T Quotes
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“The carpenter's daughter has won a name for herself, and deserved to win it”
Source: All the Year Round: Contributions
“The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.”
“The carriage door ripped open, torn from its hinges. Cold air rushed in
with the night, and the night was enraged. It washed over me, its intensity
so stunning, it overwhelmed me, shutting down my senses. [...]
“It’s okay. Shh, it’s okay, Poppy. Stop. Look at me,” a voice
demanded. “Look at me, Princess.”
Princess.
The Ascended wouldn’t call me that.
Breathing ragged, my wild gaze swiveled around the carriage, stopping
when I found him. He hovered over me, cheeks spotted with blood.
“Hawke,” I whispered.
“Yeah. Yes.” He sounded shredded and windblown. “It’s me.”
Source: A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
“The carriage drove smoothly along, and the sound of the church bell fell at intervals on the ear, 'in cadence sweet, now dying away'; and, at the holy sound, Mary's heart flew back to the peaceful vale and primitive kirk at Lochmarlie, where all her happy sabbaths had been spent. The view now opened on the villiage church, beautifully situated on the slope of a green hill. Parties of struggling villagers, in their holiday suits, were descried in all directions, some already assembled in the church-yard, others traversing the neat foot-paths that led through the meadows. But, to Mary's eyes, the well dressed English rustic, trudging along the smooth path, was a far less picturesque object, than the bare-footed Highland girl, bounding over trackless heath-covered hills; and the well-preserved glossy blue coat, seemed a poor substitute for the varied drapery of the graceful plaid.”
Source: Marriage
“The carrion birds sat about the topmost corners of the houses with their wings outstretched in attitudes of exhortation like dark little bishops.”
Source: Blood Meridian: Picador Classic
“The Carrion.
There it was again: that strange word he had heard so often growing up. But just then he asked: “What is the Carrion?”
His father seemed pleased that his son had finally wondered aloud. “A place that teaches you the meaning of survival.”
In the quiet comfort of the family dining room, rich with the heady odors of exotic spices and long-simmered meats, the statement had no meaning. “Will I be afraid?” he said, again because he sensed he was meant to ask.
“If you know what’s good for you.”
“Could I die there?” he said, almost in self-amusement.
“In ways too numerous to count.”
“Would you miss me if I did die?” he asked them both.
His mother was the first to say, “Of course we would.”
“Then why do I have to go there? Have I done something wrong?”
His father placed his elbows on the table and leaned toward him. “We need to know if you are simply ordinary or larger than life.”
To the best of his ability, he mulled over the notion of being larger than life. “Did you have to go there when you were young?”
His father nodded.
“Were you afraid?”
His father sat back into his tall, brocaded armchair, as if in recall. “In the beginning I was. Until I learned to overcome fear.”
Source: Tarkin
“The carrot and the stick are prevasive and persuasive motivators. But if you treat people like donkeys, they will perform like donkeys.”
Source: Coaching for Performance: GROWing Human Potential and Purpose: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership
“The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit.”
“The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.”
“The cars of the migrant people crawled out of the side roads onto the great cross-country highway, and they took the migrant way to the West.... And because they were lonely and perplexed, because they had all come from a place of sadness and worry and defeat, and because they were all going to a mysterious new place, ... a strange thing happened: the twenty families became one family, the children were the children of all. The loss of home became one loss, and the golden time in the West was one dream.”
“The cars that our children and grandchildren will be driving in the future will be greener as a result of high-tech lessons learned.”
“The cars themselves are getting smarter and will be increasingly able to assist drivers - to the point where the cars will be completely automated.”
“The cars we drive say a lot about us.”
“The cart slowed as they came to a place so dark and quiet that it seemed as if they had entered some remote forest. Peeking beneath the hem of the cart's canvas covering, Garrett saw towering gates covered with ivy, and ghostly sculptures of angels, and solemn figures of men, women, and children with their arms crossed in resignation upon their breasts. Graveyard sculptures. A stab of horror went through her, and she crawled to the front of the cart to where West Ravenel was sitting with the driver.
"Where the devil are you taking us, Mr. Ravenel?"
He glanced at her over his shoulder, his brows raised. "I told you before- a private railway station."
"It looks like a cemetery."
"It's a cemetery station," he admitted. "With a dedicated line that runs funeral trains out to the burial grounds. It also happens to connect to the main lines and branches of the London Ironstone Railroad, owned by our mutual friend Tom Severin."
"You told Mr. Severin about all this? Dear God. Can we trust him?"
West grimaced slightly. "One never wants to be in the position of having to trust Severin," he admitted. "But he's the only one who could obtain clearances for a special train so quickly."
They approached a massive brick and stone building housing a railway platform. A ponderous stone sign adorned the top of the carriage entrance: Silent Gardens. Just below it, the shape of an open book emblazoned with words had been carved in the stone. Ad Meliora. "Toward better things," Garrett translated beneath her breath.”
Source: Hello Stranger
“The Carter Center has a policy of doing what others do not want to do. We do not compete with the World Health Organization, the United Nations or the US government.”
“The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm.”
“The Cartesian mechanistic worldview has been responsible for developing classical physics and technology. Yet the Cartesian tendency to divide the perceived world into individual and separate things can also lead to fear of the Other and excessive self-interest, sometimes resulting in a lack of compassion.”
Source: Pataphysics: Mastering Time Line Jumps for Personal Transformation
“The Cartesian partition between me and the world, between the observer and the observed, has been severed. Henceforth, we can never speak about nature without, at the same time, speaking about ourselves.”
Source: Pataphysics: Mastering Time Line Jumps for Personal Transformation
“The cartoon absolutely captures something that acres and acres of copy can't. And even photographs can't.”
“The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?”
“The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things to read there too.”
“The cartooning was always just an abstraction. It was an income. It was making me famous. It was allowing me to go and do other things that I'd wanted to do.”
“The cartoonist's work is solitary; even when dealing with editors and assistants, there is no such excitement as to creating unexpected drastic changes for projects. But by the same token, manga can't be drawn by a lot of people, as done in film.”
“The cartoonists treated Islam the same way they treat Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and other religions. And by treating Muslims in Denmark as equals they made a point: we are integrating you into the Danish tradition of satire because you are part of our society, not strangers. The cartoons are including, rather than excluding, Muslims.”
“The cartoonist’s task is not so much to be balanced as to give balance, particularly in situations of disproportionate power relationships such as we see in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
“The carved images on the early Minoan sealstones are tantalising, inscrutable. The Nature Goddess is yanked from the soil like a snake or a sheaf of barley; the Mistress of the Animals suckles goats and gazelles. There are male Adorants certainly - up on tiptoe, their outstretched arms hoisted in a kind of heil, their bodies arched suggestively, pelvis forward, before the Goddess - but there are no masculine deities, not a single one in sight. No woman worth her salt, one might think, could fail to be intrigued.”
“The carved stone sign in front read Building C.
Imaginative title, Langdon thought”
Source: Angels & Demons
“The carved wood wore into his shoulder, a reassuring discomfort. He pressed himself against it, parting the bed curtains, and with his right eye saw the light of strength dimming from a man he used to fancy was his lover.”
Source: Hell and Earth
“The Carver stroked the shard of bone in his palm, attention fixed upon a stone-faced Cassian. 'What if I tell you what the rock and darkness and sea and beyond whispered to me, Lord of Bloodshed? How they shuddered in fear, on that island across the sea. How they trembled when she emerged. She took something- something precious. She ripped it out with her teeth.'
Cassian's golden-brown face had drained of colour, his wings tucking in tight.
'What did you wake that day in Hybern, Prince of Bastards?'
My blood went cold.
'What come out was not what went in.' A rasping laugh as the Carver laid the shard of bone on the ground beside him. 'How lovely she is- new as a fawn and yet ancient as the sea. How she calls to you. A queen, as my sister once was. Terrible and proud, beautiful as a winter sunrise.'
Rhys had warned me of the inmates' capacity to lie, to sell anything, to get free.
'Nesta,' the Bone Carver murmured. 'Nes-ta.'
I squeezed Cassian's hand. Enough. It was enough of this teasing and taunting. But he didn't look at me.
'How the wind moans her name. Can you hear it, too? Nesta. Nesta. Nesta.'
I wasn't sure Cassian was breathing.
'What did she do, drowning in the ageless dark? What did she take?”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“The CAS sent me to a therapist. He actually wasn’t half bad at first—real young, kinda cute, a bit stuck up with degrees in fancy IKEA frames all over his concrete walls and new-agey music playing. I mean, what kind of therapist has background music? Like was he going to massage my feet too? No doubt, he was making good money, though. To be honest, if he had made a move on me, I might have been okay with it.”
Source: The Family Code (206)
“The case against a fully independent central bank is strong indeed.”
Source: The essence of Friedman
“The case against censoring anything is absolute: ... nothing that could be censored can be so bad in its effects, in the long run, as censorship itself.”
“The case against Jeff Sessions was threadbare three decades ago. It's based on hearsay and innuendo and a joke he made about the Klan.”
“The case against religion is the responsibility of God for the sufferings of mankind, which makes it impossible to believe the good things said about Him in the Bible, and consequently to believe anything it says about Him.”
Source: Survivors in Mexico
“The case against the notion of historical objectivity is like the case against international law, or international morality; that it does not exist.”
Source: Historical inevitability
“The case against vivisection is the same as that against war and all other forms of cruelty - that violence does not produce long-term solutions.”
Source: The Civilised Alternative: A Pattern for Protest
“The case for democracy is not esthetic.”
“The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.”
“The case for government by elites is irrefutable.”
“The case for industry breakups comes from Thomas Jefferson's idea that occasional revolutions are important to the health of any system. As he wrote in 1787, “a little rebellion every now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical one.”
Source: The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
“The case for interconnectedness between conscious human lives is hard to deny.”
Source: Nature Of Occurrences
“The case for meat-eaters - if eating meat is a sin, then why are some plants carnivorous?”
“The case for my life... is this: that I have added something to knowledge, and helped others to add more”
Source: A Mathematician's Apology
“The case for peace is not state vs terrorism, the case for peace is citizens vs states of earth.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“The case for the humanities is not hard to make, though it can be difficult--to such an extent have we been marginalized, so long have we acceded to that marginalization--not to sound either defensive or naive. The humanities, done right, are the crucible in which our evolving notions of what it means to be fully human are put to the test; they teach us, incrementally, endlessly, not what to do, but how to be. Their method is confrontational, their domain unlimited, their "product" not truth but the reasoned search for truth, their "success" something very much like Frost's momentary stay against confusion.”
Source: Essays from the Nick of Time: Reflections and Refutations
“The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.”
Source: The George W. Bush Foreign Policy Reader: Presidential Speeches and Commentary
“The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty.”
“The case has ruined my life.
Schlichtmann”
Source: A Civil Action
“The case I shall find evidence for is that when literature arrives, it expels science.”
Source: The hope of progress: a scientist looks at problems in philosophy, literature and science
“The case I would like to make to my grandfather is that I'm no more to blame for any of this than I am for global warming, the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, the cesspool of social media or our politically polarized country. The problem is that while I may not be responsible for the growing divide between the world's haves and its have-nots, it's also true, or at least it feels true, that the world's disarray is worsening on my watch. What I'd like is to be let off the hook to be absolved of all wrongdoing, when in truth I feel both complicit and utterly helpless. Though I live in the present, I can't help feeling that I owe an apology to both the past and the future.”
Source: Life and Art: Essays