T Quotes
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“That is the meaning of the Trump brand - being the boss who is so rich and so powerful he can do whatever he wants. So the way in which he ran for president was to embody that idea as fully as he possibly could with his outrageousness. I don't think he actually thought he would win. I think the original idea was purely a marketing idea. It seemed a no-lose situation, because he would get so much free publicity. And this has always been his genius - I shouldn't use the word "genius" when talking about Trump - but he's always understood the value of free publicity.”
“That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.”
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“That is the Mongolian creation myth: out of two different natures love is born. In contradiction, love grows in strength. In confrontation and transformation, love is preserved.”
“That is the moral of this story, kids. No matter how many people try to stomp on your happiness, you have the power to do whatever you want with your life.”
“That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior....I think Obama gets up every morning with a worldview that is fundamentally wrong about reality...If you look at the continuous denial of reality, there has got to be a point where someone stands up and says that this is just factually insane.”
“That is the most common excuse, and the most foolish of all. Love has never prevented a man from following his dreams. If she truly loves you, she will want the best for you.”
Source: Warrior of the Light -
“That is the most confusing and insane thing to me, when people get offended on behalf of another group.”
“That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally!”
“That is the most frightening sight I have ever seen.”
“That is the motto women should constantly repeat over and over again. 'Good for her! Not for me.'”
Source: Yes Please
“That is the Mozambique border over there, just beyond the second kopje, only seven or eight miles from here.' 'Mozambique, ' Claudia murmured, peering through her binoculars. 'The name has such a romantic ring to it.' 'Not so romantic. It's just another triumph of African socialism abd the carefully thought-out economic policy of chaos and ruination; Sean grunted. 'I cant take racism before breakfast; Claudia told him icily. 'All right; Sean grinned. 'Suffice it to say that just across the border there you have twelve years of Marxism, corruption, greed and incompetence, just beginning to bear fruit. You have a civil war raging out of control, famine that will probably starve a million people, and epidemic disease, including Aids, that will kill another million in the next five years.”
Source: A Time to Die
“That is the mysterious thing about tragedy- it often strikes at the happiest moment.”
Source: Thirst No. 1: The Last Vampire, Black Blood, Red Dice
“That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open.”
Source: Country Girl
“That is the mystery of grace: it never comes too late.”
“That is the mystery: Reading Henry James can yield prose that is contrary to James, yet inspired by him. Who can understand this?”
“That is the nature of democracy. It is hard. It is not always inspiring.”
“That is the nature of endings, it seems. They never end. When all the missing pieces of your life are found, put together with glue of memory and reason, there are more pieces to be found.”
Source: Saving Fish From Drowning
“That is the nature of grief. But to grieve means you have loved. To love opens up the possibility for grief. There cannot be one without the other.”
Source: The Heart Forger
“That is the nature of hope. We do all we can, and then the Lord stretches forth his hand and touches our lives with light and courage and, most of all, hope.”
“That is the number-one threat we face in the world. And it becomes particularly threatening if terrorists ever get their hands on any nuclear material. So a man who can be provoked by a tweet should not have his fingers anywhere near the nuclear codes, as far as I think anyone with any sense about this should be concerned.”
“That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“That is the one of the beauties of my identity. It acts as a filter, guiding me toward the gems in life”
Source: Continuum
“That is the one thing in my public career that I regret--my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.”
“That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!”
Source: Gone with the wind
“That is the onslaught. It has been going on a long time, I argue, but in the 20th century humans have certainly perfected it, extending domination to every single corner of the earth and our Homo sapiens population to more than 6 billion - until no place is untouched by despoliation.”
“That is the operatic problem; the singer must keep up a big head of steam while trying to appear secretive, or seductive, or consumptive. Some ingenious composer should write an opera about a group of people who were condemned by a cruel god to scream all the time; it would be an instantaneous success, and a triumph of versimilitude.”
Source: The papers of Samuel Marchbanks
“That is the optimal creative vantage point: To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation-with no feeling of impatience, doubt, or unworthiness hindering the receiving of it-that is the Science of Deliberate Creation at its best.”
Source: Ask and it is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires
“That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.”
“That is the paradox of the human condition. If we humbly accept that our experience of reality is constrained, we immediately loosen the chains that bind us, and we begin to expand.”
Source: Elevate: An Essential Guide to Life
“That is the person you want publishing your book. To be in it, you really have to believe in books and love whatever it is you're publishing. Both on the book side and especially on the magazine side, I've had editors that I did not get the same feeling from. That feeling of, "This is something I believe in, I don't care how long, I'm going to publish it" - that kind of passion and commitment means a lot to you.”
“That is the place we should
put the star, there it is good.
So that everyone could see
the light of the Christmas tree!”
Source: The Sea Sons: The Enchanted Valley
“That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.”
“That is the power of a good story. It can encourage you, it can make you laugh, it can bring you joy. It will make you think, it will tap innto your hidden emotions, and it can make you cry. The power of a story can also bring about healing, give you peace, and change your life!" (p.15)”
Source: The Key to the Kingdom
“That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were being challenged.”
“That is the principal thing-not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being-in-the-mood, but always forcibly to convert it all into things.”
Source: Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910
“That is the problem with age and wisdom—it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever.”
“That is the problem with being twelve. All the grown-ups think they have a right to know your business.”
Source: The Wolf in the Attic
“That is the problem with comedy in India. Spoofing sells. Come up with original comedy about the hilarious nation we are, with funny accents and odd rituals, and we get into trouble.”
“That is the problem with our world. Nobody trusts anybody. We are just waiting for somebody to save us.”
“That is the problem with repressed memory and dissociative identity disorder. Your mind represses certain traumas for reasons of pure survival. And then you learn that to survive as an adult, you must uncover the memories, find the parts, and relieve the traumas. The contradiction is almost too much for the mind to comprehend and for the heart and soul to endure.”
Source: Wholeness: My Healing Journey from Ritual Abuse
“That is the problem with stories, child. The truth in them cannot be weighed.”
Source: The Priory of the Orange Tree
“That is the problem with this rich and anguished generation. Somewhere a long time ago they fell in love with the idea that politicians- even the slickest and brightest presidential candidates- were real heroes and truly exciting people. That is wrong on its face. They are mainly dull people with corrupt instincts and criminal children.”
Source: Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist
“That is the purpose for which you are called hither. Called, is say, though I have not called you to me, strangers from distant lands. You have come and are here met, in this very nick of time, by chance as it may seem. Yet it is not so. Believe rather that it is so ordered that we, who sit here, and none others, must now find counsel for the peril of the world.”
Source: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings
“That is the purpose of this book - to make you happy. Its plan is to have you base that happiness on God's own truth as given us in the Gospels. Any other base would be unworthy of God and too weak for you. For yours is a tumultuous and a tottering world; made so by men who love the darkness rather than the light. Stability is to be found only in the unmoved Mover of this restless universe and in His Christ who is "the same, yesterday, today, and forever" (Heb. 13:8).
Fear stalks your land. Crippling anxieties and neurotic unrests swarm about you. But that is only because the highly publicized gospels of Expediency and Efficiency have had too many followers who have been altogether too faithful, while the only true Gospel, and the only Gospel of Truth, has been too hesitantly trusted and too listlessly tried.”
Source: Your Hour
“That is the real pivot of all bourgeois consciousness in all countries: fear and hate of the instinctive, intuitional, procreativebody in man or woman. But of course this fear and hate had to take on a righteous appearance, so it became moral, said that the instincts, intuitions and all the activities of the procreative body were evil, and promised a reward for their suppression. That is the great clue to bourgeois psychology: the reward business.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.”
“That is the really great thing about being an adult male, once you get married and have children the whole decision-making process is taken out of your hands, and I for one am extremely grateful.”
“That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night and morning it sets an interval again of years.”
Source: Three Comrades
“That is the responsibility of the artist, of the actor, to inhabit these roles and put on somebody else's shoes. It's the responsibility and the gift of what it is I get the opportunity to do.”
“That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases.”
Source: Memories