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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• Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Good
  • You
  • Beat

• 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

• The feminist spirit still lives! It shows most boldly among younger women from the millennial generation.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Women
  • Generation
  • Feminist

• 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

• I don't find it hard to direct myself. I can easily think of me as a horrible performer or a good performer. I work with actors who cannot stand watching or looking at themselves, which is not my case. I can have an eye and perspective on whether I'm terrible or good enough for me.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Myself

• 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

• Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Nature
  • Search
  • Opinions

• 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

• I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Know
  • Play
  • Band

• 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

• I am a wife-made man.

  

  Danny Kaye
  • Wife

• My first semester of college, I'm going to sociology and English and psychology, and all I cared about was getting home and preparing for whatever audition I had.

  

  Dylan O'Brien
  • Home
  • College
  • English

• A man's rights rest in three boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box. Let no man be kept from the ballot box because of his color. Let no woman be kept from the ballot box because of her sex.

  

  Frederick Douglass
  • Rest
  • Sex
  • Color

• You just keep doing stuff, and one thing evolves into another. Then suddenly it's like, 'Oh, wait, I'm here surfing against Kelly Slater and all these guys I grew up watching.'

  

  John John Florence
  • Up
  • Surfing

• 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