T Quotes
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“True Music, like all true Art, is an experience to be shared, not judged, for praise cannot make it better, as blame cannot make it worse”
“True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery is not destroyed by reason. The fake one is. You look at it and it vanishes. You look at the Blonde Hero-really look-and he turns into a gerbil. But you look at Apollo, and he looks back at you. The poet Rilke looked at a statue of Apollo about fifty years ago, and Apollo spoke to him. "You must change your life," he said. When the true myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.”
Source: The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
“True myths, ancient and modern, stop time because they emerge from somewhere beyond time.”
Source: Once and Future Myths: The Power of Ancient Stories in Our Lives
“True names,” said September wonderingly. “These are all true names. Like, when your parents call you to dinner and you don’t come and they call again but you still don’t come, and they call you by all your names together, and then, of course, you have to come, and right quick. Because true names have power, like Lye said. But I never told anyone my true name. The Green Wind told me not to. I didn’t understand what he meant, but I do now.”
Source: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
“True Naskareans of earth are them alone who ain't no Naskarean but plain human.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“True nation is born when no fetus is aborted on gender discrimination”
“True negotiation takes place when each side respects the other, and their point of view, and enters into the discussion positively. If you are determined that your solution, and your particular solution only, is the correct one - to be imposed on the other side if necessary - that is not negotiation; it is dictatorship”
“True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute.”
Source: The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
“True networking does not mean meeting people; it means becoming the type of person other people want to meet.”
“True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is not likely to be interesting.”
“True nobility is exempt from fear.”
“True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else; it's about being better than you used to be.”
Source: Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
“True nonattachment is understanding that you are fundamentally attached to everything and, through that understanding, dropping your attachment to the view that you are detached from that which you encounter. At the same time, real nonattachment means not clinging to things or people. It means dropping the idea that if you don't have this or if you can't get that, your life will be a catastrophe.”
“True nonviolence is mightier than the mightiest violence.”
Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words
“True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.”
“True obedience can only happen when you secretly think you know better, and you choose to bow your head. Anything short of that is just agreement, and any ninny-in-waiting can agree.”
Source: The Constant Princess
“True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.”
“True obedience is the refusal to compromise in any regard our relationship with God, regardless of the consequences.”
“True observation begins when devoid of set patterns; freedom of expression occurs when one is beyond system.”
Source: Bruce Lee: Artist of Life
“True observers of nature, although they may think differently, will still agree that everything that is, everything that is observable as a phenomenon, can only exhibit itself in one of two ways. It is either a primal polarity that is able to unify, or it is a primal unity that is able to divide. The operation of nature consists of splitting the united or uniting the divided; this is the eternal movement of systole and diastole of the heartbeat, the inhalation and exhalation of the world in which we live, act, and exist.”
“True oneness in marriage can not be experienced if you allow in-laws to penetrate the circle. If necessary let them become out-laws. It is crucial that you establish boundaries”
Source: How Do I Love Thee: Food for Thought Before You Say "I DO"
“True opinions are a fine thing and do all sorts of good so long as they stay in their place; but they will not stay long. They run away from a man's mind, so they are not worth much until you tether them by working out the reason. Once they are tied down, they become knowledge, and are stable.”
Source: Protagoras and Meno
“True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, false ideas are just as effective as true ones, if not a little more effective.”
Source: Liberty and the News
“True optimism is not the prospect of control over pain or elimination of it but survival through it.”
Source: Shadow Dance
“True optimization is the revolutionary contribution of modern research to decision processes.”
“True or fake?”
“True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.”
Source: The Works of Victor Hugo
“True or true? Yes or yes?”
“True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.”
Source: The Writing of Fiction
“True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. That new, that personal, vision is attained only by looking long enough at the object represented to make it the writer's own; and the mind which would bring this secret gem to fruition must be able to nourish it with an accumulated wealth of knowledge and experience.”
“True originality has its foundations in the soul, not in the mind, and when there is an effort to create something different it is usually a failure. Beethoven or Schumann or Chopin did not try to be original. They were original.”
“True originator, innovator and creator,
Thinkin' independent but I'm sayin' something major.”
“True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented”
Source: Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture
“True outreach doesn’t begin with charity, it begins with shared humanity.”
“True ownership of anything requires time.”
Source: Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories
“True pain teaches us to grow. You aren't finished yet. Dylan needs you.”
Source: Lullaby
“True passion attracts. If you have passion in your business, the right people will be attracted to your team.”
“True passions do not deprive love.”
“True patience is grounded in wisdom and compassion.”
Source: Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
“True patriotism doesn't exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.”
“True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.”
“True patriotism is a charity so wide that it covers a nation.”
“True patriotism is not worship of our nation but rather, in the light of our worship of the God of justice, to conform our nation's ways of justice.”
Source: Unexpected News: Reading the Bible with Third World Eyes
“True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.”
Source: Economics in Wonderland: Robert Reich's Cartoon Guide to a Political World Gone Mad and Mean
“True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.”
“True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded.”
Source: Book of common sense etiquette
“True patriots believe that freedom from responsibility is selfishness, freedom from sacrifice is cowardice, freedom from tolerance is prejudice, freedom from stewardship is exploitation, and freedom from compassion is cruelty.”
Source: The True Patriot
“True patriots believe that we should measure a citizen's worth by contribution to country and community, not by wealth or power-that those whom America has benefited most should contribute in proportion to their good fortune-and that serving others should be esteemed more highly than serving self.”
Source: The True Patriot
“True patriots measure themselves not by personal wealth or power but by the degree to which they contribute to the community.”
Source: The True Patriot
“True paurusha, true bravery, consists in driving out the brute in us.”
Source: Collected Works: (1918:Aug.-1919:Jul.)