T Quotes
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“The cautious faith that never saws off a limb on which it is sitting, never learns that unattached limbs may find strange unaccountable ways of not falling.”
“The cautious seldom err.”
Source: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean
“The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.”
“The cavalier casual way that Donald Trump talks about nuclear weapons is not only frightening but it goes counter to more than 70 years of bipartisan, presidential leadership of Republicans and Democrats who believed that we have to prevent other countries from getting nuclear weapons and we have to do what we can to decrease the number of nuclear weapons in the world.”
“The Cavalier Servente by Stewart Stafford
Her lover creeps
On stairs that creak
To where the mistress sleeps
To wet his beak.
Affairs in the dark
When matrimony is parked
A disloyal lark
Starts the carnal spark.
At break of day
The cuckolder creeps away
From naughty play
He’s had his way.
© Stewart Stafford, 2021. All rights reserved.”
“The cavalries charged and the Indians died, oh the country was young with God on its side.”
Source: The Lyrics: Since 1962
“The cavalry, in particular, were not friendly to the aeroplane, which it was believed, would frighten the horses.”
Source: The War in the Air: Being the Story of the Part Played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force ...
“The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century.”
“The cave doesn’t change for you, but it allows you to change for it.”
Source: Underground Echoes: Field Edition: A Short Memoir of Grief, Wilderness, and Return
“The cave exploded with the sound of trumpets.
A heavenly choir began to sing.
A surge of power ran up the sword into Henry's hand.
A voice thundered through the cavern. "Whosoever Pulleth The Sword From Out The Stone, Is Rightwise Born King of All England."
Henry screamed and threw the sword into the lake.”
Source: The Wrong Sword
“The cave is a dark, shadowy place. It's a place that's very close and yet distant at the same time, and it's a place of revelation and isolation. Your form, your body, your writing is your confinement.”
“The cave of the mouth is where men's spirits shelter.”
Source: The Sea Runners
“The cave was cool and silent- thoroughly carpeted- with the most luxuriant mantle of mosses Alma Whittaker had ever seen.
The cave was not merely mossy; it throbbed with moss. It was not merely green; it was frantically green. It was so bright in its verdure that the color nearly spoke, as though- smashing through the world of sight- it wanted to migrate into the world of sound. The moss was a thick, living pelt, transforming every rock surface into a mythical, sleeping beast. Improbably, the deepest corners of the cave glittered the brightest; they were absolutely studded, Alma realized with a gasp, with the jewellike filigree of 'Schistotega pennata.'
Goblin's gold, dragon's gold, elfin gold- 'Schistotega pennata' was that rarest of cave mosses, that false gem that gleams like a cat's eye from within the permanent twilight of geologic shade, that unearthly sparkling plant that needs but the briefest sliver of light each day to sparkle like glory forever, that brilliant trickster whose shining facets have fooled so many travelers over the centuries into believing that they have stumbled upon hidden treasure. But to Alma, this 'was' treasure, more stunning than actual riches, for it bedecked the entire cave in the uncanny, glistering, emerald light that she had only ever before seen in miniature, in glimpses of moss seen through a microscope... yet now she was standing fully within it.”
Source: The Signature of All Things
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
“The cave-dweller's wife complained that he hadn't dragged her anywhere in months.”
“The caveman is not extinct but is alive and well and living today in the houses and apartments of the modern world.”
Source: Unbound: How Eight Technologies Made Us Human and Brought Our World to the Brink
“The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living and ours is a difference between the knowledge they could bring to bear on those resources and the knowledge used today.”
Source: Knowledge And Decisions
“The cavern cracked and groaned. Dirt, rocks, and glow worms rained on their heads. With a wave of panic, Andy swung around and dashed into the next cavern. “Run!” The ceiling collapsed. Behind him, Medusa laughed, her snakes still hissing.”
Source: The Helm of Darkness
“The cavern should have filled with silence, but Tella could hear the pieces of her heart as it shattered.”
Source: Finale
“The caviar was very high quality. I made an acting decision on the spot that Ismay was a big eater.”
“The cavity which suffering carves into our souls will one day also be the receptacle of joy.”
“The caw of a rook on its homeward way,
Oh! These shall be the music for me,
For I love I love the path of the free”
Source: The Poems Of Eliza Cook
“The cawing of a big, black crow awoke me early the next morning, but I remained still, pretending to be asleep. I didn’t want to see Ibrahim in the light of day, and I didn’t want to make more small talk. I felt hunger pains through the remnants of champagne and cognac from the night before. I wondered why I hadn’t eaten more, feeling silly about having been so insecure about my culinary etiquette.
Numb and void of emotion, I remained in a state of suspended animation reliving the events of our night of passion. The night before, I pictured silhouettes of angels dancing upon the ceiling in the moonlight, not disconnected bodies lying beneath the covers at a loss for words.”
Source: Blind Pony: As True A Story As I Can Tell
“The Cayman Islands, a British Crown colony in the Caribbean, for instance, is the fifth largest banking center in the world.”
“The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.”
Source: Mark Twain’s Book of Animals
“The CBO is part of an intricate web that has been woven that is designed to be an obstacle to Republican ideas and greased lightning for Democrat ideas, while everybody claims it's nonpartisan. But that's not possible. It simply isn't nonpartisan, and it can't be.”
“The CCP's destruction of traditional culture has brought disastrous consequences to China. Not only people have lost their moral bearings, they have also been forcibly indoctrinated with the CCP's evil theories.”
Source: Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party
“The CD is dedicated to our dog Nell, who passed away last year.”
“The CD, it should be noted, was born out of greed. It was devised to prop up record sales on the expectation of people replenishing their record collections with CDs of albums they had already purchased.”
“The CDC could recommend condomless sex with camels, and some people would go out and fuck desert horses. Try not to get sand in your vagina.”
Source: Powdered Saxophone Music
“The CDO was, in effect, a credit laundering service for the residents of Lower Middle Class America. For Wall Street it was a machine that turned lead into gold.”
Source: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)
“The CDOs that sliced up and then spliced together disparate debts belonging to a heterogeneous multitude of families and businesses were put together on the basis of certain formulae, whose purpose was, supposedly, to calculate their value and their riskiness. These formulae were developed by financial engineers working for Wall Street (e.g. for J. P. Morgan, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, etc.). To render the formulae solvable, certain assumptions had to be made. First and foremost was the assumption that the probability that one slice of debt within a CDO would go bad was largely unrelated to the probability of a similar default by the other slices in the same CDO. That is, it was assumed that what happened in 2007–08 was…impossible! That it was unnecessary to factor in the possibility of some crisis, during which Bob lost his house for reasons that increased the chances that Jane would lose her job and eventually also default on her mortgage.”
Source: The Global Minotaur: America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy
“The CDU, the great party of the center, is back. It is the biggest party in parliament. We will make what we can of this great result.”
“The ceasefire had started. Next would come the negotations. Then the peace between the sultan and the invaders. And without the need to mind his shores, the desert ruler's eyes would turn inward again. The Foreign prince understood it was time to return to his brother. Their rebellion was about to turn into a war.”
Source: Traitor to the Throne
“The ceasefire lasted about ten minutes, when she discovered that Bram Stoker - inventor of Dracula - was a 'conspiracy theorist' and that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a fool, who played golf.
"What has that got to do with it?" she cried, exasperated.
He looked at her incredulously. 'Everything. No man can have poetry in his soul and play golf.”
Source: The Paris Secret
“The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.”
“The ceaseless rain is falling fast,
And yonder gilded vane,
Immovable for three days past,
Points to the misty main,
It drives me in upon myself
And to the fireside gleams,
To pleasant books that crowd my shelf,
And still more pleasant dreams,
I read whatever bards have sung
Of lands beyond the sea,
And the bright days when I was young
Come thronging back to me.
In fancy I can hear again
The Alpine torrent's roar,
The mule-bells on the hills of Spain,
The sea at Elsinore.
I see the convent's gleaming wall
Rise from its groves of pine,
And towers of old cathedrals tall,
And castles by the Rhine.
I journey on by park and spire,
Beneath centennial trees,
Through fields with poppies all on fire,
And gleams of distant seas.
I fear no more the dust and heat,
No more I feel fatigue,
While journeying with another's feet
O'er many a lengthening league.
Let others traverse sea and land,
And toil through various climes,
I turn the world round with my hand
Reading these poets' rhymes.
From them I learn whatever lies
Beneath each changing zone,
And see, when looking with their eyes,
Better than with mine own.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace.”
“The ceiling in the mess was very low, not even eight feet. You can feel the weight of the West Wing above your head, and with the the weight of American memory.”
Source: The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush, An Inside Account
“The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.”
Source: Uncivil liberties
“The ceiling shattered, and the vacuum created yanked her into the air. Her face grazed a shard of the ceiling as it broke off. Then she was in space.
Her left hand unlatched the breather mask and slid it on while her right felt for the helmet trigger.
Her finger slipped past it, fumbled back for it.
Found it.
Pressed it.”
Source: Requiem
“The ceiling was curved, giving the space a cave-like feel, and it was either very large, very small, or sort of normal-sized.”
Source: The Emerald Atlas
“The ceilings had set off a ghostly echo, giving all that desperate hilarity the quality of a memory even as I sat listening to it, memories of things I'd never known.”
Source: The Secret History
“The celebrated Aboriginal painter Albert Namatjira loved the Ghost Gums of the Northern Territory... They are evocatively Australian, their white trunks contrasting with the red earth and the deep blue sky of the Dreamtime region that has for centuries sustained Namatjira's Aranda people.”
Source: Australia's Remarkable Trees
“The celebrated Adam Smith was the first to point out the immense increase of production, and the superior perfection of products referable to this division of labour.”
Source: A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth
“The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.”
“The celebration of a new year has little to do with a new calendar and everything to do with a new start.”
“The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come.”
“The celebration of Christmas is a riotous declaration of the message that “unto us a child is born.” For without that message infusing the very life and essence of the celebration of Christmas every celebratory moment that we engage in during this season will be the stuff of meaningless pomp and empty circumstance. And tragically, in a world that has disemboweled that very message from the celebration, countless celebrants are destined to walk away achingly barren and with an undercurrent of gnawing disappointment because their empty rituals could not gift them with what the essential core of their humanity is in desperate need of. Therefore, “unto us a child is born” is the message that we must boldly and even brazenly herald throughout the year so that no soul who dares to celebrate in this manner will ever be left empty because the gift of this child is the embodiment of everything that we need and nothing that we do not.”
“The celebration of death is not a good thing. Fetishizing death isn't a good thing. You should be celebrating life and enjoying it and all that.”