T Quotes
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“The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind and to be blown up in our turn.”
“The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man should treat his brothers lovingly and with justice, according to the deserts of each. But the deserts of every brother are not the same.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1926-1929
“The Brotherhood was strong, a unit. a powerful force in their world for good. And so too were the females. Strong. A unit. A powerful force for good in their world.”
“The Brothers Grimm came along and I was so desperate for work... Actually I've got to say that I like the movie, I won't apologize for it.”
“The brown bag, of course, had its imperfections. While some kids carried roast beef sandwiches, others had peanut butter. I have no way of knowing if all of those brown bags contained 'nutritionally adequate diets.' But I do know that those brown bags and those lunch pails symbolized parental love and responsibility.”
“The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.”
Source: The Old Man and the Sea
“The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams”
“The brown leather corners have worn and faded to a pale sand. A few scratches score the front cover, embossed with a golden stylized peony, and the leather is patterned with darker blots from the fingers of busy women who gripped it with the loving, casual carelessness of familiarity.
It's as fat as a sleeping cat on a rainbow pile of Ana's chiffon scarves, and it's my birthright and my curse.”
Source: The Library of Flowers
“The brown monkey's instinct to kill is correct; such men are dangerous to all monkey customs.”
Source: Assignment in Eternity
“The brown numbered doors [in the flophouse hallway] stood like upended coffins on each side, bathed in the static red flames of the fire-exit bulbs that dotted the ceiling at intervals.”
“The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature.”
Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
“The brown toxic cloud strangling Los Angeles never lifts and grows thicker with every immigrant added. One can't help appreciate the streets of Paris will soon become the streets of LA. However, Paris' streets erupted while LA's shall sink into a Third World quagmire much like Bombay or Calcutta, India. When you import that much crime, illiteracy, multiple languages and disease-Americans pick up stakes and move away.”
“The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence.”
“The brugh is full of turned-over tables and rotting fruit. A crack runs through the ground to the split throne, with its wilted flowers. Cardan spreads his hands, and the earth heals along the seam, rock and stone bubbling up to fill it back in. Then he twists his fingers, and the divided throne grows anew, blooming with briars, sprouting into two separate thrones where there was once only one.
'Do you like it?' he asks me, which seems a little like asking if someone enjoys the crown of stars they conjured from the sky.
'Impressive,' I choke out.”
Source: The Queen of Nothing
“The bruise on the heart which at first feels incredibly tender to the slightest touch eventually turns all the shades of the rainbow and stops aching. We forget about it. We even forget we have hearts until the next time. And then we wonder how we ever could have forgotten. We think this one is better, because, in fact, we cannot fully remember the time before.”
Source: fear of flying
“The bruises go away but the scars remain, deep, hidden, raw. You stay beaten. it takes a real coward to beat a woman.”
Source: Sycamore Row The edge-of-your-seat courtroom drama from the number 1 Sunday Times bestselling author.
“The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“The bruises will fade, but I’m scared the marks on my heart will last forever. What if they never heal, and I’m always just pretending?”
“The brunette phase just came about because I was fed up with this Blonde Angel Image. The rebel in me demanded a new color.”
“The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump... the main thing that the brush secures is the instant grasp of the grand construction of a figure.”
“The brush must draw by itself. This cannot happen if one does not practice constantly. But neither can it happen if one makes an effort.”
“The brush of your lips will last my lifetime.”
Source: Who Killed Love
“The brussels sprout. This is also the worst vegetable of next year.”
“the brut first knows death when it dies, but man draws consciously nearer to it every hour that he lives; and this makes his life at times a questionable good even to him who has not recognised this character of constant anaihilation in the whole of life.”
Source: The World as Will and Idea 1: Top of Schopenhauer
“The brutal limitations placed on women’s emotions, the pseudo-psychiatric judgements and labelling and the herding of women into therapy and psychiatry, calls attention to the fact that women are still the second sex, a sex that is denied the full range of human emotions.”
Source: Misogyny Re-Loaded
“The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.”
Source: The Blue Zones, Second Edition: 9 Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest
“The brutal reality of hiring is that the best candidates are not just considering your offer; they are evaluating your speed. Slow decisions can cost you the winners.”
“The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.”
“The brutal regime of the dictator fell, the regime that ruled Iraq for decades, the decades of darkness. The decades that were of tyranny.”
“The brutal soldiers satisfied their sensual appetites without consulting either the inclination or the duties of their female captives; and a nice question of casuistry was seriously agitated, Whether those tender victims, who had inflexibly refused their consent to the violation which they sustained, had lost, by their misfortune, the glorious crown of virginity. There were other losses indeed of a more substantial kind and more general concern.”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we're doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce.”
“The brutal, soul-shaking truth is that we are so earthly minded we are of no heavenly use.”
Source: Why Revival Tarries
“The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.”
Source: Les Misérables
“The brutalities of wolves are not for enjoyment and pleasure; they are all just for the survival.”
“The brutality of communism was quickly swept under history's rug, in large part because so many on the left had embraced it as the solution to humankind's problems.”
“The brutality of the pace. This was my third presidential campaign and it was a thousand times faster paced than my first one in 2004. The news cycle is constant and there has been an explosion in the number of news outlets covering them. As as result we're witnessing news and entertainment melding together to create what I'd describe as the "American Idolization" of campaigns and politics.”
“The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.”
“The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body is hurt; but in their case the cruelty of torment is greater, because they have no mind to bear them up against their sufferings, and no hope to look forward to when enduring the last extreme pain.”
“The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.”
Source: The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings
“The bubble, as investing phenomenon, has been well studied ever since the 17th-century tulip frenzy. Its counterpart in bear markets is not well understood.”
“The bubble hasn't popped yet and there's tremendous value in social media. ... But it's wishful thinking to believe that others on the 'me too' bandwagon will survive.”
“The bubble logic driving tulipomania has since acquired a name: “the greater fool theory.” Although by any conventional measure it is folly to pay thousands for a tulip bulb (or for that matter an Internet stock), as long as there is an even greater fool out there willing to pay even more, doing so is the most logical thing in the world.”
Source: The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
“The bubble's been engineered to allow us to learn from within it.”
Source: Hades
“The bubbles-universes are pulsating. When they shrink too much, Big Crashes and Big Annihilations happen, and the universes are sucked back into the stillness of the Source, by Gardener.”
Source: How to Kiss the Universe: An Inspirational Spiritual and Metaphysical Narrative about Human Origin, Essence and Destiny
“The 'buccaneers' came ashore in search of bacon. The Cuban Indians had learnt (from the natives of Haiti) a process of preserving meat by drying it and then smoking it over a fire of green leaves and branches. The Indians called the rack on which the meat was laid out a boucan or buccan [bacon], while those who prepared and sold the meet were referred to as boucaniers or buccaneers.
Pigs had been brought to Cuba from Europe by the first Spanish settlers. The early litters had been allowed to roan freely over the islands, becoming a vital source of food, not just for the settlers but also for the pirate who arrived in forgotten coves to replenish their water and their stores. They learnt to appreciate the pig meat dried on the boucan, and the world became associated with the pirates themselves,the men who brought home the bacon.”
Source: Cuba: A New History
“The 'buccaneers' came ashore in search of bacon. The Cuban Indians had learnt (from the natives of Haiti) a process of preserving meat by drying it and then smoking it over a fire of green leaves and branches. The Indians called the rack on which the meat was laid out a boucan or buccan [bacon], while those who prepared and sold the meet were referred to as buccaneers.”
Source: Cuba: A New History
“The Buccaneers was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television.”
“The buck stops with me, but I can tick off dozens of very good senior executives that are responsible for hundreds or thousands of people who work for me.”
“The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.”
“The Bucket List is a movie about two old codgers who are nothing like people, both suffering from cancer that is nothing like cancer, and setting off on adventures that are nothing like possible. I urgently advise hospitals: Do not make the DVD available to your patients; there may be an outbreak of bedpans thrown at TV screens.”
Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2011