T Quotes
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“The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly at each unconscious face, to kiss each with lips that mutely blessed, and to pray the fervent prayers which only mothers utter.”
Source: Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…
“The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife.”
“The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.”
Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
“The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell. What law or principle - secular, humanist, or religious - says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not?”
“The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.”
Source: Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims
“The close games are usually lost, rather than won. What I mean by that is games are mostly won because of the opponent making mistakes during crucial moments.”
“The close observer soon discovers that the teacher's task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in front of the learner and, through sympathy, emotion, imagination, and patience, to awaken in the learner the restless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life and give it meaning.”
“The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large accumulations of property and wealth.”
“The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads.”
Source: The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States
“The close relationships between the abrupt ups and downs of solar activity and of temperature that I have identified occur locally in coastal Greenland; regionally in the Arctic Pacific and north Atlantic; and hemispherically for the whole circum-Arctic, suggesting that changes in solar activity drive Arctic and perhaps even global climate.”
“The close relationships we form between researchers and product groups have already shown we can move the great ideas as they come along, without a schedule, into the products.”
Source: Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur
“The close-up has no equivalent in a narrative fashioned of words. Literature is totally lacking in any working method to enable it to isolate a single vastly enlarged detail in which one face comes forward to underline a state of mind or stress the importance of a single detail in comparison with the rest. As a narrative device, the ability to vary the distance between the camera and the object may be a small thing indeed, but it makes for a notable difference between cinema and oral or written narrative, in which the distance between language and image is always the same.”
“The close-up says everything, it's then that an actor's learned, rehearsed behavior becomes most obvious to an audience and chips away, unconsciously, at its experience of reality. In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.”
“The close-up says everything.”
“The close-up, according to D.W. Griffith, allows subtle changes of facial expression-the raising of an eyebrow or the flicker of a smile-to become part of the action.”
“The closed circle of materialism is clear to us now - aspirations become wants, wants become needs, and self-gratification becomes a bottomless pit.”
“The closed door and the sealed lips are prerequisites to tyranny.”
“The closed language does not demonstrate and explain it communicates decision, dictum, command. Where it defines, the definition becomes "separation of good from evil;" it establishes unquestionable”
Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
“The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by.”
Source: Yes Man
“The closeness [of Rex Tillerson] to [Vladimir] Putin will be one of the unifying issues between the Republican critics and Democratic critics.”
“The closeness between the United States and Mexico is more than just a relationship between two governments.”
“The closeness of reality and the distance of myth, because if there is no distance you aren't amazed, and if there is no closeness you aren't moved.”
“The closeness of the India-Afghanistan relationship is not a new phenomenon. It has existed since time immemorial. And as a close friend, ever since India's Independence, we have done and will continue to do whatever is required to be done to see Afghanistan grow and progress as a close friend.”
“The closer a husband and wife get to God, the closer they get to each other. The farther away they get from God, the farther they get from each other.”
“The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.”
Source: Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge
“The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.”
“The closer a person is to God, the closer he is to people.”
“The closer a thing comes to its perfection, more keen will be its pleasure or its pain.”
“The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.”
“The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.”
“The closer he was the less confident I was.”
Source: Take Me Tomorrow
“The closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets.”
“The closer I get to God, the blacker the little sins appear”
“The closer I move
To death, one man through his sundered hulks,
The louder the sun blooms
And the tusked, ramshackling sea exults.”
Source: Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952
“The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.”
“The closer men came to perfecting for themselves a paradise, the more impatient they became with it, and with themselves as well. They made a garden of pleasure, and became progressively more miserable with it as it grew in richness and power and beauty; for then, perhaps, it was easier to see something was missing in the garden, some tree or shrub that would not grow. When the world was in darkness and wretchedness, it could believe in perfection and yearn for it. But when the world became bright with reason and riches, it began to sense the narrowness of the needle's eye, and that rankled for a world no longer willing to believe or yearn.”
Source: A Canticle For Leibowitz
“The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.”
“The closer one gets to either the eastern or the southern fringe of the German-speaking world-the closer one gets, in other words, to the threatening and more numerous Slavs-the more insecure and dangerous nationalism becomes.”
Source: Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History
“The closer one gets to elections or wars, the further one gets from the truth.”
“The closer one gets to realizing his destiny, the more that destiny becomes his true reason for being.”
“The closer one gets to the heart of truth, often times, the resistance or ego, gets really epic nasty!”
“The closer one gets to the speed of light, the slower time travels. The exact thing is true when completing a book.”
“The closer the genetic relationship of the family members, as for example father-to-son, as opposed to uncle-to-nephew, the higher the degree of cooperation.”
“The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are.”
“The closer they get to Broughton, the more the sand dunes bunch together on the collar of the road. He'd wander out here as a lad, carefree, and tumble down the slopes for hours with kids from other towns he'd never see again. Back then, he wouldn't give much thought to smashed-up bottles that were dumped there, or the damage he could do an ankle treading in a burrow. He's forgotten that simplicity, that joy. It's true what Mr Acheson is saying about the world and all its noise, but mostfolk seem to carry on undaunted, just like children gaily sliding down a sand dune. When did he stop sliding for fear of broken glass and bloody knees?”
Source: Seascraper
“The closer to the ocean you get, the better the air quality generally is.”
“The closer to the top, the more grew in me the belief that it might be fulfilled, which most dreaming.”
“The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie.”
Source: Foundation's Edge
“The closer we are to God, the closer we are to those who are close to him.”
Source: No Man Is an Island