T Quotes
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“The times that tried men's souls are over-and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily accomplished.”
Source: The Crisis: A Work Written While with the Army of the Revolution, with a View of Stimulating that Patriotic Band to Persevere in Their Glorious Struggle for the Rights of Man
“The times that we are in, it's something that you can only feel in the air. You don't even have to talk about it. You don't need the news or the Internet to watch it. You can walk outside and just feel it.”
“The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was.”
Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition
“The times they are a-changing.”
“The times we find ourselves having to wait on others may be the perfect opportunities to train ourselves to wait on the Lord.”
Source: Glorious Intruder: God's Presence in Life's Chaos
“the times we worked harder to make the day stand out. our story demanded that we change and so we did.”
“The times when I feel not alive is when I feel stifled, when I feel like the emotion that's in me is not coming out. I'm too busy, too hectic. I'm serving my iPhone more than my spirit. Those are the times I feel bad.”
“The times when we could fully count on others are over to a certain extent.”
“The times when we need prayers or counsel, we are little like to be in a mood to learn, nor yet to understand.”
Source: The Bridal Wreath: Kristin Lavransdatter
“The times when you want to cry are when you have to try your hardest. That's why I decided I'll cry in general. Then, when I have to shed tears for a time when I really want to cry, my tears would have run dry”
“The times you don't make it are the ones children remember, not the times you do.”
Source: I Don't Know how She Does it: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother
“The times you impress me the most are the times when you don't try.”
“The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life.”
Source: Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To
“The Times' new credibility committee report that was issued on Monday very specifically said they will be putting in a policy that reporters must get permission from their department heads to appear on television, which I think is a really good thing.”
“The timetable is only necessary to develop discipline, but in reality, you don't need a schedule to worship God; instead, He should be welcomed into the heart.”
“The timid and fearful cannot defend liberty -- or anything else.”
“The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.”
“The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles.”
Source: The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
“The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.”
“The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.”
“The timid may say, “What is the use? We shall be sent to prison.” To them I would reply: Even if only two percent of those assigned to perform military service should announce their refusal to fight, as well as urge means other than war of settling international disputes, governments would be powerless, they would not dare send such a large number of people to jail.”
“The timidity in mainstream feminism to admit that women’s choices—not just our problems—are, in the end, political has led to a vision of “women’s empowerment” that often feels brutally disempowering in the end. The root of this trouble is the fact that mainstream feminism has had to conform to patriarchy and capitalism to become mainstream in the first place. Old requirements, instead of being overthrown, are rebranded. Beauty work is labeled “self-care” to make it sound progressive.”
Source: Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
“The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it - because it is a fact.”
“The timing & characteristics of state intervention affect not only organizational tactics and strategies, but the content and definition of interest itself... Some scholars have directly stressed that state interventions create corporatist forms... the formation, let alone the political capabilities, of such purely socioeconomic phenomena as interest groups and classes depends in significant measure on the structures and activities of the very states the social actors, in turn, seek to influence.”
“The timing for directing is usually because it takes that long to develop a piece and then do pre-production and then post-production. It takes at least a couple of years. I prefer directing to doing other things. Directing and writing seem to be infinitely more creative”
“The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.”
Source: With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson
“The timing of God is in a perfect order.”
“The timing of the electrical failure seemed dramatic and perfectly correct, as if the lights had said, "You have no need for sight. Listen.”
Source: Bel Canto
“The timing of your decision is just as important as the decision you make.”
“The timing of your struggle depends on how resistant you are to your moulding.”
“The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything.”
Source: 7 Books in 1: L. Frank Baum's
“The tiniest bits of opinion sown in the minds of children in private life afterwards issue forth to the world, and become its public opinion; for nations are gathered out of nurseries.”
Source: Character. Repr
“The tiniest criticism or put-down soaks into me and lies in my heart like a stone. Sometimes that spurs me on to work harder, but sometimes it just fills me up with sadness.”
Source: Chocolate Box Girls: Summer's Dream
“The tiniest dream that you make happen is worth more than the biggest dream that you never attempt.”
“The tinkle of wind chimes announcing the return of our fairy guests made us both look up. Our chance to be alone was going to be shorter than either of us had hoped.
I sighed and brushed an errant dragon scale from Eadric’s tunic. “Someday when we have lots of time, remind me to tell you what you mean to me.”
Eadric tilted my head back so he could gaze into my eyes. “I can tell you what you mean to me with just one word.”
Let me guess,” I said, smiling up at him. “Maybe I make you happy because you no longer have to enter kissing contests to find the best kisser? Do I bring excitement into your life because I can wisk you away to exotic lands on my magic carpet? Or do you find me delightful because I can conjure food whenever you’re hungry?”
No, that’s not. . . Wait, what was that last one?”
I laughed and shook my head. “Never mind. So tell me in one word, what do I mean to you?”
That’s easy,” said Eadric. “Everything!”
Source: No Place for Magic
“The Tinted Windows shows were very fun but it's very different for me as a performer. I'm not playing music - I'm just singing and I missed that. I miss rocking out on keys, drums, guitar... whatever it is.”
“The tints of autumn...a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.”
Source: Tales and Sketches, Complete Volume V., the Works of Whittier: Tales and Sketches
“The tiny bell above the door jingled, and that was the only warning Hadi got.
A gunshot went off with such volume and force that Hadi dropped to the ground out of instinct as the door splintered right where his head had been mere moments before.”
Source: Hellfire
“The tiny body was slippery, and he held her tightly, afraid she’d slither out of his grip. He rotated the infant face-up, holding her about ten inches away from his face. The top of her head had a slight cone shape. Her blue-tinged hands pinked. The baby’s eyes were open, alert and seemingly amazed.
They connected with his.
A jolt of intense feeling, of recognition, flowed between them. As he gazed on the scrunched features of the infant, love surged through him. He’d never felt such a feeling before, and his chest ached with the joyful pressure. Caleb wanted to curl her to his chest and keep her safe. He pressed a kiss to her forehead, inhaling a scent that surprised him with its sweetness.
“My baby?” Maggie asked.
The infant broke eye contact with Caleb and turned her face toward the sound of her mother’s voice. He blinked back moisture from his eyes and grinned. “You have a beautiful daughter.”
Source: Mystic Montana Sky
“The tiny cost of failure...is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.”
“The tiny features below, taken together with the gentle mass of Montblanc towering above them, the Vanoise glacier almost invisible in the shimmering distance, and the Alpine panorama that occupied half the horizon, had for the first time in her life awoken in her a sense of the contrarieties that are in our longings.”
Source: The Emigrants
“The tiny feeling of loss deep within my heart surprises me. My peers will spend the next few days swooning over pictures of their Matches, bragging about them during meal hours at school, waiting for more and more bits of information to be revealed. Anticipating their first meeting, their second meeting, and so on. That mystery does not exist for Xander and me. I won't wonder what he is like or daydream about our first meeting.”
Source: Matched
“The tiny Fireball was like a mother’s embrace, a kiss from a soulmate, the hug of a daughter never born, a dream pined for an eternity, finally realised.”
Source: The Tiny Fireball: A Novel
“The tiny fish enjoy themselves
in the sea.”
Source: Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition
“The tiny flame that lights up the human heart is like a blazing torch that comes down from heaven to light up the paths of mankind. For in one soul are contained the hopes and feelings of all Mankind.”
“The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.”
“The tiny madman in his padded cell.”
“The tiny red-hatted gnome held a stack of books, the titles delicately carved onto the spines and painted in gold. Each book represented a different part of her. Outlander for their love across time and because it was one of her favorites. Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen because she had found it in the bookstore. A Christmas Carol because they both loved Christmas. Lily and the Octopus, presumably because of Bernie, and lastly Circle of Friends, which seemed self-explanatory.”
Source: Once Upon a December
“The tiny space, the toilet, two hundred strangers just a few inches away, it's so exciting, the lack of room to maneuver, it helps if you're double-jointed. Use your imagination. Some creativity and a few simple stretching exercises and you can be knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door. You'll be amazed how time flies.”
Source: Choke: A Novel
“The tiny specks float down around me as despair breaks every bone in my body one by one until I'm nothing but a pile of ash with a beating heart.”
Source: Broken