T Quotes
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“Too often faith is used as an epistemological device to avoid the hard labor of straight thinking.”
“Too often fear is fiction madly running amuck, all the while madly tracking ‘muck’ across the floor of fact.”
“Too often folks get caught up in a false dichotomy, an either this or that trap. There’s usually at least a third good option waiting to be found. -- Craig in Flower Girl A Novel”
Source: Flower Girl A Novel
“Too often girls accept that of course the boys will get better lighting and seating at their sports events, of course the football team will get more attention, privileges, and space in the yearbook. We need to teach girls to look around and notice when they're being treated like second-class citizens, and then to insist on equal treatment.”
“Too often girls cover up their highlights instead of their shadows. And too often the right boys are too late to notice.”
“Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.”
“Too often human logic looks sound...until it’s held up against most anything else.”
“Too often I am jealous and my jealousy leads me to say things-things-that I regret.”
“Too often I’m the slumlord of my own heart.”
“Too often I’ve decided not to decide for fear that deciding might be a bad decision. But that decision is based on the rant of fear verses the whisper of wisdom.”
“too often i was afraid
to test the limits
of kindness
without inviting
betrayal
or backstab”
Source: Memory
“Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.”
Source: The Rider of Lost Creek: The Classic Novel of Range War
“Too often ‘impossible’ is how we errantly define that which is merely ‘difficult.”
“Too often in life we pass by important things. Let's pause, change perspective and see things more clearly.”
“Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.”
“Too often in my life, love has been defined as "humiliation with occasional roses".”
Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming
“Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1933, Volume 2
“Too often in the past, Garrabrant felt, some prosecutors were reluctant to take on complicated cases against pimps. "If I went to any federal prosecutor in the country and said, 'Listen, I have a thirteen-year-old girl who was kidnapped, forcibly taken from her home, and forced to have sex with a forty-year-old guy and then sold to other men,' they would be saying, 'Bring it on.' " But Garrabrant found that if he took the same scenario and instead described the girl as a prostitute working for a pimp, prosecutors got cold feet. Their attitude was that if some young girl wants to go do that, there is nothing to be done.”
Source: Somebody's Daughter: The Hidden Story of America's Prostituted Children and the Battle to Save Them
“Too often in the past, I made a public spectacle of myself on the worst possible occasions, in front of the worst possible people. I was an absolute swine. Brawling at parties. Pissing in fountains and vomiting in potted plants. I've slept with other men's wives, I've ruined marriages. It takes years of dedicated effort to discredit one's own name as thoroughly as I did, but by God, I set the bar. There will always be rumors and ugly gossip, and I can't contradict most of it because I was always too drunk to know whether it happened or not. Someday your sons will hear some of it, and any affection they feel for me will turn to ashes. I won't let my shame become their shame."
Phoebe knew if she tried to argue with him point by point, it would only lead to frustration on her part and wallowing on his. She certainly couldn't deny that upper-class society was monstrously judgmental. Some people would perch ostentatiously on their moral pedestals, loudly accusing West while ignoring their own sins. Some people might overlook his blemished reputation if there was any advantage to them in doing so. None of that could be changed. But she would teach Justin and Stephen not to be influenced by hypocritical braying. Kindness and humanity- the values her mother had imparted- would guide them.
"Trust us," she said quietly. "Trust me and my sons to love you.”
Source: Devil's Daughter
“Too often in the past, our Armed Forces have returned to Canada from their trials with little fanfare. Not so today. Canadians across the country came out in force, united in appreciation, to honour the bravery, heroism, strength and sacrifice of those who fought for freedom and security in Afghanistan.”
“Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East - through concessions in the peace process as well as passivity in the face of Iraqi attacks”
“Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow sissy and effete. We have done both an injustice. The life of the artist is, in relation to his work, stern and lonely. He has labored hard, often amid deprivation, to perfect his skill. He has turned aside from quick success in order to strip his vision of everything secondary or cheapening. His working life is marked by intense application and intense discipline.”
Source: Creative America
“Too often in the theatre people can't wait for intermission to get some chocolate or something. But with Come Back, Little Sheba I just hope people leave feeling like they've spent a really good two-hours in that house with us.”
“Too often in the west we fail to realize that even in eastern disciplines the spiritual life is not meant as an escape from the worldly life. There is karma to be fulfilled on earth, within the dharma of necessity.”
Source: Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man
“Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused?”
“Too often in Washington special interests urge us to fight one another just because we belong to different parties. It is time for this to stop and for Washington to focus on what needs to be done.”
“Too often it is fear that guides our actions when compassion would better serve.”
Source: Galiene: A Twelfth-Century Tale of Love and War
“Too often it is nice to be dumb to others and more often it is nice to be dumb to yourself”
“Too often it’s about what stands before us, not what stands within us.”
“Too often it's not the most creative guys or the smartest. Instead, it's the ones who are best at playing politics and soft-soaping their bosses. Boards don't like tough, abrasive guys.”
“Too often life is like a pot of stew that we made without a recipe. A lot of things got in there that shouldn’t have, a lot of things that should have didn’t, and everyone around the table would rather starve than eat it.”
“Too often little attention is paid to individual talent. instead, education goes on dividing people according to their sex, and putting them in little feminine or masculine pigeonholes ... Girls are shielded and sometimes helped so much that they lose initiative and begin to believe the signs 'Girls don't' and 'Girls can't' which mark their paths... Consequently, it seems almost necessary to evolve different methods of instruction for them when they later take up the same subjects.”
“Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.”
“Too often my ‘target’ is whatever happens to have wandered in front of me instead of being something that I have intentionally put myself in front of.”
“Too often, my vision stops at what I’ve become rather than what I was created to be.”
“Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated.”
“Too often, opinion is a lens polished by the grit of bias. And as I stare through my own lens, I might ask how much polish can the grit of bias actually create?”
“Too often, our concept of pastors and church leaders reinforces rather than obliterates the sad state of family life in our current context.”
Source: Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families & Churches
“Too often our convictions are based on what is convenient. For if convictions are convenient, they are neither.”
“Too often our leaders cannot work for the greater good because they acknowledge no good greater than politics. But if that's truly our prime directive and highest imperative, God help us all.”
“Too often our ‘line in the sand’ falls prey to the wind in our desert.”
“Too often our lives are soiled to desperation by endings that in reality are magnificently outnumbered by beginnings. And unless we become convinced that an ending is always the birthplace of a beginning that is on its way, we will live terribly soiled lives.”
“Too often our standard is less an adherence to a standard and more the elimination of one.”
“Too often our Washington reflex is to discover a problem and then throw money at it, hoping it will somehow go away.”
“Too often passion is actually flight in disguise and therefore nothing of passion at all.”
Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey
“Too often, people carry around so much pain in their hearts, that they surround their hearts with an impenetrable wall. In order to make up for the lack of love, people change their focus from their hearts to their brains. The limbic system of the brain likes to collect things and declare its territory. Sadly, because most people lack the courage to open up their hearts again (to possibly being hurt once again), they try to substitute physical assets for the lack of joy that can only be found in the heart. The Demiurge is very happy if you are living in your brain and take your pleasure from acquiring objects, rather than through the many varieties of love. Material possessions bring a kind of fleeting pleasure, but they will never provide a deep joy. Only love brings joy. And to love, one needs to be aware.”
Source: Alien Parasites: 40 Gnostic Truths to Defeat the Archon Invasion!
“Too often people enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought, never taking a principled stand. True justice will never come until those who are not injured are just as indignant as those who are”
“Too often preachers want to deal with people simply at the level of publicly accessible reason. We participate with them in their own epistemology. But this is not New Testament preaching. We have a message that is not from this world; it is from God. We don't know it by our own cleverness; we know it because God has revealed it.”
“Too often ‘reality’ is the excuse that we use to abandon our dreams, when in fact ‘reality’ is simply the thing that’s sitting there waiting to be overcome by our dreams and all the while wondering why it’s taking so long.”
“Too often scholars have thought and even suggested that what happened during and after Constantine was that the church sought to replace the pagan temples, priests, and sacrifices with their own. This is at best a half truth. If this had been primarily what was going on, we would have expected to find priestesses showing up in the mainstream church in and after the time of Constantine, since there were certainly priestesses in the pagan temples. But this we do not find in the historical record. This is because the church of that period was not merely trying to supplant pagan religion with Christian religion, though some of that was going on. More to the point, there was a rising tide of anti-Judaism, and one of its manifestations was this Old Testament hermeneutic. The Torah had been claimed as the church’s book, Jews were being ostracized and then later ghettoized, and a hermeneutic of ministry was being adopted which co-opted the Old Testament for church use when it came to priests, temples, and sacrifices, and indeed sacraments in general. Thus ironically enough while the structure of the ecclesial church was becoming more Old Testamental, the church hierarchy was not only becoming less tolerant of Jews, it was forgetting altogether the Jewish character of Jesus’ ministry and his modifications of the Passover that led to the Lord’s Supper celebration of the early church in the first place.”
Source: Making a Meal of It: Rethinking the Theology of the Lord's Supper