T Quotes
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“That soul that can Be honest is the only perfect man.”
Source: The Works of Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher: The two noble kinsmen; Thierry and Theodoret; The woman-hater; The nice valour; The honest man's fortune; A masque; Four plays or moral representations in one
“That soul that can reflect upon itself, consider itself, is more than so.”
Source: John Donne: The Major Works
“That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression, and that no amount of 'bread and circuses' can compensate for the damage done-these are facts which are neither denied nor acknowledged but are met with an unbreakable conspiracy of silence-because to deny them would be too obviously absurd and to acknowledge them would condemn the central preoccupation of modern society as a crime against humanity.”
Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
“That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches
“That sound in tune to you?.. Sounds sharp to me. Sounds like I'm playing sharp all the time. My singing teacher told us you should do that. Maybe I got it from her. She said singers when they grow old have a tendency to go flat. So if you sing sharp as a young person, as you get older and go flat, you'll be in tune. In other words, it's never thought good to be flat. It means you can't get to the tone.”
“That sounded about as likely as Apophis and Ra becoming Facebook buddies, but I decided not to say anything.”
“That sounded sweet enough to almost be intelligent, but it was chauvinistic as hell.”
Source: Alien Promise
“That sounds almost practiced, James Carstairs. How many girls have you made swoon with that observation?" "There is only one girl I care to make swoon," he said. "The question is, does she?" She smiled at him. "She does.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“That sounds impossible," said the hatter. "We absolutely must give it a try!”
Source: Wonderland
“That sounds like a blast. I’m definitely in,” Shane added once we filled him in on our idea.
“Just one thing, how are we going to pay?” I asked Noah.
“We’re going to use my credit card, of course. I doubt it will be much use for long anyways.”
“So it’s settled, the Ritz it is,” I gushed with excitement.
“Are we there yet?” Shane asked in a teasing tone.
-Shane, Cora, Noah”
Source: Dissolve
“That sounds like Anthony Soprano. He has a point. I've said it before: if you're black and you sell dope, you end up in the big house; if you're white and you sell a large amount of dope, you end up visiting the White House. So it's a matter of race and it's a matter of scale, frankly.”
“That sounds like Russian interference to me.” “Agreed.”
They sat sipping their drinks.
“Should we even be drinking vodka?”
Source: Strangers and Sojourners: A Big Percy Pletcher thriller
“That sounds medically dangerous!”
Source: House of Sky and Breath
“That sounds really simplistic, but if I'm in an enclosed space, or my apartment, and I live very close to a park - there's something about being outside and being near things that are green.”
“That sounds so weird: "kill yourself." It makes it sound like you tried to murder someone, only that someone is you. But killing someone is wrong, and I don't think suicide is. It's my life, right? I should be able to end it if I want to. I don't think it's a sin.”
“That sounds stupid, but in most films that take six months, you're actually spending four weeks to do a fight scene.”
“That sounds terrific, thought Cary, just you, your comatose wife your shell-shocked son, and your daughter who hates your guts. Not to mention that your two kids may be in love with each other. Yeah, that sounds like a perfect family reunion.”
“That sounds weird: "kill yourself." It makes it sound like you tried to murder someone, only that someone is you.”
“That space between the white lines - that's my office. That's where I conduct my business.”
“That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge .”
“That spark you felt ignite inside you, that split-second vision that you had of yourself bright like the Sun -- believe that! Believe that.”
“That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better.”
“That special bond you think you have with your pet is imaginary. As long as it has food and water, you could get hit by a train tomorrow, and your pet wouldn't think anything of it.”
Source: You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day
“That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale of creation, is not bone, but brain.”
Source: The Foot-prints of the Creator: Or, The Asterolepis of Stromness
“That specific remedy for the worldwide epidemic of depression is a gift called the blues.”
Source: A Man Without a Country
“That spike of terror went through me again. He was like a raptor, not cruel, not good or evil, only and utterly what he was. The purity of it, unbreakable, was beyond anything I could imagine.”
Source: The Witch Elm
“That spin became so violent, it was hard to know how to get out of it. I was able to get it under control and break the speed of sound...I could feel myself break the speed of sound. I could feel the air building up and then I hit it.”
“That spirit of mockery characteristic of the guaracha was part of the mambo from the beginning.”
Source: Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo
“That split is inside all Americans. There are contradictions inside all of us about color and race. We've learned to cover them up and live with them and pretend that deep cleavage is not there. We all bear that illness.”
“That spot was taken," Kara sat up to look at them. Stylized, short, black hair with bangs. Piercing blue eyes. Proper posture. Lean. It was Oliver.
"I don't think a bag counts as a person," he smiled down at her.”
“That spring, Amelia takes Maya to the drugstore and lets her choose any polish color she likes. "How do you pick?" Maya says.
"Sometimes I ask myself how I'm feeling," Amelia says. "Sometimes I ask myself how I'd like to be feeling.”
Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“That spring and summer it became impossible to glance out the window without entertaining questions of physics, of multiverses collapsing onto themselves, of time lines breaking off like Antarctic ice shelves. Was all this really happening: masks and tyrants, aerosol sprays and gun-toting clowns?”
Source: Our Country Friends
“That spring was the start of everything, for me. Before then, I might have been half-asleep, drifting through life.”
Source: The Invitation
“That squash is as wide as I am tall, " Nikolai said beneath his breath as he smiled and waved.
"And twice as handsome. "
"Half as handsome," he protested.
"Ah, " said Zoya, "but the squash doesn't talk.”
Source: King of Scars
“That stairway would be a narrow spiral, set to the left-hand side and twisting the right as it ascended. In that way, a right-handed swordsman climbing the stairs would be at a disadvantage to a right-handed defender. An attacker would have to expose all of his body in order to use his sword, while the defender could strike with only his right side exposed. It was standard design for the castle tower.”
Source: The Siege of Macindaw
“That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him.”
“That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.”
“That state of mind - of being beside yourself - is wonderful. As you get older, you're just very aware of a sense of an ending. You're grateful for every day.”
“That statement [ Stephen Ambrose:'You, Sam, have the hardest job, which is, pretend like nothing has happened in the last 200 years.'] woke me up to the fact that the landscape that Lewis and Clark came across was greater than the Serengeti. And it's gone.”
“That statues are motionless would be true only if the earth were the universe.”
“That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.”
Source: The lives and times of Archy and Mehitabel
“That still did not invalidate their purity in his eyes, so long as they continued to live the way they lived: sitting on the floor, eating with their fingers, cooking and sleeping first in one room, then in another, or in the vast patio with its fountains, or on the roof, leading the existence of nomads inside the beautiful shell which was the house. If he had felt that they were capable of discarding their utter preoccupation with the present, in order to consider the time not yet arrived, he would straightway have lost interest in them and condemned them as corrupt.”
Source: The Spider's House
“That still feels like the most accurate description - I felt homesick, but I was home.”
Source: The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
“That stillness and vastness that enables the Universe to be, is not just out there in space...it is also within you.”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“That stirring which had fluttered in her on first glimpsing the sea—that stirring landlocked children know so well—moved in her now, with the golden stars over head, and the green fireflies glinting on the wooded shore. She carefully unfolded the stirring that she had so tightly packed away. It billowed out like a sail, and she laughed, despite herself, despite hunger and hard things ahead.”
Source: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
“That stormy day in the desert, however, much changed for me. We must have our goals, our dreams and we must strive for them. We are not gods, however; we do not have the power to shape every aspect of the future. And the road the world makes for us is one that teaches humility if we are willing to learn.”
Source: Forever Odd
“That story about the two women in my life is - a lot of people get upset, a lot of people question it. Steven Soderbergh said to me, "The story of your life is incredible. The real story of your life that's interesting, more interesting than all the other stuff - the franchises, the movies, the songs, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra - the real thing that's interesting and unbelievable is the relationship with these two women. And if you're willing to put that out there, you know then, you're going to have a great movie. Because that's the movie."”
“That story I told you as we arrived? About the man who killed the former master of this castle and raped his wife? Did you think it a fairy tale? No, his blood runs in my veins. I was bred to do what I am doing now. Don't fault the viper for striking. It's what snakes do."
Her lips trembled, but her eyes were dry, as if she'd already given up hope of persuading him and he did not mourn at all. Not at all. "The blood of that woman who was raped is in your veins, too, isn't it?"
Oh, she knew where to hit. "Naturally. But I think it's less apparent, don't you? The story says she was dark and small."
She shook her head. "So all that talk of right and wrong- that doesn't matter in the end to you at all?"
He hesitated- just for the smallest fraction of a second- because he had always found the question of right and wrong rather fascinating.
But then he smiled at her. "Only in the abstract.”
Source: Duke of Sin
“That story placed man above the animals, until man's fall at Eve's hand, and linked humans to God himself, fashioned in his image. But now the black wolf was telling the girl a grave secret. That man was an animal too.”
“That story you heard? About how we were all created by a super-powerful dude named God who lives up in the sky? Total bullshit. The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have been telling one another for thousands of years. We made it all up. Like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.
Oh, and by the way... there's no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny. Also bullshit. Sorry, kid. Deal with it.”
Source: Ready Player One