T Quotes
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“The business of finding a nation's soul is a long and slow one at the best and a great many prophets must be slain in the course of it. Perhaps when we have slain enough prophets future generations will begin to build their tombs.”
Source: National Music: And Other Essays
“The business of funding digging journalists is important to encourage. It cannot be replaced by bloggers who don't have access to politicians, who don't have easy access to official documents, who aren't able to buttonhole people in power.”
“The business of government is justice.”
Source: Speaking up
“The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid.”
“The business of hip hop is probably the most tangible example of the genre’s dramatic maturation.”
Source: The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
“The business of judging a headline AFTER you read the copy is wrong. It takes for granted that everybody reads the copy.”
“The business of life forces you to stay afloat when grief would just as soon let you drown.”
Source: The View from Mount Joy
“The business of life is learning that you can't lay down the terms.”
“The business of life is the acquisition of memories.”
“The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.”
“The business of life is to go forward.”
Source: Life and Writings
“The business of life is to go forward; he who sees evil in prospect meets it in his way, and he who catches it by retrospection turns back to find it. That which is feared may sometimes be avoided, but that which is regretted to-day may be regretted again to-morrow.”
Source: Life and Writings
“The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.”
Source: Essay on the life and genius of Dr. Johnson [by Arthur Murphy] Poems. Rasselas, prince of Abissinia. Letters
“The business of living - that's your artwork, and the process of that is finding out who you are, what it all means.”
“The business of living can steal away the wonder of life.”
Source: Tiffany Blues
“The business of love is cruelty which, by our wills, we transform to live together.”
Source: Pictures from Brueghel, and Other Poems: Collected Poems, 1950-1962
“The business of lying is transacted in the abode of the gullible.”
“The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change and disorder), the sheet of paper on which the picture will be realized, and the experience which brings them together.”
Source: Aaron Siskind, photographer
“The business of Mr. Bennett's life was to keep his daughters alive. The business of Mrs. Bennett's was to get them married.”
“The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.”
“The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.”
“The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.”
“The business of philosophy is to circumnavigate human nature.”
Source: Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed
“The business of philosophy is to teach man to live in uncertainty... not to reassure him, but to upset him.”
Source: All Things are Possible
“The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.”
“The business of procuring the necessities of life has been shifted from the wood lot, the garden, the kitchen and the family to the factory and the large-scale enterprise. In our case, we moved our center back to the land.”
Source: The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living
“The business of proving evolution has reached a stage when it is futile for biologists to work merely to discover more and more evidence of evolution. Those who choose to believe that God created every biological species separately in the state we observe them, but made them in a way calculated to lead us to the conclusion that they are the products of an evolutionary development are obviously not open to argument. All that can be said is that their belief is an implicit blasphemy, for it imputes to God an appalling deviousness.”
“The business of raising animals for food (with its continuous heavy waste stream of methane and nitrous oxide - leading global warming gases) is responsible for about 18% of global warming. Some scientists actually say the number is closer to 50%.”
“The business of reading and interpreting the Bible in South Afria is a tricky one! The Bible is everywhere and in the hands of many, including the pain inflictors. ~ Mogomme Alpheus Masoga”
Source: Reading Otherwise: Socially Engaged Biblical Scholars Reading with their Local Communities
“The business of scepticism is to be dangerous. Scepticism challenges established institutions. If we teach everybody, including, say, high school students, habits of sceptical thought, they will probably not restrict their scepticism to UFOs, aspirin commercials and 35,000-year-old channellees. Maybe they’ll start asking awkward questions about economic, or social, or political, or religious institutions. Perhaps they’ll challenge the opinions of those in power. Then where would we be?”
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“The business of schools is to design, create, and invent high-quality, intellectually demanding schoolwork that students find engaging.”
“The business of selling is not just about matching viable solutions to the customers that require them. It’s equally about managing the change process the customer will need to go through to implement the solution and achieve the value promised by the solution”
“The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.”
Source: Snowy Tower
“The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.”
“The business of the artist is not to escape from his material medium or bully it, but to serve it; but to serve it, he must love it. If he does so, he will realise that in its service is perfect freedom.”
Source: Mind of the Maker
“The business of the believer with his Bible open is to pray, 'Lord, give me the meaning and spirit of your word, while it lies open before me; apply your word with power to my soul, threatening or promise, doctrine or precept, whatever it may be; lead me into the soul and marrow of your word.'”
“The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, were exterior appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and virtue.”
Source: The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...
“The business of the Christian is nothing else but to be ever preparing for death.”
“The business of the church is to tell and embody a story”
“The business of the country is business.”
“The business of the dead belongs to the living.”
Source: Necklace of Raindrops
“The business of the dramatist is to keep himself out of sight, and to let nothing appear but his characters. As soon as he attracts notice to his personal feelings, the illusion is broken.”
“The business of the endgame is maneuvring to control critical squares, advancing or blockading passed pawns, preparing a breakthrough by the king, or exploiting the subtle superiority of one piece over another.”
“The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.”
Source: The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson
“The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.”
“The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.”
Source: The Art of Literature (illustrated)
“The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt.”
“The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.”
Source: Hardy: Selected Poems
“The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.”
Source: The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems
“The business of the state trying to legislate modesty is relatively both an infantile and ridiculous procedure. Of course, it is true that the more things are secreted the more intriguing they become, because it is always the forbidden that has the strongest appeal. Nudity is a state of fact - lewdity a state of mind.”
Source: Paul Outerbridge, Jr: photographs