T Quotes
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“That wasn't Josh Hartnett; that kid was eighteen years old," Kate said.
I told you, they age slower out here. It's all the fresh California air," Val replied.
Yes, because that's exactly what Los Angeles is known for," Kate said dryly. "Clean air.”
Source: Just the Sexiest Man Alive
“That wasn’t love.”
“What was it, then?”
“Just purely physical. Animal. Vulgar.”
“Love has a body, Laura. Eyes and lips, legs and sex. We humans can’t help that.”
Source: I Am a Woman
“That wasn’t luck,” answered Alick with a shrug.”
Source: THE GRIDD: PERILS OF THE LIGHTHOLDER
“That wasn’t very nice,” I say to Lietta.
She scoffs. “Since when do you care if Sewyn’s feelings get hurt?”
Whoa. Low blow from the pipsqueak. Having had enough of the volatile reactions as of late, I say, “Listen up. I care about Sewyn. She’s a pain in the ass, but she’s our pain in the ass, and if I want to worry about her feelings, I for damn sure will.”
Source: Tainted Power - The Complete Series
“That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment”
“That wasn't an ending. It was just a stopping point.”
“That wasn't good, that wasn't sportsmanship. I was amazed he took that shot.”
“That wasn't love; that was stupidity.”
“That wasn't me. I'm not a morning person. There's another person inside of me that does all the morning things.”
Source: The Dragon's Tooth (Ashtown Burials #1)
“That wasn't very nice...I do believe you killed my hat. ~Kisuke Urahara”
“That wasn't your mom in you—that was your dad.”
Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
“That way of inspiration
is always open,
and open to everyone;
it acts as go-between, interpreter,
it explains symbols of the past
in to-day's imagery.”
Source: Trilogy
“That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and a capacity for relentless hard work.”
Source: Old Home Town
“that way past the Change of Life, desire in them had suddenly become enormous, greedy, more savage than when they were fifteen, and that it embarrassed them and made them sad; that secretly they longed to die-to be quit of it-that sleep was more precious to them than any waking day”
“That way when we pick people up there they don't really have an excuse. They weren't out there picking mushrooms. They were illegally in the United States. It will simplify the adjudication and will expedite the voluntary return, and it will allow our border patrol officers to patrol both sides of that wall. And we can put surveillance devices on top of the wall, vibration detectors and other devices.”
“That way you can be certain to learn something you didn't know previously.”
“That we are able to determine whether or not an event is deterministic, or so much as to determine whether or not that measurement is consequently determinate or not, IS the miracle of consciousness.”
Source: Mercy Ai: Age of Discovery
“That we are bound to the earth does not mean that we cannot grow; on the contrary it is the sine qua non of growth. No noble, well-grown tree ever disowned its dark roots, for it grows not only upward but downward as well.”
Source: Dreams
“That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.”
Source: Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'
“That we are horny creatures is proven by the fact that the invention of video calling found us already having sex over the phone.”
“That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.”
“That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1939-1956
“That we are selfish gives us the opportunity to gain the power so that, in time, we might be selfless. To give back what we have learned. To teach what we know, and shorten the journey for those who will come after us.”
Source: I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight
“That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant.”
Source: Anthills of the Savannah
“That we arrived at fifty years together is due as much to luck as to love, and a talent for knowing, when we stumble, where to fall, and how to get up again.”
“That we can be e pluribus Unum - out of one, many”
“That we can come here today and in the presence of thousands and tens of thousands of the survivors of the gallant army of Northern Virginia and their descendants, establish such an enduring monument by their hospitable welcome and acclaim, is conclusive proof of the uniting of the sections, and a universal confession that all that was done was well done, that the battle had to be fought, that the sections had to be tried, but that in the end, the result has inured to the common benefit of all.”
“That we can never know," answered the wolf angrily. "That's for the future. But what we can know is the importance of what we owe to the present. Here and now, and nowhere else. For nothing else exists, except in our minds. What we owe to ourselves, and to those we're bound to. And we can at least hope to make a better future, for everything.”
“That we can now think of no mechanism for astrology is relevant but unconvincing. No mechanism was known, for example, for continental drift when it was proposed by Wegener. Nevertheless, we see that Wegener was right, and those who objected on the grounds of unavailable mechanism were wrong.”
“That we could live in a country with no rules for the rich, no rights for the poor, and no middle class to speak of, is wrong; it's a crime against the next generation and we've got to do something about it.”
“That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as though no God there were.”
Source: The Works of Robert Browning
“That we did not have several unplanned pregnancies a year was a testament more to God's grace than effective family planning.”
Source: Jarring Sex
“that we die, our very humanity slayed, whenever we choose to remain silent in the face of tyranny.”
Source: Never Look an American in the Eye: A Memoir of Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian American
“That we do not comprehend or accept something does not invalidate its truth.”
“That we do not discover reality but rather invent it is quite shocking for many people. And the shocking part about it - according to the concept of radical constructivism - is that the only thing we can ever know about the real reality (if it even exists) is what it is not. It is only with the collapse of our constructions of reality that we first discover that the world is not the way we imagine.”
“That we do our best. We plant an apple tree today, even if we know the world is going to be destroyed tomorrow. We save those we can.”
Source: Anxious People
“That we don't remember the beginning or the ending of dreams is our unconscious reminding us that it's all about the process.”
“That we don't design agriculture to be sustainable is totally eerie. We design it to be a disaster, and of course, we get a disaster.”
“That we experience joy, however, that we can identify it... illuminates the dead end toward which the settler state hurls. In our insistence against elimination, the logical holes in the fabric of a colonial world are revealed. Wherever light rushes in is an exit route.”
“That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.”
Source: Selected Essays of John Berger
“That we have children coming into this world already polluted, at the same time we don't know what the effects of that pollution will be on their mental and physical development, is both bad policy and immorally wrong.”
“That we have collectively failed to halt and repudiate the war in Iraq makes us even worse than the Germans.”
“That we have evolved capacities for social interaction means that we tend to represent morality and misfortune in a very special way, which makes the connection with supernatural agents extremely easy and apparently obvious.”
Source: Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought
“That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite of it. They are the ones the teachers couldn't spoil.”
Source: Treasury of Thought
“That we have scholars and Chicana PHDers of this caliber teaching in our educational institutions fulfills a vision of what we hoped would come out of the Chicano Movement. Even more extraordinary is the fact that most scholars do not forget “la causa Chicana,” thus watering the raices of the ancient past and living Chicano epic.”
Source: Enriqueta Vasquez And the Chicano Movement: Writings from El Grito Del Norte (Hispanic Civil Rights)
“That we have some history together that hasn’t happened yet.”
Source: A Visit From the Goon Squad
“That we have the vote means nothing. That we use it in the right way means everything.”
“That we imagine we cannot feel the wars
is an American feeling. That we cannot see them,
that we say they are somewhere else.
But someone pays the police. We do.”
Source: Anybody: Poems
“That we may consult concerning others, and not others concerning us.”
Source: Plutarch's Morals
“That we may give our body and our blood over to suffering and pain, like Christ - not for Self, but to give harvests of peace and justice to our People.”