T Quotes
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“There are few instances of the exercise of particular virtues which seem harder to attain to, or which appear more amiable and engaging in themselves, than those of moderation and the forgiveness of injuries.”
Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself
“There are few instincts more natural than the body in full motion as it races across a field or through the trees.”
Source: The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It
“There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.”
“There are few jobs in the world that are more fun than being the head of Urban Development for a great and thriving city.”
“There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.”
“There are few lonelier sights than a good comedian being funny in a movie that doesn't know what funny is.”
Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007
“There are few master teachers in life. ... But there are many who can listen to life so well that they can hear the vastness in everything and in you. A teacher is someone who has learned to listen to life. Someone who has found a way to listen well. Any real teacher is only a finger pointing. In the end, we may find out more by not following our teachers but by following what our teachers follow for themselves. From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secrets of life. You will have to listen for yourself.”
“There are few men in Britain who cannot find time to speak to me."
"And what of their wives?"
"What of them?"
"You think they won't judge you?"
"I think they all want me in their beds, so they will find room for me in their drawing rooms."
Her head snapped back at the words, at their indelicacy. At the idea that he would say such a thing to his wife. At the idea that he would spend time in other wives' beds. "I think that you mistake the value of your presence in a lady's bedchamber."
He raised a brow. "I think you will feel differently after tonight."
The specter of their wedding night loomed in the words, and Penelope hated that her pulse quickened even as she wanted to spit at him. "Yes, well, however you might ensorcel the women of the ton, I can guarantee you that they are far more discerning in their company in public than they are in private. And you are not good enough.”
Source: A Rogue by Any Other Name
“There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.”
Source: The Last Enchantment
“There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.”
Source: Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays
“There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one would expect. Few know how to remain silent and respect the silence of others.”
Source: If This Is a Man / The Truce
“There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one would expect.”
Source: Survival In Auschwitz
“There are few men with more blood on their hands than me. None, that I know of. The Bloody-Nine they call me, my enemies, and there’s a lot of ’em. Always more enemies, and fewer friends. Blood gets you nothing but more blood. It follows me now, always, like my shadow, and like my shadow I can never be free of it. I should never be free of it. I’ve earned it. I’ve deserved it. I’ve sought it out. Such is my punishment.”
“There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.”
Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales
“There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot turn into a personal trimuph if you have the iron will and the neccessary skill.”
“There are few moments in your life where it will all make sense, maybe not so logically but via intuition and inner knowing. You will go for it, against all odds, against all opinion. You won't know the outcome instantly but thats whats exciting, the outcome doesn't matter as much as the courage it took to risk it all for a dream no one else can see but you.
That kind of integrity will take you places, the kind of inner strength that not only builds dreams but shatters nightmares.”
“There are few moments of clarity more profound than those that follow the emptying of an overcharged bladder. The world slows down, the focus sharpens, the brain comes back on line. Huge nebulous difficulties prove on close calm examination to be merely cloud giants.”
“There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.”
“There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.”
“There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect”
“There are few nicer things than sitting up in bed, drinking strong tea, and reading.”
“There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.”
Source: Compromises
“There are few occasions when we should make a bad bargain by giving up the good on condition that no ill was said of us.”
“There are few of us but who have been touched somehow by death. Some may not have been touched closely by it nor yet have kept vigil with it, but somewhere along our lives, most of us are sorely bereft of someone near and deeply cherished - and all of us will some day meet it face to face.”
Source: Richard L. Evans--the man and the message
“There are few of us so blind as not to realize that unless the moral force of religious conviction impels, the goal of truth and lasting international cooperation cannot be attained; there are few of us who do not appreciate the vital truth of the words, "If God does not build the house, those who build it build in vain."”
“There are few of us that are not rather ashamed of our sins and follies as we look out on the blessed morning sunlight, which comes to us like a bright-winged angel beckoning us to quit the old path of vanity that stretches its dreary length behind us.”
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
“There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie.”
Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde
“There are few of us, if any, who don't walk the refiner's fire of adversity and despair, sometimes known to others but for many quietly hidden and privately endured.”
“There are few of us, if any, who don't walk the refiner's fire of adversity and despair, sometimes known to others but for many quietly hidden and privately endured. Most of the heartache, pain, and suffering we would not choose today. But we did choose. We chose when we could see the complete plan. We chose when we had a clear vision of the Savior's rescue of us. And if our faith and understanding were as clear today as it was when we first made that choice, I believe we would choose again.”
“There are few overnight successes and many up-all-night successes.”
“There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty. What is needed is emphasis on morality and manners.”
Source: Vulgarians at the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio : Raising the Standards of Popular Culture
“There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated”
Source: Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None
“There are few people more convinced of their own genius than those who complain of how stupid they are.”
“There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.”
“There are few people who are mature enough to uphold moral and ethical values; who have a remarkable character; who are honest and sincere; who cultivate and harbor loyalty, devotion and dedication by rendering a striking admiration.”
“There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.”
“There are few people who define the word, 'rock star' better than U2's Bono. He's revered the world over not just for leading one of the biggest bands ever, but for his very public work on behalf of the underprivileged in Africa.”
“There are few people who think what a solemn thing it is to be a Christian. I guess there is not a believer in the world who knows what a miracle it is to be kept a believer.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 2: Sermons 54-106
“There are few people who will make mistakes with fire after having once been burned.”
Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
“There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer.”
“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well.The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of either merit or sense.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“There are few people with such talent, so there are few able to judge what I am doing.”
“There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.”
“There are few persons of greater worth than their reputation; but how many are there whose worth is far short of their reputation!”
Source: Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld
“There are few persons to whom truth is not a sort of insult.”
“There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained. The occupation is often full of interest and he who attempts it for the first time is astonished by the apparently illimitable distance and incoherence between the starting-point and the goal.”
Source: The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition
“There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence in the supernatural, by coincidences of so seemingly marvellous a character that, as mere coincidences, the intellect has been unable to receive them.”
Source: Tales of Terror and Detection
“There are few phrases that annoy me more than I won't bite. The only line that pisses me off faster is when some drunk, ham-faced dude in a bar sees me trying to get past him and barks: Smile,it can't be that bad! Yeah, actually, it can, jackwad.”
Source: Dark Places