T Quotes
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“There is no such thing as ‘primitive’ people, except as created by other people’s primitivism. Primitivism is any cultural framework that typifies a set of others as incarnating an archaic condition of humanity radically different from the condition of the stereotypers themselves.”
“There is no such thing as privacy between a deity and his worshipper. There are no secrets, no glossed-over failures. Only promises kept and abandoned, sins committed and imagined, and raw emotion. How many of us are ready to have our lives judged? What would happen if we were found wanting?”
Source: Magic Burns
“There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.”
“There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people.”
“There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there are thoughts or deeds that are wicked, and in the worst of us, at least some virtue. An adversary is not one who does loathsome acts for their own sake. He always has a reason that to him is justification. My cat eats mice. Does that make him bad? I don't think so, and the cat doesn't think so, but I would bet the mice have a different opinion.”
Source: Wizard's First Rule
“There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.”
“There is no such thing as pure, unalloyed pleasure; some bitter ever mingles with the sweet.”
“There is no such thing as quality time without quantity time. The idea that you could spend one hour a night with your children and have the same effect on them as a stay at home parent spending 12‐16 hours a day with them is pure nonsense.
The same logic works for your marriage.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.”
“There is no such thing as randomness. No one who could detect every force operating on a pair of dice would ever play dice games, because there would never be any doubt about the outcome. The randomness, such as it is, applies to our ignorance of the possible outcomes. It doesn’t apply to the outcomes themselves. They are 100% determined and are not random in the slightest. Scientists have become so confused by this that they now imagine that things really do happen randomly, i.e. for no reason at all.”
Source: God Is Mathematics: The Proofs of the Eternal Existence of Mathematics
“There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion"--I forget where.”
Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author
“There is no such thing as real taste or real smell or even real sight, because there is no true definition of ‘real.’ There is only information, viewed subjectively, which is allowed by consciousness—human or AI. In the end, all we have is math.”
“There is no such thing as realistic dialogue. If you [simply recorded] the real conversation of any people and played it back from the stage, it would be impossible to listen to. It would be redundant . . . . The good dialogue writer is the one who can give you the impression of real speech.”
“There is no such thing as reality. Reality is what you make it.”
“There is no such thing as reconstituted lemon juice, only reconstituted taste buds.”
“There is no such thing as recreational drug use.”
“There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.”
“There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.”
Source: Epigrams
“There is no such thing as safe sex, since no one can create a condom for the soul.”
“There is no such thing as science fiction, there is only science eventuality.”
“There is no such thing as second place. Either you're first or you're nothing.”
“There is no such thing as security. There never has been.”
Source: the female eunuch
“There is no such thing as self-awareness. Imagine thought retreating into itself to think about itself. It would be easier to imagine a revolver bullet extracting itself from its victim's wound and re-entering the barrel. Yes, it would be easier to imagine the universe's explosion suddenly halting its outflow of energy, so that the galaxies congeal once more, and the millions of light-years of their flight through space are immediately annulled.”
Source: The Book of Flights
“There is no such thing as selfless love because every single form of love is inherently selfish.”
Source: Inspirational Sayings: Get Super Motivated and Achieve Amazing Success through Inspirational Sayings!
“There is no such thing as selflessness. There are only fair and unfair selfishness.”
“There is no such thing as senility when it comes to envy, greed laziness, wrath and pride. It's her destructive character from childhood." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You”
“There is no such thing as separation of church and state. It is merely a figment of the imagination of infidels.”
“There is no such thing as several Romanias, but only politicians who divide Romania depending on the interests of their parties and their clout.”
“There is no such thing as sleep deprivation, there is only caffeine deficiency.”
“There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves. All birth takes place in a moment.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“There is no such thing as society, there is a living tapestry of men and women and the beauty of that tapestry, and the quality of our lives, will depend upon how much each of us is prepared to take responsibility for ourselves and to turn round and help, by our own efforts, those who are unfortunate. There's no such thing as entitlement unless someone has first met an obligation”
“There is no such thing as society.”
“There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.”
“There is no such thing as solitude, nor anything that can be said to be alone and by itself but God, who is His own circle, and can subsist by Himself.”
Source: Pseudodoxia epidemica, books V-VII. Religio medici. The garden of Cyprus
“There is no such thing as something for nothing. We live in an ordered universe with checks and balances. The law is value earned is according to value provided.”
Source: The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic
“There is no such thing as Something for nothing.”
Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition
“There is no such thing as spiritual achievement; it is simply an awareness intrinsic to all of life.”
“There is no such thing as sportsmanship.”
“There is no such thing as standing still; you either move forward or regress.”
“There is no such thing as starting where Cezanne left off. You have to start where he started... at the beginning.”
“There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals.”
“There is no such thing as stress; only people thinking stressful thoughts.”
“There is no such thing as Success....That a thing is successful merely means that it is; a millionaire is successful in being a millionaire and a donkey in being a donkey.”
“There is no such thing as Superwoman. You cant have everything if you do everything.”
“There is no such thing as taking too much time, because your soul is in that picture.”
“There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.”
“There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.”
“There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way.”
“There is no such thing as the old age of the wise.”
“There is no such thing as the perfect picture. That's the challenge of photography. I was always striving for perfection, even though I knew I could never achieve it. But it kept me reaching for something.”