T Quotes
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“The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.”
“The accused rapist, Calvin Smith, had graduated from a small-town high school the previous June, where he'd distinguished himself as an athlete. Individuals who knew Smith have described him as "kind," "easygoing," and "goofy." But he had never had sex before meeting Kaitlynn Kelly, and a look at what he has posted on a social media site suggests that he was a frustrated, involuntary celibate. On January 11, 2011, Smith posted a line from the animated sitcom Family Guy on his Facebook page: "women are not people god just put them here for mans entertainment.”
Source: Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
“The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in; and the recording angel as he wrote it down dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.”
“The Achaeans soon experienced, as often happens, that a victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master.”
Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788
“The ache for anything is a thick dust in the heart.”
Source: The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990
“The ache for home lives in all of us.”
“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
“The ache in my chest hurt again. I didn’t know how to be me without her.”
Source: Drowning in Stars
“The ache of empty arms was an old tale to you.”
Source: Collected Poems
“The ache of loss for something not yet gone was sharp. Sharper than anything he'd ever felt before.”
Source: The Rose & the Dagger
“The Ache That Would Not Leave
Behind the hum and routine of daily living, there lay a persistent and wild longing for something she could not easily put into words. It felt like impulsive adventures and watching the sun rise over unfamiliar mountains, or coffee in a street café, set to the background music of a foreign language. It was the smell of the ocean, with dizzying seagulls whirling in a cobalt sky; exotic foods and strange faces, in a city where no one knew her name. She wanted secrets whispered at midnight, and road trips without a map, but most of all, she ached for someone who desired to explore the mysteries that lay sleeping within her. The truly heartbreaking part was that she could feel the remaining days of her life falling away, like leaves from an autumn tree, but still this mysterious person who held the key to unlock her secrets did not arrive; they were missing, and she knew not where to find them.”
“The ache will always be there, but the intensity will fade, and you'll find other beautiful things to fill your days with.”
Source: Sea of Strangers
“The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.”
“The achievement gap between children from high income and low income families is roughly 30-40% larger among children born in 2001 than among those born 25 years ago. The class gap among students entering kindergarten was two to three times higher than the racial gap.”
“The achievement of a happy life is not only positively good for us, it is constructively good for those around us.”
Source: Are We Happy Yet?: Eight Keys to Unlocking a Joyful Life
“The achievement of every extraordinary feat
it consists of having a dream and believing in it.”
“The achievement of excellence can only occur if the organization promotes a culture of creative dissatisfaction.”
“The achievement of freedom is hardly possible without the felt mourning. This ability to mourn, i.e, to give up the illusion of a happy childhood, can restore vitality and creativity if a person is able to experience that he was never loved as a child for what he was, but for his achievements, success and good qualities. And that he sacrificed his childhood for this love, this will shake him very deeply.”
“The achievement of great things though comes from the ability to manage yourselfvery, very, very well. Or at least well enough where you almost become compulsive about getting certain things done. You have to set a standard for yourself that's.very, very, very high and you have to manage your thoughts to where they need to be allow yourself to be successful, at what your trying to do.”
“The achievement of happiness requires not the satisfaction of our needs but the examination and transformation of those needs.”
“The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education.”
“the achievement of human autonomy has been paid for by the experience of human alienation.”
“The achievement of maturity, psychologically speaking, might be said to be the realization and acceptance that we simply cannot live independently from the world, and so we must live within it, with whatever compromises that might entail.”
“The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well.”
“The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.”
“The achievement of Tahrir Square wasn’t just its grand political movement but the tiny personal battles fought and won against the frictions wearing down Egyptian society: between religions, classes, sexes, and generations.”
Source: Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World
“The achievement of the hero is one that he is ready for, and it’s really a manifestation of his character. And it’s amusing, the way in which the landscape and the conditions of the environment match the readiness of the hero. The adventure that he’s ready for is the one that he gets.”
Source: The Power of Myth
“The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.”
Source: What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership
“The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”
“The achievements of Labour in the years after the Second World War should never be underestimated, but they are now history.”
“The achievements of past struggles and the aspirations of an entire nation are [being] undone and erased.... No Agent Orange or steel pellet bombs, no napalm, no toxic chemicals: a new phase of economic and social (rather than' physical) destruction has unfolded. The seemingly neutral and scientific tools of macro-economic policy constitute a non-violent instrument of recolonization and impoverishment.”
“The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.”
“The aching in my chest
isn't because I miss you,
it's realizing that you have
become someone I no longer know,
your fears, your 4 am thoughts,
your achievements,
are things I no longer have an equivalent to.
Who we were and who we are
are four different people,
and the me from now
doesn't relate to the me from then,
let alone to the you from now.
-Tanzy Sayadi and Jarod Kintz”
Source: liQUID PROse QUOtes
“The aching nostalgia for her own youth remained—the bright Andalusian days when each hour was filled to bursting with the promise of magic, when her life lay ahead of her, inexhaustible, as yet untouched.”
Source: The Stories of Paul Bowles
“The acid test for any theology is this: Is the God presented one that can be loved, heart, soul, mind, and strength? ... If it fails to set a lovable God--a radiant, happy, friendly, accessible, and totally competent being--before ordinary people, we have gone wrong”
“The acid test of any truth is found in whether it aids victims in their struggle to overcome victimisation.”
Source: For My People: Black Theology and the Black Church
“The acid test of our love for God is obedience to His Word. The greatest ability is dependability. The test of your character is what it takes to stop you. Trust God as if it all depends upon Him, and work as if it all depends upon you.”
“The acid test of politics is not what you say at the hustings, but what you actually do in government.”
“The acid test of real intent - a glow on your face and a rush of blood in your body.”
“The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.”
Source: A Way of Being Free
“The acknowledgement of a single possibility can change everything.”
Source: Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
“The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.”
“The acknowledgement that this person is English, white, or French, or German, this is Portuguese, this is Rwandan, this is Senegalese, this is a black South Africans is a glorious thing. To speak of those positively, to say that they have characteristics, each one of them, that the others almost always do not have, and that there is a complementarily about it.”
“The acknowledgment of and gratitude for favors and gifts received is loved and esteemed in Heaven and on earth.”
“The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.”
“The acknowledgment of powerlessness does empower. We humans are powerless over a whole host of factors and conditions in the world, and mostly we're not bothered by these.”
“The acknowledgment that God is always with us - even when we are least aware of it in our sensory being - requires discipline. To acknowledge the Unseen Real requires a concerted effort of our will at first. This is why the term practicing the presence is so useful.”
Source: Listening Prayer: Learning to Hear God's Voice and Keep a Prayer Journal
“The ACLU and NAACP went right after the core of the issue—there was no voter fraud. Therefore, there was no state interest at stake—certainly nothing that could warrant this assault on the Fifteenth Amendment. It "bear[s] repeating," they asserted, that Indiana had "not identified even a single instance of voter impersonation fraud occurring at the polls in the history of Indiana" and no one in the state has "ever been charged" with that crime. Ever. Moreover, when the bill was being drafted, "no evidence of in-person impersonation fraud was presented to the legislature," making SEA 483, at best, a solution in search of a problem.”
Source: One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
“The ACLU has been able to harass out of existence public expressions of faith.”
“The ACLU is an organization with a long and distinguished history of fighting to protect freedom of speech. On the other hand, in recent years, it has carried its mandate to ever more eccentric and often highly destructive lengths. While is may have been perfectly honorable for Dukakis to belong to the ACLU, it was equally legitimate for Bush to attack him for it. And with what enormous relish he did the job!”