T Quotes
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“There is ... scarcely any species of writing of which we can tell what is its essence, and what are its constituents; every new genius produces some innovation, which, when invented and approved, subverts the rules which the practice of foregoing authors had established.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.
“There is ...a huge tacit conspiracy between the U.S. government, its agencies and its multinational corporations, on the one hand, and local business and military cliques in the Third World, on the other, to assume complete control of these countries and "develop" them on a joint venture basis. The military leaders of the Third World were carefully nurtured by the U.S. security establishment to serve as the "enforcers" of this joint venture partnership, and they have been duly supplied with machine guns and the latest data on methods of interrogation of subversives.”
“There is 3 key things for good photography: the camera,lighting and... Photoshop”
“There is a 'patrician arrogance' to James Taylor that accounts in part for his popularity while it at the same time explains the critical resistance to his work.”
“There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.”
“There is a - deep down, underneath all the work I do, I think there's a laziness in me.”
“There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.”
“There is a 100% assurance that what your friend’s enemy tells you about your friend is false. What your failure tells you about your passion is fake. Don’t give up!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“There is a 114% increase in happiness when receiving rewards via mobile marketing.”
“There is a 3rd point of view on the gun control issue - those who I refer to as THE VICTIMS - but they remain strangely silent.”
“There is a a cruel type of control… One disguised as love. They emotionally starve you so their breadcrumbs feel like a feast. When they do this, you eagerly await the next feeding… The hope you feel becomes the shackles that imprison you.”
“There is a abundant evidence that all social movements are to be explained by a variety of circumstances and that the ideological sources to which they appeal, and to which they seek to remain faithful, are only one of the factors determining the form they assume and their patterns of thought and action.”
Source: Main Currents Of Marxism: The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown
“There is a background to every drop of blood spilled and every life lost. Only, in some such cases history explains the outcome more overtly than in others.”
Source: Once Upon a Lockdown
“There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.”
“There is a balance in between where you can still make art, but it does not have to be insular.”
“There is a balance, a kind of standoff between the time continuum and the human entity, our frail bundle of soma and psyche. We eventually succumb to time, it's true, but time depends on us. We carry it in our muscles and genes, pass it on to the next set of time-factoring creatures, our brown-eyed daughters and jug-eared sons, or how would the world keep going. Never mind the time theorists, the cesium devices that measure the life and death of the smallest silvery trillionth of a second.... We were the only crucial clocks, our minds and bodies, way stations for the distribution of time.”
Source: Underworld: Picador Classic
“There is a balm in Gilead
to make the wounded whole".”
“There is a ban on Indian films in Pakistan, so that's half of our market gone.”
Source: Satyajit Ray: Interviews
“There is a banking adage that if it's growing like a weed, it's a good chance that it's a weed.”
“There is a baptism that belongs to Jesus. It is in His supreme control. No angel or man can bestow it. It comes from Him alone. He it is which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. So the individual who wants the Holy Spirit must come into definite, conscious contact with Jesus Christ Himself.”
“There is a barbarism in the American soul, and we must protect some of it by law. To root it out is to endanger our lives on the one hand, and our liberty on the other.”
“There is a barren land inside of you sprout it because that is where God resides within you.”
Source: The Inward Journey
“There is a basic law that like attracts like. Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. Conversely, if a person habitually thinks optimistically and hopefully, his positive thinking sets in motion creative forces - and success instead of eluding him flows toward him.”
“There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy.”
“There is a basic problem that a lot of Western monks and nuns become ordained without really understanding or appreciating what the monastic life is all about.”
“There is a basic truth which man can know and which can transform his life if he will become the embodiment of it.”
Source: Darshan: the vision of light
“There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.”
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
“There is a basket of fresh bread on your head, yet you go door to door asking for crusts.”
“There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.”
“There is a battle to be waged over what kind of country we are going to leave our children and grandchildren and that battle is happening now in Washington, not two years from now.”
“There is a beast in every man who breathes, a beast that is born in him and lives within him all his life, in a constant struggle for dominance over what he would prefer to think of as his "better self." I say that with complete conviction because I have had to come to terms with my own personal beast, and it now lies dormant inside me; dormant, but far from dead. It stirs, occasionally, reminding me of its presence, of its poison”
Source: The Singing Sword
“There is a beast in man that should be exercised, not exorcised.”
“There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with the best, most generous, most sympathetic understanding of human reality.”
“There is a beautiful balance that comes with embracing femininity.”
Source: Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future
“There is a beautiful consistency about Buzzard; he is a porcupine among men, with his quills always flared. If he won a new car with a raffle ticket bought in his name by some momentary girlfriend, he would recognize it at once as a trick to con him out of a license fee. He would denounce the girl as a hired slut, beat up the raffle sponsor, and trade off the car for five hundred Seconals and a gold-handled cattle prod.”
Source: Hell's Angels
“There is a beautiful custom in India: On her first Makar Sakranti after marriage, the bride pretends to awaken her in-laws who pretend to be deep asleep. Similar thing happens between the Guru and seekers. God inside seekers is pretending to be deep asleep. God inside Guru pretends to awaken them. It's all a divine play.”
“There is a beautiful cynicism required to fully understand politics.”
“There is a beautiful expression in Nicaragua: "struggle is the highest form of song". I love that. We are in the struggle. It's like a river. Once you step into it you become the river. It's not, you go out and click on a couple of charities that you believe in, march in the Women's March, and you're done. Struggle becomes your life, transforming a paradigm that is based on domination into a paradigm of co-operation. Fighting for the liberation of women, of people of color, of indigenous people, of lgbtq communities. Fighting to protect immigrants and assuring the safety of refugees.”
“There is a beautiful expression of this in the Chandogya Upanishad: 'There is this City of Brahman, (that is the body), and in this city there is a shrine, and in that shrine there is a small lotus, and in that lotus there is a small space, (akasa). Now what exists within that small space, that is to be sought, that is to be understood.' This is the great discovery of the Upanishads, this inner shrine, this guha, or cave of the heart, where the inner meaning of life, of all human existence, is to be found.”
“There is a beautiful flow to the study of Zen. If it is not making you happier, then you are not practicing correctly.”
“There is a beautiful paradox between laughter and tears. I wish that you’ll laugh until your tears flood your face. All because you're truly happy.”
“There is a beautiful rainbow awaiting your arrival down the road, with all the celebration and glamour. Get ready.”
“There is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean”
“There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are.”
Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
“There is a beautiful village in every country.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“There is a beauty bestowed in some degree on all God's saints who pray much which is of the same nature and is the most precious of all answers to prayer. Character flows from the well-spring of prayer.”
“There is a beauty in death -- the beauty of finality, the beauty of completion. For nothing is truly complete until the day it is at last destroyed.”
“There is a beauty in difference that only understanding reveals.”
“There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature, and exquisite form in a molecule. Attempts to place different disciplines in different camps are revealed as artificial in the face of the unity of knowledge. All literate men are sustained by the philosopher, the historian, the political analyst, the economist, the scientist, the poet, the artisan and the musician.”
“There is a beauty in every hell!”