T Quotes
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“There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.”
“There are men and women so lonely they believe God, too, is lonely.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
“There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.”
“There are men and women who make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. They have the gift of kindness or courage or loyalty or integrity. It really matters very little whether they are behind the wheel of a truck or running a business or bringing up a family. The teach the truth by living it.”
“There are men charged with the duty of examining the construction of the plants, animals, and soils which are the instruments of the great orchestra. These men are called professors. Each selects one instrument and spends his life taking it apart and describing its strings and sounding boards. This process of dismemberment is called research. The place for dismemberment is called a university.”
Source: Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)
“There are men everywhere who talk and talk, saying nothing. I am afraid I am becoming one of that kind.”
Source: Death in the Woods and Other Stories
“There are men from whom nature or some peculiar destiny has removed the cover beneath which we hide our own madness. They are likethin-skinned insects whose visible play of muscles seem to make them deformed, though in fact, everything soon turns to its normal shape again.”
“There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.”
Source: Lord Jim
“There are men I could spend eternity with. But not this life.”
Source: The middle of the world
“There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters”
Source: The beauties of the Hon. Daniel Webster: selected and arranged, with a critical essay on his genius and writings
“There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success.”
Source: The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill
“there are men, not a few, in this country who can read history and write newspaper articles, and whom therefore we must set down I suppose as belonging to the intelligent classes, who desire war for the sake of war: gentlemen, I have heard a great deal of indignation wasted upon those who were for peace at any price; what indignation can be too great to bestow on those who are for war at any price?”
“There are men of character in the U.S. Congress, both House and Senate. There are women of character, too. But the evidence for "character" needs to be something other than the iteration of the word itself.”
Source: Character: The History of a Cultural Obsession
“There are men put on this earth to make laws designed to break the spirits of men. There are those put here to have their spirits broken by those put here to break them. Then there are those who are here to break the laws that break the men who break the spirits of other men. I am one of those men. - Harry West”
Source: A Fraction of the Whole
“There are men regarded today as brilliant economists, who deprecate saving and recommend squandering on a national scale as the way of economic salvation; and when anyone points to what the consequences of these policies will be in the long run, they reply flippantly, as might the prodigal son of a warning father: "In the long run we are all dead." And such shallow wisecracks pass as devastating epigrams and the ripest wisdom.”
Source: Economics in One Lesson
“There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches.”
“There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterably dishonest that theft is to them a master passion.”
“There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterately dishonest that theft is to them a master passion. When a human being has reached that stage, there is only one course that can be rationally pursued. Sorrowfully, but remorselessly, it must be recognized that he has become lunatic, morally demented, incapable of self-government, and that upon him, therefore, must be passed the sentence of permanent seclusion from a world in which he is not fit to be at large.”
Source: In Darkest England, and the Way Out
“There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.”
“There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.”
“There are men that are birds, and their raiment is trembling feathers, for they show their souls to everyone and everything that is ungentle or untutored or evil or mockery is as a rude stone cast at them, and they suffer all day long, or as Paul remarks they are slain every moment.”
Source: Cipango's Hinder Door
“There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.”
Source: Don Quixote
“There are men too gentle to live among wolves.”
Source: Search: A Guide for Those Who Dare to Ask of Life Everything Good and Beautiful
“There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.”
“There are men who always confound the praise of goodness with the practice, and who believe themselves mild and moderate, charitable and faithful, because they have exerted their eloquence in commendation of mildness, fidelity, and other virtues.”
Source: The Rambler
“There are men who are happy without knowing it.”
“There are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've got to do it. They're prepared to sacrifice everything to satisfy their yearning.”
“There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting.”
“There are men who bloom in chaos. You call them heroes or villains, depending on which side wins the war, but until the battle call they are but normal men who long for action, who lust for the opportunity to throw off the routine of their normal lives like a cocoon and come into their own. They sense a destiny larger than themselves, but only when structures collapse around them do these men become warriors.”
“There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.”
“There are men who could neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of their duty; but this stern virtue is the growth of few soils: And in the main it will be found, that a power over a man's support is a power over his will.”
Source: The Federalist on the New Constitution
“There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.”
Source: The Will to Power - An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values - Vol II Books III and IV
“There are men who do exist who have no desire for women. That doesn't necessarily mean they have an interest in men, but scholars often interpret it to mean those men who don't have sexual knowledge.”
“There are men who fall in love with women they mistake for ideas.”
Source: Deer Here He Stares: A Neo-Noir Descent Into Obsession, Psychological Delusion, Digital Predators, and the Quiet Girl Who Watches the Watchers
“There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it.”
“There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as a means to an end.”
“There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.”
“There are men who practice Titiksha, and succeed in it. There are men who sleep on the banks of the Ganga in the midsummer sun of India, and in winter float in the waters of the Ganga for a whole day; they do not care. Men sit in the snow of the Himalayas, and do not care to wear any garment. What is heat? What is cold? Let things come and go, what is that to me, I am not the body.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness”
Source: Sermons: Seven Sermons: A Discourse, Concerning the Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers. The Snare Broken
“There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.”
“There are men who talk of women and others who talk to them. I don’t talk of them, I prefer talking to them”
“There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.”
“There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.”
Source: Letters and passages restored from the original manuscripts of the History of Clarissa. To which is subjoined, a collection of such of the moral and instructive sentiments ... contained in the History, as are presumed to be of general use and service ... Published for the sake of doing justice to the purchasers of the first two editions of that work
“There are men who wants only the woman; such are tagged, 'real men', and there are ones who want only their bodies; such are tagged, 'fake men', and there are others who wants neither the woman, nor the body; such are tagged, 'GAY MEN”
“There are men who would be afraid to commit themselves on the doctrine that castor oil is a laxative.”
“There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.”
“There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors. But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.”
“There are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.”
Source: The Best of Gerald Kersh
“There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.”
Source: Guesses at Truth
“There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.”
Source: The Journals