T Quotes
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“The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.”
Source: The Pilgrims' Progress: From this World, to that which is to Come. Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream. In Two Parts
“The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.”
“The man that walks wit crowd, will get no farther than the crowd. The man that walks alone, will reach places unknown.”
“The man that will nocht quhen he may Sall haif nocht quhen he wald.”
“The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.”
Source: Sophocles
“The man ticked all of her boxes. Compassionate, kind, thoughtful. But he was alpha as fuck on a rugby field.
And in the bedroom.
Or on a balcony. Or in front of a mirror. Or up against a wall.
She really should walk away. Now. Right now.
Hell, she should run.”
Source: Playing With Forever
“The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease, After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.”
Source: The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc
“The man to whom the voice belonged stepped in front of him. Though frail and worn, he had a largeness of presence that reminded Jack of the squire, and yet made him feel much different towards him. His dress was night-coloured, but for a little square on his collar that was as white as his hair.”
Source: The First Tale of the Tinners' Rabbits
“The man unwilling to brave the test has already shown himself to be much more craven than the man who fails.”
“The man up there raged aloud in two languages, and with a sincerity in his fury that almost convinced me I had, in some way, sinned against the harmony of the universe”
“The man upstairs is pushing the buttons, and if your name happens to be on that button, well, thank you.”
“The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.”
“The man walked past me and stopped, observing the blood running down my neck. "Your injury. Let us tend to it." He looked out through the open doorway and silently gestured to someone out there. "Our world," he said, "is far more advanced than yours. For reasons you'll understand shortly." A thin, bony, naked woman entered the room, carrying two small, white kittens. She sat one of the fluffy cats in my lap and stuffed the other down my shirt. She turned and left. "There," said the large man. "The kittens will make your sad go away.”
“The man wandered over to the table, crinkling his face. He still put on his old man look, from which he had when he died. "The last thing I remember I was shearing some sheep and . . . wait . . . I was choking on some wool." His hand went to his throat as if he still had it in there and his mouth gaped open in shock.”
Source: Heaven's Blade: When Destiny Calls
“The man wannabe actually...a wannabe. David Haye's a wannabe.”
“The man was a bully. A bully who'd elevated himself to a high-level position, but a bully just the same. No amount of flattery would change how I saw him.”
Source: Triple threat
“The man was a deceiver. He was deceitful and I will never bite my tongue in saying that. I don't think he was anything but a politician, and he used Negroes to get elected and to get votes.”
“The man was a mystery; she didn't like mysteries.”
Source: The Billionaire's Willed Wife
“The man was allergic to sleep.”
Source: Leviathan
“The man was canny, but then he had not lost a son.”
Source: Burying the Shadow
“The man was flat-out beautiful. And she was in flat-out trouble for how much she noticed it.”
Source: Between Me & You
“The man was handsome, and he taught English in the same department as me--- and the second he showed up at my apartment and saw my bookshelf, he laughed.
"You turn them around when guests come over, right?" he asked, motioning to the sanguine embraces and lusty women across the covers. He plucked one off the shelf--- a vintage-looking bodice ripper with Jason Baca on the cover, inches away from dragging his tongue across the woman's neck. "This Fabio's not exactly a Chuck Palahniuk."
"That's not Fabio."
"My mistake, they all look the same."
I sighed. "Well, that's a pity."
"Why?"
"Because you have to leave. The door's there, if you've forgotten."
He chuckled nervously. "I didn't... You're kidding."
"No. I didn't judge you when you said you collected swords. You don't put them away when company comes over, do you? Besides, romance outsells every other genre--- by a lot, and it's still growing even when sales in every other genre are declining. In the US alone, romance sells about nineteen billion units a year." I plucked the paperback from his hand. "You can take that to your next fight club. Now there's the door.”
Source: A Novel Love Story
“The man was high yellow
In public, afraid of himself, pretending his music
Was material when in fact, it was the opposite:
Like a breath that comes so quickly you know
You’re breathing ether: either atmospheric
And anonymous as the air against a window,
Or indefinite & mute as a curtain of wind.”
Source: American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
“The man was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and he died of what he saw there”
Source: The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
“The man was like heroin-seductive, addictive and a damned good way to wake up dead.”
Source: Reaper's Legacy
“The man was more temperamental than she was. Not an easy feat. (Mina's view of Diego.)”
Source: Bosom Bodies
“The man was not merely very human; he was humanity. And I reflected that it is only by preserving faith in human dreams that we may, after all, perhaps some day make them come true.”
Source: The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions
“The man was potent to her system, her very own drug.”
Source: Her Soldier's Touch
“The man was reportedly allowed to bring the turkey onboard as a therapy pet because it was an emotional support animal. It's so cute. It had one of those vests saying support animal, do not pet or baste.”
“The man was rude, crude, and inappropriate. I was taken with him the moment I walked in the door, and I knew the first moment I saw him that it was going to be raw, it was going to be ugly, and I was going to enjoy every damn minute of it.”
Source: Losing Me, Finding You
“The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.”
Source: The War of the Worlds
“The man was scowling as if he’d had seven days’ constipation.”
Source: The Missionary
“The man was seriously sexy. His shirtsleeves hugged the solid muscles of his biceps, and his forearms flexed and corded as he pounded nails into the wall and hung her pictures. She wasn’t normally this affected by a man. Heck, she was around men all the time, but none of them had her heart pounding like a jackhammer in her chest or her libido on DEFCON 1 alert every time she was within a foot of them.”
Source: Every Bit a Cowboy
“The man was staring directly at him now, a curious expression on his face, half smiling, half quizzical. Instantly Eager had a sense of certainty far deeper than anything he had experienced so far. "I have it too!" he exclaimed. "I am a part of this Earth, aren't I? Just like the birds and the trees and the people - I am."
"Om." said his companion.
Unseen by them, a blossom fell.”
“The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.”
“The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus.”
Source: The Color of Water 10th Anniversary Edition
“The man was useless as tits on a bull, but he didn't deserve to die like that.”
Source: High Noon
“The man was walking power and confidence, and he was all mine. “Seriously,” Lindsey whispered, “well done.” “I know, right?”
Source: House Rules
“The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad? What do you think? Well, I think we're still here. A lot of bad things have happened but we're still here. Yeah. You don't think that's so great. It's okay.”
Source: The Road
“The man which knows how to bear pain today will know how to bear a greater one tomorrow.”
“The man whirled, his hands still gripping the animal's skin, his face perfectly illuminated by the fire. He was half in shadow, and the shadow revealed him slowly. His left eye was covered by a black leather patch, and thin white scar raked his brow and the cheekbone below. The carried on, down the length of his neck, into the thick black beard, twisting under his collarbone and around his torso. They marred only the skin, I noted, for the muscles beneath were whole and strong, and the entire impression was one of great vitality and energy, strength unbridled. He looked nothing so much as a fallen god working at a trade.
"Hephaestus at the forge," I murmured, recalling my mythology....”
Source: A Curious Beginning
“The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll ...
“The man who accepts the laissez-faire doctrine would allow his garden to grow wild so that roses might fight it out with the weeds and the fittest might survive.”
“The man who accepts Western values absolutely, finds his creative faculties becoming so warped and stunted that he is almost completely dependent on external satisfactions, and the moment he becomes frustrated in his search for these, he begins to develop neurotic symptoms, to feel that life is not worth living, and, in chronic cases, to take his own life.”
“The man who accused Richard Simmons of slapping him in an airport has dropped the assault charge. Dropped it! Upon hearing the news, Simmons sadly responded, "You mean I'm not going to prison?"”
“The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.”
“The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
“The man who acts as his own lawyer has a fool for a client.”
“The man who acts humble in order to win praise is guilty of the lowest form of pride.”
“The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks”
Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)