T Quotes
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“There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.”
Source: A Searchlight on America
“There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these should never be confused in the mind of any man who has the slightest inlinkng of what culture is. For most of us it is essential that we should make a living... In the complications of modern life and with our increased accumulation of knowledge, it doubtless helps greatly to compress some years of experience into far fewer years by studying for a particular trade or profession in an institution.”
“There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things.”
“There are occasions, however, when even S holds a secret delight or two in the form of a pink, such as the one I found among the citations (or "cits" for short) for "sex kitten":
sex kitten
sex pot
There is no essential difference in these defs [definitions], but they're not the same. Some differentiation shd be made.
The pink was written by one of our former physical science editors infamous for commenting as brusquely as possible on things beyond his remit...
Another one of our science editors who was reviewing the batch later was apparently irritated by this note, and decided to comment on what he no doubt saw as needless meddling. His typewritten response to the note about "sex kitten" reads, "I will no doubt regret saying this but I think you have misconstrued the meaning of 'physical' science somewhere along here."
But a pink's a pink. Steve acted on it for the Tenth, adding the word "young" to the definition for "sex kitten.”
Source: Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
“There are occasions on which all apology is rudeness.”
“There are occasions on which it is noble to dare to stand alone. To be pious among infidels, to be disinterested in a time of general venality, to lead a life of virtue and reason in the midst of sensualists, is a proof of a mind intent on nobler things than the praise or blame of men, of a soul fixed in the contemplation of the highest good, and superiour to the tyranny of custom and example.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius
“There are occasions that I love to be fashionable and enjoy, you know? But the work day of a mother doesn't include a hair making team or any consideration of your shoe.”
“There are occasions when a moralising novelist can merely wring his hands and leave matters to take their course.”
Source: The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll
“There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.”
“There are occasions when I have moved boulders, but I'm reluctant to, especially ones that have been rooted in a place for many years.”
“There are occasions when I would rather feel like a fly than a spider.”
“There are occasions when I've had beef, but I generally tend to avoid it, as a nod towards my parents' culture.”
“There are occasions when I've pretended to be in a firefight, and then there are people who have really been in a firefight. Clearly it's absolutely ridiculous, and even disrespectful, to suggest that I understand what that is.”
“There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.”
Source: Comedies: Literally Translated Into English Prose, with Notes
“There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.”
Source: Homage to Catalonia
“There are occasions when the general belief of the people, even though it be groundless, works its effect as sure as truth itself.”
“There are occasions when the silence speaks, and speech is silent”
“There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification.”
Source: The Principles of Success in Literature
“There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water, or coming through the trees, emanating from the mosses, seeping through the under currents of the soil, but you have to be willing to wait and receive.”
“There are occult Esoteric Metaphysics (the secret and most confidential aspect of occult teachings) and Mystical Sciences practiced by mystical adepts, Living Grand Masters. This is the cosmological verdict of the Order of Astral and Terrestrial Hierarchy universal occult recognition. Exoteric is public occult teachings. An Adept uses the Technique of the Master. Hell is called After-Life-Hallucination. There are entities, spirits, demons, demi-gods, Archangels and other names for evil beings. A Guru is a spiritual Master.”
Source: Devil's Inception
“There are oceans of things to discover, to explore, to learn, to invent, to create in this world; especially with its modern possibilities offered. So, I don't understand when people complain they’re bored and have nothing to do.”
“There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.”
“There are of course economic advantages to having Turkey as a member of the European club. It's a developing country with a large, reasonably well-trained labor force at a time when the European birth rate is dropping at a catastrophic rate and Europe is graying. It offers opportunities for greater trade and investment to the benefit of both Turkey and Europe.”
“There are of course mornings when you wouldn't mind a lie in.”
“There are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance in the world but this is not essential and it ceases to be. I have no sense of difference in this respect because every human being comprises the combination form.”
Source: A primer for the gradual understanding of Gertrude Stein
“There are offences given and offences not given but taken.”
Source: The Complete Angler ; Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation; Being a Discourse on Rivers, Ponds, Fish and Fishing. With Lives and Notes
“There are official searchers, inquisitors. I have seen them in the performance of their function: they always arrive extremely tired from their journeys; they speak of a broken stairway which almost killed them; they talk with the librarian of galleries and stairs; sometimes they pick up the nearest volume and leaf through it, looking for infamous words. Obviously, no one expects to discover anything.”
Source: The Library of Babel
“There are often evolutionary parallels on the different worlds because creation tends to be economical.”
Source: Orion Arm
“There are often great lessons to be learned at the roots of stress, drama, and heartache. Don’t let the magnitude of the circumstance blind you to the value of the lesson.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“There are often lists of the great living male movie stars. How often do you see the name of Nicolas Cage? He should always be up there. He's daring and fearless in his choice of roles, and unafraid to crawl out on a limb, saw it off and remain suspended in air.”
Source: The Great Movies III
“There are often many people dying from thirst while many people are running for dear life away from the rain.”
“There are often multiple sources for some famous statements by King; as a professional speaker and minister he used some significant phrases with only slight variation many times in his
essays, books, and his speeches to different audiences.”
“There are often references to childhood, but they're rarely the focus of the [my] novels.”
“There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time.”
“There are often two conversations going on in a marriage. The one that you’re having and the one you’re not.”
Source: Life Drawing
“There are often two sets of goals in life: those that we establish, and those that really matter.”
“There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.”
“There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.”
“There are old pilots and there are bold pilots', goes the saying, 'there are no old bold pilots'. Hal never qualified as old. He'd survived his fuel tank blunder; his next mistake killed him.
In the years that followed, other pilot friends and acquaintances were killed in flying accidents. We were never ready; the news always shocked. Whether we learned from these shocks is doubtful; every pilot is certain that Death will never find him.”
“There are old riders and bold riders, but no old bold riders.”
“There are old swordsmen and bold swordsmen. But few old, bold swordsmen.”
“There are old traders and there are bold traders, but there are very few old, bold traders.”
“There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world.”
Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume
“There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.”
“There are olive trees outside and the imagined smell of their bark and silvered leaves brings with it the first unfurling of some new imperative she feels coiled up within her. Her whole body with a joyful shout know it is back in Italy.”
Source: The Memory Tree
“There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified.”
“There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to get beat, but only one way to win; get there first.”
“There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo sapiens. The zoologist now has to start making comparisons. Where else is nudity at a premium.”
“There are one hundred glow-stars on my bedroom ceiling. (...) Glow-stars are strange. They make the ceiling disappear.”
Source: The Beach
“There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.”