T Quotes
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“There never has been an artistic age, or an artistic people, since the beginning of the world. The artist has always been, and will always be, an exquisite exception.”
Source: Lecture to Art Students
“There never has been devised, and there never will be devised, any law which will enable a man to succeed save by the exercise of those qualities which have always been the prerequisites of success - the qualities of hard work, of keen intelligence, of unflinching will.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt's Words of Wit and Wisdom
“There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”
“There never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of fact, live on the labor of the other.”
Source: The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 2
“There never is a convenient place to fight a war when the other man starts it.”
“There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.”
“there never is a happy ending because nothing ever ends.”
“There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.”
“There never seems to be any difficulty in stretching the laws and the constitution to fit any kind of a political deal, but when it is proposed to make some concession to women they loom up like an unscalable wall.”
“There never seems to be any trouble brewing around a bar until a woman puts that high heel over the brass rail. Don't ask me why, but somehow women at bars seem to create trouble among men.”
“There never seems to be enough hours in the day. At the moment I have no time to make new music because I've been doing so much promotion for this new single.”
“There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.”
Source: The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke
“There never was a champion who to himself was a good loser. There's a vast difference between a good sport and a good loser.”
“There never was a false god, nor was there ever really a false religion, unless you call a child a false man.”
“There never was a good knife made of bad steel.”
“There never was a good war or a bad revolution.”
Source: The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel
“There never was a good war, or a bad peace.”
“There never was a good war," said Franklin. "There have indeed been many wars in which a good man must take part, and take part with grave gladness to die if need be, a willing sacrifice, thankful to give life for what is dearer than life, and happy that even by death in war he is serving the cause of peace. But if a war be undertaken for the most righteous end, before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.”
Source: Letters of Charles Eliot Norton
“There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland.”
Source: White Jacket
“There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.”
“There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.”
Source: Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man
“There never was a law yet made, I conceive, that hit the taste exactly of every man, or every part of the community; of course, if this be a reason for opposition, no law can be executed at all without force, and every man or set of men will in that case cut and carve for themselves; the consequences of which must be deprecated by all classes of men, who are friends to order, and to the peace and happiness of the country.”
Source: The Writings of George Washington: pt. IV. Letters official and private, from the beginning of his presidency to the end of his life: (v. 10) May, 1789-November, 1794. (v. 11) November, 1794-December, 1799
“There never was a man of solid understanding, whose apprehensions are sober, and by a pensive inspection advised, but that he hath found by an irresistible necessity one true God and everlasting being.”
Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: The history of the world
“There never was a man on earth who pitched as much as me. But the more I pitched, the stronger my arm would get.”
“There never was a moment in my life, when I felt so in the Presence, as I do now. I feel as if the Almighty were so real, and so near, that I could reach out and touch Him, as I could this wonderful work of His, if I dared. I feel like saying to Him: 'To the extent of my brain power I realize Your presence, and all it is in me to comprehend of Your power. Help me to learn, even this late, the lessons of Your wonderful creations. Help me to unshackle and expand my soul to the fullest realization of Your wonders. Almighty God, make me bigger, make me broader!”
Source: A Girl of the Limberlost
“There never was a real thanksgiving where the pilgrims welcomed the native americans to join them for a meal. And no amount of fairytale can change history. But what we can do is, start a tradition of real thanksgiving, by welcoming the persecuted and the discriminated into our hearts and accepting them as our family.”
Source: The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo
“There never was a revelation without a question first.”
“There never was a scandalous tale without some foundation.”
Source: The school for scandal: a comedy in five acts
“There never was a set of men since God made the world under a stronger responsibility to warn this generation, to lift up our voices long and loud, day and night as far as we have the opportunity and declare the words of God unto this generation. We are required to do this. This is our calling. It is our duty. It is our business.”
“There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart”
“There never was a sounder logical maxim of scientific procedure than Ockham's razor: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. That is to say; before you try a complicated hypothesis, you should make quite sure that no simplification of it will explain the facts equally well.”
Source: Pragmatism as a Principle and Method of Right Thinking: The 1903 Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism
“There never was a story that was happy through and through.”
Source: Blood Red, Snow White: n/a
“There never was a strong character that was not made strong by discipline of the will; there never was a strong people that did not rank subordination and discipline among the signal virtues. Subjection to moods is the mark of a deteriorating morality. There is no baser servitude than that of the man whose caprices are his masters, and a nation composed of such men could not long preserve its liberties.”
“There never was a sustainability problem, there is only a self-centricity problem.”
Source: Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability
“There never was a throne yet built so high that it could not be rocked by laughter from below.”
Source: Soldier, Ask Not
“There never was a time in our history when ignorance of current affairs could be so dangerous.”
“There never was a time when we were created perfect and fell into sin and needed to be rescued. We are evolving people; we are not fallen people. We are not a little lower than the angels. We're a little higher than the apes. It's a very different perspective.”
“There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.”
“There never was a tonic that would cure more social ailments than a healthy, happy home. There never was a greater source of social stability than an affectionate and understanding family. There never was a better way of helping children to happiness than the close confidence of wise and loving and responsible parents.”
“There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.”
Source: The Essays, Humourous, Moral and Literary: Of the Late Benjamin Franklin
“There never was a war of the free world against fascism, there was only war between two versions of fascism - because the so-called free world has tortured and massacred more lives than the third reich could only dream of.
There never was a world war between good and evil, there was only war between two evils. There never was a world war against tyranny, there was only war between an established tyrant regime and a rising one. The real first world war has just begun - the war between good and evil - the war between emancipation and occupation - between inclusion and exclusion - between expansion and contraction - between reason and rigidity - between humanity and inhumanity. I call it, World War Human.
And unlike previous times, we won't win this war by old-fashioned bullets and bombs, or by deceit and diplomacy. The World War Human can only be won by education, and education alone - by an ardent, absolute, unambiguous, unbending, undoctrinated, unphobic, unwhitewashed, decolonized, nonpartisan, gender neutral, valiant, self-correcting and conscientious execution of education.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“There never was a war that was not inward.”
Source: Complete Poems
“There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.”
Source: Complete Poems
“There never was a winner that didn't expect to win in advance.”
“There never was a winner, who wasn't a beginner.”
“There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness... The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way.”
“There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were, into society, and the loneliness of it all has been terrific.”
“There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.”
“There never was an age in which so many people were able to write badly.”
“There never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively or anxiously devoted to the object committed to them.”
Source: The Writings of James Madison: 1783-1787