T Quotes
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“Though normally the handshake simply confirmed the trustworthiness of an agreement, with perhaps an aura of divine protection, Attic grave reliefs suggest a further extension of the idea for they "show handshaking as a symbol of Faith at the parting between the dead and the living. Thus, handshaking was not only a sign of agreement among the living, but the gesture of trust and faith in the supreme departure." With us the handshake is hardly a conscious gesture, but nonetheless one does not expect to be attacked by someone with whom one has just shaken hands. A refusal of a proffered handshake, however, would make the ritual gesture conscious indeed: breaking the ritual raises ominous questions that would require an explanation.”
Source: Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age
“Though not a participant in the Business of life; I am, like the character of Addison and Steele, an impartial (or more or less impartial) Spectator, who finds not a little recreation in watching the antics of those strange and puny puppets called men.”
“Though not a remarkably precocious child in other respects, she seemed to have very clear and correct views on almost every subject connected with her duty to God and her neighbor; was very truthful both in word and deed, very strict in her observance of the Sabbath - though the rest of the family were by no means particular in that respect - very diligent in her studies, respectful to superiors, and kind to inferiors and equals; and she was gentle, sweet-tempered, patient, and forgiving to a remarkable degree.”
“Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children.”
Source: The Mulberry Tree
“Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves.”
Source: Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley
“Though not everyone can attend seminary, every Christian has a seminary between two covers - the Holy Bible. God's Word is a school that trains us for the work He has planned for us on earth.”
“Though not everything is so easy in doing, ponder before you say something is far difficult to do! When you think of the difficulty in getting it done, think and think again; you may have spent the same time you should have used for the utmost preparations that could have made the difficulty you look at but cannot see the panacea on something else, or you are not finding the necessary time, wit, courage, tenacity and the will power to release your whole and true self to master the very act and art of making difficult things easier!”
“Though not my field, I was familiar with the notion of alternative realities, but was not used to occupying the one I liked the best.”
“Though not of my favourites, I still count some good points. Immense light, Abundant sunshine. All views soaked in yellow and white. Vision is too clear and bright. Ice, cool drinks, meals are light. Tanny, sweaty, longer daytimes. Well! let's say hello to Summertime!”
“Though not untidy, exactly, it verged on being so. Books were stacked on every available surface; the tables were cluttered papers, ashtrays, bottles of whiskey, boxes of chocolates; umbrellas and galoshes made passage difficult in the narrow hall… Camilla’s night table was littered with empty teacups, leaky pens, dead marigolds in a water glass, and at the foot of her bed was a half-played game of solitaire… everywhere I looked was some fresh oddity: an old stereopticon, arrowheads in a dusty glass case, a staghorn fern, a bird’s skeleton…”
Source: The Secret History
“Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.”
“Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be...”
“Though nothing can prepare us for the process of dying or experiencing the death of a loved one, we can take steps to appreciate those we love and remind them how we feel. It's important that those we value know in the moment how much of a difference their lives make on ours - right now.”
Source: Between Two Worlds: Lessons From the Other Side
“Though now, of all that could have been, there is nothing.”
Source: By the Numbers
“Though now this grained face of mine be hid
In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow,
And all the conduits of my blood froze up,
Yet hath my night of life some memory,
My wasting lamps some fading glimmer left,
My dull deaf ears a little use to hear.”
Source: The Comedy of Errors
“Though now we think of fairy tales as stories intended for very young children, this is a relatively modern idea. In the oral tradition, magical stories were enjoyed by listeners young and old alike, while literary fairy tales (including most of the tales that are best known today) were published primarily for adult readers until the 19th century.”
“Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.”
Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde
“Though, of course - if you were here, wouldn't he still be as well?”
Source: A Little Life
“Though, of course - if you were here, wouldn't he still be here as well?”
Source: A Little Life
“Though old and wise, yet still advise.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“Though omnipotence may seem to be endangered by the threshold passages and life awakenings, protective power is always and ever present within the sanctuary of the heart and even immanent within, or just behind, the unfamiliar features of the world. One has only to know and trust, and the ageless guardians will appear. Having responded to his own call, and continuing to follow courageously as the consequences unfold, the hero finds all the forces of the unconscious at his side.”
Source: The Hero with a Thousand Faces
“Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.”
Source: The Hunchback of Notre Dame: 2
“Though One Brahman is the Cause of the Many. ... Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads you astray.”
“Though one can accept, and still not forgive; and one can decide, and still not enact the decision.”
Source: The Magus
“Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“Though one cannot always Remember exactly why one has been happy, There is no forgetting that one was.”
“Though one may acquire much in wealth, fame, or honor, the real joy of life does not lie there but, rather, in keeping the romance of living going. Nothing gives such complete and profound happiness as the perpetually fresh wonder and mystery of exciting life.”
“Though one’s occupation for his or her livelihood involves physical work or menial labor, it is held that the job carries dignity, compared to the jobs that involve more intellect than body.”
“Though one’s occupation for his or her livelihood involves physical work or menial labour, it is held that the job carries dignity, compared to the jobs that involve more intellect than body.”
“Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative.”
“Though one should live through all the time from Adam and all the time to come before the judgment day doing good works, yet he who, energising in his highest, purest part, crosses from time to eternity, verily in the sight of God this man conceives and does far more than anyone who lives throughout all past and future time, because this now includes the whole of time. One master says that in crossing over time into the now each power of the soul will surpass itself. . . .”
“Though one were fair as roses His beauty clouds and closes.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)
“Though only you can make the road to change, you can be given precious indications about which road to follow”
“Though opposition is a hopeless task, acquiescence would be worse.”
“Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.”
Source: The History of Freedom: Great Event
“Though others before him had triumphed three times, Pompeius, by having gained his first triumph over Libya, his second over Europe, and this the last over Asia, seemed in a manner to have brought the whole world into his three triumphs.”
Source: Parallel Lives -
“Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at ease, our senses will never inform us of what he suffers. They never did and never can carry us beyond our own persons, and it is by the imagination only that we form any conception of what are his sensations...His agonies, when they are thus brought home to ourselves, when we have this adopted and made them our own, begin at last to affect us, and we then tremble and shudder at the thought of what he feels.”
“Though our castes and institutions are apparently linked with our religion, they are not so. These institutions have been necessary to protect us as a nation, and when this necessity for self-preservation will no more exist, they will die a natural death. But the older I grow, the better I seem to think of these time-honored institutions of India. There was a time when I used to think that many of them were useless and worthless; but the older I grew, the more I seem to feel a diffidence in cursing any one of them, for each one of them is the embodiment of the experience of centuries. A child of but yesterday, destined to die the day after tomorrow, comes to me and asks me to change all my plans; and if I hear the advice of that baby and change all my surroundings according to his ideas, I myself should be a fool, and no one else. Much of the advice that is coming to us from different countries is similar to this. Tell these wiseacres: "I will hear you when you have made a society yourselves. You cannot hold on to one idea for two days, you quarrel and fail; you are born like moths in the spring and die like them in five minutes. You come up like bubbles and burst like bubbles too. First form a stable society like ours. First make laws and institutions that remain undiminished in their power through scores of centuries. Then will be the time to talk on the subject with you, but till then, my friend, you are only a giddy child.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Volume 3
“Though our challenges are fearsome, so are our strengths. Americans have ever been a relentless, questioning, hopeful people.”
“Though our childhood abuse left us feeling someone ought to make reparation to us, if we wait a lifetime for that, we may never receive what we need. We choose instead to face the idea that from now on, we are going to take responsibility for caring for ourselves.”
Source: Beyond Survival: A Writing Journey for Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse
“Though our collective level of knowledge may always be defined by a certain set of answers, we are never limited by the questions we may pose.”
Source: Mind Games: 25 Thought Experiments to Ignite Your Imagination
“Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.”
Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words
“Though our loved ones may push us towards success, it is often our enemies who drive us to secure the final nail in the coffin of our accomplishments.”
“Though our main emphasis is intercession, a word may not be out of place here on the use of tongues in praise and thanksgiving. ‘If you bless with the Spirit . . . you may give thanks well enough’ (verses 16, 17). Paul’s restricting of the gift here is because of the presence of ‘the other man’ Who is not helped by an utterance he does not understand. In the solitude of one’s own devotions these restrictions no longer apply. Only God is present, and ‘one Who speaks in tongues speaks not to men but to God’ (verse 2).
But is it not better to do it in your mother tongue and understand What you are saying? Not necessarily, or God would never have given this gift, nor would Paul have used it so much. Have we not known times when, in adoration of the Lord, we feel the inadequacy of our own language to express all that we feel in our hearts? The very language which is usually an indispensable channel of communication seems to become a barrier to communication. It is then that this gift comes to our aid, and the human spirit is released in an utterance of praise or thanksgiving that would not have been possible in our native tongue.”
Source: Pray in the Spirit
“Though our paths may have diverged, you must continue to live out your life with all your might, you must never consider your own life to be something insignificant, and you must never forget about your friends for as long as you live.”
“Though our private desires are ever so confused, though our private requests are ever so broken, and though our private groanings are ever so hidden from men, yet God eyes them, records them, and puts them upon the file of heaven, and will one day crown them with glorious answers and returns.”
“Though our Savior's passion is over, his compassion is not.”
“Though our sin has marred biblical womanhood, it has not erased it. And God, through the power of the cross and His spirit, has given us a means of redeeming what has been lost.”
Source: Redeeming the Feminine Soul: God’s Surprising Vision for Womanhood
“Though our skin colors may be different, though our languages may be different, as we look at the belly button, the symbol of our ultimate connection, we should remember that we are one family that has come from the same Source of life.”
Source: Belly Button Healing: Unlocking Your Second Brain for a Healthy Life