T Quotes
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“There is nothing more savage than modern civilization.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“There is nothing more seductive — and dangerous — than being listened to.”
Source: The Verificationist: A Novel
“There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.”
“There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.”
“There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.”
Source: The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
“There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.”
Source: Tibullus
“There is nothing more soothing than gazing at the stars on a clear windy night. I feel the breeze caress my face and the tea warm my soul. I marvel at the beauty and mystery of these distant glowing tiny dots, and wonder what secrets they hold.”
“There is nothing more soul-satisfying than the first succulent bite into the juicy frankfurter.”
“There is nothing more startling in human relations that the strong emotion of weak people.”
“There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.”
Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes
“There is nothing more stimulating to the senses than that of a female body freshly emerged from a steaming hot shower, bathed in oils and feminine scents... well nothing except maybe a freshly opened package of chocolate double-stuffed Oreos.”
“There is nothing more tedious than a constant round of gaiety.”
“There is nothing more terrible than a class of barbaric slaves who have learned to regarded their existence as an injustice, and now prepare to avenge, not only themselves, but all generations.”
Source: The Birth of Tragedy
“There is nothing more terrible, I learned, than having to face the objects of a dead man. Things are inert: that have meaning only in function of the life that makes use of them. When that life ends, the things change, even though they remain the same. […] they say something to us, standing there not as objects but as remnants of thought, of consciousness, emblems of the solitude in which a man comes to make decisions about himself.”
“There is nothing more terrifying than lying in a hospital bed and knowing your mom can't fix it. That she can't make it better. That no amount of bargaining with any doctor will carry you -- the both of you -- to safety.
(Daphne Bell)”
Source: Expiration Dates
“There is nothing more terrifying than realizing that the one who knows you best loves you least, pities you even.”
Source: Hidden Bodies
“There is nothing more terrifying than the absoluteness of one who believes he's right.”
“There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden. There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage”
“There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.”
Source: Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
“There is nothing more thrilling than arriving in a new place on your own and feeling the sense of possibility and excitement that brings with it.”
“There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.”
Source: Table talk
“There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.”
Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels
“There is nothing more to chasing after wealth than the wastage of a person’s noble life for that which has no value. Instead he could have earned a high rank (in Paradise) and everlasting bliss, but he lost this due to his craving after provision – which had already been assured to him and allotted to him, and it was not possible for anything to come to him except what was decreed for him – then on top of this he does not benefit from that, but rather abandons it and leaves it for someone else.
He departs from that and leaves it behind so that he will be the one held accountable for it, yet someone else benefits from it. So in reality he is only gathering it, yet someone
else benefits from it. So in reality he is only gathering it for someone who will not praise him for that, whilst he himself goes on to One who will not excuse him for that – this itself would indeed be enough to show the blameworthiness of this craving.”
“There is nothing more to controlling demons than to do good and fear nothing.”
“There is nothing more to reveal. Our lives lie bare and exposed.”
“There is nothing more touching to me then a family picture where everyone is trying to look his or her best, but you can see what a mess they all really are.”
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
“There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it.”
“There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course.”
Source: The Normal Christian Life
“There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.”
Source: The Measure of a Man
“There is nothing more tragicomic than when people fight and kill each other while the greatest enemy of mankind is death!”
“There is nothing more trite than a period room imposed on a contemporary setting.”
“There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
“There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.”
Source: North America
“There is nothing more ugly than an orthodoxy without understanding or compassion.”
“There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion!”
“There is nothing more uncomfortable than a son being cruel to his mother. It is the epitome of unfairness, and rarely did these sons own a mirror that revealed how irrationally brutal their treatment was.”
Source: A Happy Ghost
“There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.”
“There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.”
“There is nothing more unhloy than holiness stained.”
Source: Requiem Infernal
“There is nothing more unholy than holiness stained.”
Source: Requiem Infernal
“There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.”
Source: Essays on Men and Manners
“There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.”
Source: Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter
“There is nothing more valuable than the value you place on yourself”.”
“There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.”
Source: The Post-office Girl
“There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute.”
Source: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean
“There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue; my heart aches from the consciousness that I am working for money, and money is the centre of all I do.”
“There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue.”
“There is nothing more vulnerable than creativity. . . It's not about winning, it's not about losing, it's about showing up and being seen.”
“There is nothing more wonderful in life than seeing life as an adventure. We should all try things that we're afraid of. We should all look very clearly into the unknown and enjoy it. Because when you come in contact with things that you really don't know, that's when you're truly living.”
“There is nothing more wonderful than a book. It may be a message to us from the dead, from human souls we never saw who lived perhaps thousands of miles away, and yet these little sheets of paper speak to us, arouse us, teach us, open our hearts and in turn open their hearts to us like brothers. Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, philosophy lame.”