T Quotes
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“The words 'believe' and 'repent' are now largely replaced by other terms such as "Give your life to Christ', 'Open your heart to Christ', 'Do it now', 'Surrender completely', 'Decide for Christ', etc., and in similar language those who profess conversion are sometimes represented as having 'given in'.”
Source: The Invitation System
“The words bounced off her like a stone skipping over the surface of a lake.
A stone may skip a long way, but it always sinks eventually.”
Source: Tess of the Road
“The words burned on her tongue, but Minerva couldn’t give them voice. What a hopeless coward she was. She could pound on his door at midnight and demand to be respected as an individual. She could travel across the country in hopes of being appreciated for her scholarly achievements. But she still lacked the courage to ask for the one thing she wanted most. To be loved, just for herself.”
“The words came out stale and clinical, the standard response he gave. Voicing it aloud wasn’t what hurt—it was the unsuspecting way grief still crash-collided with him even after all these years.”
Source: Stronger Than Hope
“The words came so fast they seemed to roll down hill. Nobody ever calls it all that; it's just spring wheat, but I like the words. They heap up and make a picture of a spring that's slow to come, when the ground stays frozen late into March and the air is raw, and the skies are sulky and dark”
Source: Winter Wheat
“The words came together and said how Joey died: alone and scared.
And he never did anything bad to anyone.
Ever.”
“The words can not return.”
“The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.”
Source: how to save your own life
“The words chance and genius do not denote any really existing thing and therefore cannot be defined.
Those words only denote a certain stage of understanding of phenomena. I do not know why a certain event occurs; I think that 1 cannot know it; so 1 do not try to know it and I talk about chance. I see a force producing effects beyond the scope of ordinary human agencies; I do not understand why this occurs and I talk of genius.
To a herd of rams, the ram the herdsman drives each evening into a special enclosure to feed and that becomes twice as fat as the others must seem to be a genius. And it must appear an astonishing conjunction of genius with a whole series of extraordinary chances that this ram, who instead of getting into the general fold every evening goes into a special enclosure where there are oats—-that this very ram, swelling with fat, is killed for meat.
But the rams need only cease to suppose that all that happens to them happens solely for the attainment of their sheepish aims; they need only admit that what happens to them may also have purposes beyond their ken, and they will at once perceive a unity and coherence in what happened to the ram that was fattened. Even if they do not know for what purpose they are fattened, they will at least know that all that happened to the ram did not happen accidentally.”
Source: War and Peace
“The words come. Usually, it's a long time before they come. And then when they start to come, it doesn't take so long for it to be finished. It takes a long time to begin. And then it sort of gets finished.”
“The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945
“The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time.”
“The words echoed around the cavern and broke through mere rock, so great was the force behind them, melted mere mountains, screamed across the miles.”
Source: Thud!
“The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken.”
Source: Summer rain
“The words ending in Ique do mocke the Physician (as Hectique, Paralitique, Apoplectique, Lethargique).”
Source: The Works of George Herbert: In Prose and Verse
“The words fire from my mouth like bullets, ricocheting off the walls before I can even register what I'm saying.”
Source: Forbidden
“The words flowed like water, unstoppable. She wrote about dreams lost and found, about fear and longing, about hope that refused to die. And as she typed, she felt lighter, like maybe, just maybe, she was finally stepping out of the darkness.”
Source: Nowhere Strangers: A Sapphic Coming-of-Age Story of Digital Romance, Heartbreak, and Self-Discovery
“The words from months ago that Nesta had tried so hard to forget swarmed from the darkest pit of her memory, each one stinging. You have become a pathetic waste of life.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“The words get easier the moment you stop fearing them.”
“The words given voice inside the mind are not always clear, however; they can be gentle and elliptical, what the prophets call the bat qol, the daughter of the voice of God, she who speaks in whispers and half-seen images.”
“The words 'good' and 'love' have become so trivialized in our culture--not that our definitions were so accurate to begin with--that, in times of distress or disappointment, we struggle to believe that God is either.”
“The words graphic designer, architect, or industrial designer stick in my throat, giving me a sense of limitation, of specialisation within the specialty, of a relationship to society and form itself that is unsatisfactory and incomplete. This inadequate set of terms to describe an active life reveals only partially the still undefined nature of the designer.”
“The words grew large in the night air, kept expanding, until I felt they were important beyond measure.
"How did the world get this way?"
"I don't know. Because of people, Borne. We did this to ourselves." We were still doing it to ourselves.”
Source: Borne
“The words had caught on the tip of her tongue, easy to summon but incredibly difficult to say.”
Source: In the Shadow of Time
“The words had felt more like a sting than love, even in my seven-year-old heart. I remember glancing at Mom every time a word was given. She never broke stride. Not once.”
Source: Southern Kentucky and Oceans Far Away
“The words had somehow managed to bypass reason on the way out of his mouth”
“The words have forasken us but we continue to write because the brave souls of Gaza continue to bleed. It is as if we are part of an endless funeral procession. The grief comes in waves, it ebbs and flows but mostly it crashes onto our hearts with great force and leaves us breathless. Helpless.”
“The ‘words’ have the power to kill! They are similar to destructive weapons such as, knives, pistols, bombs and so on.”
“The words he couldn’t quite say out loud, would spill out in amber, copper, and red from the mouth of his brush. His paintings said I love you. I love you and I won’t leave you.”
Source: Ellipsis
“The words he said, too, must be human enough to bleed.”
Source: Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
“The words hung in the air like dense weighted objects
waiting to crash. Her breath hung with it. He should have frozen, pushed her away, anything but what he did.
He kissed her gently on the top of her head.
Tears welled in her eyes, and she burrowed closer into the safety of all that warm skin. He was naked, yet she was the one completely and utterly exposed.”
Source: Taking the Score
“The words “I am” are powerful. We are declaring who we
are to the universe.”
Source: Live True: A Mindfulness Guide to Authenticity
“The words I AM are your sacred identification as God- your highest self. Take care how you use this terms because saying anything after I AM that's incongruent with God is really taking the Lord's name in vain!”
Source: Wishes Fulfilled: Mastering the Art of Manifesting
“The words, I love you, are empty without clarification. Women prefer to be told what they can expect. It is measurable like a Weight Watcher’s diet, with extra points at the end of the week if you don’t cheat.”
“The words ‘I love you’ are worthless when you don’t know who the 'I' is in that statement.”
Source: Keep Me In Mind
“The words —I love you, My Angel—beg to be said aloud. Soon…” ~ Malcolm Steele”
Source: Capture My Desires: Malcolm & Starr Part I
“The words I overuse are all adverbs.”
“The words I read in books seemed to strike me more deeply, and with my senses sharpened by grief, I noticed the glittering transition of the seasons as clearly as if I held the grief in the palm of my hand. It had been a long while since I'd experienced a fall so clear and crisp.”
Source: Dead-End Memories: Stories
“The words I use Are everyday words and yet are not the same! You will find no rhymes in my verse, no magic. There are your very own phrases.”
“The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway.”
“The words I write are not doors. They are places to stay for a while”
“The words in my diaries, No longer preserve my youth, So alone in those paragraphs, So faceless in those photographs, These scarlet lines on my palms, Are as aimless as my life…”
Source: Narcissistic Romanticism
“The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.”
Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes
“The words in the Bible are not just words; they are God’s words. Something happens when you read the Bible as opposed to any other piece of literature. It is almost too complicated to explain, but there is a simple concept that sums up the complexity of the matter. Ask yourself this question: “If I read the Bible every day for a year, for fifteen minutes a day, how would my life be different?” Pause right now and ask yourself this question. If you have never read the Bible before, dream about what this might mean for you.”
Source: Reviving Fatherhood: Guiding Every Dad from First Steps to Lasting Legacy
“The words It's not my fault! should never again come from your mouth. The words It's not my fault! have been symbolically written on the gravestones of unsuccessful people ever since Eve took her first bite of the apple.”
Source: The Young Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions That Determine Personal Success
“The words just wouldn’t come out.”
Source: Fallen Mountains
“The Words, Kaladin. That was Syl’s voice. You have to speak the Words!
I FORBID THIS.
YOUR WILL MATTERS NOT! Syl shouted. YOU CANNOT HOLD ME BACK IF HE SPEAKS THE WORDS! THE WORDS, KALADIN! SAY THEM!
“I will protect even those I hate,” Kaladin whispered through bloody lips. “So long as it is right.”
A Shardblade appeared in Moash’s hands.
A distant rumbling. Thunder.
THE WORDS ARE ACCEPTED, the Stormfather said reluctantly.
“Kaladin!” Syl’s voice. “Stretch forth thy hand!” She zipped around him, suddenly visible as a ribbon of light.
“I can’t…” Kaladin said, drained.
“Stretch forth thy hand!”
He reached out a trembling hand. Moash hesitated.
Wind blew in the opening in the wall, and Syl’s ribbon of light became mist, a form she often took. Silver mist, which grew larger, coalesced before Kaladin, extending into his hand.
Glowing, brilliant, a Shardblade emerged from the mist, vivid blue light shining from swirling patterns along its length.
Kaladin gasped a deep breath as if coming fully awake for the first time. The entire hallway went black as the Stormlight in every lamp down the length of the hall winked out.
For a moment, they stood in darkness.
Then Kaladin exploded with Light.
It erupted from his body, making him shine like a blazing white sun in the darkness. Moash backed away, face pale in the white brilliance, throwing up a hand to shade his eyes.
Pain evaporated like mist on a hot day. Kaladin’s grip firmed upon the glowing Shardblade, a weapon beside which those of Graves and Moash looked dull. One after another, shutters burst open up and down the hallway, wind screaming into the corridor. Behind Kaladin, frost crystalized on the ground, growing backward away from him. A glyph formed in the frost, almost in the shape of wings.
Graves screamed, falling in his haste to get away. Moash backed up, staring at Kaladin.
“The Knights Radiant,” Kaladin said softly, “have returned.”
Source: The Way of Kings: Book One of the Stormlight Archive
“The words kept coming and he could not stop them, not while Callie was standing there so indecipherably, and so he was going to keep talking until he used up all the words there were and then no one would be able to talk to anyone else anymore and then all anyone would have left were one another's unintelligible faces, and maybe some weird gesturing, too, and it would be all Oscar's fault.”
Source: The Real Boy
“The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.”
Source: 1984
“The words loved me and I loved them in return.”
Source: Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems