T Quotes
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“The daemonic-divine object may appear to the mind an object of horror and dread, but at the same time it is no less something that allures with a potent charm, and the creature, who trembles before it, utterly cowed and cast down, has always at the same time the impulse to turn to it, nay even to make it somehow his own.”
Source: The Idea of the Holy
“The Daffodil-Yellow Villa
The new villa was enormous, a tall, square Venetian mansion, with faded daffodil-yellow walls, green shutters, and a fox-red roof. It stood on a hill overlooking the sea, surrounded by unkempt olive groves and silent orchards of lemon and orange trees.
... the little walled and sunken garden that ran along one side of the house, its wrought-iron gates scabby with rust, had roses, anemones and geraniums sprawling across the weed-grown paths ...
... there were fifteen acres of garden to explore, a vast new paradise sloping down to the shallow, tepid sea.”
Source: My Family and Other Animals
“The daftest logic brings such sweet unrest.”
Source: Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems
“The dagger in my heart twists, round and round and round”
“The Dagger in the Heart
You seem so calm, the sea before a storm,
still in the hush before the waves arise.
But then—a memory drifts through your mind,
a fleeting touch of kindness long ago,
the quiet smile of someone in a café,
her laughter caught in sunlight, soft and bright.
A yellow tulip, trembling in your hands,
tucked in her hair, as golden as the dawn.
An old slip of paper, edges curling thin,
her number scrawled in ink now blurred with time—
and all at once, the stillness breaks apart.
Some words remain, though years have worn their sound,
like daggers lodged too deep within the heart.
They never twist, they never pull away,
but linger there, a whisper in the dark,
a wound unclosed, a shadow breathing near.
No matter where you turn, they echo back,
the syllables that cut and left their scar,
a voice that lingers long after it's gone.”
“The dagger of an enemy is but a triffle, for strangers are often unsure where to strike; but home-struck arrows are the fiercest, home enemies hides in ambuscade aiming for the very marrow”
“The dagger plunged in the name of freedom is plunged into the breast of freedom.”
“The daggers of silence last longer than anything ever spoken.”
“The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.”
“The daily activity that contributes most to happiness is having dinner with friends. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is commuting. Eat more. Commute less.”
“The daily adoration or visit to the Blessed Sacrament is the practice which is the fountainhead of all devotional works”
“The Daily Beast reports today that if Steve Bannon is denied a security clearance, the President could simply overrule that denial and order that security clearance.”
“The Daily Caller has obtained an advance copy of a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee report set to be released Tuesday morning that definitively proves malicious intent by the IRS to improperly block conservative groups that an IRS adviser deemed 'icky.'”
“The daily circumstances of life will afford us opportunities enough of glorifying God in trust, without our waiting for any extraordinary calls upon faith, our faith. Let us remember that the extraordinary circumstances of life are but few; that much of life may slip past without their occurrence; and that if we be not faithful and trusting in that which is little, we are not likely to be so in that which is great... Let our trust be reared in the humble nursery of our own daily experience, with its ever recurring little wants and trials, and sorrows; and then, when need be, it will come forth, to do such great things as are required of it.”
“The daily clinical experience of thousands of massage therapists, physical therapists, and physicians strongly indicates that most of our common aches and pains - and many other puzzling physical complaints - are actually caused by trigger points, or small contraction knots, in the muscles of the body.”
Source: The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief
“The daily contents even of her bin 'would be more interesting than a year's file of The Times'.”
Source: Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow
“The daily coverage of the Vietnamese battlefield helped convince the American public that the carnage was not worth the candle.”
“The daily disappearance and the subsequent rise of the sun appeared to many of the ancients as a true resurrection; thus, while the east came to be regarded as the source of light and warmth, happiness and glory, the west was associated with darkness and chill, decay and death. This led to the custom of burying the dead so as to face the east when they rose again, and of building temples and shrines with an opening toward the east. To effect this, Vitruvius, two thousand years ago, gave precise rules, which are still followed by Christian architects.”
“The daily dose of discrimination, hate crimes, inequity, and subjugation that permeates the fabric of our society has been embedded for generations.”
“The daily employment of cunning marks a little mind, it generally happens that those who resort to it in one respect to protect themselves lay themselves open to attack in another.”
“The daily exercise of suffering gives one the gaze of an abandoned dog and the colour of a ghost.
- Fragment of a Diary [July to August]”
Source: The Houseguest and Other Stories
“The Daily Grind by Stewart Stafford
Crooked broker flashes teeth,
Cannibal flesh on their napkin,
The traffic jam zombie shuffle,
Stars, take me home quickly.
Follow the screaming off a cliff,
Panic echoes as the land recoils,
Sea spray whipping up at you fast,
Splash down into drowning lessons.
See a shark fin’s scything slash,
Fangs picked clean with a toothpick,
Dark eyes wander to exposed midriff,
Chomp, and all the problems cease.
© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
“The daily grinding of evolution, as accelerated by technology, churns out more and more complex organisms, with higher rates of energy use, and with increasing specialization. Minds are the ideal way to express complexity, energy density, increasing specialization, expanding diversity -- all in one system. Mindedness is what evolution produces. Mindedness is what technology wants, too.”
“The daily hummingbird assaults existence with improbability.”
Source: No Time to Spare: Thinking about what Matters
“The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it.”
“The daily lessons have opened my mind to higher possibilities and given me a newfound personal wisdom. Success is now the only option, it’s what I now expect for myself.”
“The daily life is so wearisome; yet duty lies that way.”
Source: The Hidden Side of Christian Festivals
“the daily life of a citizen with vices suppressed and passions moderated.”
Source: The Bridge on the Drina
“The daily life of a genius, his sleep, his digestion, he ecstasies, his nails, his colds, his blood, his life and death are essentially different from the rest of mankind.”
“The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy.”
“The daily mindfulness, consistency, and discipline is ultimately more important than the amount of time. In other words, it’s more about quality than quantity. If you use 15 minutes effectively, you’ll accomplish more than you would be able to with two hours of unfocused, random actions.”
Source: Music Business Hacks
“The daily practice of gratitude is one of the conduits by which your wealth will come to you.”
“The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness. The capacity of the newspaper for degeneration is sophistically without limit, since it can always sink lower and lower in its choice of readers. At last it will stir up all those dregs of humanity which no state or government can control.”
“The daily reading of good books can be a remedy for sadness, comfort in distress, and a helpful way to foster hope and fortitude.”
Source: The Catholic Guide to Depression: How the Saints, the Sacraments, and Psychiatry Can Help You Break Its Grip and Find Happiness Again
“The Daily Show was an incredible training ground for that kind of thing. It was all about discipline and generating material constantly.”
“The Daily Show writers are incredibly smart and very well plugged-in but occasionally they would need me for certain specific things, and I'd be like, 'Yeah, I completely know how to do that; I can solve that problem,and then I'd be like, 'Mom?”
“The daily struggle does not arise from a purpose or a program, but from an immediate need.”
“The Daily Telegraph reported on April 9, 1937: 'Since M. Litvinoff ousted Chicherin, no Russian has ever held a high post in the Commissariat for Foreign Affairs.' It seems that the Daily Telegraph was unaware that Chicherin's mother was a Jewess. The Russian Molotov, who became Foreign Minister later, has a Jewish wife, and one of his two assistants is the Jew, Lozovsky. It was the last-named who renewed the treaty with Japan in 1942, by which the Kamchatka fisheries provided the Japanese with an essential part of their food supplies.”
“The daily thunderstorms had stopped, and without the storms, the elk stopped sheltering in the dense forest. They went up the slopes, and we followed them. We had to leave the lake behind, but it was fine because I had my family, and family was more important than fish.”
Source: Brilliant White Peaks
“The Daily Torah Portion is to your concealed fate, as a flashlight is to a dark path.”
Source: 4 Parables
“The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.”
“The daily writing practice is something I used to hear batted around a lot in writing workshops - which is probably why I dropped out of all the writing workshops. I wish I could take credit for innovating a new approach to writing, but the truth is that I've managed to write books despite myself. I'm lazy and ungovernable and undisciplined, but I do have a lot of anxiety about never amounting to anything and ending up as a bag lady.”
“The daimonic is any natural function which has the power to take over the whole person. Sex and eros, anger and rage, and the craving for power are examples. The daimonic can be either creative or destructive and is normally both.”
Source: Love and will
“The daimonic refers to the power of nature rather than the superego, and is beyond good and evil. Nor is it man's 'recall to himself' as Heidegger and later Fromm have argued, for its source lies in those realms where the self is rooted in natural forces which go beyond the self and are felt as the grasp of fate upon us. The daimonic arises from the ground of being rather than the self as such.”
Source: Love and will
“The Dain Curse [Tom Fink] was a great job. I was in New York, and I was young - I think I'm 28 years old in that - and I got to work with James Coburn and Jean Simmons and Jason Miller. Plus, it was a Dashiell Hammett story, and I had a great character. It was fantastic to shoot.”
“The dainties of the great are the teares of the poore.”
Source: The remains of ... George Herbert
“The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet.”
Source: The Works of Shakespear: The comedy of errors. The winter's tale. The life and death of King John. King Richard II
“The dairy man had a Ph.D. in mathematics, and he must have had some training in philosophy. He liked what he was doing and he didn't want to be somewhere else - one of the few contented people I met in my whole journey.”
Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America
“The Dais
The moon hung
Like a silver metal
On a shadow
It is the sun
Who bows His head
To receive the gold
And the bronze
Goes to mankind
Plowshares turned
To spearheads
The dusty
Pulpit of man”
Source: Sheer Bandages: A Fragile Offering: A person should not bury a talent-no matter how small.
“The daisies that dance and twinkle so Were the laughter of children in long ago.”