T Quotes
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“The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed.”
Source: Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman
“The Arabian obsession with the beauty of their language had ironically blinded them to its core purpose. Their poets were masters of rhetoric who failed to inspire action in real life, having reduced their heritage to fancy yet hollow words. Their audiences were fanatically devoted to proper diction— ready to impulsively plunge a dagger over an inadvertent wrong term—yet otherwise wallowed passively in stagnation. Unable to access the latent wisdom encoded in their language, Arabs failed to act as masters of their own fate.”
Source: The Life of the Qur'an: From Eternal Roots to Enduring Legacy
“The Arabic Qur'an and authoritative Christian translations of the Bible into a limited number of languages contributed profoundly to the universalisation of a single ethnic religious—linguistic community in the Muslim case and to the distinction between major written languages and dialectic vernaculars in the Christian case. While the Islamic socio-political impact was thus in principle almost entirely anti-ethnic and anti-national, the Christian impact was more complex. Its willingness to translate brought with it, undoubtedly, a reduction in the number of ethnicities and vernaculars, but then a confirmation of the individual identity of those that remained: Christianity in fact helped turn ethnicities into nations.”
Source: The Construction of Nationhood: Ethnicity, Religion and Nationalism
“The Arabic states have to be integrated into the Iraqi reconstruction. We need the help of the Arabic community, which understands its culture. Americans arrive, invade, occupy.”
“The Arabic term for Gospel, Injil, plays off the original Greek euangelos (“bringing good news”), but with a twist on the Semitic root N-J-L, meaning “opening eyes wide.” The name reflected Jesus’ mission to deliver his people from the bondage of blindly following corrupt clerics by reawakening individual powers of perception.”
Source: The Life of the Qur'an: From Eternal Roots to Enduring Legacy
“The Arabs are deep in the slave trade right now.”
“The Arabs are terrorists and Israel is making the world a safer place.Well done Israel.”
“The Arabs are victims. You have Shia Arabs, under Arabization under Saddam Hussein, who were forcibly moved up there... You have Kurds who were displaced by these Arabs that were moved up there by Saddam Hussein. Kurds have been displaced from Kirkuk for hundreds of years.”
“The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel, even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption.”
“The Arabs of the land of Israel [ Palestinians] have only one functionleft to them -- to run away.”
“The Arabs poisoned the wells before they left—rotten dead animals dropped in.”
Source: The Prisoner of Acre
“The Arabs understandably did everything they could to protect their monopoly. Coffee beans were treated before being shipped to ensure they were sterile and could not be used to seed new coffee plants; foreigners were excluded from coffee-producing areas. First to break the Arab monopoly were the Dutch, who displaced the Portuguese as the dominant European nation in the East Indies during the seventeenth century, gaining control of the spice trade in the process and briefly becoming the world's leading commercial power.”
“The Arabs were Germany's natural friends...They were therefore prepared to cooperate with Germany with all their hearts and stood ready to participate in a war, not only negatively in the commission of acts of sabotage and the instigation of revolutions, but also positively by the formation of the Arab Legion. In this struggle, the Arabs were striving for the independence and the unity of Palestine, Syria and Iraq.”
“The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war.”
“The Aramaic word for “forgive” means literally to “untie.” Hatred and anger had bound me to my pain. The fastest way to free the self from an enemy and all associated negativity is to forgive. Untie those bindings; free yourself from that person’s ugliness.”
Source: The Best Part of My Day Healing Journal
“The Arameans can try to blow out a few flames — and they may succeed for a time — but there is no stamping out a raging wildfire.”
Source: Like Flames in the Night
“The arbiter of a demanding wargame rendered the word "mismatch" as "challenge" in his language.”
“The arbitrary division between church and state... is used, as an easily identifiable rallying point, to subdue the opinions of that vast body of citizens who represent those with religious convictions.”
“The arbitrary division of one's life into weeks and days and hours seemed, on the whole, useless. There was but one day for the men, and that was pay day, and one for the women, and that was rent day. As for the children, every day was theirs, just as it should be in every corner of the world.”
“The arbitrary influences affecting artists' vocabularies are many, and not necessarily all beneficial. The limiting trends of the day, the biting criticism, or the instruction insistent upon getting us to conform against our temperament can affect the work in profound ways, sometimes stalling us for decades.”
Source: Art from Your Core: A Holistic Guide to Visual Voice
“The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.”
Source: Selected Writings
“The arbitrator is a robber,
The peacemaker makes grief,
He who should soothe makes sore.
But he who cheats diminishes justice!”
Source: Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms
“The arbitrator is a robber,
The remover of need orders its creation.
The town is a floodwater,
The punisher of evil commits crimes!”
Source: Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms
“The Arc of a Life
Age What you want to be:
Birth to 15 Dependent
16-45 Independent
46-70 Independently Wealthy
71 on Independently Healthy”
“The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.”
“The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard things before. And every time it took a terrible fight between people who could not imagine changing the rules, and those who said, 'We already did. We have made the world new.' The hardest part will be to convince yourself of the possibilities, and hang on.”
“The arc of justice bends because we bend it.”
Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction
“The arc of my mind has an equal swing in all directions. I should say the same of your mind if I thought you would believe it. But we are so saturated with the notion that Time is a dimension accessible from one direction only, that you will at first probably be shocked by my saying that I can see truly as far in front of me as I can see exactly behind me.”
“The arc of our evolutionary history is long. But it bends towards goodness”
Source: Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
“The arc of the celebrity phenomenon ultimately is: everything turns to dust and everything does go away.”
“The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.”
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”
“The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn't bend on its own.”
“The arc of your swing doesn't have a thing to do with the size of your heart.”
“The Arcadians were chestnut-eaters.”
“The arch of history may be long, but it bends away from reality.”
“The arch of history may be long, but it never bends away from reality.”
“The arch patriarchal and highly illogical rule regarding nudity tells us: men want to see naked women, women do not want to see naked men; men want to show their naked body to women, women do not want to be naked in front of men. The age-old male practice of indecent exposure has been revived on the internet where millions of men shamelessly send images of their genitals to women they have never met and enjoy the idea that women are looking at their penis. When she sees his penis, patriarchal logic dictates, he has power over her. Yet this power also manifests when he sees her naked, for a man who sees a woman naked is able to ruin her life. He can, in certain cultures, wreck her chances of marriage and he can publicly ridicule her so that she is beset by horrific shame. He can spread her image at school, to her colleagues and parents and bring her to the verge of suicide. A woman, on the other hand, has no power over a man she sees naked: the only meagre vengeance she could possibly mete out is to spread the rumour that he has a micro penis. Opening women's changing rooms to anyone who wishes to call themselves a woman changes absolutely nothing in this power dynamic. In the meeting between the post-modern patriarchy and traditional patriarchy, women are left in the firing line with only themselves to rely on to resolve their predicament.”
Source: On the Meaning of Sex: Thoughts about the New Definition of Woman
“The archaeologists who made the study noted that ‘Southern Indian
ancestry was estimated at 42–49%’ for the Cambodian individual whose
remains they were studying. They identified ‘Irula, Mala, and Vellalar’ caste
types as the most likely South Asian contributors to the ancient individual’s
genome. These are all specifically low-caste non-Brahmin groups. It
appears that we are dealing with the emigration of a large and socially
varied group of Indian individuals, leading to intermarriage with
Cambodians and the emergence of mixed-marriage families.
This implies a varied mercantile diaspora rather than just the boatloads of
literate Brahmins who record their own presence on inscriptions. It also
helps explain the presence of non-Vedic, non-Brahmanical Tamil folk and
village guardian deities like Aiyanar turning up from the beginning in
shrines across the region, where he seems to have been worshipped as the
Protector of Travellers and the Night Guardian of Reservoirs”
Source: The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
“The archaeology of grief is not ordered. It is more like earth under a spade, turning up things you had forgotten. Surprising things come to light: not simply memories, but states of mind, emotions, older ways of seeing the world.”
Source: H is for Hawk
“The Archangel." I murmured. looking back over my shoulder at the ride, which had started its next ascent. "It means high-ranking angel." There was a definite smugness to his voice. "The higher up, the harder the fall.”
Source: Hush, Hush
“The Archbishop of Cincinnati said that, in Rome itself during the Synod: "It is clear that the priest has lost his identity." What does that mean? The priest no longer knows what he is. So then, we want to form priests who know what they are, who know that they are made for the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, to carry the Gospel and proclaim the Gospel, that is to say, to proclaim the catechism which we all learned, which our parents learned, and our grandparents and our ancestors; that is, Faith in the divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ and in His reign. (ordination sermon of June 29, 1977)”
“The archdeacon silently contemplated the gigantic building for a while, then sighed as he stretched out his right hand towards the printed book lying open on his table and his left hand towards Notre-Dame, and looked sadly from the book to the church. ‘Alas!’ he said, ‘this will kill that.”
Source: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
“The archduke will see you now,” Bishop Riphaen said to von Pappenheim, interrupting his wishful thinking. “And he is most eager to see what you have brought him.”
Source: Storm Surge: Book Two of the Stormsong Trilogy
“The archenemy is the arch stupid!”
“The Archer had always been so sure of himself and what he could do. He'd never been given a task he could not complete. There was no beast he could not track, no target he could not hit. He could shoot an apple from the hand of a friend at a thousand paces away- while it was being tossed in the air. He was a legend, he was the Archer, and he would have sacrificed it all to save her.”
Source: The Ballad of Never After
“The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness.”
“The Archer's class really is made up of archers”
“The archer who misses his mark does not blame the target. He stops, corrects himself and shoots again.”
“The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.”