T Quotes
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“This leads to a question - if a great many people are for a certain project, is it necessarily right? If the vast majority is for it, is it even more certainly right? This, to be sure, is one of the tricky points of democracy. The minority often turns out to be right, and though one believes in the efficacy of the democratic process, one has also to recognize that the demand of the many for a particular project at a particular time may mean only disaster.”
Source: The Roosevelt I Knew
“This leads to the basement?” I ask. “No, it goes to Narnia, but we like to call it the basement,” Amira says, grinning. I reach out to flick her, but she grabs my hand, pulling me close until we’re practically nose to nose. “Hi,” she says. “Hi,” I say back. I’m smiling now too. She brings her lips down to mine, and everything else around us fades away as she kisses me. I was worried that maybe the other day was a fluke. That we were just so caught up in the moment, and that’s why it felt so amazing. But I’m happy to discover I was totally wrong. This kiss is just as wonderful as the last, and my stomach feels like it’s doing backflips.”
Source: If We Were a Movie
“This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires, and, therefore, of his personality; and his radical ingratitude towards all that has made possible the ease of his existence. These traits together make up the well-known psychology of the spoilt child.”
Source: the Revolt of the Masses
“This leaf here took forever to become that perfect leaf. We're that. We're work in progress. That's actually being alive.”
“This league is getting big. We have way more 300-pound guys than ever before. That's not to say all the people in athletics who have died are 300-pound guys. There are so many different reasons.”
“This leaves us with the urgent question: How can we be or become a caring community, a community of people not trying to cover the pain or to avoid it by sophisticated bypasses, but rather share it as the source of healing and new life? It is important to realize that you cannot get a Ph.D. in caring, that caring cannot be delegated by specialists, and that therefore nobody can be excused from caring. Still, in a society like ours, we have a strong tendency to refer to specialists. When someone does not feel well, we quickly think, 'Where can we find a doctor?' When someone is confused, we easily advise him to go to a counselor. And when someone is dying, we quickly call a priest. Even when someone wants to pray we wonder if there is a minister around.”
Source: Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life
“This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress.”
“This left me alone to solve the coffee problem - a sort of catch-22, as in order to think straight I need caffeine, and in order to make that happen I need to think straight.”
“This leg will be known as Christmas, and this leg will be known as New Year's Eve! Ladies...why don't you all come visit the Big Valbowski between the holidays.”
“This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation.”
“This legislation provides Medicaid eligibility to evacuees and residents in (Federal Emergency Management Agency) designated disaster counties, .. It also helps pay private health insurance premiums for those at risk for losing their coverage.”
“This lesser world is all about reproduction, as you might well know. Those who cease to duplicate simply die.”
Source: Carnival
“This letter [to the Romans] is truly the most important piece in the New Testament. It is purest Gospel. It is well worth a Christian's while not only to memorize it word for word but also to occupy himself with it daily, as though it were the daily bread of the soul. It is impossible to read or to meditate on this letter too much or too well. The more one deals with it, the more precious it becomes, and the better it tastes.”
“This letter gives me a tongue; and were I not allowed to write, I should be dumb.
[Lat., Praebet mihi littera linguam:
Et, si non liceat scribere, mutus ero.]”
“This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.' 'Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table.”
Source: Dead in the Family: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel
“This letter isn’t to mark any significant point in your life or mine. This letter is Just Because…Just Because.”
Source: Creep
“This letter really touched my heart. Sabrina says when she lost all her hair during chemo, she wore the cap I gave her.”
“This level of operational and organisational perfection for a body that has a scourge as unpredictable as terrorism to deal with is nearly utopian, but it is what GATA must strive to reach, a pursuit that must be written in its DNA.”
Source: How to Terrorize Terrorism: a more effective answer to global terrorism
“This level reach of blue is not my sea;
Here are sweet waters, pretty in the sun,
Whose quiet ripples meet obediently
A marked and measured line, one after one.
This is no sea of mine. that humbly laves
Untroubled sands, spread glittering and warm.
I have a need of wilder, crueler waves;
They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.
So let a love beat over me again,
Loosing its million desperate breakers wide;
Sudden and terrible to rise and wane;
Roaring the heavens apart; a reckless tide
That casts upon the heart, as it recedes,
Splinters and spars and dripping, salty weeds.”
Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker
“This LGBT singing choir has demonstrated how women are investing in tradition to create change, like alchemists turning discord into harmony.”
“This liberal doxy must be impaled upon the member of a particularly large stallion.”
“This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic.”
“This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.”
“This (liberation) isn't something I can help you with. I can tell you what you need to do, but you have to do it. In the beginning, teachers can help a lot. But the deeper you go, all they can do is point, and clarify, and tell you what you need to do. Only you can take this step. Nobody can push you into this place. It's like Buddha's final night under the Bodhi tree. What did he do when confronted with this? He reached down and touched the ground and said, „I will not be moved.“ Finally – when everything that could be thrown at him was thrown, and he was still unmoved – it was done. He never looked back. (p. 99)”
Source: The Impact of Awakening: Excerpts from the Teachings of Adyashanti
“This liberty is all that I request.”
Source: As you like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew
“This library is for humans only. I mean, non-human things can't get a library card issued to them.”
Source: How the Vortex Changed My Life
“This lie of political correctness is bringing this country down. You just want to break through it all.”
“This life as a simple citizen and laborer has its benefits not only for the person himself but perhaps also for his country. After all, there is room for only one Prime Minister, but for those who make the desert bloom there is room for hundreds, thousands and even millions. And the destiny of the state is in the hands of the many rather than of a single individual. There are times when an individual feels he should do those things which only can and should be done by the many.”
“This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!”
Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
“This life at best is but an inn, and we the passengers.”
Source: Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ, familiar letters domestic and forren, by J.H. (A new volume of letters, by I. Howell. [Followed by] The vote). [2 vols. in 6 pt.]. With a fourth volume of new letters
“This life can be incredibly difficult, especially if we're alone.”
“This life can make you feel depressed,
leaving you with so much stress,
but all you can do is try your best.”
Source: Taking My Life Back
“This life-enhancing, happiness-inducing miracle drug that does, in fact, ruthlessly kill its enemies—you’ve guessed it—is gratitude.”
“This life exists as a competition with oneself - no one else.”
“This life gets lonely when everybody wants something.”
“This life giving book breathed by the Holy Spirit of a Sovereign God has proved itself to be very prophetically true and precise in every Word spoken through my mouth as uttered by the Holy Spirit of a Sovereign God.”
Source: Four In One Healing Books: Joyful wells Of Salvation
“This life has been a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received actual instructions on where to go and what to do.”
“This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits.”
“This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to put out, be his motives never so humane and enlightened; To suppose otherwise is to countenance a death-wish; Either life is always and in all circumstances sacred, or intrinsically of no account; it is inconceivable that it should be in some cases the one, and in some the other.”
Source: Something beautiful for God: Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“This life is a bridge doun't try to build a house on it.”
“This life is a constant suffering of being too much and still not enough.”
“This life is a dance, not a battle. We are all part of this world, not masters of it.”
“This life is a dressing room for eternity - THAT'S ALL IT IS!”
“This Life is a fleeting breath, And whither and how shall I go, When I wander away with Death By a path that I do not know.”
Source: The Poems and Sonnets of Louise Chandler Moulton ...
“This life is a gift, and to reject that gift or abuse that gift is not human and not worthy of us.”
“This life is a hard fact; work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine; no matter, the soul is stronger.”
Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge
“This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds; one man would like to suffer in front of the stove, and another believes that he would recover his health beside the window.”
“This life is a point of departure to a place where there will be no departures.”
“This life is a process of learning.”
“This life is a shadowy thing, lad. We live in a crowded space of lights and shadows, and when left to ourselves, we all too often fail to see the brightest light of all.”