T. H. White Quotes

Is there anything more terrible than perpetual motion, than doing and doing and doing, without a reason, without a consciousness, without a change, without an end?

T. H. White

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• I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Real
  • Think
  • Psychology

• The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • World
  • History

• You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Heart
  • You
  • Know

• If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • You
  • Moment
  • Living

• I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Time
  • Running
  • Alone

• Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have done a pretty good job of standing up to the incredible quarterly pressure to hit numbers, but most companies - and I've observed a lot now - don't do a very good job of that.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Up
  • Good
  • Done

• Typically, when you sell your story rights to a movie production company, they can do whatever they want with it. The writer is typically not involved anymore.

  

  Watt Key
  • Movie
  • Want
  • You

• I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• I don't have any regrets. I consider myself really privileged to belong to medicine and do what I do. I would do it all again.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Myself
  • Medicine
  • Belong

• We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Nature
  • Society
  • Reality

• I make work a bit like how you mix cocktails - with ingredients like budget, history and location.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Work
  • History
  • Budget

• The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • World
  • Country
  • Done

• In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingratitude is the most abominable of sins and that it should be detested in the sight of our Creator and Lord by all of His creatures who are capable of enjoying His divine and everlasting glory.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Lord
  • Divine
  • Goodness

• Self-pity? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Moral

• Scarcely had I entered the sitting-room when I found ... what appeared at first sight to be the Devil, A closer scrutiny informed me that it was Gussie Fink-Nottle, dressed as Mephistopheles.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Devil

• If you can visualize a bulldog which has just been kicked in the ribs and had its dinner sneaked by the cat, you will have Hildebrand Glossop as he now stood before me.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Cat

• It is like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock, which not only is itself discredited but casts a shade of doubt over all previous assertions.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Crazy
  • Doubt

• Control of the tongue! Vital for the man who would try to tread the Path, for no harsh or unkind word, no hasty impatient phrase, may escape from the tongue which is consecrated to service, and which must not injure even an enemy; for that which wounds has no place in the Kingdom of Love.

  

  Annie Besant
  • May
  • Control
  • Service

• So what I did was stuff my face with anything around, any old rubbish, burgers, chocolate, crisps, fish and chips, loads of it, till I felt sick - but at least I'd had the pleasure of stuffing my face and feeling really full.

  

  John Prescott
  • Feeling
  • Sick
  • Chocolate

• And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.

  

  Victor Garber
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off

  

  Rex Stout
  • Trouble
  • Absurd
  • Sensible

• I have been shaped by my mistakes and disappointments - just as I have been shaped by my successes.

  

  Janice Dickinson

• Is there anything more terrible than perpetual motion, than doing and doing and doing, without a reason, without a consciousness, without a change, without an end?

  

  T. H. White