T Quotes
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“Those who write as they speak, even though they speak well, write badly.”
“Those who write clearly have readers.”
“Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.”
Source: Alms for oblivion: essays
“Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write,
Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
“Those who write need that "willing suspension of disbelief ", as Coleridge called it.”
Source: Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey
“Those who write nothing know nothing of life, and those who do not live do not know what one writes.”
“Those who write obscurely are lucky: they will have commentators. The others will have only readers, fact that seems to be shameful.”
“Those who write software only for pay should go hurt some other field.”
“Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.”
“Those who wrote the Constitution clearly understood that power is dangerous and needs to be limited by being separated - separated not only into the three branches of the national government but also separated as between the whole national government, on the one hand, and the states and the people on the other.”
Source: Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays
“Those who yearn for the end of capitalism should pray for government by men who believe that all positive action is inimical to what they call thoughtfully the fundamental principles of free enterprise.”
“Those who yearn for true spiritual light and knowledge can only find it through the power of the Holy Ghost. The Spirit enlightens and gives understanding of the eternal purpose of life. By the Spirit, Church members know the restored gospel of Jesus Christ is true.”
Source: When Thou Art Converted: Continuing Our Search for Happiness
“Those who yearned for years for love after betrayal, are afraid and cautious when they find it.”
“Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.”
Source: The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by P. Motteux
“Those who've been rescued from sin are best able to help in the rescue of others.”
“Those who, animal-like, live solely according to the senses... misuse God's creation in order to indulge the passions. They do not understand the principle of that wisdom which is revealed to all: that we should know and praise God through His creation and that by means of the visible world we should understand whence we came, what we are, for what purpose we were made and where we are going. On the contrary, they travel through this present age in darkness... with... ignorance of God.”
“Those who, either from their own engagements and hurry of business, or from indolence, or from conceit and vanity, have neglected looking out of themselves, as far as my experience and observation reach, have from that time not only ceased to advance, and improve in their performances, but have gone backward. They may be compared to men who have lived upon their principal, till they are reduced to beggary, and left without resources.”
“Those who, from the desire of our perfection, have the keenest eye far our faults generally compensate for it by taking a higher view of our merits than we deserve.”
“Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.”
“Those who, like the beasts, have no such Hope, pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.”
“Those who, relying upon themselves only, not looking for assistance to anyone besides themselves, it is they who will reach the top-most height.”
“Those whom even love cannot shake from their habitual aversion to risk and inertia are those who are truly unredeemable.”
Source: A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-first Century
“Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards.”
“Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.”
“Those whom God calls to such a ministry - and a call is essential - must be prepared for a pathway of unpopularity and misunderstanding. "You troubler of Israel" was the way Ahab addressed Elijah.”
“Those whom God will employ are first struck with a sense of their unworthiness to be employed.”
Source: The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition
“Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.”
Source: War and Peace: Top 100 Classic Novels
“Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.”
“Those whom heaven helps we call the sons of heaven. They do not learn this by learning. They do not work it by working. They do not reason it by using reason. To let understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high attainment. Those who cannot do it will be destroyed on the lathe of heaven. —Chuang Tse: XXIII”
Source: The Lathe Of Heaven
“Those whom I treated
well are those who do
me the most injury now”
“those whom love has held, has held here in time
curious, in this labyrinth of roses—it
will go on holding, though in cruelty—of
stars we could not reach for, but still remembered.”
Source: the ghost dancers
“Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961
“Those whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme”
Source: The first book of Milton's Paradise lost: with a prose tr. and notes, by J. Hunter
“Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals.”
“Those whom the gods love grow young.”
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.”
“Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.”
“Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.”
Source: Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works
“Those whom we first love we seldom marry”
Source: The Best Of O. Henry
“Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us.”
“Those whom we support hold us up in life.”
“Those whom you can make like themselves better will, I promise you, like you very well.”
Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author
“Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence.”
Source: The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler
“Those whose acquaintance with scientific research is derived chiefly from its practical results easily develop a completely false notion of the mentality of the men who, surrounded by a skeptical world, have shown the way to kindred spirits scattered wide through the world and through the centuries. Only one who has devoted his life to similar ends can have a vivid realization of what has inspired these men and given them the strength to remain true to their purpose in spite of countless failures. It is cosmic religious feeling that gives a man such strength. A contemporary has said, not unjustly, that in this materialistic age of ours the serious scientific workers are the only profoundly religious people.”
Source: The World As I See It
“Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.”
“Those whose cause is just will never lack good arguments.”
Source: Euripides: Alcestis. The Medea. The Heracleidae. Hippolytus. The Cyclops. Heracles. Iphigenia in Tauris. Helen. Hecuba. Andromache. The Trojan women
“Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.”
Source: Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works
“Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.”
“Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.”
“Those whose courses are different cannot lay plans for one another.”
Source: The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius