T Quotes
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“To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people used to thinking of time in millions of kalpas, (A kalpa is about 4,320,000 years). The fact that the wise men of India have not been concerned with technological applications of this knowledge arises from the circumstance that technology is but one of innumerable ways of applying it.”
“To the Pilgrim Mothers, who not only had their full share of the hardships and privations of pioneer life but also had the Pilgrim Fathers to endure.”
“To the pilot of a deep sea submersible, upon finding out what would happen if the craft sprung a leak while submerged. I'll trust you to make sure that doesn't happen.”
“To the Po'lice
In case you are
wondering
the answer is yes:
you have hurt us. Deeply.
Just as you
intended:
you and those
who sent you.
You do know by now
that you do not send
yourself?
I imagine your Designers
sitting back
in the shadows
laughing
as we weep.
Though usually devoid of feeling,
they are experiencing a sensation
they almost enjoy:
they get to witness, by twisted
enchantment, dozens
of strong black mothers
weeping.
They planned
and nurtured
your hatred and fear
and focused the kill shot.
Then watched you
try to explain
your innocence on TV.
It is entertainment for
them. They chuckle and drink
Watching you squirm.
They have tied you up
in a bag of confusion
from which you
will never escape.
It’s true you are white, but you are so fucking poor,
and dumb, to boot, they say.
A consideration that turns
them pink
with glee.
(They have so many uses planned
for the poor, white, and dumb: you would be
amazed).
You and the weeping mothers
have more in common than you might think:
the mothers know this.
They have known you
far longer
than you have known them. After centuries,
even those in the shadows, your masters,
offer little mystery.
If you could
find your true courage
you might risk everything
to sit within a circle, surrounded
by these women. Their eyes red
from weeping, their throats raw.
(They might strike you too, who could swear
they wouldn’t?)
Their sons are dead
and it was you
who did the deed.
Scary enough.
But within that enclosure
Naked to their grief
Is where you must center
If you are ever
To be freed.”
Source: Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart
“To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps To some reader a latticework of regrets.”
Source: Selected poems
“To the poet,
Every act is poetry;
From cutting the grass,
To cleaning a headstone.
From walking,
To breathing.
Every act is something worth holding
In the mind’s eye and letting go
Onto paper or into the imperfect
Reflective stream of memory.
Every act done simply,
Reminding them of their place here
And the impermanence
Of experience and of the moment.
No matter the situation,
“Yes, and this too is beautiful.”
Is the mantra.”
Source: Legacy
“To the poet,
Every act is poetry;
From cutting the grass,
To cleaning a headstone.
From walking,
To breathing...
...No matter the situation,
“Yes, and this too is beautiful.”
Is the mantra.”
Source: Legacy
“To the Poet, his Art can be either a nourishing nectar or bitter bane.”
“To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.”
Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays
“To the police," Lily said [speaking of five murders], "these five brutal murders are less than coincidence. One of them told me, 'There's no conspiracy, Lily. It's just life.' How do they come to think this way--that death is life? That unnatural death and murder are somehow a natural part of life?”
Source: The Good Guy
“To the possible enquiry as to the probable character of a successful flying machine, the writer would answer that in his judgment two types of such machines may eventually be evolved: one, which may be termed the soaring type, and which will carry but a single operator, and another, likely to be developed somewhat later, which may be termed the journeying type, to carry several passengers, and to be provided with a motor.”
Source: Progress in Flying Machines
“To the possible objection that thus the world would of necessity have long ago turned into a paradise, it is easy to reply: Many substances already may have attained great perfection; yet, the continuum being infinitely divisible, there will always remain in the unfathomable depth of the universe some somnolent elements which are still to be awakened, developed, and improved - in a word, promoted to higher culture. This is why the end of progress can never be attained.”
Source: Monadology and Other Philosophical Essays
“To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean.”
“To the presidents of the chambers, the institutions of the country are on the eve of profound changes, various indications and circumstances have convinced me that it is desirable in the new situation, a new administration should take office, I request you on my behalf to inform the chambers of my abdication, with the highest and most special esteem, your affectionate King,”
“To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.”
Source: Resolutions of Virginia and Kentucky
“To the primitive mind, everything is either friendly or hostile; but experience has shown that friendliness and hostility are not the conceptions by which the world is to be understood.”
Source: Mysticism and Logic
“To the Priory of Sion, the secret organization described in the novel “The DaVinci Code,” the Bear was an animal of the Goddess Diana. The Merovingian kings, from their founder Merovee to Clovis (who converted to Christianity in 496) were kings who worshipped the Goddess Diana.”
Source: The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
“To the PROBLEMS of our life, we are the SOLUTIONS. To the QUESTIONS of our life we are the ANSWERS”
“To the proud the slightest repulse or disappointment is the last indignity.”
Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt
“To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts.”
Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
“To the public, the press is not David among Goliaths; it has become one of the Goliaths, Big Media, a combination of powerful television networks, large magazine groups and newspaper chains that are near-monopolies.”
“To the pure all things are pure!”
Source: Remembrance of Things Past
“To the pure blood of the grape!”
Source: The Vintage Club
“To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic - like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the physicist it is an indispensable characteristic. It would be going too far to say that to the physicist the cat is merely incidental to the grin. Physics is concerned with interrelatedness such as the interrelatedness of cats and grins. In this case the "cat without a grin" and the "grin without a cat" are equally set aside as purely mathematical phantasies.”
Source: The Expanding Universe: Astronomy's 'Great Debate', 1900-1931
“To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.”
“to the Pygmy it is one of the most important differences between the people of the forest and the people of the village that the latter do not know “how to walk”. Walking, to the Pygmy, means being able to run swiftly and silently, without slipping, tripping, or falling. Every day he depends for his food on his ability to “walk,” and more than once his life will be saved by the same ability, when he has to run from a charging buffalo or creep away unnoticed from a sleeping leopard.”
“To the question of writing at all we have sometimes been counselled to forget it, or rather the writing of books. What is required, we are told, is plays and films. Books are out of date! The book is dead, long live television! One question which is not even raised let alone considered is: Who will write the drama and film scripts when the generation that can read and write has been used up?”
Source: Hopes and impediments: selected essays
“To the question what wine he found pleasant to drink, he replied, "That for which other people pay."”
“To the question, "When were your spirits at the lowest ebb?" the obvious answer seemed to be, "When the gin gave out."”
“To the question, What shall we do to be saved in this World? there is no other answer but this, Look to your Moat.”
“To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’... You can make films or you can cultivate a garden. Both have as much claim to being called an art as a poem by Verlaine or a painting by Delacroix… Art is ‘making.’ The art of poetry is the art of making poetry. The art of love is the art of making love... My father never talked to me about art. He could not bear the word.”
“To the question: How do the authors of sketches, stories and novels get along in life, the following answer can or must be given: They are stragglers and they are down at heel.”
“To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger. But, thought Hayduke, what about the smell of fear, Dad?”
Source: The Monkey Wrench Gang
“To the questioning glance of love, as it flashes out and then conceals itself, speech has no reply; the smile, the kiss, the sigh answer.”
Source: The Social Cancer: Noli Me Tangere
“To the quiet mind all things are possible.”
Source: Meister Eckhart
“To the raged wind
In the city of mine
I said
Moon is soft
So dark
So alone
So fragile to split
So vulnerable to fall”
“To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.”
Source: Discourses
“To the rationally minded the mental processes of the intuitive appear to work backwards”
“To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising.”
Source: The American Political Tradition And the Men Who Made It
“To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.”
Source: Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose
“To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.”
Source: The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays
“To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot
“To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.”
Source: The Grapes of Wrath
“To the representatives of theoretical Islam, i.e. Islamic fundamentalists, the Jews, the Christians, the Hindus, the Buddhists and all other humans who are not Muslims, are not just object of extreme detestation, they are, at the worst, lesser humans of false religions. This is not religion my friend. This is primitiveness at its worst.”
Source: The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance
“To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions.”
Source: You Don't Love Me Yet
“To the residents of this small southern town, the past is more than history, it is ancestry. It is a compilation of family stories, told and retold, from one generation to the next. It’s old brown photographs framed in silver on the piano. It’s grandmother’s dishes and the family home and ancient trees planted ages ago that still shade the porch and scrape the knees of children who climb them. It’s stables that have never been without horses and hay and Jack Russell Terriers. It’s gardens that have their roots in the 1800s and their fresh-cut blossoms on this evening’s dinner table. It’s an unbroken thread of memories and families and love. And the distinction between past and present often becomes blurred, the past sometimes superimposed over the present in a decidedly unique way.”
Source: The Rhythm of Selby
“To the revolutionary mind the American vista must have been almost as incredible as Genghis Khan's first view of China - so rich, so soft, so unaware.”
Source: The People's Pottage
“To the rhythm of my deep delight, my fingers tickled across the fabric of the sheets and of reality in bursts of euphoria, making them rustle softly yet firmly, just like sun-crisped leaves on concrete in a breeze—prime ASMR.”
Source: We Are Everyone
“To the rich, therefore, falls the burden of Beauty. And if they cannot assume it, then they deserve to die.”
Source: The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“To the right hand I turned, and fixed my mind/ Upon the other pole, and saw four stars/ Ne’er seen before save by the primal people.
Rejoicing in their flamelets seemed the heaven./ O thou septentrional and widowed site, / Because thou art deprived of seeing these!”
Source: Purgatorio: The Divine Comedy