T Quotes
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“That’s a huge reason why Cyrus started the security company—to give jobs to brothers who the community shut out.”
“That's a large part of what economics is--people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. And then pretending that they haven't just made the numbers up, which they have. Economics is like astrology in that sense, except that economics serves to justify the current power structure, and so it has a lot of fervent believers among the powerful.”
Source: Red Mars
“That's a lot of what the ghetto is, a reflection of poor self esteem”
Source: Sandpaper Sisters: Addicts Turned Community Builders, Miracles Do Happen!
“That’s a medley of promise, fairy tales, and magic bullets all welded together in a chorus of a cloud nine song.”
Source: A Kind of Hush
“That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.”
Source: The Sky Is Everywhere
“That's a peculiarly Anglo-Saxon phenomenon, in the English speaking world and the United States. One dream of anarchism—and the only kind that survived—was ultra-right anarchism, which you see in the libertarian parry, which is just loved by the big corporations and the investment firms and so on. Not that they believe in it. They know perfectly well that they'll never get rid of the state because they need it for their own purposes, but they love to use this as an ideological weapon against everyone else. So the libertarian parry is very warmly accepted within mainstream business circles who really ridicule it privately because they know perfectly well that they're not going to survive without a massive state subsidy, so they want a powerful state. But they like the libertarian ideology which they can use as a battering ram against everyone else. If you actually pursued the ideals of the libertarian party you would create the worst totalitarian monster that the world has ever seen. Actually, I have lots of personal friends there. For years, the only journals I could write in were ultra-right libertarian journals because we agree on a lot of things. For example, we agree on the opposition to American imperialism. For example, nobody would publish the first article that I was able to write on East Timor. They published it, back in the late seventies. That's the only article that appeared in the United States on the subject in the seventies. They also published many other things and we remained personal friends. Although there is a big area of difference.”
Source: Chomsky On Anarchism
“That's a poet.'
'I thought you said it was a bo-at.'
'Stupid pet! Don't you know what a poet it?'
'Why, a thing to sail on the water in.'
'Well, perhaps you're not so far wrong. Some poets do carry people over the sea....'
...
'A poet is a man who is glad of something, and tries to make other people glad of it too.”
Source: At the Back of the North Wind
“That’s a private interest of mine – what brings a fellow down here, you know, to the ends of the earth – what sparks a man?”
Source: The Luminaries
“That's a relief," I admitted. "So, you're aware...does that mean you were a criminal back home?"
"Yes."
"And?"
"And what?"
"What were you convicted of?" I asked.
"Ah. Improper use of resources."
"Right...What did you do?"
"I destroyed the sun."
"WHAT?" I practically screamed.
"I jest."
"I fucking hope so! What did you do?"
"We were volunteers," it said.”
Source: Age of Conquest
“That's a rhetorical question, and trying to answer rhetorical questions instead of being cowed by them is a good habit to cultivate.”
Source: From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
“That's a risk. I am willing to take,”
“That’s a stupid name! Whirly-gig is much better, I think. Who in their right
mind would point at this thing and say, ‘I’m going to fly in my Model-A1’.
People would much rather say, ‘Get in my whirly-gig’. And that’s what you
should name it.”
“That's a superhuman knock." Nina started to take off her apron.
"If it's Thor, then let me answer," Jasmine said. "Chris Hemsworth needs to rescue me from my pants.”
Source: For Butter or Worse
“That's a sweet piece," said Jean, briefly forgetting to be aggravated. "You didn't snatch that off a street."
"No," said Locke, before taking another deep draught of the warm water in the decanter. "I got it from the neck of the governor's mistress."
"You can't be serious."
"In the governor's manor."
"Of all the -"
"In the governor's bed."
"Damned lunatic!"
"With the governor sleeping next to her."
The night quiet was broken by the high, distant trill of a whistle, the traditional swarming noise of city watches everywhere. Several other whistles joined in a few moments later.
"It is possible," said Locke with a sheepish grin, "that I have been slightly too bold.”
Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies
“That's a thing people don't talk about enough - that there are people who will judge even the way you mourn your loved ones.”
Source: At Dark, I Become Loathsome
“That’s a tiny inconsequential risk compared to what could be gained.”
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“That's a tree of heaven, my friend said. I know because I, too, got curious about it, and looked it up. Botanists call it an invasive species. But aren't we all?”
Source: Open City
“That's a tremendous thing—to be able to hold the world inside of yourself, and still feel compassionate for it.”
Source: Any Way the Wind Blows
“That's a very admirable quality in a wife. The ability to admit she is in the wrong.”
Source: Leave Love Alone
“That's a Winner”
Source: Jack Buck: "That's a Winner"
“That's all I can stands, 'cause I can't stands no more.”
“That's all I can tell you. once you get into cosmological shit like this, you got to throw away the instruction manual.”
Source: It
“That’s all I think about these days. Must be because I have so much time to kill every day. When you don’t have anything to do, your thoughts get really, really far out-so far out
you can’t follow them all the way to the end.”
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“That's all it is. Information. Even a simulated experience or a dream is simultaneous reality and fantasy. Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket.”
Source: Ghost in the shell
“That's all it takes, you know, to kill a kingdom — a single person who knows your weak spots.”
Source: passerine
“That's all nonsense," said Curdie. "I don't know what you mean."
"Then if you don't know what I mean, what right have you to call it nonsense?”
Source: The Princess and the Goblin
“That’s all religion is. Strategy.”
Source: The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly
“That's all right," she told him. "I can manage. I can sleep outside just fine."
Four pairs of eyes looked at her with a distinctly male skepticism.”
Source: Fate's Edge
“That's all that brave means - not thinking about the dangers. Just thinking about what you must do. Of course you were frightened. I was too, today. But you kept your mind on what you had to do.”
Source: Number the Stars
“That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.”
Source: The Blue Castle
“That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel. There's no part in it, no shape in it, that is not out of someone's mind [...] I've noticed that people who have never worked with steel have trouble seeing this—that the motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon. They associate metal with given shapes—pipes, rods, girders, tools, parts—all of them fixed and inviolable., and think of it as primarily physical. But a person who does machining or foundry work or forger work or welding sees "steel" as having no shape at all. Steel can be any shape you want if you are skilled enough, and any shape but the one you want if you are not. Shapes, like this tappet, are what you arrive at, what you give to the steel. Steel has no more shape than this old pile of dirt on the engine here. These shapes are all of someone's mind. That's important to see. The steel? Hell, even the steel is out of someone's mind. There's no steel in nature. Anyone from the Bronze Age could have told you that. All nature has is a potential for steel. There's nothing else there.”
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“that's all the stars do, look at lovers – that's why they're so beautiful”
Source: On the Eve
“That's all war is - a consuming fever: a period of delirium and insanity, of misery, disappointment, discomfort, anxiety, despair, waste, weariness, boredom, brutality, death; and yet to every man in every war there comes a day worth living for: a day when a lifetime of excitement is packed into a few short hours.”
Source: Oliver Wiswell
“That’s all we can do, isn’t it? As mothers. As artists. We do the work. We ask for help. We show up and give God our best effort, our richest offering, hoping someday we meet our Maker and hear “She has done a beautiful thing. She has done what she could.”
Source: Create Anyway: The Joy of Pursuing Creativity in the Margins of Motherhood
“That's all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going.”
Source: Extraordinary Means
“That's all YOU know,' said Digory. 'It's because you're a girl. Girls never want to know anything but gossip and rot about people getting engaged.”
Source: The Magician’s Nephew
“That's all you need? Easy. I love you. Okay? Want it louder? I love you. Spell it out, should I? I ell-oh-vee-ee why-oh-you. Want it backward? You love I.”
Source: The Princess Bride
“That's all you've got for me?" I drew a long breath and let it out slowly. "You know. I might be able to get more clues from Google.”
“That's always been the plan, Cat, to keep it all separate. The chimera is my embodiment of my lifestyle choice; one body, two creatures.”
Source: Dirty Bad Wrong
“That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.”
Source: Paper Towns
“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste. But I'm not pretty, not close up anyway. Generally, the closer people get to me the less hot they find me.”
Source: Paper Towns
“That's amazing," Dad said, still watching the two horses interact so comfortably after not seeing each other for so long. Chance stomped and squealed, and Thor bit his neck. "Ouch."
"Oh, that's their way of getting to know each other again. Have to re-establish who's in charge."
Sadie saw mom and dad exchange looks.”
Source: Believing In Horses, Too
“That's amazing," said Jack, taking a step forward. "Can she see you? Is she aware? Or is this just magic animating her bones? Does it work on any skeleton, or just those who died violently? Can you - you can't answer any of my questions unless you stop playing, can you?”
Source: Every Heart a Doorway
“That's an alien. I just saw an alien. Not just an alien ship. An alien being. I mean- just his claw- er... hand. But yeah.
Well, I say "his hand", but maybe it's her hand. Or some other pronoun I don't have a word for. They might have seventeen biological sexes, for all I know. Or none. No one ever talks about the really hard parts of first contact with intelligent alien life: pronouns. I'm going to go with "he" for now, because it just seems rude to call a thinking being "it."
Also, until I hear otherwise, his name is Rocky.”
Source: Project Hail Mary
“That's an applicable life less, my boy,' he'd said. 'Nobody is really paying attention to you. Most people don't really get this. They think they must count more to other people than other people count to them. They can't believe the disregard could truly be mutual.”
Source: Cartwheel
“That’s an awful lot of littles, don’t you think?”
“Perhaps.” He displayed his hand. “Big.” He set hers next to his, so small and delicate contrasted with his thick, blunt fingers. Why did holding her fragile hand raise every protective instinct he had?”
Source: To Command and Collar
“That's an impossible thing for sons to grasp, and a source of shame for fathers to have to admit: that we don't want our children to pursue their own dreams or walk in our footsteps. We want to walk in their footsteps while they pursue our dreams.”
Source: Anxious People
“That's another thing about words: there's space in them. They change according to whose mouth they're coming out of. Sometimes they change so much in mine they become something else entirely, but Dad says these are called lies.”
Source: Julia and the Shark
“That's another thing to love about me. I steal.”
Source: The Young Elites
“That's arrogance, Harry. " he said, gently. "On a level so deep, you don't even realize it exists. And do you know why it's there?" "No?" I asked. He smiled again. "Because you have set a higher standard for yourself. You think that, because you have more power than others, you have to do more with it." "To whom much is given, much is required," I said, without looking up. He barked out a short laugh. "For someone who repeatedly tells me he has no faith, you have a surprising capacity to quote scripture. And that's just my point." I eyed him. "What?" "You wouldn't be twisting yourself into knots like this, Harry, if you didn't care." "So?" "Monsters don't care," Michael said. "The damned don't care, Harry. The only way to go beyond redemption is to choose to take yourself there. The only way to do it is to stop caring.”
Source: Skin Game