T Quotes
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“Those who won't take a chance don't have a chance.”
Source: Staying Up, Up, Up in a Down, Down World: Daily Hope for the Daily Grind
“Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth-Brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from God.”
“Those who work hard, work alone.
Those who work smart, work as a team.”
Source: The Event Usher’s Handbook
“Those who work ought to live better than those that don't.”
“Those who work standing ... carpenters, sawyers, carvers, blacksmiths, masons ... are liable to varicose veins ... [because] the strain on the muscles is such that the circulation of the blood is retarded. Standing even for a short time proves exhausting compared with walking and running though it be for a long time ... Nature delights and is restored by alternating and varied actions.”
“Those who work the hardest are the last to surrender.”
“Those who worry about the treatment of animals are often accused of sentimentality or of putting the plight of beasts before the immense problems of humanity. But it is quite rare to find a humanitarian who is indifferent to animals and surprisingly common to find that those who belittle animal rights are the same ones who find the pain of humans easy to bear.”
Source: The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens
“Those who worship and adore the Lord through the Guru's Word forget all their pain and suffering.”
“Those who worship don't know, and those who know don't worship.”
“Those who worship gold in a world so corrupt as this we live in have at least one thing to plead in defense of their idolatry--the power of their idol. It is true that, like other idols, it can neither move, see, hear, feel, nor understand; but, unlike other idols, it has often communicated all these powers to those who had them not, and annihilated them in those who had. This idol can boast of two peculiarities; it is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.”
“Those who would abuse your trust for their own benefit can do it well, but only one time.”
“Those who would administer [charity] wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. It were better for mankind that the millions of the rich were thrown into the sea than spent to encourage the slothful, the drunken, the unworthy. Of every thousand dollars spent in so-called charity today, it is probable that nine hundred and fifty dollars is unwisely spent - so spent, indeed, as to produce the very evils which it hopes to mitigate or cure.”
“Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.”
Source: The Gospel of Wealth Essays and Other Writings
“Those who would assail the Book of Mormon should bear in mind that its veracity is no more dubious than the veracity of the Bible, say, or the Qur'an, or the sacred texts of most other religions. The latter texts simply enjoy the considerable advantage of having made their public debut in the shadowy recesses of the ancient past, and are thus much harder to refute.”
Source: Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
“Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.”
“Those who would be called tyrants cannot be called free men.”
“Those who would be employed in propagating the Gospel should be familiar with the doctrines he is to combat and the doctrines he is to teach, and acquire a complete knowledge both of the Sacred Scriptures and of these philosophical and mythological dogmas which form the souls of the Buddhist and Hindu Systems.”
“Those who would circumcise, implicitly suggest that they know better than nature, God, or whatever power created us and our world.”
Source: Circumcision: The Hidden Trauma : how an American Cultural Practice Affects Infants and Ultimately Us All
“Those who would criminalize same-sex sexual activities don't care how often or exclusively you do it. Bisexual folks suffer from these laws just as surely as lesbian or gay man who never, ever, has an opposite-sex partner. Queer bashers don't care that sometimes by folks sleep with opposite-sex partners. In their eyes there is no such thing as half-queer”
“Those who would extirpate evil from the world know little of human nature. As well might punch be palatable without souring as existence agreeable without care.”
Source: London Journal, 1762-1763, as First Published in 1950 from the Original Manuscript
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
Source: The Complete Works of Benjamin Franklin: Letters and Papers on Electricity, Philosophical Subjects, General Politics, Moral Subjects & the Economy, American Subjects Before & During the Revolution
“Those who would give up liberty for safety deserve neither.”
“Those who would give up their civil liberties for security deserve neither.”
“Those who would give us a "living" Constitution are actually giving us a dead one, since such a thing is completely unable to protect us against the encroachments of government power.”
“Those who would give us equal opportunity for everybody are threatened by it. They are afraid to lose their privileged positions. They pay lip service to it, they act by half measures and do everything to violate the laws they have themselves instituted to make sure the high class is always high. It never changes, it always goes in a circle, when the oppressed fight and get to the top, and they become the new elite and forget the promises.”
Source: Book of Wisdom
“Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.”
Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“Those who would judge us merely by the heights we have achieved would do well to remember the depths from which we started.”
Source: Dark days in Ghana
“Those who would know much, and love little, will ever remain at but the beginning of a godly life.”
“Those who would know the world, seek first within your beings' depths; those who would truly know themselves, develop interest in the world.”
“Those who would later lament Seif and his father's (Qaddafi) regime are like a man who looks at the ashes and says, "I much prefer the fire”
Source: The Return
“Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us.”
“Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against gravity, electricity and the unreasonable velocity of light, and also, should introduce a clause to prevent the use of the telescope, the microscope and the spectroscope or any other instrument of precision which may in the future be invented, constructed or used for the discovery of truth.”
“Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.”
“Those who would make us feel must feel themselves.”
“Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.”
“Those who would practice magic must be scrupulously honest in their personal lives. In one sense, magic works on the principle that 'it is so because I say it is so.' For words to take on such force, you must be deeply and completely convinced that it is identified with truth as you know it. To a person who practices honesty and keeps commitments, 'As I will, so mote it be' is not just a pretty phrase; it is a statement of fact.”
“Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?”
“Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history.”
Source: Chapterhouse: Dune
“Those who would rule with an iron fist always fear the free expression of opinions by those they would suppress.”
“Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“Those who would see abortion banned like to pose hypothetical questions about the remarkable baby a woman could have if she just didn’t get an abortion: What if they cured cancer? Rarely, if ever, does anyone ask if that woman herself might change the world.”
Source: Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win
“Those who would send out thousands of questionnaires asking the unconverted what they would desire most in a worship service should realize that ten thousand unanimous opinions of carnal men do not carry the authority of one jot or tittle of God's Word.”
“Those who would successfully deny God must first blot out His creation, put a blanket over the sun, and root up every flower.”
Source: The Arts and the Christian Imagination: Essays on Art, Literature, and Aesthetics
“Those who would take over the earth and shape it to their will, never, I notice succeed.”
“Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither.”
“Those who would trade safety for freedom deserve neither.”
“Those who would wage war, should first eliminate all domestic enemies before proceeding to attack the external foe.”
“Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.”
Source: DUBLIN'S LIVES
“Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.”
“Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.”