T Quotes
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“The written word is everything.”
Source: The Lyric: An Essay
“The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily.”
Source: 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear
“The written word is the basic of everything. Most important, the idea, and after that, the dialogue. You can rehash the dialogue as you go along, it 's disgraceful to have to do this, but now and again you have no choice.”
“The written word is the greatest sacred documentation.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“The written word is the link between the past and the future.”
“The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?”
“The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, & it smells good. Writing is mere writing, literature is mere. It appeals only to the subtlest senses—the imagination’s vision, & the imagination’s hearing—& the moral sense, & the intellect. This writing that you do, that so thrills you, that so rocks & exhilarates you, as if you were dancing next to the band, is barely audible to anyone else.”
“The written word
Like a stone pillar
May last for centuries
Even if its meaning is forgotten.”
“The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.”
“The written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here. It was a sluggish country.”
Source: Neuromancer
“The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we're reading, we're thinking. It's a sort of spiritual, meditative activity. When we're looking at visual objects, I think our eyes are obviously directed outward, so there's not as much reflective time. And it's the reflectiveness and the spiritual inwardness about reading that appeals to me.”
“The wrong action done at the wrong time spells disaster The right action done at the wrong time spells resistance The wrong action done at the right time spells mistake but The right action done at the right time spells a miracle”
“The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question.”
“The wrong answer is the right answer to a different question.”
Source: How to be a Brilliant Thinker: Exercise Your Mind and Find Creative Solutions
“The wrong answers are stopping the right ones from emerging.”
“The wrong approaches to faith and to skepticism are equally detrimental to the path. For the former declares its answers too soon and is later found false; the latter rejects sound answers altogether and hashes itself useless.”
Source: Healology
“The wrong boy. But what did the heart care about that?”
“The wrong decision you made at the right time is better than the right decision you made at the wrong time.”
“The wrong Democratic reaction to a stupid Republican utterance is to play hurt.”
“The wrong kind of guy to fall in love with is the guy who will let go of the steering wheel as a joke. A guy who finds it amusing to make you uncomfortable, which is more common than you'd think, is someone you want to avoid.”
“The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.”
“The wrong man is not always wrong because of his wrong actions, often he is wrong because of no actions.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“The wrong messages can block your blessings. People who are at war with themselves cannot guide you. Some people can not see the calling on your life and will speak from their limited vision. Be careful who you are allowing to minister to you.”
“The wrong methods and false ways never lead towards the right and real destination.”
“The wrong of unshapely things is a wrong too great to be told;
I hunger to build them anew and sit on a green knoll apart.”
Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition
“The wrong one will start saying things like "withdraw with honor." We've heard phrases like that before, and they led to thousands and thousands of deaths. Democrats always want to look tough.”
“the wrong ones come to leave
the right ones come to stay”
Source: Within the event horizon: poetry & prose
“The wrong people arrive at the right time, and so you trust them.
Because of that, when the right people arrive at the wrong time, you don’t.”
Source: Where the Quiet Blooms
“The wrong people get far too much mileage out of things that sound nice.... Take it from a guy who is all too capable with a lie: nothing is easier to sell someone than the story they want to hear.”
Source: Wind and Truth
“The wrong people never doubt themselves. They are always right, at least in their heads.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“The wrong people will do everything in their power to guarantee that the wrong political climate will continue. It seems, then, that the wrong people ensure the wrong political climate and the wrong political climate ensures the wrong people. How then to break free of this vicious circle?”
“The Wrong Person in the Wrong Place = Regression. The Wrong Person in the Right Place = Frustration. The Right Person in the Wrong Place = Confusion. The Right Person in the Right Place = Progression. The Right People in the Right Places = Multiplication.”
Source: Team Maxwell 2in1 (Winning With People/17 Indisputable Laws)
“The Wrong Planet tribe are the pranksters, the court jesters, the comedians, the Bohemians, the flower children, the nomads and vagrants, the free spirits. Without these the world would be full of humans who are little more than robots.”
Source: Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
“The wrong question to ask of a myth is whether it is true or false. The right question is whether it is living or dead, whether it still speaks to our condition.”
“The wrong side of the tracks is livelier.”
Source: Kiss Hollywood good-by
“The wrong sort of people are always in power because they would not be in power if they were not the wrong sort of people.”
“The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we inflict what we have suffered.”
Source: Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life
“The wrong thing, for the right reasons.”
Source: Shantaram
“The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing.”
“The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.”
“The wrong things are said when there is nothing that can be said.”
Source: New American Story
“The wrong things draw you in like the Sunday sun the eyes. You would stare straight at it and wonder if there is something somewhere out there, other than depressing sunny days and lonely Sundays: something more and when you would take your eyes out of the sun again, you'd only see red spots as if the light forgot them on your retina and then you would stand around and ponder why your eyes would always wander towards the it, although you don't want them to and actually know that it does harm.”
Source: As the moon began to rust
“The wrong things draw you in like the Sunday-sun the eyes. You would stare straight into it and wonder if there is something somewhere out there, other than depressing sunny days and lonely Sundays: something more. When you would take your eyes out of the sun again, you would only see red spots as if the light had forgotten them on your retina and then you would stand around and ponder why your eyes would always wander towards the sun, although you don't want them to and actually know that it does harm.
~ As the moon began to rust”
“The wrong use of a thing is far worse than the non-use.”
Source: Stoic Six Pack 7: The Sophists
“The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy. ... Red China is not the powerful nation seeking to dominate the world.”
“The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.”
“The wrong way to look at your university life is to say it's like job training, unless you're going into something very specific.”
“The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance on Our SOULS.”
Source: The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East
“The wrong word is like a lie jammed inside the story.”
“The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.”
Source: Prodigal Summer