T Quotes
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“That is why we may say that the historical development of capitalism has involved the thrust towards the commodification of everything.”
Source: Capistalist Civilisation
“That is why we need to travel. If we don't offer ourself to the unknown, our senses dull. Our world becomes small and we lose our sense of wonder. Our eyes don't lift to the horizon; our ears don't hear the sounds around us. The edge is off our experience, and we pass our days in a routine that is both comfortable and limiting. We wake up one day and find that we have lost our dreams in order to protect our days.”
Source: Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Women, Life and Love
“That is why we were drawn to one another and why we are brother and sister. I am going to teach you to dance and play and smile, and still not be happy. And you are going to teach me to think and to know and yet not be happy. Do you know that we are both children of the Devil?”
Source: Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays
“That is why when they colonies you. They shame your culture and undermine it, so that you might think it is not important. They want you to forget your culture and heritage of which it is your power. Losing your identity is losing your power. It will make you vulnerable.”
“That is why, when you are close to an elephant, you feel so deeply. If they so choose, they have the ability to hold your sadness, so you may safely sit in the lonely seat of loss, still hopeful and full of love. Their great secret is that they know everything is a tide - not a black tide but the natural breath of life - in and out, in and out, and to be with them is to know this too.”
Source: Hollow Kingdom
“That is why you looked up at the stars bitterly at night, searching for yourself; that is why you woke up at dawn from your dreams; that is why you had the feeling of helplessness and of something lacking; that is why you felt hopeless and broken; that is why you felt like crying when you were alone, and that is why you couldn’t fit into any group in your life. Despite all the pain and bitterness, it is the most natural feeling you have ever felt. Your own voice kept calling you home. Not letting you lose yourself forever.”
Source: Wor(l)ds from Nothingness
“That is why you must above all lovingly study the holy scriptures, why your soul must be illuminated by divine utterances, why the dark shadows of the devil have to be dispersed by the flash of God’s word; for the devil is quick to flee from the soul which is illuminated by divine speech, which is always occupied with heavenly thoughts, in which God’s word, whose force the evil spirit is unable to endure, is constantly present. For that reason the blessed apostle compared it to a sword when listing the arms for use in the war of the spirit (Eph.6.17). It is perfectly safe, however, for the mind to become accustomed to differentiating between one thought and another - always subject, of course, to careful and watchful control - and, at the first stirring of the mind, either to approving or to disapproving of what it is thinking, so that it either nourishes good thoughts or immediately destroys bad ones. In this lie the source of good and the origin of sin, and thought is the beginning of every great offense in the heart, painting every single deed on the tablet of the heart, as it were, before doing it; for every deed and every word, whichever it may be, is laid out for inspection in advance and its future is decided by thoughtful consideration. You can see what a brief moment sometimes separates a man’s thinking each thought and his putting that thought into action, nor is anything at all done by the tongue or the hand or other limbs, unless thoughts have previously dictated it; hence the Lord also says in the gospel: Out of the heart of man come evil thoughts, adultery, fornication, murder, theft, false witness, greed, evil, trickery, unchastity, the evil eye, blasphemy, pride, folly. These are what defile men (Mt.15.19,20)”
Source: The Letters of Pelagius
“That is why young people, who are beginners in everything, are not yet capable of love: it is something they must learn. With their whole being, with all their forces, gathered around their solitary, anxious, upward-beating heart, they must learn to love.”
“That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.”
Source: The Black Cauldron 50th Anniversary Edition
“That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.”
Source: Stories and Biographies from Iqbal
“That is why, as one who values the U.S.-Israel relationship, and loves Israel, I was near tears throughout the Prime Minister’s speech — saddened by the insult to the intelligence of the United States as part of the P5 +1 nations, and saddened by the condescension toward our knowledge of the threat posed by Iran and our broader commitment to preventing nuclear proliferation.”
“That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.”
“That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each.”
“That is, with men. With women he was what
They pleased to make or take him for; and their
Imagination ’s quite enough for that:
So that the outline ’s tolerably fair,
They fill the canvas up—and verbum sat.
If once their phantasies be brought to bear
Upon an object, whether sad or playful,
They can transfigure brighter than a Raphael.”
Source: DON JUAN
“That is you crave. You are here to save. Continue to pave. Love to your grave -
Be Brave”
Source: Coming Home
“That is you,” he said low and intimate against my ear. “That is the woman who fascinates me beyond reason. Who won’t leave my thoughts for a single moment. Who drowns my mind in beauty and sets my body, my soul, on fire.”
Source: Soulfire
“That is your disease: you want to capture life in formulas of your own. You want to embrace all aspects of life with your intellect instead of allowing yourself to be embraced by life. You want to create the world all over again each time, instead of enjoying it as it is.”
Source: An Interrupted Life: The Diaries, 1941-1943; and Letters from Westerbork
“That is — your friend?"
"Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.”
Source: The Song of Achilles
“That is- your friend?
Philtatos.
Most beloved.”
Source: The Song of Achilles
“That is your legacy on this Earth when you leave this Earth: how many hearts you touched.”
“That is your legend?" Akiva asked, incredulous. Madrigal had told him the story of the sun and Ellai while they flew. "That seraphim are the blood of a rapist sun?”
Source: Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy
“That is your power. You can still see the stars even on the darkest nights.”
“That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction.”
Source: Snake and Other Poems
“That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days.”
“That is, I think that what I do, that democracy in Venezuela hasn't really worked well since the [Ugo] Chávez era and that it has gotten even worse since the last elections, in which the Maduro government lost control of the House, of the country's legislature.”
“That is, Jack thought, the way of life. The horror changes us, because we can never forget. Cursed with memory. It starts when we're old enough to know what death is and realize that sooner or later we'll lose everyone we love. We're never the same. But somehow we're all right. We go on.”
Source: Winter Moon: A Novel
“That is, many times we're not risking our own money, we're risking somebody else's money, or maybe that someone is going to back stop or downside, but we still get the upside.”
“That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.”
Source: Mr. Dooley on Ivryting and Ivrybody
“That is, sir, there can only be communication, communion, when you and I are on the same level, and with the same intensity, at the same time.”
Source: Can Humanity Change?: J. Krishnamurti in Dialogue with Buddhists
“That is, the wife must care for what the husband cares for if he is to remain resolute.”
“That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough to allow us to choose what matters to us.”
“That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.”
Source: The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World
“That is, we're into a whole new world with the Internet, and whenever we sort of cross another plateau in our development, there are those who seek to take advantage of it. So this is a replay of things that have happened throughout our history.”
“That is, when the mind ceases to create, then there is creation.”
“That is, while we believe that cost-benefit analysis is an important tool to inform agency decision making, the results of the cost-benefit analysis do not trump existing law”
“That is, you can have nothingness, absolute nothingness for maybe a tiny fraction of a second, if a second can be defined in that arena, but then it falls apart into a something and an anti-something. And that something is then what we call the universe. But can we really understand that or put rigorous mathematics or testable experiments against that? Not yet. So one of the big holy grail of physics is to understand why there is something rather than nothing.”
“That Islam you see on TV does not represent me, I'm too busy waging jihad against myself, My own nafs are my enemy. I'm sorry that Muslim and Muslim lands do not represent Islam, Our religion is perfect, but we on the other hand.”
“That island of England breeds very valiant creatures; their
mastiffs are of unmatchable courage.”
Source: Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V
“That isn't an expression that means anything to me, really. Make a fool of yourself. How can anybody do that? How can you make a fool? Show the fool, yes, expose the fool, but isn't the fool just yourself, isn't it there all the time? Show yourself. What else can you do?”
Source: Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You
“That isn't the mystery that gets us paid," said Addison.
"No, but it's the mystery that's going to make me wish I'd brought a lot more pot.”
Source: In the Shadow of Spindrift House
“That isn't trust; that's foolishness! If a man has asked for your trust, it's a sure sign you should not give it. Trust should be earned inherently, without any verbal demands. Trust is knowing a man's character, knowing truth, and relying on that character and truth even when the odds seem against you. That is trust, my dear, not this leap in the dark..." (King Fidel)”
Source: Heartless
“That isn't why. She would have chosen him even if you'd had royal blood in your veins, even if you'd had the same blood as Kastor. You don't understand the way a mind like that thinks. I do. If I were Jokaste and a king maker, I'd have chosen Kastor over you too.'
'I suppose you are going to enjoy telling me why,' said Damen. He felt his hands curl into fists, heard the bitterness in his throat.
'Because a king maker would always choose the weaker man. The weaker the man, the easier he is to control.”
Source: Captive Prince: Volume Two
“That isn't a desperate act. That's a PLAN.”
Source: Dawn of the Dragons: Here, There Be Dragons; The Search for the Red Dragon
“That isn't how I've always felt. As a congressman, and more recently as a senator, I opposed marriage for same-sex couples. Then something happened that led me to think through my position in a much deeper way.”
“That isn't the plural of moose. It's moosi.”
“That isn't to say that Hawaii's better. On the mainland, everyone seems to be trying to get somewhere. Kids are taught to shoot for the moon, to believe in their ability to do anything, to follow their passions. In Hawaii, you're stuck in the middle of the Pacific, and it can be difficult to see how you're going to follow your passion from there.”
“That isn't writing at all, it's typing.”
“That isn’t about money, fame, or power. It’s about will, dedication, commitment, and knowing your self-worth. You can be poor as dirt and have those traits. Money can’t buy you values. You just need to know what is important to you and then feel secure in your pursuit to achieve that.”
“That isn’t greatness. That’s just foolishness.”
Source: The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn
“That issue has been resolved for years now, and it's been resolved for at least two years in Donald Trump's mind. And to bring that up as justification for John Lewis questioning the legitimacy of a democratic activity that is - has been around since the beginning of our country is wrong.”