T Quotes
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“The aim of the people is more honest than that of the nobility, the latter desiring to oppress, and the former merely to avoid oppression.”
Source: The Prince
“The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In instructing, be brief in what you say in order that your readers may grasp it quickly and retain it faithfully. Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full. Fiction invented in order to please should remain close to reality.”
“The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate”
“The aim of the popularization of economic studies is not to make every man an economist. The idea is to equip the citizen for his civic functions in community life.”
Source: Bureaucracy
“The aim of the research is to determine what groups can be drawn up as a result of regular association of place-names. A further step is to consider whether such groups have a geographical significance. This was accepted by Palmer as a reasonable hypothesis; Wilson argued the case for it by considering possible ways in which information to be recorded on the tablets was received by the scribes. Underlying this work is the assumption that groupings may have a geographical basis, but it has still to be shown that this is a reasonable assumption.”
Source: Place-Names in the Knossos Tablets Identification and Location
“The aim of the scholarly editor is not to produce the the easiest text for the reader, but to get as near as he can to the text of the author.”
“The aim of the taper is to minimise accumulated fatigue and fill up the fuel stores to arrive at the start line fresh.”
Source: Triathlon: Winning at 70.3: How To Dominate The Middle Distance
“The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.”
“The aim of therapy is not to help people transition through a sex change, and nor is it to try to persuade them against having a sex change. Neither of these aims is appropriate as they would indicate an overt or hidden agenda on the part of the therapist, who would not be in a position to help the patient, as their own political, moral or religious ideals would interfere with their ability to adopt an essentially impartial position.”
Source: TRANS: Exploring Gender Identity and Gender Dysphoria
“The aim of this book is not to make atheism a popular belief or even to overcome its invisibility. My object is not utopian. It is merely to provide good reasons for being an atheist. … My object is to show that atheism is a rational position and that belief in God is not. I am quite aware that atheistic beliefs are not always based on reason. My claim is that they should be.”
“The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one system of thought and action that will (they believe) cover everything; and then they try to impose that on all thinking people.”
Source: Man's Unconquerable Mind
“The aim of torture is to destroy a person as a human being, to destroy their identity and soul. It is more evil than murder.”
“The aim of torture is to destroy a person as a human being, to destroy their identity and soul. It is more evil than murder... Today we know that survivors of torture can be helped to regain their health and strength, and in helping them we take the weapon from their torturers. They sought the destruction of other human beings. We have proved that they have not succeeded.”
“The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom.”
Source: Collected Works
“The aim of untold millions is to be free to do exactly as they choose and for someone else to pay when things go wrong.”
Source: Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass
“The aim of Wikileaks is to achieve just reform around the world and do it through the mechanism of transparency.”
“The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.”
“The aim of your detractors are to derail you from your assignment (call), don't give them room. Keep your calm and focus; the victory may delay, but you shall make it happen through the grace of God.”
Source: THE HONEYMOON: A SACRED AND UNFORGETTABLE SAVOUR OF A BLISSFUL MARITAL JOURNEY
“The aim of Zen training is to attain the state of consciousness which occurs when the individual ego is emptied of itself and becomes identified with the infinite reality of all things.”
“The aim proposed here for any organization is for everybody to gain - stockholders, employees, suppliers, customers, community, the environment - over the long term.”
“The aim should be to work on the method of management.”
“The aim was simple: to deprive Karpov of his favourite occupation - standing at the board, staring straight at his opponent. While I was wearing these glasses, all he could admire was his own reflection.”
“The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!”
Source: The Works of Robert Browning
“The aims of anarchists and true communists are identical.”
“The aims of life are the best defense against death.”
Source: The Drowned and the Saved
“The aims of pure basic science, unlike those of applied science, are neither fast-flowing nor pragmatic. The quick harvest of applied science is the useable process, the medicine, the machine. The shy fruit of pure science is understanding.”
“The aims of safety-ism were noble. They saw that young people were experiencing greater amounts of anxiety, stress, and depression than previous generations and sought to remedy their angst by protecting them from anything that could potentially harm or upset them.
But this is not how the human mind works. The human mind is not fragile—it does not need to be protected and cushioned from the hard surfaces of reality like a vase or piece of fine china. The human mind is antifragile—that is, it gains from discomfort and strain. That means to grow stronger, the human mind needs to regularly be confronted with difficult and upsetting experiences to develop stability and serenity for itself.”
“The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.”
“The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim – for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives – is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal. Thus throughout history a struggle which is the same in its main outlines recurs over and over again. For long periods the High seem to be securely in power, but sooner or later there always comes a moment when they lose either their belief in themselves or their capacity to govern efficiently, or both. They are then overthrown by the Middle, who enlist the Low on their side by pretending to them that they are fighting for liberty and justice. As soon as they have reached their objective, the Middle thrust the Low back into their old position of servitude, and themselves become the High. Presently a new Middle group splits off from one of the other groups, or from both of them, and the struggle begins over again. Of the three groups, only the Low are never even temporarily successful in achieving their aims. It would be an exaggeration to say that throughout history there has been no progress of a material kind. Even today, in a period of decline, the average human being is physically better off than he was a few centuries ago. But no advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimetre nearer. From the point of view of the Low, no historic change has ever meant much more than a change in the name of their masters.”
Source: 1984
“The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim-for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives -is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal.”
Source: The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four
“The Air Age faces mankind with a sharp choice - the choice between Winged Peace or Winged Death. It''s up to you.”
“The air and the earth interpenetrated in the warm gusts of spring; the soil was full of sunlight, and the sunlight full of red dust. The air one breathed was saturated with earthy smells, and the grass under foot had a reflection of the blue sky in it.”
Source: Death Comes for the Archbishop
“The air and the sky seem to have been freshly washed and polished, and the people too.”
Source: Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes
“The air around her was cool lately, as if she were creating a vacuum with her unhappiness.”
Source: First Frost
“The air around him almost seemed to glimmer, gold dust in the dark. Moonlight made him more beautiful, yes, but in the same way that darkness emphasized a flame. He didn't belong in it; Bastian Arceneaux was antithetical to night.”
Source: The Foxglove King
“The air around me, I realized suddenly, was full of voices. Every person who was on the phone in the airport. Every TV newscaster, every traffic report, every security guard with a walkie-talkie. What were these waves taking from us? I sat in front of a mike, sending my voice out across the country five hours a day—what were they taking from me?”
Source: Ghost Radio
“The air around you is filled with floating atoms, sliding down the Earth's spacetime curve. Atoms first assembled in the cores of long-dead stars. Atoms within you, everywhere, disintegrating in radioactive decays. Beneath your feet, the floor - whose electrons refuse to let yours pass, thus making you able to stand and walk and run. Earth, your planet, a lump of matter made out of the three quantum fields known to mankind, held together by gravity, the so-called fourth force (even though it isn't a force), floating within and through spacetime.”
Source: The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time, and Beyond
“The air at very high altitude is different from the air at sea level that the sea level adapted human is accustomed to breathing.”
“The air battle is not necessarily won at the time of the battle. The winner may have been determined by the amount of time, energy, thought and training an individual has previously accomplished in an effort to increase his ability as a fighter pilot.”
“The air between them was electric, the scent of his aftershave was intoxicating and she could feel the testosterone bouncing off him. She could immediately tell he was a powerful man.”
Source: Sex with the CEO
“The air between us crackles, as it does when you speak of your beloved dead. But it’s hard to know what to say next.”
Source: Writers & Lovers
“The air between us feels alive, and the grin that I've been wearing since I spotted her deepens as my cock gets hard at the thought that nothing stands between us now. I could pull her into my arms, slide my hands inside her shirt to feel her soft silky skin while I bury my nose in her neck and whisper how happy I am to see her again.”
Source: Ground Zero
“The air brightened, the running shadow patches were now the obverse, and it seemed to him that the fact that the day was clearing was another cunning stroke on the part of the foe, the fresh battle toward which he was carrying ancient wounds.”
Source: The Sound and the Fury (Third International Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)
“The air came laden with the fragrance it caught upon its way, and the bees, upborne upon its scented breath, hummed forth their drowsy satisfaction as they floated by.”
Source: The Old Curiosity Shop: And Reprinted Pieces
“The air carries aloft its streams faint whispers of doom and devilry.”
“The air conditioning in Lamborghinis used to be an asthmatic sitting in the dashboard blowing at you through a straw.”
“The Air Corps . . . does not, at this time, feel justified in obligating . . . funds for basic jet propulsion research and experimentation.”
“The air crackled with anticipation, like the charged atmosphere before a thunderstorm. I could feel the presence of something inevitable, a force both relentless and just, moving towards me with the inevitability of the tide. Yet, amid the tension, there was a strange sense of relief, as if the looming confrontation, once faced, would finally release me from the chains of uncertainty.
I walked through the dimly lit streets, each step a drumbeat in the symphony of fate, my mind a whirl of memories and emotions. Faces from the past flickered in my thoughts, spectral reminders of choices made and paths taken. This journey to justice was not just about the past; it was about claiming the future, about finding peace in truth, no matter how harsh.
As the first drops of rain began to fall, I pulled my coat tighter around me, the cool touch of water mingling with the warmth of resolve. The city lights blurred in the downpour, casting a soft, ethereal glow that seemed to blur the lines between the real and the imagined. I knew that soon, the storm would break, and with it, the truth would be laid bare.”
“The air crackled with the presage of lightning, and a heavy mist descended around them.”
Source: The Bone House: A Bright Empires Novel, Book 2
“The air delighted her nose—fresher and crisper compared to the air in the grimy ghetto, even better than in the city. She rubbed her chest where the dart had hit. Her heart beat powerfully inside her—fueled by fear. It felt as if it would burst, and she mentally tried to slow it down. Strange, she thought, these may be some of its last beats in her chest. Was that why it beat so fiercely?”
Source: Donor 23