T Quotes
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“The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.”
Source: All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne
“The curiosity of the mind will slowly fade away, if we do not continue to exercise it.”
“The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it”
“The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated”
“The curiosity to upgrade the consciousness level is due to the glowing and growing aspiration of the Cosmic consciousness. With every intuition, the highest level should be expected.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home, like all the men who now live with mermaids at the bottom of the sea.
Or the people who found Atlantis.”
Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.”
Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“The curious beauty about African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad story.”
“The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope.”
“The curious child went back and asked the other attendants in the temple, only to realize that the young man living in the deep valley was named Shi Ying, a young priest in the Jiuyi Temple. He was only seventeen years old, but he has been practicing in Jiuyi Temple for twelve years. With magnificent spiritual power and superb skills, he is known as the only genius that Yunhuang has seen in the past hundred years. He usually lives alone deep in the mountains, is a vegetarian dressed in commoner clothes, is accompanied by a sacred bird, and never comes into contact with anyone except the Great Priest.
“Remember, you can just look at him from a distance, but don’t try to disturb him,” the attendant in the temple patted the little child on the head and exhorted, “the young priest doesn’t like to talk to people, and the Great Priest won’t allow him to talk to anyone; whoever dares to get close to him and try to speak, will have to suffer!”
Source: Zhuyan (With Prequel of Mirror) 朱颜
“The curious company studies the anomalies or the unexpected findings. The company that isn't curious ignores them or punishes people who don't do exactly what they set out to do.”
“The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Browning
“The curious culture of the modern suburb will believe anything it is told in the papers about the wickedness of the Pope, or the martyrdom of the King of the Cannibal Islands, and, in the excitement of these topics, never knows what is happening next door. In this case, however, the two forms of interest actually coincided in a coincidence of thrilling intensity. Their own suburb had actually been mentioned in their favourite newspaper. It seemed to them like a new proof of their own existence when they saw the name in print. It was almost as if they had been unconscious and invisible before; and now they were as real as the King of the Cannibal Islands.”
Source: The Secret of Father Brown
“The curious double strands in Farfrae's thread of life - the commercial and the romantic - were very distinct at times. Like the colours in a variegated cord those contrasts could be seen intertwisted, yet not mingling.”
Source: The Mayor of Casterbridge
“The curious fascination in this job [U.S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be -- and that's so tempting.”
“The curious hocus-pocus of criticism I can't take seriously. It consists in squirreling up some odd phrases and then waiting for a book to come running by.”
Source: The Long Valley
“The Curious Incident brims with imagination, empathy, and vision — plus it's a lot of fun to read.”
“The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“The curious mind finds endless design possibilities”
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
“The curious seeks knowledge out of anxiety and fear; the studious seeks knowledge from a place of love.”
Source: Learning to Love: Christian Higher Education as Pilgrimage
“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design. To the naive mind that can conceive of order only as the product of deliberate arrangement, it may seem absurd that in complex conditions order, and adaptation to the unknown, can be achieved more effectively by decentralizing decisions and that a division of authority will actually extend the possibility of overall order. Yet that decentralization actually leads to more information being taken into account.”
Source: The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism
“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.”
“The curious thing about fishing is you never want to go home. If you catch something, you can't stop. If you don't catch anything, you hate to leave in case something might bite.”
Source: The book of Stillmeadow
“The curious thing about individuals is that their singularity always goes beyond any category or generalization in the book.”
Source: The Elephant Vanishes
“The curious thing about that moustache and goatee is that when you look at the Mona Lisa it becomes a man. It is not a woman disguised as a man; it is a real man, and that was my discovery, without realising it at the time.”
Source: Marcel Duchamp
“The curiousity to know the unknown can lead you to the known that was unknown.”
“The curly red lines across the African deserts had the fascination of a magnet, and I hoped fervently that the pioneers who were writing their names over the blank spaces, would leave just one small desert for me.”
Source: Adventure
“The currency bill we have would finally do something for China`s rapacious policies.”
“The currency in the developer community is enthusiasm.”
“The currency of a happy life is not money, but it is pure love.”
“The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust.”
“The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust... you pay folks to blog about a product and you compromise that. I would almost care about this, but it's so obvious to everyone that this is either a joke or an idiot that there is nothing more to say.”
“The currency of life is not wealth but moments; spend them wisely.”
“The currency of living is how you spend the moments of your life”
“The currency of living is money; the real currency of life is love.”
“The currency of proper food was so important that the teaching of basic reading became essential to guarantee culinary delight. It can be presumed that this skill was valuable to the larger enslaved community as well, for they could rely on the cook to read and write for those who could not. in addition to reading, enslaved cooks learned basic math. Counting, fractions, and knowing how to double or triple a recipe was mandatory for large-scale plantation cooking.”
Source: Bound to the Fire: How Virginia's Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine
“The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity.”
Source: Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
“The currency of the future is not gold, money, data, or crypto but our emotional energy. With it, each one of us can be a billionaire.”
Source: Quantraz
“The currency of the nursery is touch, and Bartholomew spends freely, hugging and tickling and tousling hair. 'The code says we should respect each other,' the small ones cry. 'The code says that we mustn't feed ourselves until we see that all the limbless ones have somebody to feed them. The code says that every person's work is good, and none is better than any other.' The small ones recite their lessons, and he listens.”
Source: Conscience Place
“The currency of this world will be worthless at our death or at Christ's return, both of which are imminent.”
Source: The Law of Rewards: Giving what you can't keep to gain what you can't lose.
“The currency of universal values make brands innately sharable.”
“The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back.”
“The current American political scenario is not about the Left vs. the Right; it is about the Left vs. common sense.”
“The current anger at the march of turbines and pylons across the hills of Britain is not from nimbys. Government money has lubricated most backyard owners to support wind power. It comes from those who appreciate the beauty of the countryside and who question the industrial spoliation of miles of open landscape for a pitiful net gain to climate change.”
“The current Babe Ruth of improv? Sacha Baron Cohen. He's pretty amazing.”
“The current backlash of censorship is an alliance between the Moral Majority (the Right) and the politically correct (the Left). This alliance is threatening the freedom of both women and sexual expression. The Right defines the explicit depiction of sex as evil; the Left defines it as violence against women. The result is the same.”
Source: XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography
“The current budget that the Republicans are looking at never balances. How can that be fiscally responsible? And how can we look at the public with a straight face and say yes we ran on balanced budgets.”
“The current business model for language education is the student pays — in particular, the student pays Rosetta Stone $500. The problem with this business model is that 95 percent of the world’s population doesn’t have $500.”
“The current catchwords—diversity, compassion, empowerment, entitlement—express the wistful hope that deep divisions in American society can be bridged by goodwill and sanitized speech. We are called on to recognize that all minorities are entitled to respect not by virtue of their achievements but by virtue of their sufferings in the past. Compassionate attention, we are told, will somehow raise their opinion of themselves; banning racial epithets and other forms of hateful speech will do wonders for their morale. In our preoccupation with words, we have lost sight of the tough realities that cannot be softened simply by flattering people's self-image. What does it profit the residents of the South Bronx to enforce speech codes at elite universities?”
Source: The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy