T Quotes
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“Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.”
“Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
[Lat., Licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio, frequenter tamen causa virtutem est.]”
“Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)
“Though Americans talk a good deal about the virtue of being serious, they generally prefer people who are solemn over people who are serious. In politics, the rare candidate who is serious, like Adlai Stevenson, is easily overwhelmed by one who is solemn, like General Eisenhower. This is probably because it is hard for most people to recognize seriousness, which is rare, especially in politics, but comfortable to endorse solemnity, which is as commonplace as jogging.”
“Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship's decks, like hungry dogs round a table where red meat is being carved, ready to bolt down every killed man that is tossed to them.”
Source: Moby-Dick
“Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.”
“Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Though an inheritance of acres may be bequeathed, an inheritance of knowledge and wisdom cannot. The wealthy man may pay others for doing his work for him; but it is impossible to get his thinking done for him by another, or to purchase any kind of self-culture.”
Source: Self-help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance
“Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)
“Though angels were easy to finds in cemeteries, she said that she didn't especially care for funereal angels and tombstone cherubs -- she wanted her angels among the living, not watching over the already dead -- and thus she scoured parks and gardens for the angels with whom, on some level, she wanted to commune.”
Source: Secrets of Eden
“Though anger seems a pessimistic response to a situation, it is at root a symptom of hope: the hope that the world can be better than it is. The man who shouts every time he loses his house keys is betraying a beautiful but rash faith in a universe in which keys never go astray. The woman who grows furious every time a politician breaks an election promise reveals a precariously utopian belief that elections do not involve deceit.
The news shouldn’t eliminate angry responses; but it should help us to be angry for the right reasons, to the right degree, for the right length of time – and as part of a constructive project.
And whenever this isn’t possible, then the news should help us with mourning the twisted nature of man and reconciling us to the difficulty of being able to imagine perfection while still not managing to secure it – for a range of stupid but nevertheless unbudgeable reasons.”
Source: News
“Though angorai rejoiced with bagpipe and drum, no cheery music was heard by either of the siblings. Though angorai danced and twisted in odd shapes and contortions, there was no laughter.”
Source: Sabre Black
“Though Anne was born in Alabama and schooled in Mississippi, she had traveled North, and, like many Southerners, gained a theoretical understanding of the concept of cold. But the mind is an overprotective parent. What it doesn't care for, it hides. Like many inhabiting the subtropics, Anne had repressed the reality of subzero mercury.”
Source: Monday Mourning: A Novel
“Though anti-Semitism had been only one of several sources of Nazi voting strength, after 1933 Hitler placed anti-Semitic ideologues, the most important of whom were Joseph Goebbels, Otto Dietrich and Alfred Rosenberg, at the top of the key opinion-shaping institutions. In a dictatorship resting on the 'leadership principle', Hitler's anti-Semitic convictions defined policy.”
Source: The Jewish Enemy
“Though Apartheid policies were officially rescinded in South Africa, the Apartheid mentality and various other forms of racial discrimination still thrive in the world.”
“Though are hands are chained like they are, they haven't taken music from us yet. So that's how I'll fight. People tell me don't quit like everyone else. I wont have no fear.”
“Though argument does not create conviction, the lack of it destroys belief.”
Source: If I Had Lunch with C.S. Lewis: Exploring the Ideas of C.S. Lewis on the Meaning of Life
“Though as he'd say, what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?”
Source: MaddAddam: Book 3 of The MaddAddam Trilogy
“Though at this moment she felt abused, abandoned, and ashamed of herself, Madeleine knew that she was still young, that she had her whole life ahead of her--a life in which, if she persevered, she might do something special--and that part of persevering meant getting past moments just like this one, when people made you feel small, unlovable, and took away your confidence.”
Source: The Marriage Plot: A Novel
“Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold.”
“Though Autism can be frightening and terribly demanding, it also comes with its vast share of superpowers that are unknown to the typical human.”
“Though aware that there is nothing in the universe that suggests any purpose for humanity, one way that we can find a purpose is to study the universe by the methods of science, without consoling ourselves with fairy tales about its future, or about our own.”
Source: Lake Views
“Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.”
Source: The Holy State and the Profane State
“Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.”
“Though beauty is autonomous, there seem to be occasions when human presence can become congruent with her will. In creative work no amount of force or mechanical management can guarantee beauty. Suddenly, without expecting it, beauty is there. Yet ultimately beauty is a profound illumination of presence, a stirring of the invisible in visible form and in order to receive this we need to cultivate a new style of approaching the world.”
“Though beauty is, with the most apt similitude, I had almost said with the most literal truth, called a flower that fades and dies almost in the very moment of its maturity; yet there is, methinks, a kind of beauty which lives even to old age; a beauty that is not in the features, but, if I may be allowed the expression, shines through them. As it is not merely corporeal it is not the object of mere sense, nor is it to be discovered but by persons of true taste and refined sentiment.”
“Though beliefs and behavior of racial, cultural and religious supremacy may not be considered clinical illness today, soon in the near future they will be considered as such.”
Source: Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society
“Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.”
“Though bonobos tend to be a lot hairier than us—and they don’t build houses or churches or Pentagons like we do—these primates look and act remarkably human. They often even go beyond the merely “human,” and enter the realm of the truly “humane.”
Source: The Bonobo Way
“Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.”
Source: The reminiscences of an astronomer
“Though both are bound in the spiral dance, I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess.”
“Though both erotica and pornography refer to verbal or pictorial representations of sexual behavior, they are as different as a room with doors open and one with doors locked. The first might be a home, but the second could only be a prison.”
Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions
“Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.”
“Though business conditions may change, corporations and securities may change, and financial institutions and regulations may change, human nature remains the same. Thus the important and difficult part of sound investment, which hinges upon the investor's own temperament and attitude, is not much affected by the passing years.”
Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel
“Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.”
“Though chains be of gold, they are chains all the same.”
“Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.”
Source: Light in August: a concordance to the novel
“Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, If he's not born
in thee thy soul is still forlorn.”
“Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism”
“Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments.”
“Though colour may appear at first a part of painting merely mechanical, yet it still has its rules, and those grounded upon that presiding principle which regulates both the great and the little in the study of a painter.”
Source: Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait
“Though completely armed with knowledge and endowed with power, we are blind and impotent in a world we have equipped and organized-a world of which we now fear the inextricable complexity.”
“Though confidence is very fine, and makes the future sunny; I want no confidence for mine, I'd rather have the money”
“Though confined to our destiny, we do get to pick the color scheme.”
“Though Confucius served the Duke of Lu, a Chinese state, he made many enemies with the nobles of the land. His views antagonized the powerful nobles, who wanted the Duke to be a puppet in their hands. Confucius was exiled from the State of Lu for more than two decades. He lived in the countryside, spreading his teachings.”
“Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.”
Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
“Though courtrooms are created for the purpose of delivering justice to litigants, the litigant is seen as one who is at the receiving end of the entire system. The judges and the lawyers occupy the central position within the courtroom rather than acting as the service providers. Their subjectivities influence the process. The process, approach, and environment of the courtrooms are not litigant-friendly. The daily nitty gritty, bureaucratic procedures and technicalities observed in the courtrooms further create trouble for litigants who may lack legal knowledge or awareness and may hamper the smooth process of law. The black
and white rules of law, are clouted with the shades of the subjectivities exhibited by different actors, and the outcome or the decisions of the courts are determined by various factors apart from the legal rules.”
“Though culture and media often serve as mirrors to society, their acceptance does not serve as an alibi for poor behavior. It is our responsibility to question, critique, and rise above, not merely conform to flawed standards.”
“Though Death be poor, it ends a mortal woe.”
Source: The Works of Shakespeare: Much ado about nothing. All's well that ends well. The life and death of King John. The life and death of King Richard II
“Though death might still the show, life would be the most critiqued act of our existence. Own your stage.”