T Quotes
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“The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.”
“The shock, the pain, the agonizing self-pity over the fact that he would never see her again, never hold her, never smell her, the list went on, and on, and on like some pounding surf that threatened to drown him.”
Source: American Assassin
“The shock to our systems
Made us both trip;
We fell,
The pair of us,
In different directions.”
Source: mind weaving
“The shock value of honesty was always greater than that of the most convincing lie.”
Source: The Ippos King
“The shock which the Nazi horrors produced was so great, because they came after two hundred years of Roussellian propaganda about the goodness of human nature and also because the Germans were literate, clean, technologically progressive, hard working, “modern,” sober, “orderly,” and so forth. Yet about human nature we get more concrete and more pertinent information from the Bible than from statistics dealing with secondary education, the frequency of bathtubs or the mileage of superhighways.”
Source: Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot
“The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe.”
Source: Enemies of promise and other essays: an autobiography of ideas
“The shock, the power of an ordinary life. It is a thing you could not invent with banks of computers in a dust-free room.”
Source: Underworld: Picador Classic
“The shocking death of a loved one isn't a wailing thing. The real shudder comes from the world moving on as if nothing's happened. Shops flip their Closed signs to Open, patrons gather at the theaters and soda shops, and people dare smile at things that make them happy, while those left in the ruins find joy in nothing.”
Source: Angel of Greenwood
“The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my central proposition: the mass dumbness which justifies official schooling first had to be dreamed of; it isn't real.”
“The shocking truth about prosperity is that it is shockingly right instead of shockingly wrong for you to be prosperous. Please note that the word 'rich' means having an abundance of good or living a fuller, more satisfying life. Indeed, you are prosperous to the degree that you are experiencing peace, health, happiness and plenty in your world. There are honorable methods that can carry you quickly toward that goal. It is easier to accomplish than you may now think. That, too, is the shocking truth about prosperity.”
“The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.”
Source: What Are People For?: Essays
“The shoe is very much an X-ray of social comportment.”
“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”
Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul
“The Shoes Should fit! you can't build a business that is not yours.”
“the shooting and killing weren’t as black-and-white as most people think. The actions live in that hazy area of blown-apart stone walls and hesitations. Sometimes I shot when I shouldn’t have; other times I didn’t shoot when I should have. There was no way to explain why I did either. Everything happened so fast. Decisions had to be made. After I got home I began to see things in slow motion, see the actions that might’ve been mistakes.”
Source: Soft Spots: A Marine's Memoir of Combat and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
“The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!”
“The shooting of the movie is the truth part and the editing of the movie is the lying part, the deceit part”
“the shop owner did not try to push the book on any of her customers. She knew that in the wrong hands such a book could easily be dismissed, or, worse, go unread. Instead she let it sit where it was in the hope that the right reader might discover it.”
Source: The History of Love: A Novel
“The shop, the barn, the scullery, and the smithy become temples when men and women do all to the glory of God! The "divine service" is not a thing of a few hours and a few places, but all life becomes holiness unto the Lord, and every place and thing, as consecrated as the tabernacle and it's golden candlestick.”
Source: Morning & Evening
“The shopping is not finished and before the pre-season starts I would like to bring in another two players. I like shopping, maybe I have become a woman.”
“The shops in High Street still have their metal grilles down, blank-eyed and sleeping. My name is scrawled across them all. I'm outside Ajay's newsagent's. I'm on the expensive shutters of the health food store. I'm massive on Handie's furniture shop, King's Chicken Joint and the Barbecue Cafe. I thread the pavement outside the bank and all the way to Mothercare. I've possessed the road and am a glistening circle at the roundabout.”
“The shops of Palo Alto's Sorcerer Square are in plain sight, but this ordinary-seeming plaza has a secret side. My favorite is my parents' shop, of course, where they sell the most energizing, freshly made tea in the city---with a hint of a joy charm. Plus there's Ana's bakery, where her just-baked cinnamon streusel cupcakes brighten up her customers' days and give them a shot of courage. We've also got what looks like a pharmacy (but it is truly an apothecary for everything from bottled charms to elixirs that fix spells that go wrong); a clothing store (useful when you need jeans that have real pockets---and magical ones to hide charms and enchanted vials); an ensorcelled vegetarian South Indian restaurant with the most fragrant spice mixes ever; a cozy gem store filled with healing crystals and magic-gathering mood rings; and an enchanted fruit shop with dragon fruit that burns with a sugary fire.”
Source: The Charmed List
“The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water.”
Source: The Edge of the Sea
“The shore is neither land nor sea! It is both land and sea!”
“The shore knows that the waves belong to the ocean, yet it welcomes the waves with an open arm, whether it comes with a gentle rush or crash against it. I was the shore; you were like the waves.”
Source: As Night Falls
“The shores of History are strewn with the wrecks of Empires.”
Source: Churchill By Himself
“The shores run together, the waters are parallel. The waters run together, the shores are parallel. A single leaf rustles, the others are silent. Who knows how this dream ends?
He was so thin, so translucent, that he had to pass through the same place twice to leave a shadow.
Living out a destiny of convenience the way others sail under a flag of convenience.”
Source: Cool memories
“The shores safety keeps many from the oceans treasures.”
“The short amount of time I'm out on the runway is like going on a rollercoaster. It's such a happy, exciting feeling. I'm more like a racehorse ready to go - I just want to get out there.”
“The short answer is, yes, I think I have become a better singer.”
“The short answer to 'Why do you write' is - I suppose I write for some of the same reasons I read: to live a double life; to go places I haven't been; to examine life on earth; to come to know people in ways, and at depths, that are otherwise impossible; to be surprised.”
“The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us.”
“The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us.
[Lat., Festinat enim decurrere velox
Flosculus angustae miseraeque brevissima vitae
Portico; dum bibimus dum sera unguenta puellas
Poscimus obrepit non intellecta senectus.]”
“The short, but powerful police officer left a saloon and went straight for the police station, set out to do exactly what he planned even if no one believed a drunk like him.”
Source: Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer
“The short conversation that follows eventually led to a tree religion. Its tenet of faith was this: a tree that was a good tree and led a clean decent and upstanding life could be assured of a future life after death. If it was very good indeed it would eventually be reincarnated as five thousand rolls of lavatory paper.”
“The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a time you have walked a mile, though, no doubt, a mile is everywhere a mile, I walk but a moderate pace, and can accomplish four English miles in an hour.”
Source: Travels in England in 1782
“The short ‘er’ is an invitation for people to interrupt you; the long ‘er’ says ‘Don’t interrupt me, even though I haven’t thought what to say yet.’ Some people find it impossible to speak with a still head, and more curiously, some students maintain that it’s still while they’re actually jerking it about.”
Source: Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre
“The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.”
“The short interregnum of civil society built on the ruins of the Bastille came to its end with the establishment of the Jews as the new Priestly caste. The alternative Church of our society, the Jews, survived in abeyance for hundreds of years. As long as the Christian Church attended to the discourse, the Jews plainly had no chance to compete; but when its power was broken by liberty-seekers, the alternative arrangement came forward.”
“The short lesson that comes out of long experience in political agitation is something like this: all the motive power in all of these movements is the instinct of religious feeling. All the obstruction comes from attempting to rely on anything else. Conciliation is the enemy.”
Source: Practical Agitation
“The short-lived crash and burn of an eternal optimist is far more deeply felt than the day-to-day misery of an eternal pessimist.”
“The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.”
Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties
“The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that you don't like to read.”
“The short space of threescore years can never content the imagination of man; nor can the imperfect joys of this world satisfy his heart. Man alone, of all created beings, displays a natural contempt of existence, and yet a boundless desire to exist; he scorns life, but he dreads annihilation. These different feelings incessantly urged his soul to the contemplation of a future state, and religion directs his musings thither. Religion, then, is simply another form of hope; and it is no less natural to the human heart than hope itself.”
Source: Democracy in America
“The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.”
“The short span of life forbids us to take on far-reaching hopes.”
“The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger.”
“The short story ... is the most democratic of all the arts; anyone may tell a story, and if it is an absorbing one someone will listen.”
“The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter.”
“The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.”
Source: The Wilful Eye (Tales from the Tower Volume One)