T Quotes
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“The years of imprisonment hardened me ... Perhaps if you have been given a moment to hold back and wait for the next blow, your emotions wouldn't be blunted as they have been in my case. When it happens every day of your life, when that pain becomes a way of life ... there is no longer anything I can fear. There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn't any pain I haven't known.”
“The years of life attain such a journey that no one knows where it ends; therefore, travel and avail it, in harmony, not in dissonance.”
“The years of old age are stalls in the cathedral of life in which for aged men to sit and listen and meditate and be patient till the service is over, and in which they may get themselves ready to say "Amen" at the last, with all their hearts and souls and strength.”
Source: Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...
“The years of searching in the dark for a truth that one feels but cannot express, the intense desire and the alternations of confidence and misgiving until one breaks through to clarity and understanding, are known only to him who has experienced them himself.”
“The years of stillness, with a life of illness taught me how to fly. Ironic really, they clipped my wings to trap me but i was in an eagle in another life.”
“The years of stillness, with a life of illness taught me how to fly. Ironic really, they clipped my wings to try and trap me in, not realising i was in an eagle in another life.”
“The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.”
“The years of the Great Depression were a superb time for economists because people not knowing what could be done or what should be done would always assume that maybe an economist had the answer. If you were just a lawyer in Washington, you were nobody. But if you were an economist, you might have the answer.”
“The years pass in their hundreds and their thousands, and what does any man see of life but a few summers, a few winters? We look at mountains and call them eternal, and so they seem... but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers change their courses, stars fall from the sky, and great cities sink beneath the sea. Even gods die, we think. Everything changes.”
Source: A Clash of Kings
“The years pass so quickly now that I can't keep my mental image of myself up to date. [Mature Dotsy deals with her age]”
Source: Death Of An Obnoxious Tourist
“The years passed and with her days, nothing was expensive”
“The years passed like the steps of a staircase leading lower and lower. I did not walk any more in the sun or hear the songs of larks like crystal fountains playing against the sky. No hand enfolded mine in the warm clasp of love. My thoughts were again solitary, disintegrate, disharmonious – the music gone. I lived alone in a few pleasant rooms, feeling my life run out aimlessly with the tedious hours: the life of an old maid ran out of my fingertips.”
Source: Asylum Piece
“The years passed. Untouched by age, he lived and did as his creator had suggested. Victim after victim, drink after drink, he tried to stop his hunger; however, it did not last for long. The tingling ache of emptiness crawled up from his gut until he could no longer stand it, and soon he would be out on the hunt all over again. He had never felt guilt for his murders. The power inside him reassured that he was above such emotions. Besides, he was the gate that opened their soul to his creator. He fed not only himself, but it.”
Source: Ruby
“The years rolled slowly past and I found myself alone. Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends, I found myself further and further from my home.”
“The years rolled their brutal course down the hill of time. Still poor, my clothes still smelling of the horse barn, still writing those doubtful poems where too much emotion clashed with too many words.”
Source: A Lucky American Childhood
“The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.”
Source: George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals
“The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me.”
“The years softened the hard edges of my anger - for I was angry at my loss, there is no other way to describe the utter pain”
Source: A Dangerous Place
“The years stretched before her, a long and dusty way, yet if she could walk humbly along it she might find that life, unfolding slowly, keeps its best secrets till the end.”
Source: The White Witch
“The years teach much the days never know.”
“The years teach much which the days never know.”
“The years teach us much, which the days never knew.”
“The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.”
“The years thunder by.
The dreams of youth grow dim
where they lie
caked in dust on the shelves of patience.
Before we know it, the tomb is sealed.
Where, then lies the answer?
In choice.
Which shall it be:
Bankruptcy of Purse
or Bankruptcy of Life?”
“The years thunder by, The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked in dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed.”
Source: Wanderer
“The years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, Slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized.”
Source: A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories
“The years will allow them to meet in the middle, when the boys thoughts expand and grandpa’s contract.”
Source: And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
“The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour.”
Source: Lonesome Dove
“The years wrinkle our skin, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles our soul.”
“The years, the months, the days, and the hours have flown by my open window. Here and there an incident, a towering moment, a naked memory, an etched countenance, a whisper in the dark, a golden glow these and much more are the woven fabric of the time I have lived.”
Source: With Head and Heart: The Autobiography of Howard Thurman
“The years... when I pursued the inner images were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this. It began at that time, and the later details hardly matter anymore. My entire life consisted in elaborating what had burst forth from the unconscious and flooded me like an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me. That was the stuff and material for more than only one life. Everything later was merely the outer classification, the scientific elaboration, and the integration into life. But the numinous beginning, which contained everything was then.”
“The Yeas are relatively uniform. They view [Bob] Dylan as one of the greatest artists of his or any era, who deserves to be taken as seriously as any litterateur. Where they vary is in some cases not even accepting the distinction: Dylan in their eyes is a literary titan, and the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature is simply official affirmation of what they already knew.”
“The Yeerks must not be allowed to think that they can use hostages against us."
"Aren't you kind of missing the point?" Cassie said quietly. "I thought the point was to save Bek."
"No," Toby said. "The point is to defeat the Yeerks. We must be strong. Once we free a Hork-Bajir, he must never be taken again."
"Do you think the Yeerks will respect you? They won't. They'll come after you harder," Cassie pointed out.
Toby nodded. "That is true. But the Hork-Bajir will respect themselves. A fool is strong so that others will see. A wise person is strong for himself. The Hork-Bajir will be strong for the Hork-Bajir. That way, when the Yeerks are all gone, we will still be strong.”
Source: The Pretender
“The Yellow Bear made its first appearance bobbing around on the swollen waters after the Great Flood, following which it disappeared for a while. It tended to show up in periods of unusual stress or upheaval. Even though it looked like it had been made in a factory by unskilled labourers, it had been forged in the Cradle of Civilisation and was said to be the product of a collaboration between humans and machines, lending some credence to the belief that machines had been on the planet long before humans were capable of making them.”
Source: Duplex
“The yellow brick road is paved with heartbreak — with a few crumbs of victory sprinkled along the way.”
“The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap And seeing that it was a soft October night Curled once about the house, and fell asleep”
Source: The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot
“The yellow glistens. It glistens with various yellows, Citrons, oranges and greens Flowering over the skin.”
Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
“The yellow Indians do have a meagre talent. The Negroes are far below them, and at the lowest point are a part of the American people.”
“The yellow Iris by the edge of the river is in early
blossom, some buds opened and others opening. The flower has only three petals; what look like inner petals are really stigmas that fold back, covering the stamens. These plants spread by their creeping roots; their orange seeds can, when ripe, be ground up and used as a sub- stitute for coffee.”
Source: What To Look For In Summer
“The yellow star?
Oh well, what of it?
You dont die of it.”
Source: Night: with related readings
“The Yellow Wallpaper" seemed to me now to be the story of what can happen when you listen to a doctor-when you buy into your "case-history construction." When you don't listen to yourself, when you place your trust and authority elsewhere. The narrator loses her mind completely, becomes the madwoman, the identity they've given her. The "rationale" for their treatment of her is now confirmed; she is sick, indeed. This is what can happen: You are seen as mad, you begin acting mad.”
Source: Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
“The yellowfly is almost too small to see, but if you leave its egg in your skin, you will lose an arm or leg before it hatches - if it does not kill you.”
Source: Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'
“The Yellowstone river is a beautiful river to navigate.”
“The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil and a burden to the soul. They therefore, regardless of personal hazard, see it as their unpleasant duty to acquire as much as possible in order to reduce the risk to innocent people.”
Source: Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)
“The yen is trading where it's trading because people are guessing about people's future interest rates, dollar and yen and about the future growth potential of the economies. And, if this policy works, then the yen will probably strengthen.”
“The Yesees said yes to anything That anyone suggested. The Noees said no to everything Unless it was proven and tested. So the Yesees all died of much too much And the Noees all died of fright, But somehow I think the Thinkforyourselfees All came out all right.”
“The Yeti way is to hold sorrow and happiness, both, together. The happiness warms the sorrow like the sun warms ice in the river, and at last the ice melts, and the river flows sweetly on.”
Source: Yeti Boy
“The Yiddish mentality is not haughty. It does not take victory for granted. It does not demand and command but it muddles through, sneaks by, smuggles itself amidst the powers of destruction, knowing somewhere that God's plan for Creation is still at the very beginning.”
Source: Aspects of I.B. Singer
“The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.”
“The Yippie demonstrations were merely an attack of mental disobedience on an obediently insane society... and if you feel you have been living in an unreal world for the last couple of years, it is particularly because this power structure has refused to listen to reason... Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.”