T Quotes
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“The man from whom the joys of life have departed is living no more, but should be counted with the dead.”
“The man gave a shrug which indicated that, although the world did indeed have many problems, this was one of them that was not his.”
“The man glares up at him, blood streaming down his nose, "No one is scared of you or your bitch of a boyfriend-"
"Fiancé," Regulus corrects harshly, then bangs the man's face into the table again.
"Yeah, careful with that. He's really touch about that," Barty calls out, sounding like he's having the time of his life.
"Regulus, stop," Rabastan says firmly.
"No, keep going, this shit is hilarious," Barty announces.”
Source: Crimson Rivers
“The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.”
Source: Shantaram: A Novel
“The man had a smooth voice, like velvet. “I’m Detective Inspector Me. Unusual name, I know. My family were incredibly
narcissistic. I’m lucky I escaped with any degree of humility at all, to be honest, but then I’ve always managed to exceed expectations. You are Kenny Dunne, are you not?”
“I am.”
“Just a few questions for you, Mr Dunne. Or Kenny. Can I call you Kenny? I feel we’ve become friends these past few seconds. Can I call you Kenny?”
“Sure,” Kenny said, slightly baffled.
“Thank you. Thank you very much. It’s important you feel comfortable around me, Kenny. It’s important we build up a level of trust. That way I’ll catch you completely unprepared when I
suddenly accuse you of murder.”
Source: Death Bringer
“The man had added to his body in a way that was brave and timeless and beyond adornment.”
Source: The Electric Michelangelo
“The man had arrived at that stage of drunkenness where affection is felt for the universe.”
Source: The Color of the Sky: A Study of Stephen Crane
“The man had been creating a home for me even when I was cursing his name into the ground.”
Source: Rock And A Hard Place
“The man had character. He possessed a moral compass to do the right thing, to fight for those who could not defend themselves, and to challenge authority that shielded itself behind the power of God himself.”
Source: One More Life to Live
“The man hadn't even kissed me and I was on fire.”
Source: Parks and Provocation
“The man has a curious inborn conviction of his own superiority which is quite unshakeable. All his life he has bullied and browbeaten those around him by his high-and-mightiness and his atrocious temper. As a boy he terrorized his entire family by his tantrums, when, if thwarted, he would throw himself on the floor and yell till he went blue in the face. It has been much the same ever since. Everyone's terrified of his rages. He has only to start grinding his teeth, and people fall flat before him.”
“The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.”
“The man has an executioner’s stare and a handshake that could crush a coconut. But scratch beneath the surface, Luna, and you will find the most loyal friend.”
Source: In the Shadow of Time
“THE MAN HAS NEVER COOKED A CHICKEN BEFORE, HE TELLS SOPHIE, BUT IT'S HIS FIRST CHRISTMAS SINCE HIS WIFE DIED, SO HE THINKS IT'S BEST HE LEARN.”
Source: Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
“The man has not the power to create life. Therefore, he has not either, the right to destroy it.”
“The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.”
“The man hates your guts more than Stryker does. You’ll be lucky if he doesn’t pull your spine out through your nostrils. (Tory) Nice to have Miss Merry Sunshine back again. Any other Eeyore outlooks you’d like to share? (Acheron)”
Source: One Silent Night
“The man hath penance done, And penance more will do.”
Source: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
“The man held himself still and turned his milk-flooded eyes on her. Fin felt something like vertigo and knew that, though blind, he was seeing. He wasn’t looking at her or past her. He was looking into her. And what he saw, he judged.
“Is very good.”
Source: Fiddler's Green
“The man Hillary [Clinton] introduced at the meeting goes so far as to say that no amount of trauma to children - or poor parenting or anything in their lives - causes them mental disorders. He says it's all biological and genetic and should be treated by drugs.”
“The man himself lay in the bed.
For a long while we just stood there, looking down at the profound and fleshless grin. The body had apparently once lain in the attitude of an embrace, but now the long sleep that outlasts love, that conquers even the grimace of love, had cuckolded him.”
Source: A Rose for Emily
“The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future... he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.”
“The man I adored, and miss him terribly, was Johnny Carson.”
“The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed.”
Source: Diary, 1928-1957
“The man I am writing about is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.”
Source: The Razor’s Edge
“The man I am writing about is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water. But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.”
Source: The Razor’s Edge
“The man I choose to be will have a great influence on who my children become...”
Source: Rednecks
“The man I marvel at is the one that's in there day after day, and night after night and still puts the figures on the board. I'm talking about Pete Rose, Stan Musial, the real stars. Believe me, especially the way we travel today, flying all night with a game the next night and then the next afternoon, if you can play one-hundred and sixty-two games, you're a man.”
“The man I meet is seldom so instructive as the silence which he breaks”
“The man I meet with is not often so instructive as the silence he breaks.”
Source: The Quotable Thoreau
“The man I picture in my mind is someone ordinary like me. Maybe he’s wearing glasses, maybe he’s not so handsome, but it’s how he loves me that’s extraordinary.
It doesn’t matter how many people there are in a room. He knows when I’m there and he’ll find me right away, because I’m his heart and you always have to know where your heartbeat’s coming from.”
Source: Heart Racer
“The man i'll never be, Who remembers him?”
“The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization.”
Source: Random Essays on Mathematics, Education, and Computers
“The man in between waits between the two, not hearing the lie and not seeing the true. Unknowing what is and denying what seems, and there he will sleep, the man in between.”
“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
Source: Dark Tower: The Gunslinger - The Man In Black
“The man in black smiled. "Shall we tell the truth then, you and I? No more lies?" I thought we had been." But the man in black persisted as if Roland hadn't spoken. "Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as equals? There is an offer you will get rarely, Roland. Only equals speak the truth, that's my thought on't. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard. How tiresome!”
Source: The Dark Tower I (MTI): The Gunslinger
“the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.”
Source: The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
“The man in charge must concern himself with details. If he does not consider them important, neither will his subordinates.”
Source: Economics of Defense Policy: Adm. H.G. Rickover : Hearing Before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session
“The man in Christ rose again, not only the God.”
Source: Joyful Christian
“The man in ecstasy and the man drowning - both throw up their arms. The first to signify harmony, the second to signify strife with the elements.”
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.”
“The man in gray decided to take the Glen Suite of diamonds at midnight. Provided they were still in the apartment safe and the occupants away. This he needed to know. So he watched and he waited. At half past seven he was rewarded.”
Source: The Fourth Protocol
“The man in liberalism is usually going to be at fault.”
“The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.”
“The man in the coon skin cap in the pig pen wants eleven dollar bills, you've only got ten.”
“The Man in the Moon is in fact a record of ancient catastrophes--most of which took place before humans, before mammals, and probably even before life arose on Earth. It is a characteristic conceit of our species to put a human face on random cosmic violence.”
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“The man in the shop peered disapprovingly at Evie through the glass. She pumped her arms and legs up and down in imitation of a marching band, gave the man a salute, and continued her meandering walk to the museum.”
“The man in the street has unfortunately been sold the idea that the breakthrough cure for cancer is just around the corner... The very prospect of effective treatment seems so remote that it doesn't even enter into the speculative day-to-day conversation of people engaged in cancer research... New treatments have not produced any detectable decline in the total annual cancer mortality, even for children.”
“The man in the street is always a stranger.”
“The man in the white coat is the man on the hill,
the man with the clean hands is the man with the drill,
the man who answers "yes" lies still.”
Source: The Book of the Dead