T Quotes
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“There are no whys in a person's life, and very few hows. In the end, in search of useful wisdom, you could only come back to the most hackneyed concepts, like kindness, forbearance, infinite patience. Solomon and Lincoln: This too shall pass. Damn right it will. Or Chekhov: Nothing passes. Equally true.”
“There are no wild animals until man makes them so.”
“There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There's no wild cows... You list all the fruit, and all the vegetables, and ask yourself, is there a wild counterpart to this? If there is, it's not as large, it's not as sweet, it's not as juicy, and it has way more seeds in it. We have systematically genetically modified all the foods, the vegetables and animals that we have eaten ever since we cultivated them. It's called artificial selection.”
“There are no windows within the dark house of depression through which to see others, only mirrors.”
Source: Swing Low: A Life
“there are no winners here. The farming businesses who rule these fields have got so big they are entirely reliant on one or two monopolistic buyers who screw them on prices and can bankrupt them at will. The money flows off the land to the banks that finance the debt on which it is all built, to the engineering companies selling the tractors and machinery, the synthetic fertilizer and pesticide corporations, the seed companies and the insurance agents. And yet, judged solely as productive businesses, focussing on efficiency and productivity (and ignoring fossil fuel input and ecological degradation), these new farmers are amazing - the best farmers that have ever lived. In the year 2000 the average American farmer produced twelve times as much per hour as his grandfather did in 1950. And this amazing efficiency means the end for most farmers. In the UK, the number of dairy farmers has more than halved from more than 30,000 in 1995 to about 12,000 today. In turn, the number of dairy cows in Britain has halved in the past twenty years. The amazing productivity of the remaining farmers and super-cows in demonstrated in the simple fact that milk production has remained more or less stable.”
Source: Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
“There are no winners in real games.”
“There are no winners in this election [2016]. I paid attention to it for about two months and then it just started to depress me. At least Hillary's [Clinton] a politician, but the fact that you've got a guy from a reality TV show! I have to say, out of everything I've ever watched in sports - the greatest comebacks ever - watching [Donald Trump] get the nomination for the Republican Party is the most astounding thing I've ever seen.”
“There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“THERE are no wise few; for in all men rages the folly of the Fall. Take your strongest, happiest, handsomest, best born, best bred, best instructed men on earth and give them special power for half an hour and because they are men they will begin to [perform] badly.”
“There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant damnation is gone, but the text remains. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“There are no woman composers, never have been and possibly never will be.”
“There are no women in these ground combat jobs.Women, of course, have been flying combat missions in fighter jets, attack helicopters, for more than 20 years, but beginning this week, those ground combat jobs in infantry, artillery and armor will be open to women. Officials don't expect a rush of women interested.”
“There are no women who do not like perfume, there are women who have not found their scent.”
“There are no words and there is no singing, but the music has a voice. It is an old voice and a deep voice, like the stump of a sweet cigar or a shoe with a hole. It is a voice that has lived and lives, with sorrow and shame, ecstasy and bliss, joy and pain, redemption and damnation. It is a voice with love and without love. I like the voice, and though I can't talk to it, I like the way it talks to me. It says it is all the same, Young Man. Take it and let it be.”
Source: A Million Little Pieces
“There are no words for how much I will miss her, but I try to kiss her so that she'll know. I try to kiss her to tell her the whole story of my love, the way I dreamed of her when she was dead, the way that every other girl seemed like a mirror that showed me her face. The way my skin ached for her. The way that kissing her made me feel like I was drowning and like I was being saved all at the same time. I hope she can taste all that, bittersweet, on my tongue.”
“There are no words for what I've done to us - to you. You will be my greatest masterpiece. I will build you with the strongest materials. Nothing will be rushed. Even if it takes a lifetime ... every little detail will be perfect.”
Source: Scarlet Stone
“There are no words in that fleeting moment between hope and the knowledge. There is no way to express how a heart can burst and break at the same time, how the sun can cut through the darkness but will case shadows everywhere.”
“There are no words more powerful than the truth.”
“There are no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognizes you for the first time and smiles.”
“There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.”
Source: African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-naturalist
“There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. There is a delight in the hardy life of the open... Apart from this, yet mingled with it, is the strong attraction of the silent places, of the large tropic moons, and the splendor of the new stars; where the wanderer sees the awful glory of sunrise and sunset in the wide waste spaces of the earth, unworn of man, and changed only by the slow change of the ages through time everlasting.”
“There are no words to describe the pain of burying a child, and specifically there is no word to label their new, lifelong status. If you lose a spouse, you are a widow; if you lose a parent, you are an orphan. But what about when you lose a child? How do you name something you cannot comprehend?”
“There are no words to express how sad and devastated I am. I have lost one of my dearest friends, and the industry has lost a giant.”
“There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.”
“There are no words to express the extraordinary strength and character of this breed of people we call American. They are the kind of men and women Tom Paine had in mind when he wrote, during the darkest days of the American Revolution, we have it in our power to begin the world over again.”
“There are no words, there's only the possibility of a moment even more incredible a little bit further down the road.”
“There are no working hours for leaders.”
“There are no worse oppressors than those who have been oppressed themselves. For they will justify all means of self-preservation, including the persecution and oppression of others to the extent of, and worse than that they had endured. This will weigh heavily on the souls of future generations.”
“There are no wrong answers, Jon, except for the one you just gave.”
“There are no wrong answers only different perspectives. With that being said, some perspectives are certainly better than others.”
Source: Better to be able to love than to be loveable
“There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.”
Source: The Fixer
“There are no wrong decisions ― only different ones.”
“There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.”
“There are no wrong notes.”
“There are no wrong notes; some are just more right than others.”
“There are no wrong roads to anywhere.”
Source: The phantom tollbooth
“There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.”
“There are no young people who know how to debate, who know how to vote, and who know how to persuade people to vote. And you have seen this in Paraguay and they are reaping the harvest now of fifty years of dictatorship.”
“There are no “old” movies-only movies you have already seen and ones you haven't.”
“There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.”
Source: My Heart is a Large Kingdom: Selected Letters of Margaret Fuller
“There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more divine than any I see I think that is enough to say about them.”
Source: My Heart is a Large Kingdom: Selected Letters of Margaret Fuller
“There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.”
“There are none among us who have not been, even for a moment, cruel to those whom we love most, as if unable, in that moment, to shoulder any longer the magnificent weight and burden, the responsibility, of that love.”
Source: The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness
“There are none of you, good doctors, could cope with my family anyway.”
Source: Nine princes in Amber. The guns of Avalon
“There are none so blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know.”
“There are none so deaf as those listening to ‘All by Myself’ over and over and over again.”
“There are none so ignorant but they may be taught. So, too, are there none so unfortunate in their understanding of the true and high relation of the sexes as not to be amenable to the right kind of instruction.”
Source: A Speech on the Principles of Social Freedom
“There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives”
“There are none so low but they have their triumphs. Small successes suffice for small souls.”