T Quotes
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“The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.”
Source: The Humanness of Women: Theory and Practice of Feminism (Essays and Sketches): Studies and thoughts by the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and deeply respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, known for The Yellow Wallpaper story
“The best proof of qualification is a demonstration.”
“The best proof of the high quality of American beef is the continued negative BSE findings supported by the highest surveillance possible. The administration should be working to increase our surveillance of BSE, not scaling it back.”
“The best proof of the specificity of the book is that it is at once a reality of the virtual and a virtuality of the real.”
“The best proof that a person lived a good life is his peaceful face in his old age!”
“The best proof that Christ has risen is that he is still alive. And for the immense majority of our contemporaries, the only way of seeing him alive is for us Christians to love one another.”
“The best proof that He will never cease to love us lies in that He never began.”
Source: The Letters of Geerhardus Vos
“The best proof that nothing will change in the world if humankind does not change is the development that takes place only technologically.”
“The best proof that there's intelligent life in the universe is that it hasn't come here.”
“The best proof that you are in love with your job is that you still continue doing your job with great enthusiasm even when you feel very exhausted!”
“The best propaganda omits rather than invents”
“The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.”
Source: Euripides: The Cyclops, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Heracles, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Iphigenia in Tauris, translated by W. Bynner. Helen translated by R. Lattimore
“The best prophet of the future is the past.”
“The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself.”
Source: God Emperor of Dune
“The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.”
Source: On being an author
“The best protection against propaganda of any sort is the recognition of it for what it is. Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business. Propaganda taken in that way is like a drug you do not know you are swallowing. The effect is mysterious; you do not know afterwards why you feel or think the way you do.”
Source: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
“The best protection against rape, stalking, and domestic violence is to raise men who both understand that women are different, and would never dare take advantage of this difference.”
Source: A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue
“The best protection against risk is knowing what you are doing.”
“The best protection any woman can have... is courage.”
“The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.”
“The best protection is to snip the connecting cord they’ve attached that ties your choice to guilt. First, snip the cord inside yourself. Then thank them for their support, as if support was what they had to offer. This disconnects their access and frees you to move on without any chains of obligation to bind you.”
Source: Dealing with Difficult People : 24 lessons for Bringing Out the Best in Everyone
“The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted.”
“The best Public Relations professionals are media savvy self-starters who think creatively, strategically and unconventionally, with a gift and ability to motivate and energize others.”
“The best punishment for an enemy is forgiveness.”
“The best putting advice I ever received was make sure you concentrate real hard on keeping that darn ball real low”
“The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.”
“The best quality about Kobe Bryant? You want me to be honest? I don't know. I'll tell you why. I open my arms to everybody. But he never stepped forward for the embrace. So I never really got to know him. I don't know anything about him, and it's kinda sad.”
“THE BEST QUALITY POLICY IS TO SERVE YOUR VISION IN THE STAKEHOLDERS AS THEIR IDEA.”
“The best quarrels, in the heat, are cursed by those that feel their sharpness.”
Source: King Lear Thrift Study Edition
“The best questions attract the best answers!”
Source: Become a Better You
“The best quick tip in golf is to focus on your rhythm and balance.”
“The best quote has never been said nor written.
I do not need a quote.
P. Hermans
Netherlands, August 11, 2016”
Source: Voor een betere wereld
“The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.”
Source: An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic Desk Examination Edition
“The best readers come to fiction to be free of ... all that isn't fiction.”
Source: Conversations with Philip Roth
“The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.”
“The best reason for a knitter to marry is that you can't teach the cat to be impressed when you finish a lace scarf.”
Source: At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much
“The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts--and let's face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field--is purely for their own sake. Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower level that is obtainable by anyone with an overdeveloped sense of avarice. True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is...”
Source: The Eyre Affair
“The best reason for exposing oneself to foreign ways is to generate a sense of vitality and awareness - an interest in life which can come only when one lives through the shock of contrast and difference.”
“The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.”
“The best reason for listening to and learning from the poor is that this is one way God is revealed to us.”
“The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it.”
“The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.”
“The best reason not to lie, cheat and steal is because it changes you in undesirable ways, sometimes permanently.”
“The best reason someone talks about you is because they’re actually talking about themselves.”
Source: This is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn To See
“The best reason to abolish it, in my opinion, is that everyone should deal with his time in the best way; there is no good reason why you should get half a minute extra with each move, except that it's a bit easier for the arbiter.”
“The best reason to be assigned, in this case, for not having made the Constitution more free from a charge of uncertainty in its meaning, is believed to be, that it was not suspected that any such charge would ever take place; and it appears that no such charge did take place, during the early period of the Constitution, when the meaning of its authors could be best ascertained, nor until many of the contemporary lights had in the lapse of time been extinguished. How often does it happen, that a notoriety of intention diminishes the caution against its being misunderstood or doubted!”
Source: 1816-1828
“The best reason to diminish social programs is not to put more money in people's pockets but to put more responsibility in people's pockets.”
“The best reason to go to the movies is to be with other people. Eating the popcorn, being with other people you don't know.”
“The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.”
“The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint.”
Source: Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)