T Quotes
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“The clearest version of vision, backed by the purest grade of greed is a ripen file of failure.”
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir
“The clearest way to know whether you are with a poor person in America is not by the logo on the clothes, because we all wear pretty much the same anymore. It's by looking into their eyes and seeing whether they look into yours, and seeing what kind of teeth they have.”
“The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.”
“THE CLEARLY LABELED
I think you’ll find you’re mistaken. My name is clearly written across the front and I recognise the scratch down the side (that happened in high school). This is my heart. You can’t just come here, and take it.”
Source: I Wrote This For You
“The clearsighted eye turns the light back to see its own Original Nature.”
“The clemency of Princes is often but policy to win the affections of the people.”
“The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe rightly: for I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. But this is all they have to fear from me: and enough, too, in their opinion.”
Source: The Life and Writings of ...
“The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they were supposed to be better or nearer to God than other men, their failings attracted more attention.”
Source: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
“The clergy are at present divided into three sections: an immense body who are ignorant; a small proportion who know and are silent; and a minute minority who know and speak according to their knowledge.”
“The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly.”
“The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance to filch wealth and power to themselves...these clergy, in fact, constitute the real Anti-Christ.”
“The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.”
“The Clergy is the greatest hindrance to faith.”
“The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“The clergy profession is fundamentally self-defeating. Its stated purpose is to nurture spiritual maturity in the church - a valuable goal. In actuality, however; it accomplishes the opposite by nurturing a permanent dependence of the laity on the clergy. Clergy become to their congregations like parents whose children never grow up, like therapists whose clients never become healed, like teachers whose students never graduate.”
“The clergy would have us believe them against our own reason, as the woman would have her husband against his own eyes.”
Source: The Table-talk of John Selden Esq: With a Biographical Preface and Notes
“The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man.”
Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
“The clergy, no less than the capitalist class, lives on the backs of the people, profits from the degradation, the ignorance and the oppression of the people.”
“The clerical system of church management is exceedingly popular, but the whole thought is foreign to Scripture.”
Source: The Normal Christian Church Life
“The clerical system of church management is exceedingly popular, but the whole thought is foreign to Scripture. In a church all the members are active. He [God] appointed some to take oversight of the work so that it might be carried on efficiently. It was never His thought that the majority of the believers should devote themselves exclusively to secular affairs and leave church matters to a group of spiritual specialists.”
“The clerical work is par for the course. "Keep on file in numerical order" means throw in wastebasket. You'll soon learn the language. "Let it be a challenge to you" means you're stuck with it; "interpersonal relationships" is a fight between kids; "ancillary civic agencies for supportive discipline" means call the cops; "Language Arts Dept." is the English office; "literature based on child's reading level and experiential background" means that's all they've got in the Book Room; "non-academic-minded" is a delinquent; and "It has come to my attention" means you're in trouble.”
Source: Up the Down Staircase
“The clerics of Abydos say those machines were responsible for the apocalypse that befell mankind,” Sia said. “It was those machines that drove man against man. And so any trace of one of these accursed machines is strictly forbidden. That’s why all of these relics, every last one, were gathered up in a huge temple called the Graveyard of the Past. They’re guarded by the clerics and servants of the temple so that no man can ever get too close. They say that whoever does will be punished by the gods.”
Source: ملاذ: مدينة البعث
“The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books”
Source: Selected Works on the Pleasures of Reading
“The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art.”
“The clerk is looking at me. His expression hasn't changed. What I want to do is punch a hole in the front of the desk, reach through, grab his balls, and make him sing The Mickey Mouse Club song. But these days, I'm working on the theory that killing everyone I don't like might be counterproductive. I'm learning to use my indoor voice like a big boy, so I smile back at the clerk.”
Source: Kill the Dead
“The clerk read the verdict. “On count one, murder in the first degree: guilty.”
Source: INNOCENT AGAIN: A LEGAL THRILLER
“The clerks at the bank who turned over our information. The fake attorney. The man who gave me free hot chocolate at Hertzoon’s fake office. I destroyed them all, one by one, brick by brick. And Rollins will be the last. These things don’t wash away with prayer, Wraith. There is no peace waiting for me, no forgiveness, not in this life, not in the next.”
Inej shook her head. How could she still look at him with kindness in her eyes? “You don’t ask for forgiveness, Kaz. You earn it.”
“Is that what you intend to do? By hunting slavers?”
“By hunting slavers. By rooting out the merchers and Barrel bosses who profit off of them. By being something more than just the next Pekka Rollins.”
It was impossible. There was nothing more. He could see the truth even if she couldn’t. Inej was stronger than he would ever be. She’d kept her faith, her goodness, even when the world tried to take it from her with greedy hands.
His eyes scanned her face as they always had, closely, hungrily, snatching at the details of her like the thief he was—the even set of her dark brows, the rich brown of her eyes, the upward tilt of her lips. He didn’t deserve peace and he didn’t deserve forgiveness, but if he was going to die today, maybe the one thing he’d earned was the memory of her—brighter than anything he would ever have a right to—to take with him to the other side.”
Source: Crooked Kingdom
“The Cleveland Cavaliers just offered me a full-time job and a house! A house! A house!”
“The clever cannot catch the genius; such an attempt is just an act of trying to catch the shadow of a flying bird!”
“The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.”
Source: W.C. Fields by Himself: His Intended Autobiography with Hitherto Unpublished Letters, Notes, Scripts, and Articles
“The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.”
Source: The Art of War
“The clever combatant looks to the effect of combined energy, and does not require too much from individuals. Hence his ability to pick out the right men and utilize combined energy”
Source: Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text
“The clever explain later”
“The clever has all the answers, the wise has all the questions.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“The clever is the one who quickly saves himself from the stupids caravan otherwise he will remain at the same place and loses his strength.”
“The clever men of Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed but they none of them know one half as much as intelligent Mr. Toad.”
“The clever owns, but never is he possessed. - On Ownership.”
“The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop”
Source: Moon Over Soho
“The clever person is not among the crowd, but outside of it! He has his own way, free from crowds!”
“The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.”
“The clever seek comfort,
the wise seek peace.
The clever seek pleasure,
the wise seek contentment.
The clever seek riches,
the wise seek happiness.
The clever seek laughter,
the wise seek joy.
The clever seek company,
the wise seek comrades.
The clever seek crowds,
the wise seek friends.
The clever seek approval,
the wise seek respect.
The clever seek fame,
the wise seek reverence.
The clever seek acquaintances,
the wise seek allies.
The clever seek accomplices,
the wise seek helpers.
The clever seek associates,
the wise seek partners.
The clever seek connections,
the wise seek mentors.
The clever seek accolades,
the wise seek excellence.
The clever seek recognition,
the wise seek awards.
The clever seek prominence,
the wise seek followers.
The clever seek leadership,
the wise seek impact.
The clever seek power,
the wise seek influence.
The clever seek titles,
the wise seek respect.
The clever seek fame,
the wise seek dignity.
The clever seek glory,
the wise seek integrity.
The clever seek wants,
the wise seek needs.
The clever seek luxury,
the wise seek convenience.
The clever seek enjoyment,
the wise seek fulfillment.
The clever seek entertainment,
the wise seek rest.
The clever seek style,
the wise seek grace.
The clever seek brains,
the wise seek heart.
The clever seek appearance,
the wise seek etiquette.
The clever seek beauty,
the wise seek honesty.
The clever seek opinions,
the wise seek facts.
The clever seek truth,
the wise seek knowledge.
The clever seek ideas,
the wise seek wisdom.
The clever seek adventure,
the wise seek discovery.
The clever seek questions,
the wise seek answers.
The clever seek problems,
the wise seek solutions.
The clever seek amusement,
the wise seek books.
The clever seek an education,
the wise seek enlightenment.”
“The clever way death cuts us down, but makes it look like just a thinning-out. Generations never fall with one blow - that would be too sad and too obvious. Death prefers to do it piecemeal. The meadow is attacked from several sides at the same time. One of us goes one day; another some time afterwards; you have to stand back and look around you to take in what's missing, to grasp the vast slaughter of your generation.”
“The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order.”
“The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.”
“The cleverest amongst you is he who is the loyal apostle of life, the true disciple of existence, the devout follower of love.”
“The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.”
Source: Don Quixote of La Mancha (Full Text)/ Introductory analysis and literary poem by Atidem Aroha.
“The cleverest is person who learns the life before the life teaches him! In short, he is the person who walks in front of the life!”
“The cleverest of all the devils is Opportunity.”
“The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.”