T Quotes
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“The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none.”
“The country can't get well if the people are sick. And the people are sick.”
“The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.”
Source: Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001
“The country crowd just has fun.”
“The country didn't get that way in a week; we've had years and years of getting behind in our economy. So President [Barack] Obama stepped into a hellhole and people wanted him to change it as soon as he came in. But he's got his adversaries to deal with in the House and Senate, so it's not easy.”
“The Country Doctor Revisited is a fine achievement. Purporting to be an overview of the practice of medicine in rural areas, it is a splendid portrait of the practice of medicine everywhere. The special conditions that prevail in the countryside as opposed to the cities are examined, and each of these is illustrated by a case history that is as compelling as it is informative. It is presented in a highly readable form that would be accessible to the general public as well as to the deliverers of health care. I recommend it most highly.”
“The country does what the city cannot. It quietens the mind and brings simplicity into one’s life. The city does what the country cannot. It enlivens the mind and brings culture into one’s life.”
Source: The Love of Devotion
“The country doesn't owe you anything because you're an American or especially because you have a college degree. Now, if you think... If you are a college student and you've got a degree and you're out there and you can't find a job and if you think - if you agree with Obama that the Bush tax cuts ought to sunset - $700 billion ought to be taken out of the private sector and sent to Obama, then you deserve to be out of work for the rest of your life because that $700 billion taken out of the private sector could be used to grow businesses and hire people.”
“The country ever has a lagging Spring,
Waiting for May to call its violets forth,
And June its roses-showers and sunshine bring,
Slowly, the deepening verdure o'er the earth;
To put their foliage out, the woods are slack,
And one by one the singing-birds come back.
Within the city's bounds the time of flowers
Comes earlier. Let a mild and sunny day,
Such as full often, for a few bright hours,
Breathes through the sky of March the airs of May,
Shine on our roofs and chase the wintry gloom-
And lo! our borders glow with sudden bloom.”
“The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.”
“The country feels like it's entitled to abuse this state and forget about us, and we are sick of it.”
“The country has already become multicultural. Given immigration trends, it will only grow more diverse, and these new Americans want to share in their country's identity.”
“The country has always been governed by a coalition but today it is governed by a so-called Grand Coalition which is a more polite word for all and sundry.”
Source: The Prophet Motive: Israel Today and Tomorrow
“The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right.”
“The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.”
“The country has gone sane and got back to horses.”
“The country has its charms-cheapness for one.”
Source: Hillingdon Hall: Or, The Cockney Squire : a Tale of Country Life
“The country has large unfunded liabilities - social security, health care, and there will have to be some adjustments to these problems. What is scary though is how much worse things have gotten in the last eight years, and the Iraq war is one of the main factors.”
“The country has to change. Productivity in Australia more generally has got to improve. Some of the highest manufacturing costs in the world are coming out of Australia.”
“The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.”
“The country in which I live is not my native country, that lies elsewhere, and it must always be the center of my longings.”
“The country inspector's face had shown his intense amazement at the rapid and masterful progress of Holmes' investigation. At first he had shown some disposition to assert his own position, but now he was overcome with admiration, and ready to follow without question wherever Holmes lead.”
Source: The Return of Sherlock Holmes
“The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“The COUNTRY is controlled by LAWS>
LAWS are controlled by POLITICIANS>
POLITICIANS are controlled by VOTERS>
VOTERS are controlled by PUBLIC OPINION>
PUBLIC OPINION is controlled by the MEDIA (News, Hollywood, Internet...) & EDUCATION
so. whoever controls MEDIA & EDUCATION, controls the COUNTRY.”
Source: Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the Republic
“The country is dying cause of an lack of men, not a lack of programms.”
“The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control.”
“The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players.”
“The country is groaning and moaning and screaming for change.”
“The country is headed toward a single and splendid government of an aristocracy founded on banking institutions and moneyed incorporations and if this tendency continues it will be the end of freedom and democracy, the few will be ruling...I hope we shall...crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government to trial and bid defiance to the laws of our country. I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.”
“The country is in an extraordinary ferment.”
Source: Stories of Waterloo; and other tales [by W.H. Maxwell].
“The country is in deep trouble. We've forgotten that a rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it. We need the courage to question the powers that be, the courage to be impatient with evil and patient with people, the courage to fight for social justice. In many instances we will be stepping out on nothing, and just hoping to land on something. But that's the struggle. To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.”
“The country is in some trouble, because the media, which is supposed to provide a check and balance on government, has decided to stop doing that as a collective entity.”
“The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind.”
“The country is like a great sponge—it finally absorbs you. Eventually you will get malaria or you will get dysentery and whatever you do, if you don't keep doing it, the jungle will grow over you. Black or white, you've got to fight it every minute of the day.”
Source: The Making of The African Queen Or How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and almost lost my mind
“The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.”
Source: Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter
“The country is not in good condition.”
“The country is now universally recognised as a nation on the move and takes its place amongst the successful economies in the region. The future potential is enormous but the country's destiny is in our hands. The time has come to move from small increments to bold, large initiatives. The time has come to stretch the envelope and set goals which were earlier not seen to be possible. The time has come for performance to be measured and for allocated funds of the government to reach the people for whom they were intended.”
“The country is only as strong as its journalism - that's the way democracies work. The higher the quality of the information, the better informed the electorate is and the better the government runs.”
“The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.”
“The country is so wounded, bleeding, and hurt right now. The country needs to be healed-it's not going to be healed from the top, politically. How are we going to heal? Art is the healing force.”
“The country is split. There are - more people voting for Hillary Clinton than Donald Trump, but he's the president.”
“The country is suffering from musical-chairs syndrome. We all dance around for a bit and then when we try to sit down again, somebody doesn't have a chair. We're running scared; we want ours.”
Source: But Enough about You
“The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out into the country.”
Source: Bully!
“The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . .”
Source: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
“The country is the world of the soul, the city is the world of bodies.”
“The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.”
Source: Basquiat
“The country morning exists; the city morning promises. The former makes one live; the latter makes one think. And I’m doomed always to feel, like the world’s great damned men, that it’s better to think than to live.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“The Country Music Awards were held Wednesday night at Universal City. The best country songs are always about drinking and guns and love gone wrong. Next year they're giving Robert Blake the Lifetime Achievement Award.”
“The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation .”
Source: Looking Forward