T Quotes
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“Though these young men unhappily fail to understand that the sacrifice of life is, in many cases, the easiest of all sacrifices, and that to sacrifice, for instance, five or six years of their seething youth to hard and tedious study, if only to multiply tenfold their power of serving the truth and the cause they have set before them as their goal, such a sacrifice is utterly beyond the strength of many of them.”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov
“Though these young men unhappily fail to
understand that the sacrifice of life is, in many cases, the easiest of
all sacrifices, and that to sacrifice, for instance, five or six years of
their seething youth to hard and tedious study, if only to multiply
tenfold their powers of serving the truth and the cause they have set
before them as their goal--such a sacrifice is utterly beyond the strength
of many of them.”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov
“Though they control scores of industrial, commercial, mining and tourist corporations, not one bears the name Rothschild. Being private partnerships, the family houses never need to, and never do, publish a single public balance sheet, or any other report of their financial condition.”
Source: The Rothschilds: A Family Portrait
“Though they go mad they shall be sane, though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; though lovers be lost love shall not; and death shall have no dominion.”
“Though they have a Christ in their heads, they have no Christ in their hearts.”
Source: Sermons on important subjects
“though they know in their adult hearts,
even as they threaten to banish Timmy to bed
for his appalling behavior,
that their bosses are Big Fatty Stupids,
their wives are Dopey Dopeheads
and that they themselves are Mr. Sillypants.”
Source: The Apple that Astonished Paris
“Though they live far from the coast, they retain a great fascination and passion for the ocean. The sound of crashing waves, the smell of salt air, it affects them deeply and has inspired many of their lovliest songs. There is one that tells of this love, if you want to hear it.”
Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance
“Though they love people, the Christians are enemies of our life, our gods and our crimes; hence she fled from me, as from a man who belongs to our [Roman] society, and with whom she would have to share a life counted criminal by Christians...I should not have stopped her from believing in her Christ, and would myself have reared an altar to Him in the atrium. What harm could one more god do me? Why might I not believe in Him, - I who do not believe over much in the old gods? ...It would not be difficult for me even to renounce other gods, for no reasoning mind believes in them at present. But it seems that all this is not enough yet for the Christians. It is not enough to honor Christ, one must also live according to His teachings; and here thou art on the shore of a sea which they command thee to wade through.
Quo Vadis”
“Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.”
“Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and the moderate who are poles apart and never meet.”
Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER
“Though they themselves might be as surprised as their parents and teachers to hear it said, adolescents--these poignantly thin- skinned and vulnerable, passionate and impulsive, starkly sexual and monstrously self-absorbed creatures--are, in fact, avid seekers of moral authenticity. They wish above all to achieve some realistic power over the real world in which they live while at the same time remaining true to their values and ideals.”
“Though they were Liberals they were not democrats; nor yet infidels.”
Source: Phineas Redux
“Though they were not familiar with the expression,to paraphrase the saying, when any country in the Sahel sneezes, the rest of the region catches pneumonia, the men there would have clicked their tongues and ruefully nodded their heads that 'woolayi' this was the truth.”
Source: Between Dunes and Hard Places
“Though they won't say, it has been estimated that Cargill and ADM together probably buy somewhere near a third of all the corn grown in America.”
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
“Though things change, the future's still inside of me.”
“Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.”
“Though this child came in with nothing but excess baby fat, chemical brain waves, and mother and son bodily toxins on his legs, he had a fate fit for a modern day demigod.”
“Though this is my first trip to the United Kingdom, I am a proud Anglophile. I admire the practical temperament of the people. I love the artful details of daily life: a hand-stitched tea cozy in the shape of a Victorian mansion, the Wellie boots, the sheep's wool stockings, and the best tailors in the world.”
Source: Rococo
“Though this life promised him nothing that the people of this great town called good and struggled to acquire: neither apartment, property, social success nor money, there were other joys, sufficient in themselves, which he had not forgotten how to value: the right to move about without waiting for an order; the right to be alone; the right to gaze at stars that were not blinded by prison-camp searchlights; the right to put the light out at night and sleep in the dark; the right to put letters in a letterbox; the right to rest on Sunday; the right to bathe in the river. Yes, there were many, many more rights like these.”
Source: Cancer Ward
“Though this marriage is a sham, what we share tonight will be real, my lady. I said I'd treat you wi' the same respect I'd show my own true bride, and I meant it. I'd no' be able to call myself a Scotsman if I let you walk across this threshold.”
Source: Defiant
“Though this motion for a new trial is an application to the discretion of the Court, it must be remembered that the discretion to be exercised on such an occasion is not a wild but a sound discretion, and to be confined within those limits within which an honest man, competent to discharge the duties of his office, ought to confine himself. And that discretion will be best exercised by not deviating from the rules laid down by our predecessors; for the practice of the Court forms the law of the Court.”
“Though this must seem a paradox," said Alcuin, "by Christ Himself you shall be strengthened in humility. Submit your will to His and your reward shall be great.”
Source: Son of Charlemagne
“Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards”
“Though this new forest grew mightily, elsewhere the mighty jungles fell. Elsewhere the coastal rain forests that furred the body of the world were torn and riven. Elsewhere the last of the old growth the last of the world's own garment were ripped away. It was in this time, now, that the mother of us all was stripped naked and left to die in shame of her children, she who had been robed in glory like this, adorned like this. I bent my head upon the roots and wept, sorrowing for the trees.”
“Though this world has a way of diminishing and demeaning men and women, the reality is we are all of royal, divine lineage. In that unprecedented appearance of the Father and the Son in the Sacred Grove, the very first word spoken by the Father of us all was the personal name of Joseph. Such is our Father's personal relationship with each of us. He knows our names and yearns for us to become worthy to return to live with Him.”
“Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe”
“Though thou art far away, thy rays are on Earth; Though thou art in their faces, no one knows thy going.”
“Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth.”
“Though thou has never so many counselors, yet do not forsake the counsel of your soul.”
“Though thou wert scattered to the wind, Yet is there plenty of the kind.”
“Though thousand times a thousand in battle one may conquer, yet should one conquer just oneself, one is the greatest conqueror.”
“Though thousands of people indulge themselves in it regularly, and even develop a taste for it, there is no doubt in my mind (and that of scientists whom I employ to prove it) that Work is a dangerous and destructive drug, and should be called by its right name, which is Fatigue.”
Source: The papers of Samuel Marchbanks
“Though through all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he yet understands not the Dharma, as the spoon, the flavor of soup.”
“Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out.”
“Though times have changed, it's a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment returning once more to the cobbled main streets of Europe.”
“Though, to be honest, she was rarely sure if she wanted to be remembered for a passionate embrace or for a passionate punch in the nose.”
Source: Bombshell
“Though to suffer is not to be virtuous, to suffer and become compassionate is.”
“Though to the average person that you'll meet on an airplane, if you tell them you draw comics, they'll still have sort of the same response - not like that's seeped into the culture at large, that comics are not just for kids.”
“Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.”
Source: Abundance for What?
“Though Trish and her bad boy types weren't exactly Kindra's style, she had to agree that Violet went for quiet and uninteresting. Sort of like mild salsa. Why even bother? You'd be better off just biting a tomato.”
Source: Bad Boys Online
“Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.”
Source: An Essay on Criticism
“Though troubles assail And dangers affright, Though friends should all fail And foes all unite; Yet one thing secures us, Whatever betide, The scripture assures us, The Lord will provide.”
Source: The Works of the Rev. John Newton ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, &c
“Though true repentance is never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true.”
Source: The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed
“Though truth and falsehood be Near twins, yet truth a little elder is.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne: With a Memoir
“Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use.”
Source: A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
“Though under earth, and throneless now I be Yet while I lived all earth was under me.”
“Though under-instruction is a bad thing, it is not impossible that over-instruction may be worse.”
Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
“Though unmusical, German is the most expressive of all languages,”
Source: His Last Bow
“Though varying wishes, hopes, and fears,
Fever'd the progress of these years,
Yet now, days, weeks, and months but seem
The recollection of a dream.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart
“Though very poor, may still be very blest.”