source: Pieces of Eight Pa
“The whole purpose of existence is to bring love into existence where it is needed.”
“The whole purpose of government is to protect the weak from the rich, to make sure the rich don’t eat the poor, the way they used to in the Stone Age, or medieval Europe, when there was no government and no laws stopping the strong from robbing the weak.”
Source: How to Defeat the Trump Cult: Want to Save Democracy? Share This Book
“The whole purpose of letting pain be pain is this: to let go of pain. By entering into it, we see that we are strong enough and capable enough to move through it. We find out that it ultimately has a gift for us.”
“The whole purpose of life is to gain enlightenment.
Nothing else is significant compared to that completely natural, exalted state of consciousness.
So always strive for that.
Set your life around that goal.
Don't get caught up in small things, and then it will be yours.”
“The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat, etc. So people who don't know what the hell they're doing or who on earth they are can, for only $2.95, get not just a cup of coffee but an absolutely defining sense of self: Tall. Decaf. Cappuccino." - Joe Fox”
“The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive”