T Quotes
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“The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.”
Source: The Red and the Black: World Classics
“The boredom you speak of…that’s what most of us call happiness”
Source: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“The boring people are the worst. I think it's obvious, I think people have always had phobias about flying for years even before 9/11 and everything like that. It just taps into that and it taps into who you are going to sit next to on the plane.”
“The boring side of business is what makes it work.”
“The boring thing with taking a walk with someone is that your thoughts are then dictated by the subject or subjects of your conversation; and that is made worse by the fact that most sane people are terrified of silence whenever they are with or near someone.”
“The born-again Christian sees life not as a blurred , confused, meaningless mass, but as something planned and purposeful.”
Source: Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith
“The born-again gospel promises joy and peace of mind, but it does so by prolonging childhood.”
“The born-yesterday French-besotted faddists, addicted sniffers of wet printer's ink, think they're starting on the ground floor; so they're condemned to another hundred years of trial and error. The rest of us can safely ignore them.”
“The borrower is a slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.”
Source: Autobiography and Other Writings
“The borrower runs in his own debt.”
Source: Essays and Lectures
“The borrowers of America and all the world turn to New York....It is to the quotations on the New York Stock Exchange that men of affairs from Penobscot to Honolulu turn each morning to find how beats the pulse of prosperity and enterprise.”
“The borrowers will always be willing to take a great deal for themselves. It’s up to the lenders to show restraint, and when they lose it, watch out.”
“The Bosnian Genocide was something that triggered my consciousness and led to an awakening politically for me.”
“The Bosnian Serb forces operated the Omarska concentration camp to torture, murder, rape, and abuse captured Bosnian civilians, intellectuals, and politicians in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina (Prijedor municipality). The camp held over 7,000 innocent Bosnian civilians as prisoners for more than five months during 1992. Several hundred people died due to constant abuse by the Serb forces including mass executions, starvation, beatings, repeated sexual abuse, and horrifying living conditions. The camp guards frequently cut the throats of the Bosniak captives. Prisoners ate spoiled food found by scavenging for it.”
“The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.”
“The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall wellcome to a participation of all our rights and previleges...”
“The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift.”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...
“The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm.”
Source: Developing the Leader Within You
“The Boss is an honorable man. After the Lord, the most godly person I've ever met."
"You've met God?"
"Certainly. I telephone Him every night.”
Source: A Wild Sheep Chase
“The boss is never your friend, even if you're sleeping with him.”
“The boss isn't always right, but he is the boss.”
“The boss must first distinguish between action information and status information. He must discipline himself not to act on problems his managers can solve, and never to act on problems when he is explicitly reviewing status.”
“The boss of a secret wrestling association operating out of the basement of my work building had dressed up in a costume and hired an exotic dancer to give him a sexy “sad office worker” striptease in his office. I couldn’t decide which part was the weirdest.”
Source: Impromptu Match
“The boss's got all he needs, certainly,
Eats swell,
Owns a lotta houses,
Goes vacationin',
Breaks strikes,
Runs politics, bribes police,
Pays off congress,
And struts all over the earth--
But me, I ain't never had enough to eat.
Me, I ain't never been warm in winter.
Me, I ain't never known security--
All my life, been livin' hand to mouth,
Hand to mouth.”
Source: Good Morning, Revolution: Uncollected Social Protest Writings
“The boss says that games in hand are no good unless you turn them into points. What he's getting at is that games in hand aren't much good unless you turn them into points.”
“The bosses can't read your mind, so I think women should tell them what they want out of their careers.”
“The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.”
Source: Art against ideology
“The bosses of the Democratic party and the bosses of the Republican party alike have a closer grip than ever before on the party machines in the States and in the Nation. This crooked control of both the old parties by the beneficiaries of political and business privilege renders it hopeless to expect any far-reaching and fundamental service from either.”
“The Boston bombing provided the opportunity for the government to turn what should have been a police investigation into a military-style occupation of an American city. This unprecedented move should frighten us as much or more than the attack itself.”
“The Boston Celtics are not a basketball team, they are a way of life.”
“The Boston Globe is reporting that Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry used to date actress Morgan Fairchild but it didn't work out. Apparently she couldn't handle dating someone with bigger hair then she had.”
“The Boston Globe: The Woodstock Music and Art Festival will surely go down in history as a mass event of great and positive significance in the life of the country ... That this many young people could assemble so peaceably and with such good humor in a mile-square area ... speaks volumes about their dedication to the ideal of respect for the dignity of the individual ... In a nation beset with a crescendo of violence, this is a vibrantly hopeful sign. If violence is infectious, so, happily, is nonviolence.”
“The Boston's government approves housing projects every month and we're constantly approving opportunities to build more housing. And Boston is one of the hottest cities in America where people want to live. And it's important that we continue to build this housing and to keep up with the demand that we have in the communities.”
“The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to any other set upon the continent of North America. They are decidedly the most servile imitators of the English it is possible to conceive.”
“The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their "Hub," as they call it, is the paradise of prigs.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“The bosun knew, as you and I perhaps do not, that there is a big difference between being afraid and being a coward.”
Source: Theatre of the Gods
“The Bosworth Company has been providing midland tx with quality air conditioning, heating, air quality, plumbing and electrical services since 1949.
CONTACT US
Contact Name: Frank Peterson
Address: 2205 W Industrial Ave, Midland, TX, 79701
Phone: (432) 570-5233
Email: [email protected]”
“The botanist looks upon the astronomer as a being unworthy of his regard; and he that is glowing great and happy by electrifying a bottle wonders how the world can be engaged by trifling prattle about war and peace.”
“The both of us, we're individual parts on our own. She's the thunder and lightning and I'm the rain. It's only when we come together that it's right.
We become the perfect storm.
(Eric Carmen)”
Source: Take Me With You
“The both of us were in agreement that the team had to go. But the difference between us was that I was wondering if we could pursue our happiness a little first and then think about what was going to happen, while he believed we had to give our all now for the sake of later happiness.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“The bottle does a good job of drinking the mind.”
Source: Twist
“The bottle of red brush on a white table gleamed throughout the remaining years of my childhood as the sign of what was possible there.”
Source: A Plea for Eros: Essays
“The bottle of whiskey - the second one - was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who 'felt just as good on nothing at all.”
Source: The Great Gatsby
“The bottleneck is never code or creativity; it's lack of clarity.”
“The bottleneck wasn't, How do we make pixels prettier? It was, How do we engage with them more?”
“The bottom feeders of the entertainment industry were never invited to presidential inaugurations. The bottom feeders of the entertainment were never used as fundraisers for presidents of the United States. They were ignored. There was always a line. They were always there, and they were always who they were, and they always did what they did. The bottom feeders have now become the standard. That's what's different.”
“The bottom had arrived. She crashed against it, but it brought no sense of closure or understanding. She just lay there at the bottom looking up. She knew there must be a very tiny circle of light up there somewhere, but just now she couldn’t see it.”
Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection
“The bottom half of humanity is living in severe poverty; not all of them are malnourished or severely deprived now, but they are extremely vulnerable to even small upsets in their income or in the prices they face of basic necessities, and when something like this happens, they can be thrown off kilter in terms of a disease of a family member or a change in food prices; anything like that can throw them into destitution.”
“The bottom half of the page had descended into a doodle of a tiny man giving the middle finger to a giant, angry eagle with razor-sharp talons. Beneath it, the caption: To Mock a Killing Bird.”
“The bottom has fallen out of America's wage floor. And the erosion of the minimum wage has lowered pay and working standards for all of us.”