T Quotes
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“There is one thing we can do better than anyone else: we can be ourselves.”
“There is one thing we can do, and the happiest of people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present.”
“There is one thing we know about meaning, that meaning consists in attachment to something bigger than you are. The larger the thing that you can credibly attach yourself to, the more meaning you get out of life.”
“There is one thing we must appreciate about the disasters: They are perfectly just when they do their jobs!”
“There is one thing where people are always right. It is when they are describing what they have been feeling when watching your film. You cannot say: No, you did not feel like that!”
“There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.”
“There is one thing which we should have exceedingly clear in our minds. Neither the President of the Church, nor the First Presidency, nor the united voice of the First Presidency and the Twelve will ever condone the use of ReddiWhip on pie.”
“There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.”
Source: Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People
“There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“There is one thing worse than making a thing wrong: doing badly a right thing.”
“There is one thing you and I as parents cannot do, not do we want to do if we really think about it, and that's control our children's will--that spirit that lets them be themselves apart from you and me. They are not ours to possess, control, manipulate, or even to make mind.”
“There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.”
“There is one thing you know for sure, one fact that never fails to comfort you: the worst day of your life wasn't in there, in that mess. And it will do you good to remember the best day of your life wasn't in there, either. But another person brought you closer to those borders than you had been, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.”
Source: How Did You Get This Number
“There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth.”
Source: The Kingdom of God Is Within You: Easyread Edition
“There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley”
Source: Emma
“There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way.”
“There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.”
Source: The Conduct of Life
“There is one tradition in America I am proud to inherit. It is our first freedom and the truest expression of our Americanism: the ability to dissent without fear. It is our right to utter the words, 'I disagree.' We must feel at liberty to speak those words to our neighbors, our clergy, our educators, our news media, our lawmakers and, above all, to the one among us we elect - President.”
“There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of criminal and civil justice.”
“There is one transcending level, and this is the most excellent of all. This person is aware of the endlessness of entering deeply into a certain Way and never thinks of himself as having finished.”
Source: Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.
“There is one type of gambling which should always be encouraged. It is betting on goodness. When a person has wronged you, be good to him. If he adds insult to injury, double the bet. And keep on doubling it. You will surely win!”
“There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.”
Source: Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn
“There is one unalterable difference between a soldier and a civilian: the civilian never does more than he is paid to do.”
“There is One unchanging indivisible Reality which, though unmanifest, reveals Itself in infinite multiplicity and diversity.”
“There is one unity, unified wholeness, total natural law, in the transcendental unified consciousness.”
“There is one universal law that has been formed, or at least adoptedby the majority of mankind. That law is justice. Justice forms the cornerstone of each nation's law.”
“There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated.”
“There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable.”
“There is one universal truth: All women, all over the world, want to look beautiful. That is always the theme of my designs.”
“There is one unmistakable lesson in American history; a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future - that community asks for and gets chaos.”
Source: Miles to Go: A Personal History of Social Policy
“There is one vast human experience that confronts us so formidably that we cannot pretend to overlook it. There is no solution to death. There is no means whatever whereby you or I, by taking thought, can solve this difficulty in such a manner that it no longer exists.”
Source: Mind of the Maker
“There is one very good reason to learn programming, but it has nothing to do with preparing for high-tech careers or with making sure one is computer literate in order to avoid being cynically manipulated by the computers of the future. The real value of learning to program can only be understood if we look at learning to program as an exercise of the intellect, as a kind of modern-day Latin that we learn to sharpen our minds.”
Source: The cognitive computer: on language, learning, and artificial intelligence
“There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves. […] There is no fault which makes a man more unpopular, and no fault which we are more unconscious of in ourselves.[…]The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility.”
“There is one view of the subject which ought to have its influence on those who espouse doctrines which strike at the authoritative origin and efficacious operation of the Government of the United States. The Government of the U.S. like all Governments free in their principles, rests on compact; a compact, not between the Government & the parties who formed & live under it; but among the parties themselves, and the strongest of Governments are those in which the compacts were most fairly formed and most faithfully executed.”
“There is one voyage, the first, the last, the only one.”
Source: O Lost: A Story of the Buried Life
“There is one way by which a strolling player may be ever secure of success; that is, in our theatrical way of expressing it, to make a great deal of the character. To speak and act as in common life is not playing, nor is it what people come to see; natural speaking, like sweet wine, runs glibly over the palate and scarcely leaves any taste behind it; but being high in a part resembles vinegar, which grates upon the taste, and one feels it while he is drinking.”
Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: The bee. Essays. Unacknowledged essays. Prefaces, introductions, etc
“There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there's another way: a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity.”
“There is one way, then, in which a man can be free from all anxiety about the fate of his soul - if in life he has abandoned bodily pleasures and adornments, as foreign to his purpose and likely to do more harm than good, and has devoted himself to the pleasures of acquiring knowledge, and so by decking his soul not with a borrowed beauty but with its own - with self-control, and goodness, and courage, and liberality, and truth - has fitted himself to await his journey in the next world.”
“There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language.”
Source: Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel
“There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. At some point understanding may come. It will always be wordless. The moment you grasp what is foreign, you will lose the urge to explain it. To explain a phenomenon is to distance yourself from it.”
Source: Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel
“There is one way whereby we may secure our riches, and make sure friends to ourselves of them,--by laying them out in charity.”
Source: The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...
“There is one way, only one way to solve it, and that is through legislation. It cannot be through an unconstitutional executive order that violates the Constitution. That is, it doesn't matter here what you think about immigration: here you cannot violate the nation's Constitution, period.”
“There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of LACK OF AMBITION!”
Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition
“There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.”
Source: Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950
“There is one who you belong to, whose love-- there is no song for.”
“There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, 'You never know.”
“there is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is the word reciprocity.”
“There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life -reciprocity.”
Source: A book of heaven and the earth: stories from the Confucian analects
“There is one, and only one solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We must turn all our resources to repairing the natural world, and train all our young people to help. They want to; we need to give them this last chance to create forests, soils, clean waters, clean energies, secure communities, stable regions, and to know how to do it from hands-on experience.”
“There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.”
Source: Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings