T Quotes
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“There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln: Quotes, Quips, and Speeches
“There are few things worse in leadership than an overdog with no vision trying to lead underdogs with great vision.”
“There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend.”
“There are few things worse than wasting away in a prison that I myself constructed with such ignorance that I am helpless to escape my own construction.”
“There are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid.”
Source: Read for Your Life #18
“There are few times that I feel more at peace, more in tune, more Zen, if you will, than when I force myself to unplug.”
Source: Six Years
“There are few times when we know with absolute certainty we are going to do something for the last time. Life has a way of moving in circles, bringing us back to places we didn’t expect and taking us away from those we do. There are too many times we don’t pay close enough attention, and moments are lost in our assumption we’ll have another chance.”
“There are few treasures of more lasting worth than the experiences of a way of life that is in itself wholly satisfying. Such, after all, are the only possessions of which no fate, no cosmic catastrophe can deprive us; nothing can alter the fact if for one moment in eternity we have really lived.”
Source: Nanda Devi
“There are few tribes more loathsome than the American Right, and their vicious use of the shortcomings in the NHS to attack Barack Obama's attempts at health reform are a useful reminder.”
“There are few truths in an uncertain world, but here's one; this aint Kentucky!”
“There are few uglier traits of human nature than this tendency—which I now witnessed in men no worse than their neighbours—to grow cruel, merely because they possessed the power of inflicting harm.”
“There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.”
Source: The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill
“There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.”
“There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.”
“There are few ways in which good people do more harm to those who take them seriously than to defend the gospel with arguments that won't hold water. Many of the difficulties encountered by young people going to college would be avoided if parents and teachers were more careful to distinguish between what they know to be true and what they think may be true. Impetuous youth, upon finding the authority it trusts crumbling, even on unimportant details, is apt to lump everything together and throw the baby out with the bath.”
“There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.”
“There are few who would need advisers, if they were only accustomed to appeal to themselves in their calmest, holiest moments. If, when embarrassed with doubt as to any course of action, they would turn aside from the immediate tumult of the world, and from the vain speaking of those who "darken counsel by words without knowledge;" and would then commune with their hearts alone, at night, the heavens their silent counsellors, they would act not always in accordance with the wise men of this world, but with that wisdom which bringeth peace.”
Source: Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
“There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.”
“There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.”
“There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of ever having married, or at least of envying those who are unmarried.”
“There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.”
“There are few women whose charm survives their beauty.”
“There are few words in the music business or in art that I'll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like 'legend' or 'genius', 'he's a pioneer' and all of that.”
“There are few writers of note, of any country or of any age, from whom quotations might not be made in proof of the love with which they regarded Nature.”
“There are few writers who, if they publish anything, I am going to buy it: Ian McEwan, Scott Turow, Pat Conroy - he was a buddy of mine and I always read his stuff. Also: Harlan Coben, Elmore Leonard, John Le Carre, but he's pushing ninety.”
“There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it.”
“There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.”
“There are few, if any, Canadian men that have never spelled their name in a snow bank.”
“There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous essays
“There are fewer and fewer Jews in Ireland, but we still have one of the most famous Jewish characters in literary history, of course, in Leopold Bloom.”
“There are fewer and fewer philosophies that everyone subscribes to. We don't seem to have as many beliefs in common as we used to. Also, we interact much more online. We have all these gadgets to help us manage different aspects of our lives.”
“There are fewer answers in the world than questions, and if you ask me now why that is so, I must tell you that there is no answer to that question.”
“There are fewer Arabs in Tel Aviv, one of the largest cities in the Middle East, than there are in Chicago, the largest city in the American Midwest. How do you accomplish such a remarkable feat of social engineering without massive violence?”
“There are fewer chemical pollutants in the air. Our drinking water is safer. Our food standards have been raised. We've cleaned up more toxic waste sites in three years than the previous administrations did in twelve. The environment is cleaner, and we have fought off the most vigorous assault on environmental protection since we began to protect the environment in 1970. We are moving in the right direction to the 21st century.”
“There are fewer media writers in traditional settings. That is a beat that many legacy brands cannot afford. On the other hand technology writers are writing about media in ways they didn't before. As a consequence of the shift, there is less interest in many ways in the activities at some media. If you look at coverage of media as whole, the decision-making at the three broadcast networks and the cable channels, for instance, is much less of a focus than it once was. The guts of what goes on at Fox or CNN or MSNBC probably has less impact than it once did. It certainly gets less attention.”
“There are fewer things more poisonous than unresolved issues, resentment, and distrust within a leadership team.”
Source: Make It, Don't Fake It: Leading with Authenticity for Real Business Success
“There are fewer things more thrilling in life than lumpy letters. That rattle.”
“There are fewer things sadder than a poorly attended funeral.”
Source: The Dead of Winter
“There are fewer ways of making love than they say, and more than one believes.”
“There are fields of scientific work...which have been explored from the different sides of pure mathematics, statistics, electrical engineering, and neurophysiology...in which every single notion receives a separate and different name from each group, and in which important work has been triplicated or quadruplicated, while still other important work is delayed by the unavailability in one field of results that may have already become classical in the next field.”
“There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.”
Source: Sherlock Holmes - The Novels: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear
“There are filmmakers like me in different parts of the world that have a story they want to tell, and it's a story that comes out of a certain historical reality within their own life. Then you get committed all the way and however long it takes, stay very committed.”
“There are films that are difficult. There are films that would actually affect your personal life because of the length of the production, how long [you're away] from the family.”
“There are films that can only be made in a specific country but that have a wider meaning. I think that's true of any art form.”
“There are films that I don't like, and then someone will come up to me and say it's their favorite movie. The movies belong to the people. You make them and you put them out. For me, I love the process of making films. For me, my favorite film is always my next one.”
“There are films that I've made that I like a little bit more than the others. But the films that I mostly watch, and see over and over again, are not my own.”
“There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. "In the Mood for Love," though, reached all the way to my belly.”
“There are financial bankruptcies in many parts of the church. No question about that. But we see the possibility of reimagining and revitalizing the church.”
“There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much.”
“There are fireflies winking around his head, landing in his hair. A crown. His dive is infuriatingly graceful.”
Source: Red, White & Royal Blue