T Quotes
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“The thought sometimes - the unpleasant thought sometimes creeps up on me here as to whether perhaps Khrushchev was not invited here to enable you to sort of rub him in your sauce and to show the might and the strength of the United States so as to make him sort of... so as to make him shaky at the knees. If that is so, then if I came - if it took me about 12 hours to get here, I guess it'll just - it'll take no more than about 10½ hours to fly back.”
“The thought stays empty and spiritless until that dresses a dress of diction and articulation, to empower itself.”
“The thought struck me that she would always look beautiful, even when she was being ugly. Hers was a big, lovely, empty face: the face of a pom-pom girl at a football match, the face advertisers use to help them sell preposterous and irrelevant things.”
Source: Shantaram
“The thought stung. I still couldn't accept that Trevor was a loser and a moron. I didn't want to believe that I could have degraded myself for someone who didn't deserve it.”
Source: My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.”
“The thought that babies would become children, and children would become people, never occurred to them. The concept that perhaps biology was not destiny, and that not all little girls would be pretty princesses, and not all little boys would be brave soldiers, also never occurred to them. Things might have been easier if those ideas had ever slithered into their heads, unwanted but undeniably important. Alas, their minds were made up, and left no room for such revolutionary opinions”
Source: Down Among the Sticks and Bones
“The thought that babies would become children, and children would become people, never occurred to them. The concept that perhaps biology was not destiny, and that not all little girls would be pretty princesses, and not all little boys would be brave soldiers, also never occurred to them. Things might have been easier if those ideas had never slithered into their heads, unwanted but undeniably important. Alas, their minds were made up, and left no room for such revolutionary opinions.”
Source: Down Among the Sticks and Bones
“The thought that he might have to leave did not upset him; he knew that eventually he would have to go but that, as on TV, what would follow next was hidden; he knew the actors on the new program were unknown. He did not have to be afraid, for everything that happened had its sequel, and the best that he could do was to wait patiently for his own forthcoming appearance.”
Source: Being There
“The thought that I had been captured so soon, without having done anything for the revolution, made me feel ashamed. I thought: at least now, I must carry out my duty well under torture.”
“The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.”
Source: the bell jar
“The thought that is billed at the price of fear and flattery is as inconsolable as that which is paid for at the price of gold. - On Fear and Thought.”
Source: The Sunrise Scrolls: To Life from the Shadows II
“The thought that it was nearly over soothed him like a lover's touch.”
Source: Exquisite Corpse
“The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.”
“The thought that murders the wish that fathered it will be overtaken by the revenge of stupidity”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.”
“The thought that our lives are the source of other people's unhappiness, that's plain unbearable.”
“The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation.”
“The thought that so many people get their news from social media really is scary.”
“The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.”
Source: Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir
“The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win.”
“The thought that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don't get master's degree by attending school on the first day of your life! Time will tell, so you got to persist!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“The thought that your time and your life will melt away should create a sense of urgency to do something of worth with it before it all melts away.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“The thought that, insignificant as she was, she yet might do some good, made her very careful of her acts and words, and so anxious to keep head contented and face happy, that she forgot her clothes, and made others do the same. She did not know it, but that good old fashion of simplicity made the plain gowns pretty, and the grace of unconsciousness beautified their little wearer with the charm that makes girlhood sweetest to those who truly love and reverence it.”
Source: An Old-Fashioned Girl: Top Novelist Focus
“The thought was, 'We're going to go to California, where the soil is black and ten feet deep, and there are no rocks, and there's gold in the hills.' The West becomes the surface onto which people project their fantasies, where once the future had been the place they projected their fantasies. So it's not just the war that ends the utopian communities, but what follows.”
“The thought washed over me like water on a flower shop window, like a soothing, cool lotion after you've showered and spent the whole day in the sun, loving the sun but loving the balsam more.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“The thought went through my mind that we should film ourselves in our sexual act, and project our frenzied copulation permanently onto the walls of the tea-room, as a lesson to wake up the boring people who drank tea here, and to show them what life was really all about.”
Source: Naked and Sexual
“The thought you have now shapes your experience of the next moment. Practice shaping the moment.”
“The thought, 'I can't' is a lie. We use it to excuse ourselves from trying.”
“The thought, the deadly thought of solitude.”
“The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows back worse than before.”
Source: Invitation to a beheading: a novel
“The thought: A logical inquiry”
“The thoughtful believer recalls God's faithfulness in the past when confronted by any new threat. Part of spiritual maturity is strong sense of one's own history.”
“The thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of the body, with the fresh and wakeful breezes blowing round it.”
“THE THOUGHTFUL LOVER Deny yourself all half things. Have it or leave it. But it will keep—or it is not worth the having. Never start anything you can't finish— However do not lose faith because you are starved! She loves you she says. Believe it —tomorrow. But today the particulars of poetry that difficult art require your whole attention.”
“The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.”
Source: Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition
“The thoughts and beliefs that you repeat in your mind when you are experiencing a negative situation become your reality. Your subconscious will make sure these limiting thoughts and beliefs are manifested.”
Source: How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
“The thoughts and emotions we stuff down into the darkness become a playground for the enemy, where his toxic filth breeds best.
The compulsion to say the 'right thing' explains why so many of us have fallen spiritually sick.”
Source: The Storm Inside: Trade the Chaos of How You Feel for the Truth of Who You Are
“The thoughts and opinions of one human being, if they are sincere, must always have an interest for some other human beings. The world is there to think about; and if we have lived, or are living, with any sort of energy, we must have thought about it, and about ourselves in relation to it - thought 'furiously' often. And it is out of the many 'thinkings' of many folk, strong or weak, dull or far-ranging, that thought itself grows.”
“The thoughts from a finite mind can at times be very similar to the clouds that move about over the surface of the earth. Both can cover a lot of ground, and can either disperse or increase in formation. Likewise—both are heavily influenced by the surrounding climate. Furthermore—a hard wind increases a fire’s spread, thunder proceeds a lightning strike, and when atmospheric water vapor accumulates, it produces clouds. Then, after an abundance of water has been condensed, the clouds will at some point release moisture; the rain/precipitation amount will range from the degree of abundance condensed.
Similarly: an abundance of thoughts can also accumulate—eventually resulting in an overflow of emotion. The overflow can either be positive or negative—the determining factor relying on the characterization of the thoughts—whether they be positive or negative.”
Source: Strong Love Church
“The thoughts he put in her head. Someone should’ve arrested him for it.”
“The thoughts I express, whether clearly or ambiguously, are my own and they are my individual responsibility.”
“The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.”
“The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you ever call your thoughts your own? How could you be anything other than a slave to the darkness that comes before?”
Source: The Darkness that Comes Before: The Prince of Nothing, Book One (The Prince of Nothing)
“The thoughts of great men are the common heritage of humanity and let our countrymen receive inspiration and guidance from these thoughts.”
“The thoughts of hatred were so old they had become instincts. That was not something he could cure overnight. Like Nina with the parem, it might well be a lifelong fight.”
Source: Crooked Kingdom
“The thoughts of his mind, besides, were of the gloomiest dye; and when he glanced at the companion of his drive, he was conscious of some touch of that terror of the law and the law’s officers, which may at times assail the most honest.”
Source: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
“The thoughts of letting go of everything I love overwhelms like a tsunami of sorrow.”
“The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again.”
“The thoughts of others are like shadows—you can sense them but never fully grasp them.”
“The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)