T Quotes
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“That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it.”
Source: Collected Works
“That I want to try in life? There's a lot of things I want to try. There's never enough time to try anything. I would love to have a hobby. I have no hobbies.”
“That I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world, and that I was going out into the world with that passion in my soul.”
Source: De Profundis
“That I was born to this circle - I am blessed. That I choose to stand in this circle - I am proud.”
Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life
“That I was far too concerned about public perception.
That perhaps, if I hadn't had some insane picture in my head of a type of life that I was trying so desperately to attain, as if it was my destiny, maybe I would have had a clearer eye about Dexter, or would have planned a wedding I could afford, or would have been able to shrug off the humiliation and not derail my job and relationships.
I hated how much of that landed. (p39)”
Source: Wedding Girl
“That I was in love? Well, I am, but not with her.”
“That I was not dueling with the king, but trying to communicate with him, was itself an incommunicable fact.”
“That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.”
“That I would be loved even when I numb myself. That I would be good even when I am overwhelmed. That I would be loved even when I was fuming. That I would be good even if I was clingy.”
“That I would rather be in another business where a bad cold wouldn't put me out of work.”
“That I'm an alcoholic is completely ridiculous.”
“That I've lasted is one of my greatest accomplishments. Maybe my greatest.”
“That icy glass reduces your beauty - dims your fire - let me be your mirror...”
“That idea is so damned nonsensical and impossible that I'm willing to stand on the bridge of a battleship while that nitwit tries to hit if from the air.”
“That idea is strange to me. People keep on loving? People keep on loving even if you are not there in their face everyday to remind them? People keep on loving even if they no longer see you at all? People keep on loving even if they are loving someone else? Impossible: to believe you can be loved in absence when you don't even know how it feels to be loved when you are there.”
Source: Mouthing The Words
“That idea of comparison is what fans do. That's why fans exist. They believe in something and something connects to them, and they have passionate feelings and opinions about films.”
“That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.”
“That idea of not being exactly who you write as is so crucial. Even looking at those words as I type them, it feels dirty, it feels like I'm admitting something. Unfortunately, I think that's how the conversation around nonfiction is so much of the time - either defensive or accusatory. Aha! You've been caught! But the original essence of something is always lost when it's reproduced.”
“That idea – of one's own life as something that had already been dictated – was strangely seductive, until you realised that it reduced other people to the moral status of characters and camouflaged their capacity to destroy.”
Source: Transit
“That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.”
“That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.”
“That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia.”
“That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.”
Source: The Life and Writings of ...
“That ideology was never going to work, was it? It was just cobbled together from different beliefs: The anti-intellectualism of the Khmer Rouge, the religious persecution of the Nazis, the enforced beard-wearing from the world of folk music, and the segregation and humiliation of women from the world of golf.”
“That if a thing is defined in contrast that's what life is, the shadow of death. So the mystery of death couldn't be the bad thing, because without it there wouldn't be life. The badness was life, just happening, as essential a part of the good as the good. And what was there to do but to take it as it comes and to hope, to hope constantly and carnally and with no time to lose.”
Source: Hemlock Grove
“That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.”
“That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“That if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, you’d never want to own or do another thing. That if you could eat or sleep enough, you’d never need more. That if enough people loved you, you’d stop needing love.”
Source: Choke: A Novel
“that if you don't read nobody does”
“That if you’re poor, somehow you’re shiftless and lazy.”
“That image of the common drunk is a myth. There is a thing called a maintenance drinker which may very well be a mother of four, a welder or a distinguished business person. These people build up a tolerance and manage to still maintain their daily lifestyles while constantly struggling with this disease, because it is a recognized disease by the American Medical Association.”
“That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.”
“That image or rather that Person, so human, yet so entirely Divine, has a power to fill the imagination, to arrest the affections, to deepen and purify the conscience, which nothing else in the world has.”
Source: Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations
“That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves, so far within us, that it remains intact though all the outer character seem gone; bleeds with keenest anguish at the undraped spectacle of a valor-ruined man.”
Source: Moby-Dick
“That impossible dream you dreamed when you were young but got talked out of, the one you thought you outgrew, might be the key to awakening your genius. That special talent you never followed through on might be an important source of delight, the one you should commit to. That old dream might be the one thing that will bring the magic of meaning to your life.”
“That impresses me more, inventin' electricity.”
“That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand.”
“That in a civil war there is continuous fighting, based on grievences that are forever changing.”
“That in a loving place, I am able to hear a friend disagree with me and know that they still care for me. That I can receive their advice and know that I don't have to follow it. That there is enough trust between us. I don't want to be validated. I want to be loved.”
Source: I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
“That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other.”
Source: The works of Isaac Barrow
“That in all capital or criminal prosecutions a man bath a right to demand the cause and nature of his accusation, to be confronted with the accusers and witnesses, to call for evidence in his favor, and to a speedy trial by an impartial jury of twelve men of his vicinage, without whose unanimous consent he cannot be found guilty; nor can he be compelled to give evidence against himself; that no man be deprived of his liberty, except by the law of the land or the judgment of his peers.”
“That in all these worldly Things, that a Man pursues with the greatest Eagerness and Intention of Mind imaginable, he finds not half the Pleasure in the actual Possession of them, that he proposed to himself in the Expectation.”
“That in all times, mediocrity has dominated, that is indubitable; but that it reigns more than ever, that it is becoming absolutely triumphant and inhibiting, this is what is as true as it is distressing.”
“That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred.”
“That, in fact, nothing is as simple as it seems, or, more, nothing is at all as it seems, and usually older. That this ground could have been carried by the wind before settling here.”
Source: Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau
“That in itself is an act of peacemaking, because we're seeking to align our wills with God's will, our dreams with God's dream.”
Source: The Secret Message of Jesus: Uncovering the Truth that Could Change Everything
“That in itself made her a little intriguing and enticing. A woman who doesn't know her own potential for passion”
Source: The Protege
“That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.”
“That in my left pocket I have "heaven"... doesn't mean that in my right pocket I don't have "hell".”
“That, in my opinion, was the most diabolical aspect of those old-time big brains: They would tell their owners, in effect, 'Here is a crazy thing we could actually do, probably, but we would never do it, of course. It's just fun to think about.' And then, as though in trances, the people would really do it--have slaves fight each other to death in the Colosseum, or burn people alive in the public square for holding opinions which were locally unpopular, or build factories whose only purpose was to kill people in industrial quantities, or to blow up whole cities, and on and on.”
Source: Galápagos