T Quotes
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“The Basement Morgue by Stewart Stafford
A reluctant errand to a basement morgue,
No mortal knew what things lurked there,
The elevator shuddered to a halt, opening,
To a scattered boneyard of patient beds.
Totem tchotchkes of a broken system,
Dead corridors stretched left and right,
A charged cold-sweat silence hung,
As a flaccid desk stethoscope rattled.
Buried my nose in my clipboard;
Had to find their machine - now!
A gurney wheeled itself past me,
Disappearing into an anteroom.
A hanging skeleton lunged at me—
Spindly fingers choked me into blackness.
Rousing to bright lights, blinding me;
Icy steel drawers swallowed my screams.
© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
“The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions.”
Source: Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism
“The basest person is capable of perceiving the weaknesses of the greatest, the most stupid, the errors in the thought of the most intelligent.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“The bashful are always aggressive at heart.”
Source: Human Nature and the Social Order
“The bashful beggar has an empty purse.”
“The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love,
The matron's glance that would those looks reprove.”
Source: Delphi Poetry Anthology: The World's Greatest Poems
“The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.”
Source: The poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith, with the life of the author, embellished with vignettes by T. Bewick
“The basic aggregate measure of gearing or leverage is telling us that today's advanced economies' operating systems are more heavily dependent on private sector credit than anything we have ever seen before. Furthermore, this pattern is seen across all the advanced economies, and isn't just a feature of some special subset (e.g. the Anglo-Saxons).”
“The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language.”
Source: The Straight Mind: And Other Essays
“The basic and essential human is the woman.”
“The basic and most fundamental element to business is creating value - creating value for others and making their lives better in some way. If you can do that, put a price on it, communicate it clearly and get it to buyers….. you’re in business.”
“The basic answer is that I wasn't happy or fulfilled by the job I had and I wanted my life to mean something to me, so I searched my life experience and realized that acting and performing were activities that I enjoyed all aspects of.”
“The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself.”
Source: The Courage To Be
“The basic approach of the community economy is to benefit and to simplify the sound results of the market economy to build a knowledge base for the informal economy and then to redefine these concepts in an alternative model adapted to the context of the ethnic economy.”
Source: Succeeding through the informal way
“The basic assumption of tantra is that God not only exists in the superconscious, God also exists in the lowest forms of existence.”
“The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.”
“The basic Buddhist insight is that if much suffering is self-caused through habitual maladaptive behavior, then much suffering can also be alleviated through the intentional development of a skillful life of health and awareness.”
Source: Living Skillfully: Buddhist Philosophy of Life from the Vimalakirti Sutra
“The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman.”
“The basic building block of peace and security for all peoples is economic and social security, anchored in sustainable development. It is a key to all problems. Why? Because it allows us to address all the great issues-poverty, climate, environment and political stability-as parts of the whole.”
“The basic cause of all our difficulties is immaturity. That's why I talk so much about peace within ourselves as a step toward peace in our world. If we were mature, war would not be possible and peace would be assured. In our immaturity we do not know the laws of the universe, and we think evil can be overcome by more evil. One symptom of our immaturity is greed, making it difficult for us to learn the simple lesson of sharing.”
“The basic cause of misery is man's incapacity to give love. Man asks for love, but he is not willing to give love. He demands love, but he has forgotten that unless you give, you cannot get. Giving comes first, and then getting happens on its own accord. And when love comes without asking or demanding,it brings joy and happiness.
This is something fundamental to understand: give and forget about getting back. Then it comes back a thousandfold. It starts showering on you, because that is the nature of existence. Whatever we give comes back.
Love has to be given without any desire for getting - and then joy and happiness is yours.”
Source: Meditation: A Love Affair with the Whole - Thousand and One Flowers of Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Freedom, Beauty and the Divine
“The basic change in the landscape since my salad days started with the defensive rediscovery of history and politics by all the theoretically-oriented academics in the late seventies and eighties.”
“The basic concept of value to a private owner and being motivated when you're buying and selling securities by reference to intrinsic value instead of price momentum - I don't think that will ever be outdated.”
“The basic condition of human life is happiness.”
“The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be.”
Source: The Wretched of the Earth
“The basic consciousness structure is perfectly organized according to the principles of sacred geometry, even though the physical structure of the Universe looks to be very random.”
Source: How to Kiss the Universe: An Inspirational Spiritual and Metaphysical Narrative about Human Origin, Essence and Destiny
“The basic definition of the business and of its purpose and mission have to be translated into objectives.”
Source: People and Performance
“The basic difference between an argument and a fight: an argument, done skillfully, gets people to want to do what you want. You fight to win; you argue to achieve agreement.”
Source: Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion
“The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.”
Source: Tales of Power
“The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.”
“The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always graver than its performance - whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being played.”
“The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.”
“The basic dream of many Colombians is to have a secure nation, without exclusions, with equity, and without hatred.”
“The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.”
“The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. Each of us emerges from the preconsciousness of babyhood and simply finds himself here, in it, in the world. That experience alone astonishes some people. What is all this - what is the world? And what are we? From the beginning of humanity some have been under a compulsion to ask these questions, and have felt a craving for the answers. This is what is really meant by any such phrase as 'mankind's need for metaphysics.'”
“The basic economic resource - the means of production -
is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor.
It is and will be knowledge.”
“The Basic Eight and Watch Your Mouth both have first-person voices, and I ended up investigating those voices and investing so much in them that I think many people took them more seriously than they ought to have.”
“The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it.”
Source: Stop Working for Uncle Sam: If you are working for money you are under Uncle Sam system. You need to get out fast. This book will help you do it.
“The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.”
“The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.”
Source: Mystery and Manners
“The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.”
“The basic fact is that no, this isn't ideal. Very few things are. Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push,so to speak.”
“The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.”
Source: Congressmen's Primer for Socialism
“The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude”
“The basic feature in the present-day- strategic human resource consultancy in devising the right processes with HR digital practices, for an organization routing organizational performance towards accomplishing organizational goals, both - long-term goals and short-term goals, aligned with the organization’s vision and mission.”
“The basic formula of all sin is: frustrated or neglected love.”
“The basic formula of life... SURVIVE. EAT. SHIT. FUCK. BUY A HOUSE and DIE. It's all been scripted. But there's no need to see the second act. You already know how the play ends, don't you?”
Source: The Poor Man's Guide to Suicide
“The basic formulation, or bare-bones mechanics, of natural selection is a disarmingly simple argument, based on three undeniable facts (overproduction of offspring, variation, and heritability) and one syllogistic inference (natural selection, or the claim that organisms enjoying differential reproductive success will, on average, be those variants that are fortuitously better adapted to changing local environments, and that these variants will then pass their favored traits to offspring by inheritance).”
“The basic foundation of humanity is compassion and love. This is why, if even a few individuals simply try to create mental peace and happiness within themselves and act responsibly and kind-heartedly towards others, they will have a positive influence in their community.”