T Quotes
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“That is what life is about. We do not get redos, but we do get second chances.”
Source: Distilled Thoughts
“That is what Lincoln saw in them, this love in all his friends, who held a close place in his heart, and Oscar, the one dream of his soul. He found it in them, in all of them, with their dirty pasts and their still recovering minds, in their words and in their friendship, and in their souls that spoke to each other in the mist of the clouds or the surging of the trees that knew that, in eternity, they would always find beauty. And that was an incredible world to wake up to.”
Source: The Light that Binds Us
“That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.”
“That is what love is I thought. A possibility that becomes a choice. A choice you keep making over and over. Day after day. Year after year. Time after time.”
Source: Golden
“That is what lower performers do; they make others wrong for doing what is necessary in order to make themselves feel okay about doing nothing! The highest performers-the winners-respond by studying successful people and duplicating success.”
Source: The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure
“That is what madness is, isn't it? All the wheels fly off the bus and things don't make sense any more. Or rather, they do, but it's not a kind of sense anyone else can understand.”
Source: Her Fearful Symmetry
“That is what marks out the warrior: the knowledge that willpower and courage are not the same thing. Courage can attract fear and adulation, but willpower requires patience and commitment. Men and women with immense willpower are generally solitary types and give off a kind of coolness. Many people mistakenly think that (they) are cold (people) when nothing could be further from the truth.”
“That is what marriage really means; helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.”
Source: The Meaning of Persons
“That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal sufferring, "No future bliss can make up for it" not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.”
“That is what philosophers are good for: stating the obvious that no one else is emotionally willing to admit.”
“That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.”
Source: First love
“That is what revolutionaries do. We sacrifice ourselves to save others.”
Source: The Sympathizer
“That is what's meant by being afraid of the future, by showing how brilliant you come out of it.”
“That is what the blueprint for this time is about. We're leaving behind the limitations and the illusion of the struggle. We're moving much more into having a very different experience now on the Earth plane with our sacredness.”
“That is what the forest taught me. That you will never be mine, and that is why I will never lose you...." ......... "I will always remember you, and you will remember me, just as we will remember the evening, the rain on the window, and all the things we'll always have because we cannot possess them”
“That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.”
Source: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
“That is what the Slave Trade was all about. Not death from poxes and musketry and whippings and malnutrition and melancholy and suicide: death itself. For before the white men came to Guinea to strip-mine field hands. ... black people did not die ... the decedent ... took up residence in an afterworld that was in many ways indistinguishable from his former estate.”
Source: The Chaneysville Incident
“That is what the taste of blood does. It takes away the gap between thought and action.To think is to do. There is no unlived life inside you as the air speeds past your body, as you look down at the dreary villages and market towns...”
Source: The Radleys
“That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.”
Source: On the Art of the Theatre
“That is what they call being reconciled to die. They call it reconciled when pain has strummed a symphony of suffering back and forth across you, up and down, round and round you until each little fibre is worn tissue-thin with aching. And when you are lying beaten, and buffeted, battered and broken - pain goes out, joins hands with Death and comes back to dance, dance, dance, stamp, stamp, stamp down on you until you give up.”
Source: Frye Street & environs: the collected works of Marita Bonner
“That is what thrills me, personally. Small acts of kindness; thoughtful, large acts of kindness. I feel like we're in a bit of a precipice, and I think that any beautiful energy on the kindness continuum will just help us fall into a lovelier place.”
“That is what touches me most. When somebody says: you really made a difference.”
“That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.”
Source: Everybody's Autobiography
“That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.”
Source: Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961
“That is what we are, what we do: nose a net, push push, a net that never exists. The knots in the mesh as strong as our own believing. Our own fears.”
Source: The Dog Stars
“That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other.”
“That is what we have been feinting towards for a year of our lives: pretending like it was going to happen, acting like it was going to happen, and making you think it was going to happen. I like to work from the back forward.”
“That is what we have in revisionist historians. It starts with their own atheism, their own unbelief, and then they go back and attempt to revise and rewrite history in their own image.”
“That is what we must do when we fully know the purposefulness of life - live it gloriously by living it ecstatically. We can live it ecstatically only as we know the ecstatic nature of God and become like Him through being continually inspired by communion with Him. To become like Him, we must become aware of our identity with Him. We must know Him as Creator of all that is, and in so doing know ourselves as creator of all that is.”
“That is what worship is all about. It is the glad shout of praise that arises to God the creator and God the rescuer from the creation that recognizes its maker, the creation that acknowledges the triumph of Jesus the Lamb. That is the worship that is going on in heaven, in God's dimension, all the time. The question we ought to be asking is how best we might join in.”
“That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.”
“That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.”
“That is what you meant to me: a light that shone through the darkness.” (Your smile, p. 56)”
Source: Muses of Wandering Passions
“That is what's disconcerting about working on the show, you can't seem to get an instinct about what works and what doesn't. It happens a lot, and in different ways.”
“That is when I knew that my past can never change, but my correlation with it can definitely change.”
Source: When Roses are Crushed
“That is when time stands still - when you watch the one you love, walk away.”
Source: I'm a Woman & I'm on SALE
“That is when you need faith the most. Not when everything is going your way, not when you have much to be thankful for, but when there is darkness all around.”
“That is where homeland is. In that shifting space, kinfolk know one another by secret signs; and wherever kinfolk meet, homeland soil coalesces about their feet in the mysterious way that coral cays, like seabirds pausing in flight, anchor themselves to the Barrier Reef.”
Source: Collected Stories
“That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged — to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.”
Source: Gertrude
“That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.”
“That is where we begin, I say, but where to stop no man has yet discovered, for there is in the awful and mysterious depths of the Triune God neither limit nor end.”
“That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.”
“That is why a house is not something that you passively 'have', it is something that you 'do', something that you 'work on',”
Source: Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour
“That is why all great men are modest: they consistently measure themselves not in comparison to other people but to the idea of perfection ever present in their minds, an ideal infinitely clearer and greater than any common people have, and they also realize how far they are from fulfilling their ideal.”
“That is why any general, however wrong he may be--take Napoleon, to avoid the politics of mere contemporary examples--must believe in himself to be successful, or dupe himself into such a belief. Indeed, that is the main job of all politicians who, through their own inefficiency, muddle nations into war. If they do not fool themselves into the assumption that they are God-fearing idealists, they will never get the millions who must pay for their damage to believe the same thing, and they will lose the war.”
Source: Mystery in White
“That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: "Shut up," he said, "so that they do not realize that you are here with me.”
Source: The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
“That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it.”
Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
“That is why discipline fixes; it arrests or regulates movements; it clears up confusion; it dissipates compact groupings of individuals wandering about the country in unpredictable ways; it establishes calculated distributions. It must also master all the forces that are formed from the very constitution of an organized multiplicity; it must neutralize the effects of counter-power that spring from them and which form a resistance to the power that wishes to dominate it: agitations, revolts, spontaneous organizations, coalitions – anything that may establish horizontal conjunctions.”
Source: Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
“That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say.”
“That is why enemies can be great motivators. They serve as fuel for your fire.”
Source: We All Need Heroes: Stories of the Brave and Foolish