T Quotes
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“There is nothing more dangerous than a person with only one right answer.”
“There is nothing more dangerous than a philosopher who wants to change the world”
“There is nothing more dangerous than a shallow thinking compassionate person”
“There is nothing more dangerous than a woman who owns who she is and apologizes to no one.”
Source: Kingdom of the Cursed
“There is nothing more dangerous than a woman with a shotgun. Because you don't know when it's going to go off...and neither does she.”
“There is nothing more dangerous than an insidious enemy, but there is nothing more poisonous than a feigned friend.”
“There is nothing more dangerous than idleness...In labor there is salvation; in labor there is safety.”
“There is nothing more dangerous than kindness.”
Source: Poisoned
“There is nothing more dangerous than security.”
“There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.”
“There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that that have nothing to lose. People who have stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.”
“There is nothing more dangerous than to leap a chasm in two jumps.”
“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
“There is nothing more deceptive, more grandeur, than the delusion of a single man.”
“There is nothing more delicate than love in existence. Love is the most precious thing. Love is the opening of the heart. Love is the flowering of the heart. And the moment that the heart opens like a flower the whole existence becomes available to it. Then it can sway and dance with the wind, with the rain and with the sun. Suddenly all barriers disappear, and as you open up barriers evaporate.
Opening up to existence like a flower means coming out of imprisonment. Otherwise we are living in a way closed to everything.
The whole life of a closed person is fear-oriented. He is afraid to open to life. He is afraid to be open and vulnerable, because you may be hurt, cheated and deceived. It may be better to keep the windows and doors of the heart closed. But a closed life is bound to be miserable.
Just as the closed life is fear-oriented, the open life is love-oriented. It means to trust existence. And through trusting existence, you can allow yourself to live and dance.”
Source: The Way of the Heart
“There is nothing more delightful than to scoop up a wild joey in your arms and smell the wind and eucalyptus in the coats of the gentle kangaroo or the deep-earth smell of tiny wallabies. It is wonderful to see the trust in their eyes and the gradual realization that you mean them no harm.”
“There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.”
Source: Memoirs of Hecate County
“There is nothing more depressing than toast that no one eats.”
“There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.”
“There is nothing more difficult for me to correct than my intentions, for it continually attempts to change.”
“There is nothing more difficult than simplicity, and therefore, nothing more refined.”
“There is nothing more difficult than tactical maneuvering. The difficult consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain. Thus, to take a long and circuitous route after enticing the enemy out of the way, and though starting after him to contrive to reach the goal before him, shows knowledge of the artifice of deviation.”
Source: Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text
“There is nothing more difficult than talking about music.”
“There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.”
“There is nothing more difficult to measure than the value of visible emotion.”
Source: Persian Pictures: From the Mountains to the Sea
“There is nothing more difficult to outgrow than anxieties that have become useful to us, whether as explanations for a life that never quite finds its true force or direction, or as fuel for ambition, or as a kind of reflexive secular religion that, paradoxically, unites us with others in a shared sense of complete isolation: you feel at home in the world only by never feeling at home in the world.”
“There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things..... Whenever his enemies have occasion to attack the innovator they do so with the passion of partisans, while the others defend him sluggishly so that the innovator and his party alike are vulnerable.”
“There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.”
Source: The Prince
“There is nothing more dignified than a corpse.”
“There is nothing more disgraceful than a vain man."
"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.”
Source: The Blood of Whisperers
“There is nothing more distressing ... than the hard, scoffing spirit which treats the allegation of dishonesty in a public man as a cause for laughter. Such laughter is worse than the crackling of thorns under a pot, for it denotes not merely the vacant mind, but the heart in which high emotions have been choked before they could grow to fruition.”
“There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.”
Source: The Rush for Second Place: Essays and Occasional Writings
“There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder.”
“There is nothing more dreadful than having to go walking on one’s own on Monday.”
Source: Gehen
“There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.”
“There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.”
“There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant.”
“There is nothing more dreadful to an author than neglect; compared with which reproach, hatred, and opposition are names of happiness; yet this worst, this meanest fate, every one who dares to write has reason to fear.”
Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752
“There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through the ears, as it were, of a skeptic.”
Source: Phoebe, Junior0: A Last Chronicle of Carlingford : in Two Volumes
“There is nothing more energizing than inhaling the tang of wilderness, loamy after rain, pungent with the richness of earth shuddering with life, or taking in the brisk dry cleanness of winter.”
Source: The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom From a Remarkable Herd of Elephants
“There is nothing more entertaining than to have a frank talk with yourself. Few do it-frankly. Educating yourself is getting acquainted with yourself.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“There is nothing more entertaining then leaving someone speechless. Yet, there is nothing sadder than realizing that person was incapable of retaining half of what you said, and will repeat the story all wrong to someone else.”
“There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.”
Source: Lord Jim
“There is nothing more essential to getting a project off the ground than the underestimate.”
“There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes”
“There is nothing more exciting than playing in a building with the college vibe. It's something that I wanted to be a part of. This doesn't exist anywhere else in the league. It's a great tool to help us keep great players and bring in incredible players.”
“There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of extremism and intolerance, and be receptive to any proselytizing ideology, however absurd and vicious, which promises vast action.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“There is nothing more fascinating than the fusion between power and mystery in our great, little treasure: the human brain.”
“There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.”
“There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste.
[Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]”