T Quotes
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“That is the road we all have to take - over the Bridge of Sight into eternity.”
“That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt.”
Source: Requiem
“That is the saddest part when you lose someone you love - that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost? Maybe you lost more maybe less, then thousand different things that come from your memory or imagination - and you do not know which is which, which was true, which is false.”
Source: The Kitchen God's Wife
“That is the saddest story."
I clear my throat. "Life is sad," I say.
"Not always," he replies, his voice soft.
"Sometimes," I say as he tucks a strand behind my ear. "Sometimes it is.”
Source: Even if the Sky Falls
“That is the saddest thing: He [Prince] always thought I would die of a drug overdose, and here it happens he dies of an accidental overdose.”
“That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.”
“That is the second story I have told about Celia which ends with her fleeing barefoot. History repeats itself.”
Source: Deadeye Dick
“That is the second time you have spoken out of turn, Miss Granger,” said Snape coolly. “Five more points from Gryffindor for being an insufferable know-it-all.”
“That is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do.”
Source: Brave New World
“That is the secret to survival. Teach fear to those who taught you to be afraid.”
Source: All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages
“That is the simple secret of happiness. Whatever you are doing, don’t let past move your mind; don’t let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the future is not yet. To live in the memories, to live in the imagination, is to live in the non-existential. And when you are living in the non-existential, you are missing that which is existential. Naturally you will be miserable, because you will miss your whole life.”
“That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.”
“That is the sort of race which one really enjoys - to feel at one's peak on the day when it is necessary, and to be able to produce the pace at the very finish. It gives a thrill which compensates for months of training and toiling. But it is the sort of race that one wants only about once a season.”
“That is the spiral galaxy in Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is one of a hundred million galaxies. It consists of one hundred billion suns. Now I think we are small enough.”
“That is the spirit of the music: to not leave anyone out, to be inclusive.”
“That is the stimulus of nature; it is never, never old, and always developing. Even the scarred, wrinkled earth herself is a mere infant among the old ladies and gentlemen that tread foot-paths in the sky.”
Source: The garden of a commuter's wife
“That is the story of life after all, isn't it? Killing time until time kills you. Pretty desolate if one thinks about it. Well, let's collect memories, lots and lots of them, all before we might realise that our lives were just a shimmer!”
Source: 2018: Our Summer of Creeping Boredom and Beautiful Shimmering
“That is the story of our history - whether it's the pursuit of prosperity for our people or the struggle for equality for all of our citizens, our commitment to stand up for our values abroad, and our sacrifices to make the world a safer place. Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
“That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.”
“That is the strangest thing about the world: how it looks so different from every point of view.”
“That is the strength of having a trusting and ongoing relationship that draws on our history and moves right on into our present, and I have that kind of marriage.”
“That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.First off,love is something storybooks invented to keep girls busy.Second,I hate Tedros.Third,he thinks I'm an evil witch,which given my recent behaviour,might be true.Now let me through.”
Source: The School for Good and Evil
“That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.”
Source: THE THREE HOSTAGES (Mystery & Adventure Classic): An International Children’s Kidnapping Racket With A Race against Time (Including Memoirs & Biography of the Author)
“That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.”
Source: The Son of a Servant
“That is the theme of the Million Mom March: 'I don't need a brain - I've got a womb'.”
“That is the thing I'm most grateful for in this industry to be able to spin in those different mediums, with television, film and the stage - at this stage of the game.”
“That is the thing with giving your heart. You never wait for someone to ask. You hold it out and hope they want it.”
Source: Bright We Burn
“That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.”
“That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.”
Source: Assassin's Apprentice: The Farseer Trilogy
“That is the trick with ghouls.
They want you to look, but they can’t stand being seen.”
Source: Gallant
“That is the trouble with happiness-all of it is built on top of something that men want.”
“That is the trouble with lies. They are perpetually pregnant. At every turn they give birth to more lies.”
“That is the trouble with many inventors; they lack patience. They lack the willingness to work a thing out slowly and clearly and sharply in their mind, so that they can actually "feel it work." They want to try their first idea right off; and the result is they use up lots of money and lots of good material, only to find eventually that they are working in the wrong direction. We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin.”
“That is the trouble with power. The more of it you have, the more using it becomes everything."
- Warmaster Horus”
Source: Slaves to Darkness
“That is the trouble with standing up to people, of course. Once you start doing it, you can hardly stop.”
Source: The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
“That is the trouble...You are a crowd of bits of boys all in the thing for what you will get. Demands, you call them. Well, I am against demands of any kind. You cannot reason with demand, and where there is no reason, there is no sense. As for your support, whatever you call it, some long word, what is the use of it?”
Source: HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY
“That is the trouble, everybody is giving everything in the world a piece of their minds. Whereas what we want is not a piece of somebody's mind, even the best mind, so much as an open heart and an open spirit.”
“That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.”
Source: THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE
“That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door.”
Source: An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer
“That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door. That we can have an idea and start our own business without paying a bribe or hearing a sudden knock on the door. That we can participate in the political process without fear of retribution, and that our votes will be counted.”
Source: An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer
“That is the true genius of America-a faith in simple dreams, an insistence on small miracles.”
“That is the truth about man - that he has a curious kind of dignity, but also a curious kind of misery, and that these forms of agnosticism don't understand.”
“That is the truth, my boy. All we have left of our ancestors' great covenant with the Everlasting, who brought them out of nothingness, is darkness and wrath. With every day that passes, Horeb's wrath feeds on our sins. He demands justice and righteousness. He watches us, impatiently. He knows our past, but he also knows the future that awaits us. He sees that we are advancing into darkness. In his impatience, he rumbles to shake us our of our torpor. But all he obtains in return is fear, even though what he wants is a little courage and dignity!”
Source: Zipporah, Wife of Moses
“That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.”
Source: The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker
“That is the ultimate synthesis - when Zorba becomes a Buddha. I am trying to create here not Zorba the Greek but Zorba the Buddha.”
“That is the untold story of what the IMF calls "stabilization programs," as if countries were ships being tossed around on the market's high seas. They do, eventually, stabilize, but that new equilibrium is achieved by throwing millions of people overboard: public sector workers, small-business owners, subsistence farmers, trade unionists. The ugly secret of "stabilization" is the vast majority never climb back aboard. They end up in slums, now home to 1 billion people; they end up in brothels or cargo ship containers. They are the disinherited, those described by the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke as "ones to whom neither the past nor the future belongs.”
Source: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
“that is the very. best time of life, he thought: lost time. the time of summer when the leaves of the trees are tangled in the iridescent sunlight. he thought always of his childhood as an uninterrupted summertime when lazy happiness dulled and delighted his brain and limb. to remember the summer and the run through tall grasses. the sun bathed his arms and legs an earthy brown and he was perfect and unaware and this is how it was in the afternoon: the house was white and high and remote upon the hill and the graveled drive was like a pebbly ribbon that had been dropped carelessly on the lawn, the drive upon which he. had run and the garden beside it where he had lain to crush the fragrant flowers. and far away, yet not too far, the cool sound of the running stream. grasses grew beside the stream and at a certain spot, a certain secret hidden spot, the foliage was pushed away, pressed into a narrow length, not so narrow as a grave, not so narrow that. one should lie alone. and together on the general summer day that was his childhood, awed and silent, they had listened to the whisper of the cool water, they had basked in the sunlight, his tousled head upon her breast, his eager small body in the crook of her moist arm. they had breathed together quietly, reverently, both aware of the earth's breathing. and turning sleepily, warmly on the earth, his lost voice asking, 'mother, where does the water run?' and the answering miracle, ' to the sea, down to the sea...”
“That is the voice of a place like this, where dead voices echo. They attract men and women of all kinds.
But only certain gods visit here…”
Source: SHADOW PANTHEON: (PANTHEON SAGA BOOK 2)
“That is the voice of God because its the voice of truth and experience.”
“That is the Wasp, yes. But it was captured by Black Stache, and he’s coming for this ship now.” “And how do you know that?” asked Slank. “Did a seagull tell you?” This brought chuckles from the crew. Something like that, thought Peter.”