T Quotes
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“Things of greatest profit are set forth with least price. Where the wine is neat there needeth no live blush.”
“Things of the spirit are what count: brotherhood – in a day when there is too much hatred at home and abroad; cheerfulness – in a day when the pessimists have the floor and cynics are popular; service – in a day when millions are interested in getting or grasping, rather than giving”
“Things of the world try to connect. Prodigal rain issues from a sky into which trees rise like pleading hands. Days bear us lightly across the face of the world as every year the ground pulls harder, recalling like a spurned lover, ever more fixedly, how much it wants us.”
Source: Death Will Have Your Eyes
“Things of themselves cannot touch the soul at all. They have no entry to the soul, and cannot turn or move it. The soul alone turns and moves itself, making all externals presented to it cohere with the judgements it thinks worthy of itself.”
Source: Meditations
“Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.”
Source: Two treatises of government
“Things of today? Deeds which are harvest for Eternity!”
Source: The Poems of Ebenezer Elliott
“Things often aren’t easy, but they usually are simple.”
Source: Ailene
“Things often have a 50/50 chance of going our way or the other, trust that you will be able to handle the disappointment, change, discomfort and treat it all as an adventure.”
Source: The Mind Spa Ignite Your Inner Life Coach
“Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.”
“Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed.”
“Things on the essential list: vodka, Nine Inch Nails, a steady supply of mortal men, and an all-purpose bitchy attitude.”
“Things on the whole are faster in America; people don't stand for election, they run for office. If a person says he's sick, it doesn't mean regurgitating, it means ill. Mad means angry, not insane. Don't ask for the left-luggage; it's called a checkroom.”
Source: Hons and Rebels: Hons & Rebels
“Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'”
Source: Hons and Rebels
“Things, once gone, can’t be put back; he knew that now. A punch, once delivered, can’t be withdrawn. Words, once spoken, can’t be unsaid. We may go on as if nothing has been lost, nothing done, nothing said; we may claim to forget it all; but our innermost core doesn’t forget, because we have been changed for ever.”
“Things only 'show up' for us as they do, as Heidegger would put, in and through practical engagements with the world that enable objects to have significance and salience - as hammers, pots, trees or whatever.”
“Things only ferment and fester in the dark.”
Source: Manservant and maidservant
“Things only hurt because I’m still alive to feel them”
Source: Leave the Window Open
“Things only look chaotic up close. If you take a step back, you’ll see everything is in perfect balance just as it should be.”
Source: Spiritual Words to Live by : 81 Daily Wisdoms and Meditations to Transform Your Life
“Things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.”
“Things outside are just a projection from the
DVD playing inside you. The time you invest for knowing your inner self will pay dividends outside.”
“Things own you. That's the trouble with capitalism. Things own you. With communism and fascism - ideas own you. One idea and you can't have any other.”
“Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.”
“Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away”
“Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. Getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place.”
“Things past redress are now with me past care”
“Things people do these days after getting into a relationship:
1. Look for another relationship.”
“Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.”
“Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.”
“Things perish. Gods have passed.
But song sublimely cast
Shall citadels outlast.”
Source: Émaux et Camées
“Things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth. Politicians might mention renewable energy, and the public will think, "That sounds good, but I don't believe they're going to do everything they can to build those towers."”
“Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don't we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it's your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.”
“Things rarely get fixed the way they need to be.”
Source: The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel
“Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.”
“Things rarely happen for a single reason. Even the cleverest and most skilled manipulators recognize that their real art lies in making use of that which they cannot predict.”
Source: Debt of Honor
“Things rarely turn out the way we want them to.”
“Things really began to move for us. In 1953 I could afford to marry Doreen.”
“Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.”
“Things remain the same because it is impossible to change very much without changing most of everything.”
“Things remained in a type of stasis for the next couple of days, but I was bored. I wished I had a favorite Bukowski with me to read, either Women or Notes of a Dirty Old Man, which he’d been cool enough to sign for me once when I’d been over at his pad in San Pedro. I missed him. Still couldn’t believe he was gone.”
“Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought.
[Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione quidem violari fas fuit.]”
“Things said and done innocently should never be used as weapons.”
Source: Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone
“Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.”
Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats
“Things said to a reporter in confidence should be kept in confidence.”
“Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.”
Source: Essays of Montaigne
“Things seem more when you’re little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther.”
Source: The Giver Quartet
“Things seem to be at a boiling point all the time. In fact, it has been that way my whole life. I find it interesting, and I like the fact that the emotions are in your face all the time. You always know where you stand. None of that "we don't have any racial problems here" attitude that you get, say, up north. All of this is rich fodder for a crime novelist.”
“Things seem to fall apart inevitably.”
“Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.”
Source: Hatchet
“Things seemed to happen fast in Santa Carla.”
Source: The Lost Boys
“Things seemed truly wild out here where some men had no respect for civility, the sanctity of human life, and the law. Now he understood why they called it the Wild West, and today he felt trapped in it.
—Jake Hunter, "Cherry Crossing" by Lisa M. Prysock.”
Source: Cherry Crossing