T Quotes
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“That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.”
Source: Les Misérables
“That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.”
“That is the fastest way to ruin a woman’s reputation, after all—to imply that she has not adequately threaded the needle that is being sexually satisfying without ever appearing to desire sexual satisfaction.”
Source: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it.”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without.”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“That is the fearful part of having been near death. One knows how easy it is to die. The barriers that are up for everybody else are down for you, and you've only to slip through.”
Source: The Letters of Katherine Mansfield
“That is the fifth time you shied back from me tonight.” He set down the glass and took the knife in his hand. Then he advanced on me. “Did your father never teach you to hide your fear from monsters? They give chase if you run.”
Source: Bound by Honor
“That is the financial disclosures that is what's required by law, that's Donald Trump [done]. It's in the constitution. The president-elect hasn't even been sworn in yet. So, all this flailing about how he's done everything wrong it's a little premature at best.”
“That is the first thing I know for sure: (1.) If the questions don't make sense, neither will the answers.”
Source: The Sirens of Titan: An Original Novel
“That is the first thing to learn - not to seek. When you seek you are really only window-shopping. The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality, or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosophers or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself and that is why you must know yourself. Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self. To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.”
“That is the folly of your human blood, to take everything as it appears and not as it is,' said Silas.
'And is it the folly of elves to take everything as it is and not as it appears?' (said Gesela)”
Source: Mountains Made of Glass
“That is the freakiest thing that ever happened to me.” I nodded toward the mess. “And if you knew my life, you’d realize just how freaky that is.”
“That is the funny thing about reality, a more reasonable part of you can always find just the right thing to say. There will always be, if you look hard enough, reason to doubt everything. But for now, let us pretend that we are truly insane and that in
trying to teach you my insanity, to answer your questions about the kind of insanity that I adhere to, I must tell you about the un-manifest and the manifested. In doing so you will begin to understand the true nature of reality for a raving lunatic like me.
But I must tell you that this form of insanity is not mine alone, there are others who walk a path that is like my own and the key component of that lunacy is called transmutation.”
Source: The Art of Transmutation
“That is the future, and it is probably nearer than we think. But our primary problem as universities is not engineering that future. We must rise above the obsession with quantity of information and speed of transmission, and recognize that the key issue for us is our ability to organize this information once it has been amassed - to assimilate it, find meaning in it, and assure its survival for use by generations to come.”
“That is the gay agenda...it is the recreation of society on a different moral foundation and the problem with that is that moral foundation will lead to social chaos and destruction.”
“That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out; you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business.”
“That is the gods' work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, an all to make a song for those to come.”
Source: The odyssey
“That is the good stuff that comes into our life and it's based on the good stuff that goes out of our life!”
“That is the great contribution of Reformed thinking to the Christian church: theology for a life well-lived.”
“That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.”
“That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women seetherelationship between objects? It is an extra dimension of feeling which we men are without and one that makes war abhorrent to all real women?and absurd.”
“That is the great fact which you ought to remember. We are the children of the Almighty, we are sparks of the infinite, divine fire. How can we be nothings? We are everything, ready to do everything, we can do everything, and man must do everything.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.”
Source: Jan Vedder's Wife
“That is the great mystery of human evolution: how to account for calculus and Mozart.”
Source: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
“That is the greatest gift my books have given me; what it means and has done for the kids.”
“That is the greatest source of my anxiety on this film [The Hobbit], is that I'm going to be lynched.”
“That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments...”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.”
“That is the heart and soul of the American dream, homeownership, the idea of being able to buy a house and start to build your family.”
“That is the hope that inspires Christians. We know that every effort to better society, especially when injustice and sin are so ingrained, is an effort that God blesses, that God wants, that God demands of us.”
“That is the idea he is toying with, Renzo says, to write an essay about the things that don’t happen, the lives not lived, the wars not fought, the shadow worlds that run parallel to the world we take to be the real world, the not-said and the not-done, the not-remembered.”
Source: Sunset Park
“That is the idea -- that we should all be wicked if we did not hold to the Christian religion. It seems to me that the people who have held to it have been for the most part extremely wicked. You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs. In the so-called ages of faith, when men really did believe the Christian religion in all its completeness, there was the Inquisition, with all its tortures; there were millions of unfortunate women burned as witches; and there was every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.
You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world. I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
You may think that I am going too far when I say that that is still so. I do not think that I am. Take one fact. You will bear with me if I mention it. It is not a pleasant fact, but the churches compel one to mention facts that are not pleasant. Supposing that in this world that we live in today an inexperienced girl is married to a syphilitic man; in that case the Catholic Church says, 'This is an indissoluble sacrament. You must endure celibacy or stay together. And if you stay together, you must not use birth control to prevent the birth of syphilitic children.' Nobody whose natural sympathies have not been warped by dogma, or whose moral nature was not absolutely dead to all sense of suffering, could maintain that it is right and proper that that state of things should continue.
That is only an example. There are a great many ways in which, at the present moment, the church, by its insistence upon what it chooses to call morality, inflicts upon all sorts of people undeserved and unnecessary suffering. And of course, as we know, it is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in the world, because it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness; and when you say that this or that ought to be done because it would make for human happiness, they think that has nothing to do with the matter at all. 'What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.”
Source: Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
“That is the inescapable math of tragedy and the multiplication of grief. Too many good people die a little when they lose someone they love. One death begets two or twenty or one hundred. It's the same all over the world.”
Source: Charlie St. Cloud: A Novel
“That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, to do all the unpleasant things. And then the father, who has nothing to do but pet them and spoil them, comes in when all her work is done and steals their affection from her.”
Source: Pygmalion and Major Barbara
“That is the job of the Catholic Church, to be a balance to the materialistic drives of our culture and of economy.”
“That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.”
“That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.”
“That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.”
“That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and cruel people to the top, and then it all slides back into misery and ruin. In fact, the machine conks. It seems to start up all right and runs a few yards, and then it breaks down.”
Source: Mere Christianity: a revised and enlarged edition, with a new introduction, of the three books, The case for Christianity, Christian behaviour, and Beyond personality
“That is the key to navigating this life - don't take it too seriously. That's when the party begins.”
“That is the kind of America in which I believe. And it represents the kind of Presidency in which I believe - a great office that must neither be humbled by making it the instrument of any one religious group nor tarnished by arbitrarily withholding its occupancy from the members of any one religious group. I believe in a President whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the Nation or imposed by the Nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.”
“That is the kind of world they lived in: When people are afraid, they do not always do the right thing. They turn away. They close their eyes. They say, ‘Tomorrow. Maybe I will act tomorrow.’ And they will keep saying that until the day they die.”
“That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.”
“That is the life of the gods, who only seem to die like the sun at his setting. But do not ride too fast across the sky and leave us all in darkness.”
Source: The Persian Boy
“That is the limit of IMDb. You can get into any IMDb page and hack stuff.”
“That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature.”
“That is the madness of it. Every day is amber, and she is the fly trapped inside. No way to think in days or weeks when she lives in moments. Time begins to lose its meaning - and yet, she has not lost track of time. She cannot seem to misplace it (no matter how she tries) and so Addie knows what month it is, what day, what night, and so she knows it has been a year.
A year since she ran from her own wedding.
A year since she fled from the woods.
A year since she sold her soul for this. For freedom. For time.
A year, and she has spent it leaning the boundaries of this new life.”
Source: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“That is the magic of travel. You leave your home secure in your own knowledge and identity. But as you travel, the world in all it's richness intervenes. You meet people you could not invent; you see scenes you could not imagine. Your own world, which was so large as to consume your whole life, becomes smaller and smaller until it is only one tiny dot in time and space. You return a different person.”
Source: Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Women, Life and Love
“That is the man you face. He has more honour and integrity than any man I have ever met. He is dedicated to his people and his country. And I am proud to have been his lover.”
Source: Kings Rising
“That is the manner in which I roll.”