T Quotes
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“That is one of the reasons one enjoys acting. Now and again, you get scenes where you work with somebody really good and you have a good time trying to make it really work and really work well.”
“That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter.”
Source: IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS
“That is one of the reasons why we have raised this matter about the need to focus quite sharply on the function of local government, but also on the resourcing of local government. Because it may very well be that we say to local government, you have got to run an indigent policy.”
“That is one of the things about going on tour, that I get to work with some really talented people and it allows me to be able to listen to them as well - and just have fun on stage.”
“That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep inside, a writer feels that writing is the best thing that ever happened to him, or could ever happen to him, because as far as he is concerned, writing is the best possible way of life, never mind the social, political, or financial rewards of what he might achieve through it.”
Source: Letters to a Young Novelist
“That is one thing I've learned, that it is possible to really understand things at certain points, and not be able to retain them, to be in utter confusion just a short while later. I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious to me that more often than not the batteries fade, and sometimes what you knew even goes out with a bang when you try to call on it, just like a lightbulb cracking off when you throw the switch.”
“That is one trouble about trading on a large scale.You cannot sneak out as you can when you pike along.”
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
“That is originally why the concept evolved to include accessories. We found that furniture sells better when you show it with accessories.”
“That is our Fairy Tail!! We don't live like we have already died, like you do!! We live with our lives on the lines, you bastard!! If you don't have the courage to change things then you might as well just die!!!”
“That is our generation’s task - to make these words, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness real for every American.”
“That is our larger destiny: to allow the Earth to organize in a new way, in a manner impossible all the billions of years prior to humanity”
“That is our ‘pointed task. Love & die.”
Source: 77 Dream Songs: Poems
“That is part of life. And life is more beautiful with a little madness in it.”
Source: Beloved of my heart: A Darshan diary
“That is part of our critique of some of the charity and service work is that we can still keep relationships at a distance by creating programs that offer services but we don't really create a reconciled community.”
“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
“That is part of why we must keep talking about Fannie Lou Hamer and about our history as a party and as a nation. We can't forget. If we forget, we can get self-righteous. We are great, but we had to grow into that greatness. Let's not forget that we shut people out.”
“That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.”
Source: The House In Paris
“That is perceptive of you, because in this country men dancers have always been viewed with suspicion. If you were an actor, a star, and a dancer, you had to be, or have a name like someone mainstream.”
“That is perhaps what we seek throughout life, that and nothing more, the greatest possible sorrow so as to become fully ourselves before dying.”
“That is potentially putting us all in the target hairs now is the reactivation of a new nuclear arms race. This arms race and this cold war is potentially hotter than it's been at any time in my lifetime.”
“That is pretty well what the doctor said, in a lot more careful words. He says that the pills he's got her on will keep her from sinking too low. How low is too low, Roy thinks, and when can you tell?”
Source: Too Much Happiness: Stories
“That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.”
Source: Cicero
“That is quite another thing," said Albert; "because a man under the influence of violent passion loses all power of reflection, and is regarded as intoxicated or insane."
"Oh! you people of sound understandings," I replied, smiling, "are ever ready to exclaim 'Extravagance, and madness, and intoxication!' You moral men are so calm and so subdued! You abhor the drunken man, and detest the extravagant; you pass by, like the Levite, and thank God, like the Pharisee, that you are not like one of them. I have been more than once intoxicated, my passions have always bordered on extravagance: I am not ashamed to confess it; for I have learned, by my own experience, that all extraordinary men, who have accomplished great and astonishing actions, have ever been decried by the world as drunken or insane. And in private life, too, is it not intolerable that no one can undertake the execution of a noble or generous deed, without giving rise to the exclamation that the doer is intoxicated or mad? Shame upon you, ye sages!”
Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther
“That is really not much different from the search engines that are being constructed today for users throughout the entire world to allow them to search through databases to access the information that they require.”
“That is really the freedom that allows you to create something that is exciting because who knows what's true?”
“That is relinquishing control in a culture that prioritizes control and doing what you need to do in order to advance yourself.”
“That is...' Rhiannon murmurs beside me.
'It sure is,' I agree.
'Stop objectifying your wingleader,' Liam teases.
'Is that what we're doing?' Rhiannon asks, not bothering to look away.
My mouth waters at the muscled expanse of his back and that sculpted ass. 'Yeah, I think that's what we're doing.'
Liam snorts.
'We could just be watching for technique.'
'Yeah. We absolutely could be.' But I'm not.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“That is ridiculous! I am here, in my favorite café, reading what I love the most. You wrote me a note, a note! That is as human as you can get.”
Source: Soul Seeks The Truth
“That is ridiculous," she said. The king agreed. "Like falling in love with a landslide. Only you could fail to notice.”
“That is righteous, blondie! Hey, we need to come up with superhero names. How about capes—and codpieces? Just think about the idea for now, chew it over for a bit, let me know,” he said. “Hey, do you guys ever hear . . . voices?”
I groaned. “All the time. I thought I was going crazy.”
“Duude,” he said in agreement. “And before the Flash, all kinds of freaky shit was happening to me. I started speaking this weird language. And stuff started transforming—but only in front of me. I saw my cat walking on the ceiling, saw lava coming out of a faucet. The worst? I was doing this girl, and suddenly she looked like my gym teacher!” He shuddered.
And I’d thought I had it bad. Matthew and Finn had also suffered. “What’d your parents think?” I asked, wondering if Finn had gotten institutionalized too.
“Dad couldn’t handle my ‘erratic behavior’ anymore, so he pawned me off on Mom. Same result. They were just about to break out the straitjacket—or, worse, military school—when she got the brilliant idea to ship me from Malibu to North Carolina to rough it with my redneck cousins.”
So Matthew and I hadn’t been the only ones deemed “damaged” by our folks. It made sense, though. I wondered what Selena’s story was.
“Yeah, Mom figured they’d toughen me up mentally,” Finn said. “I can’t even make this shit up. Mental health—through the chugging of Natty Light, the chasing of hot hick ass, and the killing of ducks and bucks.”
Source: Poison Princess
“That is sacrilegious. You just totally dissed man code. If we don’t have man code, the world will fall apart."
Kip Paxton”
Source: Guitar Face
“That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.”
Source: Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship. (1. Ed.)
“That is salvation. To give of love inside. To keep love of life, no matter what, and give to others. Generously.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“That is scary, when you consider what we're doing to children all over the planet. They're the ones who are truly being terrorized by all the madness adults are perpetrating.”
“That is simple. In the Colonies we issue our own money. It is called Colonial Scrip. We issue it in proper proportion to the demands of trade and industry to make the products pass easily from the producers to the consumers. In this manner creating for ourselves our own paper money, we control its purchasing power, and we have no interest to pay.”
“That is simply stunning.”
“That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major institutions in many countries of the world. So I suppose that we shouldn't be too surprised that it should infect the church as well.”
“That is simply the most beautiful publishing office in the world, with that cranky old building in that wonderful park.”
“That is so personal, and it’s my pet peeve when people press you on it. And it’s always women who get asked! Is anybody saying that to George Clooney?”
“That is something I try to stress to the wrestlers nowadays - there is an epidemic of spot monkeys in the business. They often are so concerned with the fans' reactions that they're willing to kill themselves, while I am trying to help them move past that. It is not about the move, it's about the moment you create, and that's what I'm doing through my broken brilliance.”
“That is something I'm specifically equipped to discuss - how reputation can affect even your capacity to rent a place. Having good credit is irrelevant in the face of something like getting thrown out of court six years ago. I've really thought this out.”
“That is sort of the eternal question for people who go to Hollywood...what will be the straw that breaks the camel's back, and forces you to think about doing something else? When do you throw in the towel?”
“That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don't expect them to learn, if you don't expect them to succeed - then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
“That is straight out of Gandhi. If people are not afraid of the dictatorship, that dictatorship is in big trouble. … If you fight with violence, you are fighting with your enemy’s best weapon, and you may be a brave but dead hero.”
“That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose.”
Source: Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley
“That is supposed to be the rallying cry of women in the age of AIDS: no condom, no sex. But the dirty little secret is that the rallying cry is a whisper.... The great unspoken on the heterosexual AIDS front has been how behavior is still determined by the old psychosexual minuet of the sexes, the lack of responsibility in young men and of assertiveness in young women.”
“That is surely childhood's end, when you look at a thing like a rabbit needing skinned and have to say: "Nobody else is going to do this.”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.”
“That is the agony of addiction. The person is two beings, and despite not wanting to, you find yourself loving one and hating the other. And since you never know which one you're going to get, it seems only right to protect yourself against both.”
Source: Love and the Dream Come True
“That is the America which stands not in pursuit of an axis of evil, but which is itself at the axis of hope and faith and peace and freedom.”