T Quotes
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“There is an Arabic proverb that says: She makes you feel like a loaf of freshly baked bread.”
“There is an Arabic proverb which says that "Peace comes from understanding, not agreement." Agreements are more easily broken than made; but understanding never. It is urgent, therefore, and in the interest of peace, that there be better understanding among nations. As people we are one, seeking the same goal. As nations, we lose each other down the different paths we choose to fulfill our national objectives. that is why we must understand each other better.”
“There is an Arabic writer who wrote philosophy and poetry and who brought all religions and all the world together.”
“There is an arc of spontaneous revolts, beautiful in their creative beginnings, which traverses boundaries and borders and creates new solidarities and imaginations but which under the whip of the forces of order and strategies to buy-off sectors of the revolt becomes fragmented.”
“There is an area of the mind that could be called unsane, beyond sanity, and yet not insane. Think of a circle with a fine split in it. At one end there's insanity. You go around the circle to sanity, and on the other end of the circle, close to insanity, but not insanity, is unsanity.”
“There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised nervous breakdown designed, with a bit of luck, to produce something worthwhile at the end.”
Source: Writing: A User Manual: A practical guide to planning, starting and finishing a novel
“There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.”
“There is an art in letting go.”
Source: Ode to the Sea
“There is an art in silence, and there is an eloquence in it too.”
Source: How I Raised Myself From Failure
“There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single attack exhaust itself; pain always makes single attacks, so that its bite may be more intense, more concentrated. And you, while its fangs are implanted and injecting their venom at one spot, do not forget to offer it another place where it can bite you, and so relieve the pain of the first.”
Source: This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950
“There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing.”
“There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.”
“There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.”
“There is an art to acting, and there are techniques that are acquired. You can be as emotional as you'd like, as a person, but figuring out ways that you can bring specific emotions at specific times and have them be true, and relating to someone as someone that they're not, is a lot.”
“There is an art to advanced consulting as well as a science; who you are is as important as what you do.”
“There is an art to developing people.”
Source: How to Hire and Keep Great People
“There is an art to grieving. To grieve well the loss of anyone or anything--a parent, a love, a child, an era, a home, a job--is a creative act. It takes attention and patience and courage. But many of us do not know how to grieve. We were never taught, and we don't see examples of full-bodied grieving around us. Our culture favors the fast-food model of mourning--get over it quick and get back to work; affix the bandage of "closure" and move on.”
“There is an art to love. Love, when done right, involves loving what another hates about themselves.”
Source: Naked
“There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.”
“There is an art to the business of making sandwiches which it is given to few ever to find the time to explore in depth. It is a simple task, but the opportunities for satisfaction are many and profound.”
Source: Mostly Harmless
“There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.”
“There is an art, a science to gaining power. There is a natural force or inclination in all of our beings to accumulate power. The problem that we come into is conditioning.”
“There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.”
“There is an association between the number of hours that the television is on at home and early childhood aggression.”
“There is an assumption if you are not religious, you have fallen, or you are further from God, or you are not doing the right thing. The judgment on me, with regard to my changes, is that he must be out all night partying or banging prostitutes and doing blow. This whole thing for me was absolutely the contrary. It was actually that God started to become very real to me, inside.”
“There is an assumption that if you're young and pretty, you will get all these opportunities that are way beyond your musical foundation.”
“There is an assumption, in attaching Puritan concepts such as 'successful' and 'unsuccessful' to the awful, final act of suicide, that those who 'fail' at killing themselves not only are weak, but incompetent, incapable even of getting their dying quite right.”
Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
“There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.”
Source: Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression
“There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.”
Source: Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression
“There is an atmosphere about the picture theatre that speaks of entertainment and relaxation. The charming surroundings, good music, and the fact that each visitor is determined to enjoy a few hours of holiday all exert an influence on the mind.”
“There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing at once.”
“There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it!”
“There is an attempt to tarnish Turkey by using press freedom when it is in fact measures taken against terrorism, i dispute this. Nowhere in Europe or in other countries is there a media that is as free as the press in Turkey.”
“There is an attitude in the culture that says that everybody is entitled to their opinion. You got to respect their opinion. No, you damn well haven't got to respect their opinion.”
“There is an attitude in the media that is dishonestly reinforcing negative stereotypes about Christians.”
“There is an attitude in the West which tends to assume that western norms are adequate and capable of universal application. Admittedly, there are some people who criticise the predominant western belief in growth economics, who worry about basing a national economy on debt, and who question the very notion that people and/or institutions may own land and other natural resources. Alas, there are all too few who question the western and now almost ubiquitous democratic structure which is based on the divisive binary vote”
Source: From Majority Rule to Inclusive Politics
“There is an attitude that we should be able to have everything. No, you shouldn't be able to have anything. I'd like a helicopter, but I can't afford a helicopter, so I don't buy one. People are buying stuff they can't afford on credit. I bought my Ford hybrid with cash.”
“There is an attraction and a charm inherent in the colossal that is not subject to ordinary theories of art ... The tower will be the tallest edifice ever raised by man. Will it therefore be imposing in its own way?”
“There is an audience for every play; it's just that sometimes it can't wait long enough to find it.”
“There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.”
“There is an aura of changelessness to sport. There is the flux of competition, but it occurs within the ordering confinement of clear rules.”
“There is an aura of victory that surrounds a person of goodwill.”
Source: Power of the presidency
“There is an authentic biology of hope. Belief and expectation - the key elements of hope - can block pain by releasing the brain's endorphins and enkephalins, mimicking the effects of morphine.”
Source: The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness
“There is an authoritarian strain in all of Leftism-- because the bigger the government, the more it controls other peoples' lives”
“There is an automatic assumption that negative is realistic and positive is unrealistic.”
Source: Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway
“There is an awesome God of justice who is ready to move in power if you move in obedience.”
“There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is.”
Source: Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)
“There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.”
“There is an awful lot of work to do to protect trans folks. We are still disproportionally poor and administratively and institutionally discriminated against at all levels of society.”
“There is an awful warmth about my heart like a load of immortality.”