T Quotes
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“Talk’ of change is the apathetic man’s way of convincing himself that the armchair of mediocrity is nowhere to be found in his house, and that he’s not sitting in it.”
“Talk of democracy has little content when big business rules the life of the country through its control of the means of production, exchange, the press and other means of publicity, propaganda and communication.”
“Talk of fighting Tyson is a little premature. I'm an addict and an alcoholic”
“Talk of heaven! ye disgrace earth.”
Source: Walden or, Life in the Woods
“Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.”
“Talk of poems and prayers and promises, and things that we believe in. How sweet it is to love someone, how right it is to care, how long it's been since yesterday.”
“Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.”
“Talk of solitude (...). It is the last resort of the civilised: our souls are so creased and soured in meaning we can only unfold them when we are alone. (5/4/1927 - From a Letter to Vita Sackville-West)”
Source: The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Three, 1923-1928
“Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.”
Source: Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions
“Talk of the imperial decay of your invalid port. Its gracious withdrawal from perfection, keeping a hint of former majesty withal, as it hovers between oblivion and the divine Untergang of infinite recession.”
“Talk of "witch-hunts" conceals an inconvenient fact: men charged with rape stand a better chance of walking free than other defendants. The conviction rate in rape trials – 63 per cent in 2012/13 – is quite a lot lower. Prosecutors are taking a bigger risk when they bring rape cases to court, especially when the alleged offences happened decades ago, leaving no forensic evidence.
The Independent, 9 February 2014”
“Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerous coloured races. This is a perilous state of affairs. When individual thinkers and idealists talk of peace, as they have done since time immemorial, the effect is negligible. But when whole peoples become pacifistic it is a symptom of senility. Strong and unspent races are not pacifistic. To adopt such a position is to abandon the future, for the pacifist ideal is a terminal condition that is contrary to the basic facts of existence. As long as man continues to evolve, there will be wars.”
“Talk often, but never long: in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers.”
“Talk often, but never long; in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers. Pay your own reckoning, but do not treat the whole company; this being one of the few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“Talk only if it's worth, else it harms your worth only.”
Source: You By You
“Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.”
Source: The Colby essays ...
“Talk peaceful to be peaceful.”
Source: The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results
“Talk politics, talk about study and talk positively.”
“Talk radio around Boston is brutal, and I think that's part of what goes on is that people as they're driving to and from work start listening to these jerks, and I say jerks, because I don't think they know what they're talking about and they're just serving some things up as controversy so they can sell the show to sponsors.”
“Talk radio doesn't need to be political.”
“Talk radio has almost ruined the sports fan.”
“Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Interne is making an end run around talk radio. Suddenly we're faced with an information age.”
“Talk radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem.”
“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
Source: Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus
“Talk shows are proof that conversation is dead.”
“Talk spoken in darkness always comes to light.”
Source: Of Captivity & Kings
“Talk. Talk about what had been haunting her these months. Haunting every thought, every dream, every breath. Talk.”
Source: The Assassin's Blade
“Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle
“Talk therapy turns hysterical misery to mundane unhappiness.”
“Talk through difficult issues with your partner. Don’t let your partner become a stranger. Don’t use other people to make yourself feel good. Value friendship. Be open-hearted in all the relationships that you choose to have in your life but draw a line and don’t cross it.”
Source: Love's Longing
“Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.”
“Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.”
“Talk to Allah in your own language with your heart fully present. Allah doesn't need you to rhyme or speak arabic.”
“Talk to anyone about himself positively and he'll listen without interruption.”
“Talk to Arto Lindsay and I'm sure he's tired of people asking him about DNA; he's probably really into what he's doing now, which is good stuff. I guess I probably feel like that. But I'm obviously not comparing myself to someone as iconic as that.”
“Talk to Bob Arum, cos he's my man. Don King kiss my ass!”
“Talk to each other, not about each other.”
Source: The Not So Subtle Art of Caring: Letters on Leadership
“Talk to each other. Never go to bed when you're angry with each other. Lady Antonia Frasier who was married to Harold Pinter said they never went to bed on an argument.”
“Talk to God through prayer. It is a sacred way to communicate with Him.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“Talk to her about sex, and start early. It will probably be a bit awkward, but it is necessary.”
Source: Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
“Talk to me 20 years ago and I had a complete sense of illegitimacy as an American Muslim. I felt like I wasn't authentic. But I don't understand and I don't believe or subscribe to this idea that I don't have a right to speak as a Muslim because I'm an American. Being Muslim is to accept and honor the diversity that we have in this world, culturally and physically, because that's what Islam teaches, that we are people of many tribes. I think the American Muslim experience is of a different tribe than the Saudi Muslim world, but that doesn't make us less than anyone else.”
“Talk to me about sadness. I talk about it too much in my own head but I never mind others talking about it either; I occasionally feel like I tremendously need others to talk about it as well.”
“Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.
Unless, of course, you can literally believe all that stuff about family reunions 'on the further shore,' pictured in entirely earthly terms. But that is all unscriptural, all out of bad hymns and lithographs. There's not a word of it in the Bible. And it rings false. We know it couldn't be like that. Reality never repeats. The exact same thing is never taken away and given back. How well the Spiritualists bait their hook! 'Things on this side are not so different after all.' There are cigars in Heaven. For that is what we should all like. The happy past restored.”
Source: A Grief Observed
“Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.”
Source: A Grief Observed
“Talk to me about your plans, Bram,” Ailean said as he walked into the hall. “Come back to the war room.” “You have a war room?”
“Don’t you?”
Source: Supernatural
“Talk to me like lovers do!”
“Talk to me. Say something, anything," he pleaded quietly as if he was trying to tame a wild animal.
"There's nothing to say."
He looked up and lowered his eyebrows on his eyes. "Why did you kiss me?”
Source: Six Years
“Talk to me when your nuts are so blue they look like something you can hang on a Christmas tree.”
Source: Playing the Player
“Talk to ourselves in the same way we'd talk to someone we'd love. Yes, you made a mistake. You're human. You don't have to do it like anyone else does. Fixing it and making amends will help. Self-loathing will not. Reach out to someone we trust--a person who has earned the right to hear our story and who has the capacity to respond with empathy.”
Source: Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution
“Talk to Papa. Eat your vegetables. Phone Ned when he's in London. Pay attention to the world. Say yes when someone asks you to bake a cake. Make grand gestures. Be bold.”
Source: The Square Root of Summer