T Quotes
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“That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aphra Behn (Illustrated)
“That perhaps grief can be seen as a kind of exalted state where the person who is grieving is the closest they will ever be to the fundamental essence of things. Because, in grief, you become deeply acquainted with the idea of human mortality. You go to a very dark place and experience the extremities of your own pain — you are taken to the very limits of suffering. As far as I can see, there is a transformative aspect to this place of suffering. We are essentially altered or remade by it. Now, this process is terrifying, but in time you return to the world with some kind of knowledge that has something to do with our vulnerability as participants in this human drama. Everything seems to fragile and precious and heightened, and the world and the people in it seem to endangered, and yet so beautiful. To me it feels that, in this dark place, the idea of a God feels more present or maybe more essential. It actually feels like grief and God are somehow intertwined. It feels that, in grief, you draw closer to the veil that separates this world from the next.”
Source: Faith, Hope and Carnage
“That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your way fearlessly and saturate it completely so that your poem is a whole, not a fragment; to re-think human life into poetry and so give us tragedy again and comedy by means of characters not spun out at length in the novelist's way, but condensed and synthesized in the poet's way--that is what we look to you to do now.”
Source: A Letter to a Young Poet
“That permanence in the world has always had contrary charms for man. It drives him to despair and excites him. The world never says but one thing; first it interests, then it bores. But eventually it wins out by dint of obstinacy. It is always right.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“That pernicious sentiment, "Our country, right or wrong."”
Source: Poems of James Russell Lowell With Biographical Sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole
“THAT Perseus always won. That's why my momhad named me after him, even if he was son of Zeus ann I was son of Posidon. The original Perseus was one of the only heros in the greek myths who got a happy ending. The others died-betrayed, mauled, mutilated, poisoned, or cursed by the gods. My mom hoped i would inherit Perseus's luck. Judging by how my life was going so far, i wasn't too optimistic.”
“That person has to be accountable for himself. I think thats what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone elses life.”
“That person held significance, and it's alright if their memory still lingers. Accepting their absence doesn't diminish the importance of what you shared. Realize that not every chapter is meant to span a lifetime; instead, focus on what you've learned and carry those lessons into the unwritten pages ahead.”
“That person I was when I was a lot younger is not who I am today.”
“That person in the mirror is just the outside, your earth suit; the real you resides on the inside”
“That person is a failure who steals the science of a scientist and claims that he is the owner.”
“That person is beautiful; who tries to bring out the best in others. If you don't let others be pushed to the side, it’s beautiful. If you see someone lagging behind, walking beside them is a beautiful thing. If someone is being ignored, taking the step to include them is beautiful. People who always remind others of their worth are the beautiful souls. Knowing that, it hurts when it feels like you're being forgotten and not letting the same to happen for someone is one of the beautiful thing.”
Source: The Mystic Soul
“That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.”
“That person who declares that there is always something wrong is always doing something to make things wrong.”
Source: Your Forces and How to Use Them
“That person who is the hardest to forgive is the one who can teach you the greatest lessons. When you love yourself enough to rise above the old situation, then understanding and forgiveness will be easy. And you'll be free.”
Source: 21 Days to Master Affirmations
“that person whose
broken pieces fit into
your broken pieces isn’t the one
they may keep the bed warm,
but they’re keeping you from whole…
just pretending that being broken
feels like home
and you can only romanticize bad
habits for so long,
before the ache to yourself
calls you home”
“That phrase "hocus-pocus" started out as "hocus-pocus dominocus", and was, in the beginning, a mocking imitation of the holy incantations of the Catholic Church's Latin liturgy. So say the lexicologists.”
“That picture of me running down the beach - I'll never forget doing that, because I made the hairdresser, who was the only man on the shoot, turn his back.”
“That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows
Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?”
Source: Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
“That pine tree wasn't there a moment ago.'
Azriel let out a quiet laugh from where he sat atop a boulder two days later, watching me pluck pine needles out of my hair and jacket. 'Judging by its size, I'd say it's been there for... two hundred years, at least.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“That pinkish blue, the way it looks silver in the light. It's like the inside of a shell."
But the inside of a shell is beautiful, I wanted to say.
Does he--- he can't possibly--- think I'm beautiful?”
Source: The Sirens
“That pipe, just so happens to lead to the room where I make the most delicious flavored chocolate covered fudge." Then he will be made into strawberry flavoered chocolate covered fudge, they'll be selling him by the pound, all over the world!" No, I wouldn't allow it. The taste would be terrible. Can you imagine Augustus flavored chocolate covered gloop? Ew. No one would buy it.”
“That pit of blackness that lies beneath us, everywhere ... the firmest substance of human happiness is but a thin crust spread over it, with just reality enough to bear up the illusive stage-scenery amid which we tread. It needs no earthquake to open the chasm.”
Source: Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography
“That pitch wasn't down and in, that pitch was down and up.”
“That place is happy over which a holy man builds a house, with fire, cattle, wife, children and good followers”
“that place
on the back of his neck
where my fingers fall
when my arms are wrapped around him
…that place.
details,
i love madly in
details”
“That place, Tavern, was evil.”
Source: Feral
“That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.”
“That planet has a considerable but moderate atmosphere. So that the inhabitants probably enjoy a situation in many respects similar to ours.”
Source: The Scientific Papers of Sir William Herschel
“That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history.”
Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
“That play of black upon white, white upon black, has the intent and takes the form of creative art. It has in it a flow of the spirit and a harmony of music. Everything is lost when suddenly a false note is struck, or one party in a duet suddenly launches forth on an eccentric flight of his own. A masterpiece of a game can be ruined by insensitivity to the feelings of an adversary.”
Source: The Master of Go
“That pleasure which can be safely indulged in is the least inviting.”
“That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.”
Source: Essays and Reviews
“That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches.”
“That pocket watch is mine, as are you, now be quiet and-
— Fitzgerald (King of Diamonds)”
Source: Alice in the Land of Clovers
“That poem is not about 'waiting,' nor about 'missing.' It's about asking fate for a chance to come across each other once more. I wonder if I, too, am caught in the nets of fate...”
Source: ちはやふる 29
“That politeness which we put on, in order to keep the assuming and the presumptuous at a proper distance will generally succeed. But it sometimes happens that these obtrusive characters are on such excellent terms with themselves that they put down this very politeness to the score of their own great merits and high pretensions, meeting the coldness of our reserve with a ridiculous condescension of familiarity, in order to set us at ease with ourselves.”
Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan
“That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.”
“That politicians
who smiled at us and kissed our babies
blue eyes shining with triumph
well knew we were falling
into our graves
kicked by them
as they counted
our votes.”
Source: Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart
“That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.”
“That poor girl's been brainwashed into thinking her beauty is all she's worth, because from the time she was a little child she's been getting compliments about her beauty. And it becomes something you think you owe other people.”
Source: Brave
“That poor innocent snake was far more terrified of Nana then she ever was of the snake. Cricket could barely believe her eyes, but when that shotgun went off with a boom so did the snake. Up until yesterday, Cricket had never seen a snake fly!”
Source: Cricket
“That porch is a happy-looking place, and my father - burdened, stoop-shouldered, cadaverously thin - doesn't seem to belong on it.”
Source: Double Identity
“That portion of reality that can be composed within a frame can be understood.”
“That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.”
“THAT POWER EASILY GIVEN CANNOT SO EASILY BE TAKEN BACK. THAT IT IS THOSE CLOSEST THAT ARE MOST CAPABLE OF CAUSING THE GREATEST HARM TO US.”
Source: The Princess's Pet
“That power is in vain which is never in use.”
Source: Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney
“That power of the Gods which orders for the good things which are not uniform, and which happen contrary to expectation, is commonly called Fortune, and it is for this reason that the Goddess is especially worshipped in public by cities; for every city consists of elements which are not uniform.”
“That power Which erring men call Chance.”
“That powerful PURPLE hue to my fave vintage beverages is a key unlocking the transformational depth of its flavor to its berry last drinkable drop.”