T Quotes
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“The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“The fries are oversalted making me drink more or maybe it’s one of the excuses I’ve learned to repeat to myself.”
“The frightened individual seeks for somebody or something to tie his self to; he cannot bear to be his own individual self any longer, and he tries frantically to get rid of it and to feel security again by the elimination of this burden: the self.”
Source: Escape from Freedom
“The frightened, pampered child-woman who had been deserted by her husband ten months ago was gone forever. In her place stood a self-confident, independent creature who would not hesitate to dare the devil.”
Source: Captive Angel
“The frightened soul ran into the wine cellar with the steel door. I’m safe, Calloway thought, but he was dead wrong. Railrunner’s claws slashed through the steel door. They cut through the metal like butter. He then began to pull the door off its hinges.
Suddenly a smoke bomb fell to the floor, making the place vaporous, but Railrunner’s eyes could see through it. He discovered the flashing lights of squad cars. His eyes narrowed and he growled low in his throat.
“Come on out with your hands up!” an officer yelled.
Railrunner walked upright towards the entrance. He then pushed the doors off their hinges and stood in the line of fire.
“It’s a - roller coaster?” One of the police said baffled, the gun shaking in his hand.
Railrunner crossly walked up to the police. They began to fire, their bullets simply bouncing off of him. He then grabbed the front bumper of the cruiser, and tossed it like a toy. It smashed into another car. Railrunner flung an officer out of his way and roared in sheer amusement. Within a blink of an eye he obliterated the small police force.”
Source: Twisted!
“The frightened walk away when love is difficult. I know that now. You have to be willing to give everything away. You have to be willing to end up with nothing. Only then will your heart be whole.”
Source: Green Heart
“The frightening and most difficult thing about being what somebody calls a creative person is that you have absolutely no idea where any of your thoughts come from, really. And especially, you don't have any idea about where they're going to come from tomorrow.”
“The frightening aspect is that it's part of a larger effort from the Pentagon to tear down the wall between public affairs and propaganda, and essentially say there is no difference between information operations, public affairs and psychological operations. They have a new name for that too, it's called Information Engagement. What I hope people take away from this is that it's a window into a larger phenomenon. After a decade of Iraq war you have this Pentagon-military apparatus run amok using resources that they shouldn't be to try to manipulate U.S. public opinion.”
“The frightening assaults of pandemic terror have vastly increased our vulnerability. At the outset, hope and humor were able to alleviate the sabotage of our living together, until bit by bit, the raging roars and the thundering crashes of the death toll called the shots. The ground zero of our mental structure must inevitably make us remold another thinking pattern. ("What do they think behind their dirty aprons?" )”
“The frightening thing is that, to enter hell, all one has to do is nothing.”
Source: The Storytelling God
“The frightful engines of ecclesiastical councils, of diabolical malice, and Calvinistical good-nature never failed to terrify me exceedingly whenever I thought of preaching.”
Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
“The fringe will transform the way we live, work, and interact with one another. The confluence of emerging technologies leads to breakthroughs in Ai, neuroscience, robotics, the Internet of Things (IOT), blockchain, nanotechnology, energy storage, and computing, to name a few.”
Source: Beyond the Fringe: My Experience with Extended Intelligence
“The fringed curtains of thine eye advance, And say what thou seest yond.”
“The Frisbee is a round disk. That's the somethingness. But it has another side; it has a nothingness which you cannot perceive with your physical mind or your senses.”
“The frivolity and boredom which unsettle the established order, the vague foreboding of something unknown, these are the heralds of approaching change. The gradual crumbling that left unaltered the face of the whole is cut short by a sunburst which, in one flash, illuminates the features of the new world.”
Source: Phenomenology of Spirit
“The frivolity with which all theatrical activity is conducted has one consoling feature-there are no rules of behavior that apply regularly to any part of the theatre.”
Source: act one
“The frivolous can call me frivolous. I've always been most punctilious about important things. And I insist that no one knows better than I do the Holy Fathers, or the Scriptures, or the Canons of the Councils.”
“The frivolous work of polished idleness.”
Source: On the Progress of Ethical Philosophy: Chiefly During the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries
“The frog is almost five hundred million years old. Could you really say with much certainty that America, with all its strength and prosperity, with its fighting man that is second to none, and with its standard of living that is highest in the world, will last as long as...the frog?”
Source: Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition
“The frogs hopping indoors agree that we are on a prison planet. They themselves are frog criminals that were convicted of doing frog crimes.”
“The front desk man is a spy for a famous French chef, hoping to stealing the pastry recipes of the shop down the street. And the lovely shop girl who just delivered a box of-- what is most certainly-- pastries is his secret accomplice. The note she passed him while blushing has a recipe for the perfect croissant.”
“The front door burst open and in doing so, saved me from taking a beatdown from a fifteen-year-old girl. Lynda rushed the hallways whooping and wailing like a heartbroken banshee.”
Source: A Good Hand
“The front door flew open, and Mary shot out of the house, jumping off the porch, not even bothering with the steps to the ground. She ran over the frost-laden grass in her bare feet and threw herself at him, grabbing on to his neck with both arms. She held him so tightly his spine cracked. She was sobbing. Bawling. Crying so hard her whole body was shaking. He didn't ask any questions, just wrapped himself around her. I'm not okay," she said hoarsely between breaths. "Rhage...I'm not okay.”
Source: The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide
“The front door is usually unlocked and there is no alarm system. They don't wear their seat belts in the car; they don't wear suntan lotion in the sun. They have decided nothing can kill them but God himself, and they don't even believe in him.”
Source: City of Thieves
“The front door shut, leaving Alec sitting in the half-lit garden, alone. He closed his eyes for a moment, the image of a face hovering behind his lids. Not Jace's face, for a change. The eyes set in the face were green, slit-pupiled. Cat eyes.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass
“The front door was built into a round turret. She'd never entered a home - or any other building - through a turret before and it made her feel like something special was about to happen.”
Source: Things Change
“The front line with ISIS isn't just in Iraq and Syria, it's in Kennedy Airport and the Rio Grande. Border security is national security.”
“The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity.”
“The front of the man's kilt suddenly became very wet and Ian's eyes widened in surprise.
"Did he jsut piss in a Munro kilt?"
Ruairi smiled. "I think he did."
"The bastard has nay respect.”
Source: My Highland Spy
“The front ramp is gradually lowered, in slow electronic increments. A couple of dozen backpackers stand, inside the lower deck’s muted light, like an army of extraterrestrials. Paros is refilling with English, German, French, Italian, Scandinavian, Australian, and South African tourists. The town remains in motion. Some come. Some go. The cycle appears endless. The entire world appears to wash up on Paros.”
Source: Liberté: The Days of Rage 1990-2020
“The front room of his house was what I called 'untidy chic'. Prefects weren't subject to the same Rules on room tidiness, but since no one really enjoyed clutter, a certain style of ordered untidiness was generally considered de couleur for a prefect's room.”
Source: Shades of Grey
“The front side of IT needs to be intuitive and delightful, but the back side of IT is complex and scientific.”
Source: The Change Agent CIO
“The front windows as are the watchmen of grief - I've been looking beyond expectation - Beyond myself - and I do not know as I love you - Which one of us is missing.”
“The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us, no matter how hard we work, are not.”
Source: Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches
“The front[line] of wars is increasingly non-human eyes peering down on our perceived enemies from space, guiding missiles toward unseen targets.”
“The frontal cortex doesn't even fully develop until age 25, which is wild!”
“The frontal cortex is an incredibly interesting part of the brain - ours is proportionately bigger and/or more complex than in any other species.”
“The frontal cortex is the last brain region to fully mature, with the most evolutionarily recent subparts the very last. Amazingly, it's not fully online until people are in their midtwenties.”
Source: Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
“The frontier between public and private shifts from time to time and culture to culture.”
“The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.”
“The frontier in space, embodied in the space colony, is one in which the interactions between humans and their environment is so much more sensitive and interactive and less tolerant of irresponsibility than it is on the whole surface of the Earth. We are going to learn how to relate to the Earth and our own natural environment here by looking seriously at space colony ecologies.”
“The frontier isn’t always a place. Sometimes it’s a season of your life. The space between who you were and who you might still become.”
“The frontier of America is on the Rhine.”
“The frontier orbital approach was further developed in various directions by my own group and many other scientists, both theoretical and experimental.”
Source: Frontier Orbitals and Reaction Paths: Selected Papers of Kenichi Fukui
“The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole.”
“The frontiers of our dreams always converge with reality.”
“The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable.”
“The frontiers of the kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.”
Source: Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer
“The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.”
“The frontispiece of Mr. Lyell's book is enough to throw a Wernerian into fits.”