T Quotes
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“Taking the photograph is the easiest part for me”
“Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Taking the politics out of setting the minimum wage provides fairness for workers and predictability for businesses. This legislation will also protect the most vulnerable workers and level the playing field for employers who play by the rules. These are the right steps to take; they will make Ontario a better place to work and run a business.”
“Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to do ... is to write as little as possible”
“Taking the right action if a challenge arises, responding the right way with the right timing, requires being attentive. Sometimes, the cues about how best to interact with people or a situation are subtle. Sometimes, opportunities dry up very quickly, and you can miss them if you don’t act right away. Being aware of when a shift is happening and remaining flexible helps.”
Source: The Necktie and the Jaguar
“Taking the Right Decision in any situation only requires TWO major ingredients:
Critical Thinking and Grace.
Critical Thinking is like 'Works' and Grace is like 'Faith'. So if "Faith without Works is dead," then same, I believe, goes for Works without Faith.
Like the two sides of a coin, one without the other just won't make any sense. And if the coin ever has a third side, it will never be 'Emotions' or 'Sentiments' because they both have zero IQ.”
Source: The Soldier Within
“Taking the ring from her, Sebastian slid it onto his own hand. His hands were so much larger that the circlet would only fit the tip of his smallest finger. Grasping her chin in an intractable hold, he glared into her eyes. “I’ll take your bet,” he said grimly. “I’m going to win it. And in three months, I’m going to put this back on your finger, and take you to bed, and do things to you that are outlawed in the civilized world.”
Evie’s resolve did not shield her from the heart-thumping alarm that any rational woman would feel upon hearing such an ominous statement. Nor did it prevent her knees from turning to jelly as he jerked her against his body and fitted his mouth to hers.
Her hands, suspended in mid-air, went to his head in a trembling butterfly descent. The texture of his hair, the locks so cool and thick on the surface, so warm and damp at the roots, was too alluring to resist. She slid her fingers into the gleaming golden layers and pulled him even closer, helplessly reveling in the urgent pressure of his mouth. Their tongues mated, slid, stroked, and with each slippery-sweet caress inside the joined cavern of their mouths, she felt a hot coiling deep in her belly… no, deeper than that… in the tightening, liquefying core where she had once taken his invading flesh. It shocked her to realize how much she wanted him there again. She whimpered as he pulled away from her, while frustration washed over them both.
“You didn’t say that I couldn’t kiss you,” Sebastian said, his eyes bright with devil-fire. “I’m going to kiss you as long and as often as I like, and you’re not to utter a word of protest. That’s the concession you’ll give in return for my celibacy. Damn you.”
Giving her no time either to agree or to object, he released her and strode to the door. “And now, if you’ll excuse me… I’m going to go kill Joss Bullard.”
Source: Devil in Winter
“Taking the State wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way to differentiate the activities of its founders, administrators and beneficiaries from those of a professional-criminal class.”
“Taking the strong believing women as role models for both men and women, clearly indicates that the Quran acknowledges the woman's ability to be a strong person who can overcome any innate weakens in her.”
“Taking the things people do wrong seriously is part of taking them seriously. It’s part of letting their actions have weight. It’s part of letting their actions be actions rather than just indifferent shopping choices; of letting their lives tell a life-story, with consequences, and losses, and gains, rather than just be a flurry of events. It’s part of letting them be real enough to be worth loving, rather than just attractive or glamorous or pretty or charismatic or cool.”
Source: Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense
“Taking the time to build community, to get to know your people will have long-lasting benefits.”
“Taking the time to cleanse our homes, to re-establish our physical energies, and to refresh our spiritual lives, can only bring renewed benefits into our lives, and a return of true health.”
“Taking the time to go the extra mile when needed is the best way to develop solid leadership.”
Source: The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
“Taking the time to meditate is as important as taking the time to breathe. One pumps oxygen into the body, the other pumps peace into the mind.”
“Taking the time to read to children is not only a worthwhile investment but also a wonderful experience. I have visited 119 schools in Maine, and these visits are among the most rewarding experiences in my career in public service”
“Taking the time to write in our lives gives us the time of our lives. As we describe our environments, we begin to savor them. Even the most rushed and pell-mell life begins to take on the patina of being cherished.”
Source: The Writer's Life: Insights from The Right to Write
“Taking the way that opens, even if it seems hardly more than a footpath, not infrequently leads to the highways of heart's desire, if not to fame and fortune.”
Source: All flags flying: reminiscences of Frances Parkinson Keyes
“Taking the wrong advantage of one's decency, modesty, and tolerance shows not only the meanness; whereas that also demonstrates the proof and the sign of crime”
“Taking the wrong fork, I veered onto a curious road where the ground grew increasingly higher, and although my heart warned me to turn back, I didn't, for the curiosities of the mind are much stronger than imagined. During the course of my journey, I noticed trees becoming unwieldy, taking shapes my eyes had not seen. What was this peculiarity that battered my mind with such wonderment? There were no signs, nor directories, not even a guide, but my curiosities did not wind, for too eager was I to turn. So, like a child lost to the night, I walked this lonesome patch of gray until coming across a curve where the forest belt spread like wildfire, and the wild weeds and grasses produced a certain beauty not found in other parts.”
Source: Tundra: The Darkest Hour
“Taking them out of the picture, so to speak, what football really is, the savagery, the core root of football, it doesn't change. It really puts the real in football.”
“Taking things from one source is plagiarism; taking things from several sources is research.”
“Taking things lightly must lead to big difficulties.”
“Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Taking this view, it is possible to see financial markets as a laboratory for testing hypotheses, albeit not strictly scientific ones. The truth is, successful investing is a kind of alchemy.”
Source: The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market
“Taking time each day to witness our own feelings - whatever they are - is the foundation of self-love. And we can only connect with others to the depth that we are willing to connect with ourselves.”
“Taking time for each other is the key for harmony in the home [and in marriage].”
“Taking time out each day to relax and renew is essential to living well.”
Source: Relax and Renew: Restful Yoga for Stressful Times
“Taking time to live is taking time to appreciate simple silence as better than any kind of talk, or watching a flower, or watching a guy wash the windows on a skyscraper and wondering what he is thinking.”
“Taking time to relax every day, spending quality time with friends, and practicing mindfulness are some of the tried and tested ways of developing self-compassion.”
“Taking time to simply be with what we are feeling is the only way to hear the quiet voice of our heart, so that we can allow our true hearts’ desires to guide us.”
“Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.”
Source: The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871
“Taking trips tore all of us up inside, for they seemed, each journey away from home, something that might have been less selfishly undertaken, or something that would test us, or something that had better be momentous, to justify such a leap into the dark. The torment and guilt - the torment of having the loved one go, the guilt of being the loved one gone - comes into my fiction as it did and does in my life. And most of all the guilt then was because it was true: I had left to arrive at some future and secret joy, at what was unknown, and what was no in New York, waiting to be discovered. My joy was connected with my writing; that was as much as I knew.”
Source: On Writing
“Taking up marriage is a good excuse for taking up cursing."
These is my words”
“Taking up marriage is a good excuse for taking up cursing, I think.”
“Taking up my cross means a life voluntarily surrendered to God.”
Source: A.W. Pink's Studies in the Scriptures - 1930-31, Volume 5 of 17
“Taking us all to an everlasting fairy-tale
Of our own creation.”
Source: 42
“Taking Viagra after open heart surgery is like a Civil War re-enactment with live ammo. Not good.”
“Taking your company global is a business transformation exercise that can help you achieve your biggest and most ambitious dreams for your business.”
Source: Take Your Company Global: The New Rules of International Expansion
“Taking your company global makes it stronger, more resilient, and more capable of the ongoing innovation required for success in today's ever-changing business environment.”
Source: Take Your Company Global: The New Rules of International Expansion
“Taking your first title is much more complicated and more difficult; it takes years of work - from go-kart to Formula One. The second comes more easily, because you've already got the experience.”
“Taking your life closes one chapter, but leaves countless stories unfinished.”
Source: Why Sell Lies When The Truth Is Free
“Taking Zen's lessons seriously need not entail taking Zen's lore literally. After all, the texts of the Zen tradition were not written as academic history books. John Maraldo's judicious and insightful The Saga of Zen History and the Power of Legend makes a compelling case for treating the traditional chronicles and lore of Zen as I do in this book—namely, as soteriological or liberating "legends" rather than as literal accounts of "history" in the modern academic sense uncritically assumed by many modern scholars "who seek only the facts behind the texts and devious motives behind the facts.”
Source: Zen Pathways: An Introduction to the Philosophy and Practice of Zen Buddhism
“Takjil... bagiku ia tak hanya sebungkus penganan penunda rasa dahaga. Ada sebungkus kebersamaan di sana yang menyertainya. Takjil... bagiku ia tak hanya penganan yang diberikan secara cuma-cuma kepada orang yang sedang berpuasa. Ada Toleransi dan kerukunan hidup beragama yang juga terselib di dalamnya.”
“Tako je to s ludilom. U početku – sve je normalno.”
Source: Bivirgata
“Tako mnogo imena susretnemo tijekom života. Koja ti kidaju srca i diraju te do suza. Koja postaju ljubljenima ili neprijateljima. Katkad listam svoj adresar. To je zemljovid mojeg života.”
Source: Den röda adressboken
“Tako nekako perpetualno na odlasku, mutno, samotno nerazriješen u sramotnoj samoći, ne razumijem te, sebe ne razumijem, nemam primjera... dokle mislim i da nisam zdravo. Sinoć sam nešto sanjao.”
“Ali je to samo kratkotrajno, tek zapreka i smetnja, samo si umoran i to će proći, vjeruj mi”, je izgovorila stegnuvši mi ruku, “uvjerena sam!... Immanuel, pa nije li da sve što si dosad pokušao, na kraju se obistinilo? Na kraju si uspio? A i ja sam napokon tu, vidiš da sada mogu češće dolaziti, i bit ću, ja sam uvijek tu.”
Jedan zgureni čovuljak na tvrdoj drvenoj stolici u bijeloj košulji dugih rukava nalakćen o stol u polumraku najmanje sobe osamljenog, najmljenog seoskog kućerka u vrući ljetni dan; miris raspadajućeg vapna, starih drvenih dasaka, miris zemlje i prašine i prosušene tinte po papiru jedva preglednih gomila, no i onaj sapuna, slobode, tvoj miris naime, a ti sjediš do mene toliko zapravo neopisivo mi potrebna, moj posljednji prijatelj, sa ormara, u sjeni ljušti se tirkizna pokost, rijetkim brašnasto nježnim i bijelim i žutim zrakama sunca polako padaju čestice i vrijeme postoji, ali nerazdruživo, kao horologij oko nas prazne stvari zadržavaju prolaznost, pak ti osluškujem dah, slušam odnose, vjetar, dopunjavan korelacijama ne shvaćajući uzrujanost, zanos, ni mladost, a ni zdravlje kad sam pomalo, razumije se, bolestan; na prozoru hrapavo stabarje, mračno, izrasta iz visoke trave, u šušljetu krošnji blagim ćarlijajnjem vrućega lahora, vani je vruće, drače pucketa, no moje lice je oznojeno, gleda me sa stakla nezdravo, blijed sam,
crna mi kosa pada u oči.
“Immanuel...”
“A ne želiš čuti moj san?”
“Želim, reci mi.”
Pa sam se napregnuo, namjestio se, mislim da sam tiho zadrhtao od neke osobite studeni tek još jedanput iza prstiju primijetivši inedite, mirna, nepomična rasprava, nedovršena ideološka polemika, benavi suprotiv ondašnje vlasti kao i poziv na čovjekoljublje, ustvari ne mnogo dalje od toga, od neke osjetljive, nježne prosudbe, još i prijazne, susretljive, a režimska inteligencija umjesto represije, nekada je preferirala odgovarati na pisanije, no manje ozbiljno, čak u polušali, drugačiji jedan pristup ikakvoj novoj misli...
“Možeš li mi dati vode...? Kao da mi se vrti.”
Zatvorio sam potom oči; šuštaj tvoje odjeće, težina tijela u hodu, tiho lupkanje stakla i kristalni žubor vode, tvoje pitanje uto šaptom: “Jesi li jeo?”
“Ne mogu. Možda ću kasnije...”
... privatno me naravno traže, pedantno strvoderski, poput kakvog prestrašenog, zaraženog opasnog psa, zakulisno mi zatvaraju i poznanike, po buturnicama ih premlaćuju neotesano divlje, nerazumno, nepotrebno brutalno, neke neistine se kužno šire, da sam nastran, da sam konfuzan, istom žaljenja vrijedan shizoidni paranoik, pak osamljeni potrošeni nesretnik i nitkov... nasilnik!... na što u javnosti, u štampi, kordijalnost, argumentacija, pravedna evaluacija svega što zastupam, nigdje ni grote uzbuđenja, već sve suhoparna, uspavljujuća, beskrvna besjeda dokraja dosadna docilnoj javnosti; sirova ljudska užgana pobuna tek je scenerija nečije obuzdane predstave, i svaki trud je spušten u apsurd, a izistinski, odavna sam već izmoren od toga...
“Tako sam sanjao da mi je život nešto udaljeno, nešto jedva moje, a ono što jesam je sve manje tu. Odvilo se isto da su mi dani, prošli kao i budući, kao i čuvstva, moja životna žar, obraz mi, sve je pripalo nekom drugom, baš recimo uobičajeno banalno, slično kakvom vlasništvu na bazaru prodano i ostavljeno, kadno taj koji kupuje ne zna ni što odnosi; za takvoga je to kuriozum, besprimjerni položaj ugode u dokonici, trofej karnalni nehajno
nazočan, a strvina je ljudska ništa do li maska; odvojen od vremena...” si govorio kao bunovan, od vrućice poten i malaksao, sanen, daha oslabljena u
modrini dana pastelno prisutnoj, a što je svjetlinom ti milovala vruće znojno lice crnih trepavica, iscrpljeno, sa takvim duševnim razmakom od mene,
toliko vanljudskim da je stežući me boljelo.”
Source: Veliki pad
“Tako smo sjedili prilično dugo uz naš mangal i šutjeli. Opet sam osjetio kako je sreća jednostavna i prirodna stvar. A to je: čaša vina, jedan kesten, skromni mangal i šum morskih valova. Ništa drugo! Da bismo shvatili da je u tome sreća, potrebno je da budemo jednostavna i priprosta srca.”
Source: Zorba the Greek
“Tako činjenica da sam ja ja i nitko drugi postaje jedna od mojih najvećih prednosti, Emocionalna patnja cijena je koju osoba plaća da bi bila nezavisna.”
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“Takoyaki are octopus balls- not, thankfully, in the anatomical sense. They're a spherical cake with a chunk of boiled octopus in the center, cooked on a special griddle with hemispherical indentations. If you're familiar with the Danish pancakes called aebleskivers, you know what a takoyaki looks like; the pan is also similar.
Takoyaki are not unknown in the U.S., but I've only ever seen them made fresh at cultural festivals. Iris is a big fan, but I've always been more into the takoyaki aesthetic than the actual food. Takoyaki are always served in a paper or wooden boat and usually topped with mayonnaise, bonito flakes, shredded nori, and takoyaki sauce.”
Source: Pretty Good Number One: An American Family Eats Tokyo
“Takumi stood up, walked into his bathroom and came out with a Gatorade bottle filled with clear liquid. 'I keep it in the medicine cabinet,' Takumi said. 'On account of how it's medicine.”
Source: Looking for Alaska