T Quotes
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“THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew not where, Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship, Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing Heroically lost, heroically found. No matter what disaster occurred She stood in desperate music wound, Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph Where the bales and the baskets lay No common intelligible sound But sang, 'O sea-starved, hungry sea”
Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats
“That creature's staying?' It figured. Her daughter-in-law transforming into an animal? No problem. Having to take care of a cat? Crisis. (Sydney Sage-Ivashkov)”
Source: The Ruby Circle
“That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.”
“That cruelest of tyrants - public opinion.”
“That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures when at years of maturity.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction
“That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.”
Source: The Scapegoat
“That culture is a a critical resource the organization ignores. Competely mystifying. The organization continues to act as if culture were dark matter, something essentially inaccessible to us. When in fact there is an ancient discipline called anthropology that's pretty good at thinking about it.”
“That culture, of looking at catchy music as a negative thing, is weird. It has nothing to do with me, or the music I was into growing up. The Stones and the Beatles only tried to write hits. Every Motown song, every Credence Clearwater song - they were trying to write hits.”
“That cup of tea is definately not down your alley”
“That curtain never came. The end credits should have run, but the days kept on happening, my alarm kept going off, and new challenges kept popping up. Furthermore, I had a sense that this “I finally did all the things, give me my American Dream award” moment wasn’t the final, dramatic crescendo of an orchestrated symphony. I knew this because I was a fake.”
Source: The Autistic's Guide to Self-Discovery: Flourishing as a Neurodivergent Adult
“That curve is also the containing narrative shape of the Bible, because the mythical shape of the Bible, if we read it from beginning to end, is a comic one. It's a story in which man is placed in a state of nature from
which he falls—the word "fall" is something which this diagram indicates visually.7 At the end of the story, he is restored to the things that he had at the beginning. Judaism focuses upon the story of Israel, which in
the Old Testament is to be restored at the end of history, according to the way the prophets see that history. The Christian Bible is focused more
on the story of Adam, who represents mankind as falling from a state of integration with nature into a state where he is alienated from nature.
In symbolic terms, what Adam loses is the tree and the water of life. Those are images that we'll look at in more detail later. On practically the first page of the Bible we are told that Adam loses the tree and the
water of life in the garden of Eden. On practically the last page of the Bible, in the last chapter of the Book of Revelation, the prophet has a vision of the tree and the water of life restored to man. That affinity between the structure of the Bible and the structure of comedy has been recognized for many centuries and is the reason why Dante called his vision of hell and purgatory and heaven a commedia.”
Source: Biblical and Classical Myths: The Mythological Framework of Western Culture
“That customer service representative is crazy, if he think I am going to pay that bill.”
“That cyclone in Burma? That was just me doing the dance to that annoying ass song.”
“That D.C. grand jury investigation of Abramoff can't go on forever. Eventually the lawyers at the Public Integrity Section will go to their bosses with some decisions about just who they want to indict. That's when Al Gonzales will have to show his cards.”
“That damned Cassiline would only turn around the instant we reached dry land, swim the Straits, and damn the lot of us. Bad enough he's vow-blinded; being besotten with you makes him a positive menace.”
Source: Kushiel's Dart
“That damned Hurker! He had the neck to suggest to me today that he could find a buyer for our plant—if he was made a partner!”
“I hope you told him what to do with that suggestion!”
“I did. Told him I wasn’t selling, but if he wanted to buy a share he should talk to my legal adviser.” Marcus straightened in his chair and wiped his hands across his face. “And he told me that I had forty eight hours to reconsider my answer, or shipping might prove very difficult—and that there would be some queries initiated over my use of a dome now owned by CalBank!”
Source: First into the Fray
“That dance had spoken to him from deep within his subconscious mind, and even though he’d been incapable of putting words to it, to make it make sense, then it had.”
Source: Ledgers and Rent Boys
“That dandy, the sky, enters blue-suited
sun like a scotch in hand.”
Source: The Wingless
“That danger which is despised arrives the soonest.”
“That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.”
Source: Clarissa: Or, the History of a Young Lady. Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life. ... By Mr. Samuel Richardson. In Eight Volumes
“That dark day when you lose all your goals, all your ideals, all your dreams is not the day to collapse and fall to the ground, but it is the most suitable day to choose new goals, new ideals, and new dreams!”
“That dark fog you see now,
Will later give a bow,
To a glorious sun.”
Source: Dear Ophelia
“That dark humor has always been a part of what I've done. It's always been somewhat tongue-in-cheek.”
“That dark laboratory we call the soil.”
Source: Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)
“that darkest of syllables, death.”
Source: The Other Shoe
“That day, Alex’s emotional saturation reached its peak. His pain was so intense, and he was so young, that neither his amazing self-restraint nor his self-confidence were able to hold back the flood of feelings and emotions overwhelming him. It is the only time I ever see him like that.As for me, I found out early on, through personal experience, that falling in love passes quickly, as do strong feelings. I feel bad for him, but I know he’ll soon get over it. Give it a couple of months and he’ll find himself attracted to someone else.”
Source: Monogamy Book One. Lover
“That day and night, the bleeding and the screaming, had knocked something askew for Esme, like a picture swinging crooked on a wall. She loved the life she lived with her mother. It was beautiful. It was, she sometimes thought, a sweet emulation of the fairy tales they cherished in their lovely, gold-edged books. They sewed their own clothes from bolts of velvet and silk, ate all their meals as picnics, indoors or out, and danced on the rooftop, cutting passageways through the fog with their bodies. They embroidered tapestries of their own design, wove endless melodies on their violins, charted the course of the moon each month, and went to the theater and the ballet as often as they liked--every night last week to see Swan Lake again and again. Esme herself could dance like a faerie, climb trees like a squirrel, and sit so still in the park that birds would come to perch on her. Her mother had taught her all that, and for years it had been enough. But she wasn't a little girl anymore, and she had begun to catch hints and glints of another world outside her pretty little life, one filled with spice and poetry and strangers.”
Source: Lips Touch: Three Times
“That day belongs to a different time warp. We should learn to leave sleeping dogs—”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“That day, every time I threw something away, my heart and soul got heavier instead of becoming lighter.”
Source: The Swords of Light and Darkness
“That day, getting through my world was like trying to swim in a pool of warm mayonnaise while carrying two bowling balls.”
“That day had changed him. It had changed the entire village. Shaken by the death of a boy they had loved, each person had found ways to be more worthy of the sacrifice he had made. They had become kinder, more careful, more attentive to one another.”
“That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it.”
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
“That day, I learned that I could be a giver by simply bringing a smile to another person. The ensuing years have taught me that a kind word, a vote of support is a charitable gift. I can move over and make another place for someone. I can turn my music up if it pleases, or down if it is annoying. I may never be known as a philanthropist, but I certainly am a lover of mankind, and I will give freely of my resources.”
Source: Letter to My Daughter
“That Day I'll Call You Human (Sonnet)
I shall call you all human,
the day you bring down all borders,
like you brought down the Berlin wall.
I shall call you all human,
the day you abolish all military,
like you abolished the SS.
I shall call you all human,
the day you eradicate fundamentalism,
like you eradicated polio.
I shall call you all human,
the day you ban the oligarchs,
like you tackled corona.
If you can't be a tsunami, be a flash flood -
if you can't be a flash flood, be a garden hose,
and wash away the inhumanities around you.”
Source: Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
“That day, I realized Death's hunger was ravenous ... it was insatiable. And it would never be filled, not until the blood of the dead was enough to drown out all the light inside of us.”
“That day I realized that at least for the time being, I was becoming Christian’s somebody.
And maybe, just maybe, he was becoming mine.”
Source: The Space in Between
“That day, I realized that dreams without means were like helium balloons, just flying in the air with no goal, no direction, just straying in empty space.”
Source: Footprints in Obscurity: A Living Story
“That day I swore to never manipulate anyone again. Even if I believed I was doing good--for who am I to presume what is good for others?”
Source: Winter
“That day I think we really saw each other for the first time. I mean, saw beyond the bag of bones on the outside. You take away her pretty and my plain and what you get underneath is about the same: a couple of lost girls looking to be found.”
“That day in 1935, as I rode south through the wild heights of the towering Itchas, I naturally couldn’t foresee the future and know that our dreams would come true; that Pan would marry Adelia; that the grand old cattleman Pennoyer would become the general manager of our proposed Frontier Cattle Company; that great trail herds, chuck wagons, horse remudas and cowpunchers would soon be strung out across the land, moving from distant railhead and town and ranch across the vast lonely lands in northern British Columbia into the last cattle frontier.
But I did know in my heart that I had found my country.
A country as yet unspoiled by man’s bright new ideas.
A land where clear, calm, direct thought — based on the Golden Rule, the principles of Christianity — takes the place of the worried, confused and subconsciously frustrated state of mind that exists when economic considerations decide every move or act.
A land where action takes the place of talk.”
“That day in Chartres they had passed through town and watched women kneeling at the edge of the water, pounding clothes against a flat, wooden board. Yves had watched them for a long time. They had wandered up and down the old crooked streets, in the hot sun; Eric remembered a lizard darting across a wall; and everywhere the cathedral pursued them. It is impossible to be in that town and not be in the shadow of those great towers; impossible to find oneself on those plains and not be troubled by that cruel and elegant, dogmatic and pagan presence. The town was full of tourists, with their cameras, their three-quarter coats, bright flowered dresses and shirts, their children, college insignia, Panama hats, sharp, nasal cries, and automobiles crawling like monstrous gleaming bugs over the laming, cobblestoned streets. Tourist buses, from Holland, from Denmark, from Germany, stood in the square before the cathedral. Tow-haired boys and girls, earnest, carrying knapsacks, wearing khaki-colored shorts, with heavy buttocks and thighs, wandered dully through the town. American soldiers, some in uniform, some in civilian clothes, leaned over bridges, entered bistros in strident, uneasy, smiling packs, circled displays of colored post cards, and picked up meretricious mementos, of a sacred character. All of the beauty of the town, all the energy of the plains, and all the power and dignity of the people seemed to have been sucked out of them by the cathedral. It was as though the cathedral demanded, and received, a perpetual, living sacrifice. It towered over the town, more like an affliction than a blessing, and made everything seem, by comparison with itself, wretched and makeshift indeed. The houses in which the people lived did not suggest shelter, or safety. The great shadow which lay over them revealed them as mere doomed bits of wood and mineral, set down in the path of a hurricane which, presently, would blow them into eternity. And this shadow lay heavy on the people, too. They seemed stunted and misshapen; the only color in their faces suggested too much bad wine and too little sun; even the children seemed to have been hatched in a cellar. It was a town like some towns in the American South, frozen in its history as Lot's wife was trapped in salt, and doomed, therefore, as its history, that overwhelming, omnipresent gift of God, could not be questioned, to be the property of the gray, unquestioning mediocre.”
Source: Another Country
“That day of wrath, that dreadful day. When heaven and earth shall pass away.”
Source: The Complete Poetry of Sir Walter Scott: The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, The Lady of the Lake, Translations and Imitations from German Ballads, Marmion, Rokeby, The Field of Waterloo, Harold the Dauntless, The Wild Huntsman…
“That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather.”
Source: West-running Brook
“That day the explosion took Abe and left Savage in his place. Gone is the laid back man who would talk for hours about the woman he left behind. He always said he’d marry her when he was back stateside. Now we can’t say her name without him getting up and leaving the room.”
Source: Pulling Her Trigger
“That day, the great mind in neuroscience Michael A. Persinger, who is now a good friend of mine, made me realize that it was no other field of Science but Neuroscience that held the key to solving the quintessential problems of consciousness. He coaxed me into the science of the neurons and the rest as you know is history. Without Persinger, Naskar and Neuroscience would never have been linked together.
Imbued with new knowledge, confidence and excessive curiosity, I officially turned my attention to one of the loftiest goals of modern science - understanding the biological nature of the human mind. That day on, I officially got into the world of Neuroscience.”
Source: Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
“That day the U.S. announced that the dollar would be devalued by 10 percent. By switching the yen to a floating exchange rate, the Japanese currency appreciated, and a sufficient realignment in exchange rates was realized. Joint intervention in gold sales to prevent a steep rise in the price of gold, however, was not undertaken. That was a mistake.”
“That day, they learned that when there are two people, half the times they agreed and half the times they disagreed on every issue. What they were unwilling to accept is that they could get along very well together even if they disagreed half of the times.”
Source: One Word
“That day was the beginning of my friendship with Sebastian, and thus it came about, that morning in June, that I was lying beside him in the shade of the high elms watching the smoke from his lips drift up into the branches.”
Source: Brideshead Revisited
“That day wasn't the first time I had attempted suicide. Simply disappearing into the distant nothingness where there was no pain and no more feelings - back then I thought it an act of empowerment. Otherwise I had very little power to make any decisions about my life, my body, my actions. Taking my own life seemed my last trump card.”
Source: 3,096 Days
“That day, when she met her father, Trisha learned to smile even as her heart broke—it was also the day she came to hate the color red.”
Source: Scarlet Yearnings: Stories of Love and Desire