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Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.


Lionel Trilling


#carries #else #end #every #form

In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?'


John Tuley


#asserting #belief #demand #description #direction

I like a show to unfold and keep presenting itself, surprising you.


Tommy Tune


#itself #keep #like #presenting #show

Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare.


Gene Tunney


#books #could #defensive #enough #essentially

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.


Scott Turow


#fiction #lessons #life #need #reduced

I can never consent to being dictated to.


John Tyler


#consent #dictated #i #i can #never

When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.


Sun Tzu


#enemy #mouths #sent #sign #their

Christ made the bread the sacrament of his body only: wherefore as the bread is no similitude of his blood, so am I not bound or ought to affirm, that his blood is there present.


William Tyndale


#am #blood #body #bound #bread

I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn.


Barry Unsworth


#being #connection #constant #continuity #countries

The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy.


Atal Bihari Vajpayee


#foreign #foreign policy #held #india #instrument






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