T Quotes
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“That not adhering to those notions Reason dictates (concerning the nature of God), has been the occasion of all superstition, and those innumerable mischiefs that mankind (on account of religion) have done to themselves or to one another.”
Source: Christianity as Old as the Creation
“That not all men are piggy, only some; that not all men belittle me, only some; that not all men get mad if you won’t let them play Chivalry, only some; that not all men write books in which women are idiots, only most; that not all men pull rank on me, only some; that not all men pinch their secretaries’ asses, only some; that not all men make obscene remarks to me in the street, only some; that not all men make more money than I do, only some; that not all men make more money than all women, only most; that not all men are rapists, only some; that not all men are promiscuous killers, only some; that not all men control Congress, the Presidency, the police, the army, industry, agriculture, law, science, medicine, architecture, and local government, only some.
I sat down on the lawn and wept.”
Source: On Strike Against God
“That nothing - not booze, not love, not sex, not work, not moving from state to state - will make the past disappear.”
“That nothing's so sacred as honor and nothing's so loyal as love.”
“That notion that we're in the post-racism, post-sexism world is so not true.”
“That now-operating kingdom in heaven will, within the twentieth century, cleanse the entire earth of wickedness.”
Source: The 20th Century in Bible Prophecy
“That Obama I would like to cut his nuts off.”
“That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.”
Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752
“That obstinate sense of independence was the biggest challenge I face in building my little house (that, and not always knowing what I was doing). I was stubborn in the way I hated to ask for help. Some people are good at it, asking friends or their husbands to collect ginger ale and crackers at the grocery because they feel nauseous, or standing on the side of the road with a tire iron in one hand, hoping someone will stop to change their flat tire. I'm not like that; I'd rather have a rough stick dragged across my gums than walk to the neighbor's house to borrow sugar or ask for help jump-starting my car.”
“That occurs everywhere, unfortunately. Powerful, smart women who make it to the end sometimes are not seen as the same charismatic likable guys.”
“That odd capacity for destitution, as if by nature we ought to have so much more than nature gives us. As if we are shockingly unclothed when we lack the complacencies of ordinary life. In destitution, even of feeling or purpose, a human being is more hauntingly human and vulnerable to kindnesses because there is the sense that things should be otherwise, and then the thought of what is wanting and what alleviation would be, and how the soul could be put at ease, restored. At home. But the soul finds its own home if it ever has a home at all.”
“That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world.”
“That odd infallible sliding-like-crystal air on water that means day's left dawn for morning.”
Source: Hermione
“That of all people, it should be him; that took her aback. That the heart should settle on somebody like him; that surprised her. But she was so certain about it, so certain.”
Source: Dream Angus: The Celtic God of Dreams
“That of all the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most these floures white and rede, Suche as men callen daysyes in her toune.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: To which are Appended Poems Attributed to Chaucer
“That of all the several ways of beginning a book which are now in practice throughout the known world, I am confident my own way of doing it is the bst-- I'm sure it is the most religious-- for I begin with writing the first sentence-- and trusting to Almighty God for the second.”
Source: The works of Laurence Sterne
“That, of course, was the thing about truth. Those who hid it always believed it was colored in shades of grey, those who revealed it always saw the black and white.”
Source: Artificial Wisdom
“That of War and Peace or of Almagestes. All are satisfactory. The only criterion of a work
is its validity: that it should grip and that it should last.”
“That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence”
Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“That okay. I'll go find somewhere else to sleep." Her fingers wrap around my arm. "You don't have to go anywhere. I feel safe with you.”
Source: The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden
“That old adage, that "music is a universal language", is really true. Even if all of the lyrics are understood, they seem to connect with it really well and in some ways, more so.”
“That old bald cheater, Time.”
Source: Complete Critical Edition: 4. Cynthia's Revels; Poetaster; Sejanus; Eastward Ho
“That old ball and chain had me chained up for weeks,
So of course I'm off the chain as soon as I hit the streets.”
“That old berk," muttered Aberforth, taking another swig of mead. "Thought the sun shone out of my brother's every orifice, he did.”
“That old black magic has me in its spell.”
Source: The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer
“That old black magic has me in its spell, That old black magic that you weave so well; Icy fingers up and down my spine, The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine.”
“That old Bobby Kennedy 1968 form of liberalism where you could be holding hands with the Appalachian family on one day and then be in Harlem the next day and nobody thinks it's weird, that is something that isn't as strong. It was strong in 2008. It hasn't been as strong since then. That's just a reality that we have to deal with that it's not just that the Republicans ran a terrible candidate who had bad ideas, it's also that the circle of love and affirmation that we have as progressives can sometimes just not be big enough.”
“That old feeling is still in my leaking heart.”
Source: Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs
“That old funny-shaped bit of wood is still staring me in the face every day saying 'come on, you haven't started yet!' It's infinite.”
“That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.”
“That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.”
“That old man over there
Is selling trinkets made of stones
That old woman the entire world
In a map without any hole!”
“That old man...had my division massacred at Gettysburg!”
Source: Faithfully and forever your soldier
“that old Mrs. Bishop was lacking in the qualities that make a good mother. And saying it that way makes her sound a good deal better than she really was.”
Source: Up a Road Slowly
“That old question about whether, as a woman, you can be funny and attractive at the same time. Argh! I hate that question. Of course you can.”
“That old rock and roll song, "looking for love in all the wrong places," it's true.”
“That old saw about smiling when you're sad left out the real point- that it kills you to do it.”
Source: The Fan
“That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed.”
“That old saying about opportunity only knocking once is as archaic as the flat-earth theory and as patently untrue. Opportunity knocks all the time - and it rings your doorbell, calls you up, and sends you e-mails.”
“That old saying “he who dies with the most toys wins” couldn’t be more fallacious. Toys are just things and if you give up the precious time doing the things you love, with the people you love, simply to acquire toys, you’re wasting a whole lot more than just money.”
Source: Road Work: Images And Insights Of A Modern Day Explorer
“That old star that you been wishin' on is shining mighty bright, but it's the fire inside your heart that's gonna lead you to the light.”
“That old unionism was, however, very different from the kind we live with now. We do not live with an ideal, sometimes on the defensive, of union. We live with the overriding, overwhelming fact, a fact so technologically, economically, and politically validated that we usually forget to ask how fully this fact represents a true community, the spiritually significant communion which the old romantic unionism had envisaged.”
Source: The Legacy of the Civil War
“That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice”
“That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.”
“That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thence forward, and forever free.”
“That one [in "2012"] was different because it was all CG, getting washed away by water. In "Independence Day," everything was still done in models, built in a certain scale out of plaster, and packing tons and tons of little explosives and charges in there. We had a second one in case it didn't work the first time, but it worked the first time.”
“That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a compentent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.”
Source: Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World
“That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.”
Source: Moab is My Washpot
“That one day you will be happy again. Your life will get better.”
Source: The Brightest Star in the Sky
“That one,” Ferox said, pointing at Johann with a claw. “I can see he’s communicated like that before and I think I can speak to his mind. Let me see.”
“After a moment, Johann broke from the line and approached the dragon.
“You did ask me to come closer, didn’t you?” he asked.
“Yes, I can speak to this one. He can be my rider.”
Source: Merlin's Travels