T Quotes
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“The Hall of Tra was cold and lightless. His wolf-eye caught the ghost radiation of barely smouldering firepits. In terms of heat and light, the Wolves were making no allowances for human tolerances of comfort. They had given him a pelt and an eye to see through the dark with. What more could he want? He realised he wasn’t alone. The company was all around him. Their body heat was barely detectable, dimmer than the dull firepits. The Hall was a massive natural cavern, ragged and irregular, and the Astartes were ranged around it, huddled and coiled in their furs, as immobile as a sibling pack of predators, gone to ground overnight, dormant and pressed close for warmth. Faces cowled by animal skin hoods were watching his approach. There were occasional grumbles and murmurs, like animals growling in their sleep or tussling over bones. As his eye resolved the scene better, the Upplander saw some evidence of movement. He saw hands casually raise silver bowls and dishes so that men could sip black liquid from them. He saw hunched shapes engaged in the counter game, hneftafl, that the Upplander had seen Skarsi playing.”
Source: Prospero Burns
“The Hall was the place where the great lord used to eat . . . He ate not in private, except in time of sickness . . . Nay, the king himself used to eat in the Hall, and his lords sat with him, and he understood men.”
Source: The Table-talk: Of John Selden, Esq. Being His Sense of Various Matters of Weight and High Consequence; Relating Especially to Religion and State
“The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy.”
“The hallmark of a broken heart is doubt as much as it is grief.”
Source: Fourteen Springs of Separation
“The hallmark of a decision in line with one’s inner development is a feeling of having laid down a burden and picked up a more natural responsibility.”
Source: Daybook: The Journal of an Artist
“The hallmark of a deep explanation is that it answers more than you ask”
“The hallmark of a disorganized individual is that they never finish what they start.”
“The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.”
“The hallmark of a healthy society has always been measured by how it cares for the disadvantaged.”
“The hallmark of a person who is following the pathway to enlightenment is that they bring excellence into everything, no matter how crappy they feel.”
“The hallmark of addiction is that it changes your brain chemistry. It actually affects that part of your brain that's responsible for judgment.”
“The hallmark of all great journeys is the decision to walk directly into that which we would otherwise seek to escape.”
“The hallmark of an artist is generosity.”
“The hallmark of an authentic evangelicalism is not the uncritical repetition of old traditions but the willingness to submit every tradition, however ancient, to fresh biblical scrutiny and, if necessary, reform.”
Source: Balanced Christianity
“The hallmark of an authoritarian idiot is yelling TERRORIST-LOVER! at anyone questioning the definition of Terrorist.”
“The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly”
“The hallmark of creative people is their mental flexibility... Sometimes they are open and probing, at others they're playful and off-the-wall. At still other times, they're critical and faultfinding. And finally they're doggedly persistent in striving to reach their goals.”
Source: A Kick in the Seat of the Pants: Using Your Explorer, Artist, Judge, & Warrior to Be More Creative
“The hallmark of excellence, the test of greatness, is consistency.”
Source: The Winners Manual: For the Game of Life
“The hallmark of exceptional leadership is not just in making decisions, but in empowering others to make their own, fostering a culture of trust and innovation.”
“The hallmark of good science is the testing of a plausible hypothesis that is then either supported or rejected by the evidence.”
“The hallmark of great dreams is not their possibility but their impossibility, and the fact that it is the very notion of the ‘impossible’ that inspires us to go and accomplish them anyway.”
“The hallmark of insecurity is bravado.”
Source: The Way of Kings
“The hallmark of intelligence is not whether one believes in God or not, but the quality of the processes that underlie one’s beliefs.”
“The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives.”
“The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.”
“The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great skepticism can find expression.”
“The hallmark of the artist is simplicity.”
“The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself.”
“The hallmark of the Renaissance was its holistic quality as all fields of art, engineering, science and culture shared the same exciting spirit and many of the same intellectual principles.”
Source: Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human
“The hallmarks of a dishonest society are cash for silence, non-disclosure agreements and the illegal removal of rights of those in the know.”
“The hallmarks of the noir style are fear, guilt and loneliness, breakdown and despair, sexual obsession and social corruption, a sense that the world is controlled by, malignant forces preying on us, a rejection of happy endings and a preference for resolutions heavy with doom, but always redeemed by a breathtakingly vivid poetry of word (if the work was a novel or story) or image (if it was a movie). ("Introduction")”
Source: Darkness At Dawn
“The Hallows, the Hallows. A desperate man’s dream!”
“The halls of heaven ring with the laughter of the saints”
“The halls were empty. Charlotte had missed the first bell and would be late, again. Her homeroom teacher would ask her for an excuse and she would say, 'Overwhelming feeling of dread.' That was going to go over nicely.”
Source: The Siren Song
“The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests.”
Source: Eastern Wisdom
“The hallucination of separateness prevents one from seeing that to cherish the ego is to cherish misery. We do not realize that our so-called love and concern for the individual is simply the other face of our own fear of death or rejection. In his exaggerated valuation of separate identity, the personal ego is sawing off the branch on which he is sitting, and then getting more and more anxious about the coming crash!”
Source: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
“The hallucinations of alcoholics provide us with an opportunity to study crowds as they appear in the minds of individuals.”
Source: Crowds and Power
“The hallucinogenic world, in environmental terms, can be considered as a forlorn effort of man to match the speed of power of hisextended nervous system (which we call the "electronic world") by intensifying the activity of his inner nervous system.”
Source: The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion and Media
“The hallucinogens produce visionary states, sort of, but morphine and its derivatives decrease awareness of inner processes, thoughts and feelings. They are pain killers; pure and simple. They are absolutely contraindicated for creative work, and I include in the lot alcohol, morphine, barbiturates, tranquilizers the whole spectrum of sedative drugs.”
Source: Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997
“The hallway beyond was filled with males of the house, the Brothers and other fighters and Manny sitting on the floor with their backs to the bare walls, their legs stretched out, propped up, crossed at the knees or crossed at the ankles.
Apparently there had been quite a bit of drinking going on, bottles of vodka and whiskey littered around them, glasses in hands or on thighs.
"This is NOT as pathetic as it looks," her Butch pointed out.
"Liar," V muttered, "It so fucking is. I think I'm going to start knitting for reals.”
Source: Blood Kiss
“The hallway felt cold and frigid, and smelled of old pizza. She walked into the empty living room, and was confronted with Marco's bed. The sheets were still rumpled, and she knew they'd smell of him. For one confused moment, she wanted to do nothing more than climb in, and wrap herself up in the fragrance of the man she loved.”
Source: Never Kiss a Man in a Christmas Jumper
“The hallway felt like time itself, and Patricia Buckingham and I were standing at opposite ends-her looking back on all she'd seen, me wondering what lay ahead.”
Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
“The hallway leading to Botany is lined with cabinets full of dried plants laid out on acid-free paper. Today, I imagine them as a vertical garden, orchids and epiphytes dripping from the sides, a phantom scent of humid forest.”
Source: The Marsh Queen
“The hallway led me to the stairway of a million steps. My leg screamed in protest. I sighed and started climbing. I just had to keep from limping. Limping showed weakness, and I didn’t need any enterprising, career-motivated shapeshifters trying to challenge me for dominance right about now. I had once mentioned my desire for an elevator, and His Majesty asked me if I would like a flock of doves to carry me up to my quarters so my feet wouldn’t have to touch the ground. We were sparring at the time and I kicked him in the kidney in retaliation.”
“The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.”
“The hallway's walls are covered now with posters, of dinosaurs, cartoon characters, the Buddhas of Bamiyan, and displays of artwork by the orphans. Many of the drawings depict tanks running over huts, men brandishing AK-47s, refugee camp tents, scenes of jihad.”
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
“The hallway was lined with numbered doors, odd numbers on one side and even numbers on the other, and large ornamental vases, too large to hold flowers and too small to hold spies.”
“The hallways are long and wide in prison, likely so you can run but not hide.”
Source: Pretty Girls
“The ham tastes like an old handbag.”
Source: Le Mal de mer
“The hamadryas baboon is a harem holder where one male mates with multiple females.”