T Quotes
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“There are laws about personal protection so it's rare to see a politician criticized. Normally, according to the law, there's a judicial problem with calling people by their real names.”
“There are laws against peddling dope, there can be laws against peddling race hate. But every man has a right to his own opinion as an American boasts, but race hate is not an opinion, it's a phobia. It isn't a viewpoint, race hate is a disease. In a people's world, the incurable racist has no rights. He must be deprived of influence in a people's government. He must be segregated, as he himself would segregate the colored and semitic peoples. As we now segregate the leprous and the insane.”
“There are laws for everything except the harm families do.”
Source: D is for Deadbeat
“There are laws for peace as well as war.”
“There are laws in some countries, I believe, which prohibit anyone from following you in the street, and if someone does, he can be arrested and put into prison. So, spiritually, I wish there were a police system which would put people into a spiritual prison for following others. In fact, it does happen automatically.”
“There are laws of nature - of course there are - even if they don't exist in some sort of bizarre Platonic Heaven.”
“There are laws of nature. We may describe the laws of nature but still not wholly unravel and understand them to pronounce that scientific laws are equal to natural laws or that they are an absolute representation of natural laws. Scientific laws did not yet cover, describe, and explain all natural laws, mysteries, and secrets.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“There are laws of the universe and if you practice them they will respond to you.”
“There are laws that only apply to people with HIV - we're becoming a viral underclass.”
“There are laws. There are rules. And when you break them, there are consequences. Laws of nature and laws of life. Laws of love and laws of death.”
Source: The Law of Moses
“There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press”
Source: Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890
“There are lawyers advising to sue, so the lawyers can keep their retainments.”
“There are lawyers who believe in client-centered representation and who are dedicated on the same level I feel I was dedicated.”
“There are layers of skin where sight lives. You look with your eyes. I see with my senses. I observe in silence as the violence unearths itself brick by brick.”
Source: Keeper of Backwards Men
“There are lazy minds as well as lazy bodies.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication
“There are leaders and there are followers. Followers follow leaders and leaders follow their heart”
“There are leaders and there are those who lead. Leaders hold a position of power or influence. Those who lead inspire us.”
Source: Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action
“There are leaders who know that however furious the debate, there are good men and women in all population groups - amongst blacks, amongst whites, and amongst Afrikaans and English speaking people.”
“There are leaders, and there are those who lead.”
Source: Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action
“There are leaders, and there are those who lead. Leaders are those who hold a position of power or authority. But those who lead are those who inspire us. And it's those who start with why, that have the ability to inspire those around them or find others who inspire them.”
“There are leaks from the Embassy in Honduras. There was a coup in 2009. Obama broke with most of Latin America and even Europe and supported the military coup, still does. The ambassador in Honduras sent back a detailed analysis saying the coup was military, illegal, unconstitutional, and that the legitimate president was thrown out. Okay, we now know that Washington was perfectly aware of that and decided to support the military coup anyway. We should have known that at the time. The government has no right to keep that information secret.”
“There are legions of [Aquarian, New Age, One World Religion] conspirators. They are in corporations, universities, and hospitals, on the faculties of public schools, in factories and doctors offices, in state and federal agencies, on city councils, and the White House staff, in state legislatures, in volunteer organizations, in virtually all arenas of policy making in the country.”
“There are legions of us, I realized. The mothers who have broken babies, and spend the rest of our lives wondering if we should have spared them. And the mothers who have let their broken babies go, who look at our children and see instead the faces of the ones they never met.”
Source: Handle with Care: A Novel
“There are legitimate concerns and anxieties that the forces of globalisation are leaving too many people behind - and we have to take those concerns seriously and address them. But the answer isn't to turn inward and embrace protectionism. We can't just walk away from trade.”
“There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists.”
“There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.”
“There are lesser paths that scour the landscape of my life, each begging me off to dead-end adventures touted as wondrous destinations of the most magnificent sort. And despite the vast number of them, I can distinguish each of them from the path designed by God by simply recognizing that God doesn’t promise destinations. He promises Himself.”
“There are lessons in everything. The bad, the good. Our job is to listen, and to continue to learn, so that maybe we get better at this. Maybe get better at life.”
“There are lessons to be learned from a stupid man.”
“There are lessons to be learned from any outcome. There’s also the opportunity to practice the virtues of patience, humility, and acceptance. Any result can be leveraged to build character, courage, and will.”
Source: Endeavor: Cultivate Excellence While Making a Difference
“There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore.”
“There are levels of poverty in South Africa that are totally unacceptable.”
“There are libertarian values which say private property is the overarching value, the sanctity thereof, and there are egalitarians who say health care should be shared and so on. That's fair enough.”
“There are lies, damned lies - statistics and then computer models.”
“There are lies of necessity and those of malice. Those you choose to tell will define your character.”
Source: Immortal
“There are lies, damned lies and statistics.”
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
“There are life events that can destroy the personality, which is a lot more fragile than most people imagine, constructed as it is from bits provided by others in the most haphazard way. People can be torn down to the core, "shattered," as the expression goes, and then they seek sleep. And dreams, which provide the ground for the construction of a new and more integrated self. Providing there's a core, and providing they're willing to do the work.”
Source: The Good Son
“There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television.”
“There are life-threatening issues related to diabetes.”
“There are lifetimes where one goes off into the Himalayas and meditate in a cave. But this is not really one of those lifetimes for most people. Our earth has changed.”
“There are likable characters in prison. Sometimes the worst criminals are also some of the most charming people.”
“There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host.”
“There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But we're all your family.' "She stops now. Leans over me so that the wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the forehead. 'You still have a family,' she whispers.”
“There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques; second, those who, by concentrating their minds, lead the body into the rhythm of a desired emotion, expressing a remembered feeling or experience. And finally, there are those who convert the body into a luminous fluidity, surrendering it to the inspiration of the soul.”
“There are limits put on women, but why should there be?”
“There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort.”
“There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover.”
Source: Dune Messiah
“There are limits to reforming a system that is dominated by these massive and rapacious corporations.”
“There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.”
“There are limits to what we can do. That's for sure. That is true. One of the downsides of a growing economy [is that] we're accommodating a lot more people. They're buying houses and the market is growing. That is part of the downside of that, but I think that all of us do have to decide to act on it.”