T Quotes
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“There is nothing that has caused me to meditate more on Plato's secrecy and sphinx-like nature, than the happily preserved petit fait that under the pillow of his death-bed there was found no 'Bible,' nor anything Egyptian, Pythagorean, or Platonic - but a book of Aristophanes. How could even Plato have endured life - a Greek life which he repudiated - without an Aristophanes!”
Source: BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past
“There is nothing that I should more fear, nor any kind of death that might threaten me, which would not be more supportable for me than to live without you and be separated by a great distance.
I would rather die or be eaten by fish in the sea or devored on land by cannibals than to consume myself in perpetual mourning and unceasing sorrow awaiting not my husband but his letters.”
Source: Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire from Columbus to Magellan
“There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.”
“There is nothing that I so greatly admire as purposefulness. I have an enormous respect for people who know exactly what they are doing and where they are going. Such people are compact and integrated. They have clear edges. They give an impression of invulnerability and balance, and I wish I were one of them.”
Source: The forest years: containing in one volume We took to the woods [and] My neck of the woods
“There is nothing that I would do ever to break my mother's heart.”
“There is nothing that I would not do for you."
She regarded him with a devilish grin. "I'm gonna remind you of that when I make you wash dishes at the new restaurant."
Naveen frowned. "Did I say there was nothing I wouldn't do?"
"That's right," Tiana said. "And it's too late to take it back."
Then she claimed his lips in a sweet, tender kiss.
"I can't wait to see that new restaurant in action. Your palace," Naveen said when they broke apart.
Tiana grinned slowly. "Tiana's Palace---I like the sound of that.”
Source: Almost There
“There is nothing that I'd love to do more than negotiate with Palestinians. This is my desire. This is my dream. This is my mission.”
“There is nothing that in the end, cannot be forgiven.”
“There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.”
“There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth.”
“There is nothing that is happening because of something you vibrated a long time ago or in a past life. It is not about what you were born into. It is only about what you are, right now, in this red hot fresh moment emitting.”
“There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.”
“There is nothing that is more beautiful than everything else in the world.”
Source: The Ghost's Child
“There is nothing that is more dangerous to your own salvation, more unworthy of God and more harmful to your own happiness, than that you should be content to remain as you are.”
“There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.”
“There is nothing that is not beautiful about bread. The way it grows, from tiny grains, from bowls on the counter, from yeast blooming in a measuring cup like swampy islands. The way it fills a room, a house, a building, with its inimitable smells, submits to a firmly applied fist and contracts, swells again; the way it stretches and expands upon kneading, the warm, supple feel of it against skin. The sight of a warm roll on a table, the taste-sweet, sour, yeasty on the tongue.”
Source: The Weird Sisters
“There is nothing that is quite so reassuring in an awkward situation as knowing that one is well turned-out, and while I hope I am not so fainthearted as to require such stratagems, I am not so foolish as to overlook their value.”
Source: The Cecelia and Kate Novels: Sorcery & Cecelia, The Grand Tour, and The Mislaid Magician
“There is nothing that is truly free nor democratic enough. Make no mistake, the internet did not come to save the world.”
“There is nothing that isn't perfect, the only reason we don't see that perfection constantly is because we lack humility.”
“There is nothing that isn't true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.”
“There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Edwards, A.M.
“There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.”
Source: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 1 for tablets
“There is nothing that love cannot achieve, and there is nothing that love cannot sacrifice.”
Source: The Narrow Lane
“There is nothing that makes a man grow beyond his stature than a woman telling him she loves him. and however much she might have lied to him, there will always be a part of him that is grateful to her for this, and that will harbour some love for her.”
“There is nothing that makes a man more self-satisfied than a poor memory.”
“There is nothing that makes humans intrinsically- morally or genetically- superior to animals.”
Source: Human Nature: How to be a Better Animal
“There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.”
“There is nothing that makes me happier than making a child smile.”
Source: Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“There is nothing that makes me more uncomfortable , than friends talking behind my back.”
“There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evildoer.”
“There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.”
“There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown.”
Source: Crowds and power: Masse und Macht]
“There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.”
Source: Crowds and power: Masse und Macht]
“There is nothing that means more to a woman than a love she can count on.”
“There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and satires that are written with wit and spirit are like poisoned darts, which not only inflict a wound, but make it incurable.”
Source: The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index
“There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.”
Source: A Quiet Place in a Crazy World: Drawing Near to God Through Prayer and Praise
“There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than going out of it; and there is not any minute of our lives wherein we may not reasonably expect it. Nay, it is but a momen'ts work, the parting of soul and body. What a shame is it then to stand in fear of anything so long that is over so soon!”
“There is nothing that Nature seems to have inclined us to as much as society.”
“There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.”
“There is nothing that one can say about acting, writing, producing or directing that cannot be revoked in the next breath. Nothing is immutable. The logic of one year is a folly of the next.”
Source: act one
“There is nothing that our God cannot do. He will do everything if you will dare to believe.”
Source: Ever Increasing Faith
“There is nothing that overwhelms the senses quite like an unwelcome silence.”
Source: Chindi
“There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“There is nothing that pleases me more than a beautiful sentence ... It is something that satisfies me.”
“There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else.”
Source: Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)
“There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.”
“There is nothing that robs a righteous cause of its strength more than a millionaire's money.”
“There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing”
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
“There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.”
Source: Akira Kurosawa: Interviews
“There is nothing that separates us except our belief that we are separate and so everything I do that is good in the world you benefit from you benefit from and everything I do that is not good in the world you lose from, and visa versa.”