T Quotes
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“The crucial ingredient in the success of any brand is its claim to authenticity.”
“The crucial lesson of Brexit and of Trump's victory, is that leaders who are seen as representing the failed neoliberal status quo are no match for the demagogues and neo-fascists. Only a bold and genuinely redistributive progressive agenda can offer real answers to inequality and the crises in democracy...We need to remember this the next time we're asked to back a party or candidate in an election. In this destabilized era, status-quo politicians often cannot get the job done. On the other hand, the choice that may at first seem radical, maybe even a little risky, may well be the most pragmatic one in this volatile era...radical political and economic change is our only hope of avoiding radical change to our physical world.”
“The crucial part of running any kind of successful business is to keep an eye on your competitors, watch what they’re doing right and what they’re doing wrong.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“The crucial people to get your product started for the first 6 months are not who will be using it 3 years later.”
“The crucial point in life is: are we living our 'own' life or simply a life for 'other' people. Are we not playing a role on behalf of some social groups and masquerading for fear of being excluded? ( "Quest for the real moment" )”
“The crucial point is always the own cost structure. Therefore I created a Low Cost alliance with air Berlin.”
“The crucial point is: by changing ourselves, we change the world. As we become more loving on the inside, healing occurs on the outside. Much like the rising of the sea level lifts all ships, so the radiance of unconditional love within a human heart lifts all of life.”
Source: Letting Go: The Pathway To Surrender
“The crucial point to understand, however, is not how insulin causes obesity, but that insulin does, in fact, cause obesity.
Once we understand that obesity is a hormonal imbalance, we can begin to treat it.”
Source: The Obesity Code
“The crucial question for any policy is not what, are its intentions, but what are its effects?”
“The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres.”
“The crucial revelatory images that express 'the thought of Christ' are present in scripture and reinforced in worship.”
“The crucial role communists played in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s and struggling for social reforms, peace, and civil rights strengthened rather then undermined democratic forces.”
“The crucial role of the rich in a capitalist economy is... to invest; to provide unencumbered and unbureaucratized cash.”
Source: Wealth & Poverty
“The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.”
Source: Measure of My Days
“The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.”
“The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.”
“The crucial thing is to look in an informed way at what's going on. Look at the way in which we are forced by our imbalanced system to push away people who might contribute mightily to the NHS.”
“The Crucible became by far my most frequently produced play, both abroad and at home. Its meaning is somewhat different in different places and moments. I can almost tell what the political situation in a country is when the play is suddenly a hit there it is either a warning of tyranny on the way or a reminder of tyranny just past.”
Source: The Crucible
“The crucible is a dividing line, a turning point, and those who have gone through it feel they are very different from the way they were before. Believing that they have been transformed or have transformed themselves, those who survive the crucible (and many don't) are more confident, more willing to take future risks. That new self-confidence is grounded in the belief that he or she has done something hard and done it well.”
“The crucified but risen Jesus appears in the believing, assembled community of the church. That this sense of the risen, living Jesus has faded in many [churches] can be basically blamed on the fact that our churches are insufficiently 'communities' of God. Where the church of Jesus Christ lives, and lives a liberating life in the footsteps of Jesus, the resurrection faith undergoes no crisis. On the other hand, it is better not to believe in God than to believe in a God who minimizes human beings, holds them under and oppresses them, with a view to a better world to come.”
“The crucifix does not signify defeat or failure. It reveals to us the Love that overcomes evil and sin.”
“The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around.”
Source: On the contrary
“The crucifixion is the touchstone of Christian authenticity, the unique feature by which everything else, including the resurrection, is given its true significance. The resurrection is not a set piece. It is not an isolated demonstration of divine dazzlement. It is not to be detached from its abhorrent first act. The resurrection is, precisely, the vindication of a man who was crucified. Without the cross at the center of the Christian proclamation, the Jesus story can be treated as just another story about a charismatic spiritual figure. It is the crucifixion that marks out Christianity as something definitively different in the history of religion. It is in the crucifixion that the nature of God is truly revealed. Since the resurrection is God's mighty transhistorical Yes to the historically crucified Son, we can assert that the crucifixion is the most important historical event that has ever happened. The resurrection, being a transhistorical event planted within history, does not cancel out the contradiction and shame of the cross in this present life; rather, the resurrection ratifies the cross as the way "until he comes.”
Source: The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ
“The crucifixion saved him [Jesus]. He never had to deal with the fact that the kingdom of God wasn't ever going to come. His disciples, of course, had to deal with it, and little by little they had to realize that it's a metaphorical thing. Well, that's not what Jesus meant. I'm fairly sure he meant it literally. But he must have been the most fascinating man.”
“The Crucifixion, Atonement, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ mark the beginning of a Christian Life, not the end of it.”
“The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and of high unattainable ideals, are entirely due to that country having adopted for its national hero a man who, according to his own confession, was incapable of telling a lie, and it is not too much to say that the story of George Washington and the cherry-tree has done more harm, and in a shorter space of time, than any other moral tale in the whole of literature.”
Source: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
“The crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.”
“The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man, acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent of their participation in a transcendent reality.”
Source: The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History
“The crude real will not by itself yield truth.”
Source: Notes on the Cinematograph
“The cruel act of not being loved back by the person you love the most burns like white-hot phosphorus.
Maybe it’s not that there was no love, just
not enough. Maybe they loved themselves more than they loved you. They might’ve promised they’d walk through fire for you, and you realized too late that they were the one lighting the match.”
Source: This Book Won't Burn
“The cruel boy who had used to fling her own confused desires back into her face like a knife-thrower at a carnival had become a man who could charm her into holding those selfsame blades at her own throat.”
Source: Sine Qua Non
“The cruel hand of disappointment strangled my throat. Of course he wasn’t jealous. Why would he be? After all, to him, I wasn’t the only woman in the world. He just wanted to be sure that nobody knew about me. As if it would matter. The public would be interested for a while, yes, but they’d forget it quickly.”
Source: Yours Remotely
“The cruel irony of housework:
people only notice when you don't do it.”
Source: Housework Blues - A Survival Guide
“The cruel irony of the disorder is that the very people who crave social connection the most aren't well adapted to get it. Their insatiable drive to connect is, in itself, what ultimately pushes people away.”
Source: The Boy Who Loved Too Much: A True Story of Pathological Friendliness
“The cruel of heart have their own black happiness.”
Source: Les Misérables
“The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide.”
Source: Christopher Columbus, Mariner
“The cruel social arbiters of Indian society were denying individual merit. In their eyes, Ambedkar was simply a Mahar, and they could
not care less if his scholarship was as vast as the sky.”
Source: Joothan: An Untouchable's Life
“The cruelest affront is treating the person as exactly the person he is. We all long to be understood, but not for what we are. We long to be understood for what we might have been had all been for the best in the best of all possible worlds and, at the same time, to be forgiven for what we are.”
“The cruelest discrimination is the kind explained as ‘making life easier’—when who you are must be hidden to survive.”
Source: Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire
“The cruelest form of death, I have no doubt, is not physical death. Rather it is that public death which comes from the killing of ideas about God.”
“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”
Source: Virginibus Puerisque: An Essay in Four Parts
“The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.”
“The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator. And how many loves have perished because, from pride, or spite, or diffidence, or that unmanly shame which withholds a man from daring to betray emotion, a lover, at the critical point of the relation, has but hung his head and held his tongue?”
Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses
“The cruelest lies are often told without a word
The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard”
“The cruelest prison of all is the prison of the mind.”
“The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.”
“The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.”
“The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.”
“The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable.”
Source: The Bourne Supremacy: Jason Bourne Book #2
“The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't”