T Quotes
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“That comes too late that comes for the asking.”
“That comment made about you was wonderful. Almost as wonderful as the way you feel about the person who made it. Admiration comes swift and warm down the path of kindness.”
“That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.”
“That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose.”
“That companies have special influence in politics means that democracy is sick. The purpose of democracy is to ensure that the rich do not have an influence commensurate with their wealth. And if they have more influence than you or me, that means that democracy is failing. The laws they obtain in this way have no moral authority, but rather the ability to do harm.”
“That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change.”
Source: The Signature of All Things
“That competition grew through high school and you step outside more and it grew through college. Then you had regional style speak volumes through college. As you get older, and begin to travel and see more, that was the progression of style for me.”
“That complacency and that willingness to give yourself over to a larger power structure is how civilizations destroy themselves. And I just hope people wake up from the slumber they've willed themselves to. Because we're really in a dark place right now.”
“That complete statement which is literature.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“That compliment is a bit like a rose. It comes with a lot of barbs and thorns.”
Source: Bright We Burn
“That computer was made in Alabama”
“That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off.”
Source: Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis
“That concentrating intently on anything is very hard work.”
Source: Infinite Jest
“That concentration camps were ultimately provided for the same groups in all countries, even though there were considerable differences in the treatment of their inmates, was all the more characteristic as the selection of the groups was left exclusively to the initiative of the totalitarian regimes: if the Nazis put a person in a concentration camp and if he made a successful escape, say, to Holland, the Dutch would put him in an internment camp. Thus, long before the outbreak of the war the police in a number of Western countries, under the pretext of "national security," had on their own initiative established close connections with the Gestapo and the GPU [Russian State security agency], so that one might say there existed an independent foreign policy of the police. This police-directed foreign policy functioned quite independently of the official governments; the relations between the Gestapo and the French police were never more cordial than at the time of Leon Blum's popular-front government, which was guided by a decidedly anti-German policy. Contrary to the governments, the various police organizations were never overburdened with "prejudices" against any totalitarian regime; the information and denunciations received from GPU agents were just as welcome to them as those from Fascist or Gestapo agents. They knew about the eminent role of the police apparatus in all totalitarian regimes, they knew about its elevated social status and political importance, and they never bothered to conceal their sympathies. That the Nazis eventually met with so disgracefully little resistance from the police in the countries they occupied, and that they were able to organize terror as much as they did with the assistance of these local police forces, was due at least in part to the powerful position which the police had achieved over the years in their unrestricted and arbitrary domination of stateless and refugees.”
Source: The Origins of Totalitarianism
“That concerns me. You're either getting better or you're getting worse. I don't think you stay the same in sports. If we want to achieve something special in the game, then these players have to recognize that they're responsible every day for getting better.”
“That conclusion is inescapable, given the well-established evidence that voter-ID laws don't disenfranchise minorities or reduce minority voting, and in many instances enhance it, despite claims to the contrary by Mr. Holder and his allies. As more states adopt such laws, the left has railed against them with increasing fury, even invoking the specter of the Jim Crow era to describe electoral safeguards common to most nations, including in the Third World.”
“That conduct often seems ridiculous the secret reasons of which are wise and solid.”
“That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.”
Source: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
“That connection between hormones and mood is so important to get a handle on, and it's also really important when you're considering taking medication.”
“That consciousness can exchange information faster than the speed of light is evidenced by the fact that two (2) individuals distantly apart can come up with the same creative discovery. To account for this, a 'mind' must therefore be an omnipresent construct. It's all a matter of perspective.”
Source: Pataphysics: Mastering Time Line Jumps for Personal Transformation
“That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out.”
“That consciousness of quality, and the need to demand it can galvanize your energies, not just in your work, but in a rigorous exercise of mind and heart in every aspect of your life.”
“That constitutes a chastening reminder for someone like myself, with a bias in favor of the written page and a sour prejudice against mass-market video: a reminder that, although images can be deceptive, they don't stand convicted alone. Writing is just another form of concoction. Words can lie too. You can trust me on this, probably.”
Source: Wild Thoughts from Wild Places
“That continuous, unnamed ache I had been living with was precise and definable now. Call it the foretaste of being hated. I knew ahead of time that if someone looked at me with hate, I would have to allow it, to swallow it, because something in me, something about me deserved it.”
“That conversation... was as dirty as a sewer! It is not enough for you to take no part in it. You must show your repugnance for it strongly!”
“That conversion which is all joy and lacks sorrow for sin, is very questionable.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 35: Sermons 2062-2120
“That cop," Fonny says, "that cop."
"What about that cop?" But I am suddenly, and I don't know why, as still and as dry as a stone: with fear.
"He's going to try to get me," Fonny says.
"How? You didn't do anything wrong. The Italian lady said so, and she said that she would swear to it."
"That's why he's going to try to get me," Fonny says. "White men don't like it at all when a white lady tells them, You a boatful of motherfuckers, and the black cat was right, and you can kiss my ass." He grins. "Because that's what she told him. In front of a whole lot of people. And he couldn't do shit. And he ain't about to forget it.”
Source: If Beale Street Could Talk
“That corner of the world smiles for me more than anywhere else.”
“That corporations are the creatures of the Crown must be universally admitted.”
“That cotton trade was almost the deal breaker for me. It was at that point that I said, “Mr. Stupid, why risk everything on one trade? Why not make your life a pursuit of happiness rather than pain?”
“That could be a high water mark for the Green Party in its history. What two states, I can only guess, aren't you going to be on because of horrendous obstacles to getting on the ballot.”
“That could be made into a sad song, Simon supposed. 'If they are eggs, why are they gray? Who can say, who can say?'
Admittedly, "Why Are the Eggs So Gray?" might not be a big hit, even on the hipster circuit.”
Source: Bitter of Tongue
“That could be the carrot on the top of the cake”
“That could be the issue that the party - that the party faces as we get ready to potentially nominate someone who`s utterly unelectable in a general election contest.”
“That could change. Who cares what they think? Are Linwood County Schools running the rest of our lives? No. But God is, Em. God is. You’ll never know what He has up His sleeve.”
“That could explain her reactions, with no immediate family, maybe she hasn't gotten the chance to learn healthy coping mechanisms.”
Source: At Least for Today
“That could have been his second yellow card - if he'd already got his first one of course”
“That could sound arrogant, I guess, but sometimes I feel like I have a bit of a Zelig thing. I'll blend in wherever. I'm from the South, so I'll have a Southern accent when I'm home. But if I'm up here in New York, I have a British accent.”
“That couldn't have been easy. I've seen too many people have to make the hard choice of providing care or saying goodbye to their pet because they can't afford the expense. I'm glad you encouraged her to save her dog."
"I didn't really give her any other option," Bryson said. "It's a habit I'm trying to break, if I'm being honest. The choice isn't mine. Sometimes, saving the animal isn't what's best for it or for the owner. But Captain Jack still has a few years left in him, and I have a feeling he's her only companion. She needs that dog as much as the dog needs her.”
Source: Pugs and Kisses
“That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws; and every step of intestine discord was marked by some deplorable victory of savage man over civilized society.”
Source: THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages
“That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.”
Source: Unto this Last
“That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain.”
Source: THE OCTOBER COUNTRY
“That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts.”
Source: THE OCTOBER COUNTRY
“That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.”
Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison
“That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“That cowboy had heartbreak written all over him and she'd be damned if she knew why every time he blew into town she ended up naked before he ended up gone. Reed always ended up gone.”
Source: Whisper No Lies
“that crack of the bat against a ball has been my mantra, a sound I hear in desperate moments, at times when I crave total satisfaction, a sound I hear over and over when I want something very badly but can't express what it is.”
“That cracker made a lot of African-American millionaires.”
“That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.”
Source: Baptismal Regeneration
“That craptastical, gutless, son-of-a-cactus-humping butt monkey!!”
Source: Deadly Cool