T Quotes
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“Then if he's sore with me, let him dump my ass. That will just give me more time to be a genius.”
“Then if my friendships break and bend, There's little need to cry The while I know that every foe Is faithful till I die.”
Source: Dorothy Parker
“Then if the actor comes up with, "It's more logical to do this," I just change it [a scene] on the spot.”
“Then, if to make your ruin more,
You'll peevishly be coy,
Die with the scandal of a whore
And never know the joy.”
Source: The Complete Poems
“Then if we make it to tomorrow, we'll be here to pick up the pieces, and help him carry his load. That's what we do when we love someone: we don't stop them from breaking, we help put them back together.”
Source: Reign Of The Wolf
“Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.”
“Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.”
“Then, in 1738, Robert Jenkins, a British merchant captain, was summoned to appear in Parliament, where he reportedly claimed that a Spanish officer had stormed his brig in the Caribbean and, accusing him of smuggling sugar from Spain's colonies, cut off his left ear. Jenkins reputedly displayed his severed appendage, pickled in a jar, and pledged "my cause to my country." The incident further ignited the passions of Parliament and pamphleteers, leading people to cry for blood - an ear for an ear - and a good deal of booty as well. The conflict became known as the War of Jenkins' Ear.”
Source: The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
“Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents.”
“Then, in a blink, his ghost of memory was gone, leaving behind only the uncomfortable feeling of having been someone other than himself for a sliced instant of his life. He felt as if he were stuck between two futures, and whatever he did next would become the decision to live in one of them.”
Source: Dysfunction
“Then in a firm but beastly means, Bat thrust himself deep inside and threw his powerful body on top of Lizy...”
Source: The Color of Honey
“Then in a great crash they threw themselves to the floor, ears flopped down, the whites of their eyes showing, looking the way only a dog can look who is totally disappointed. Indeed, they were the very pictures of disappointment.”
“Then, in an unusual moment, she grew emotional, which left little doubt about the level of profound respect and admiration Merkel had for her American colleague:
‘So eight years are coming to a close. This is the last visit of (President) Barack Obama to our country…I am very glad that he chose Germany as one of the stopovers on this trip…Thank you for the reliable friendship and partnership you demonstrated in very difficult hours of our relationship. So let me again pay tribute to what we’ve been able to achieve, to what we discussed, to what we were able to bring about in difficult hours.”
Source: Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel
“Then in came this script with another very low offer, and another drug addict and a depressing and difficult part to play. I thought, 'Why should I put myself through that for hardly any money?'”
“Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.”
“Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting. But I didn't know you could make a living that way.”
“Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that.”
“Then in October, Indian Summer, the air turned so soft, the sunlight so fragile, and each day's loveliness so poignantly doomed that even self-ignorance and restlessness felt like profound states of being, and he just wandered the empty beaches and misty headlands in a state of serene confusion and awe.”
Source: The Brothers K
“Then in the interest of full honesty, I really wish you'd kiss me right now.”
Source: Horde
“Then in the slow creeping course of eternity the utmost cycle of the cosmos churned itself into another futile completion, and all things became again as they were unreckoned kalpas before. Matter and light were born anew as space once had known them; and comets, suns and worlds sprang flaming into life, though nothing survived to tell that they had been and gone, been and gone, always and always, back to no first beginning.”
Source: The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
“Then India, everyone has his own idea of India.”
“Then instead of introducing Dre as the guy from N.W.A., Jerry Heller would say Dre was my producer! Dre would come to my interviews with me - he'd come to all these places that would never have had the guy from N.W.A. Wasn't it genius?”
“Then, instead of telling her that where there was life there was hope, or to let a smile be her umbrella, or that it was always darkest just before the dawn, or anything else that had just lately fallen out of the dog's ass, she simply held her. Because sometimes only holding was best. That was one of the things she had taught that man whose last name she had taken for her own--that sometimes it was best to be quiet; sometimes it was best to just shut your everlasting mouth and hang on, hang on, hang on.”
Source: Lisey's Story
“Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart; for, truly, I love none. Beatrice: A dear happiness to women: they would else have been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me. -Much Ado About Nothing”
Source: William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
“Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?”
“Then is Love blest, when from the cup of the body he drinks the wine of the soul.”
“Then is what you see through this window onto the world so lovely that you have no desire whatsoever to look out through any other window, and that you even make an attempt to prevent others from doing so?”
“Then it began to dawn on us: There was no miracle moment. Although it may have looked like a single-stroke breakthrough to those peering in from the outside, it was anything but that to people experiencing transformation from within. Rather, it was a quiet, deliberate process of figuring out what needed to be done to create the best future results and then simply taking those steps, one after the other, turn by turn of the flywheel. After pushing on that flywheel in a consistent direction over an extended period of time, they'd inevitably hit a point of breakthrough.”
Source: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
“Then it cleared: farther down the hallway, a door had opened on a flourish of sunlight. Into the light stepped a youth, white and gold, a celestial apparition—the Earl of Southampton. His face was beardless still, the eyes pale blue and with the lashless look of redheads. His auburn tresses, artfully curled, fell almost to his elbows. He was six feet tall and lovely as a waterfall, as pretty as a flowering tree. White silk, white velvet, cloth of gold. A gold filigree earring in one ear. Emilia knew him from her days of attendance on the Queen: an uncanny, androgynous youth with the despotic pout of the beautiful, who can never be sufficiently loved.”
Source: The Heavens
“Then it comes the day when you can't be your best version…, because such version doesn't exist.”
“Then it crosses my mind, "But I’m a very busy woman! I don’t have time for a stroke!"”
“Then it dawned on me that inexperience/ignorance speaks from a blissful place. And those people should be falling to their knees thanking GOD each night that he didn’t choose them, to experience life’s hardest trials, but understand that he saw in someone else, the capability.”
“Then it dawned on me that no one else was going to believe in me until I believed in myself.”
Source: The Magic Of Thinking Big
“Then it doesn't matter which way you walk...-so long as I get somewhere.”
Source: Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
“Then it evolved into more of a ballad style singer/songwriter thing. And there was a conflict in trying to merge the two styles with the same band behind me. 'Cause the musicians that I would need to do ballad-oriented tunes would require musicians who were more into jazz.”
“Then it got worse. When I went shopping, the local merchants told me the Mc Cants were by telling them not to sell to me or else they would take vengeance out on their store. I had to go shopping further and further away from my apartment. Sometimes, when a bus came by my pick up point, one of the Mc Cants was standing by the driver telling him not to stop there. They even stood outside the factory I worked at holding up signs that read “This factory employs a murderer”. From Fear and Retribution”
Source: A Week's Worth of Fiction 1, People on The Edge: A Storyteller Series Book
“Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“Then it happened. One of those rare moments when your faith in the Almighty is reaffirmed and you realize that a chapter in a person’s life has just been punctuated with a comma instead of a period.”
Source: The Art of Raising Hell
“Then it happened that whenever he began to see Mari's [Mary Magdalene] passionate enthusiasm, her eyes emanating a light that amply showed how contended she was aiding so many people, Jesus could not help but be proud of his most-beloved disciple. Mari, likewise, felt indebted and grateful to Jesus as she saw her fellow sisters gradually being saved on all counts, some even going on to become some of Jesus's staunchest disciples...”
Source: The Secret Gospel of Jesus, AD 0-78
“Then it hasn't been love," said May Bartram.
"Well, I at least thought it was. I took it for that--I've taken it till now. It was agreeable, it was delightful, it was miserable," he explained.”
Source: The Beast in the Jungle
“Then it hit me and I grinned at him. “You want to suck my dick!”
His face grew redder. “You don’t have to say it like that,” he grumbled.
I almost felt contrite. “I’m sorry. How about you want to make love to my member with your oral cavity? Or how about you want to fellate me until I let loose my love juice? Is that better?”
Source: Burn
“Then it hit me and I just blurted, 'I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Then it is also in my heart to be worthy of your hate.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“Then it is better, sir, to love whom one cannot have?" "Probably better," Lancelot said. "Certainly safer.”
Source: The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains.”
Source: The Housebreaker of Shady Hill, and Other Stories: By John Cheever
“Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known this? Faced this? And-how many of us do know it? ... Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up. I suppose only a few are aware of all this. Isolated persons here and there. But the broad masses-what do they think? All these hundreds of thousands in this city, here. Do they imagine that they live in a sane world? Or do they guess, glimpse, the truth...?”
Source: Four novels of the 1960s
“Then it is not uncommon for a man to become lost in a single letter, or hear a voice rise up from the silent page.”
“Then it is, perhaps, that He must allow our whole world to be turned upside down in order to remind us it is not our permanent abode or final destiny, to bring us to our senses and restore our sense of values, to turn our thoughts once more to him--even if at first our thoughts are questioning and full of reproaches.”
“Then it kissed me—not as a man would kiss a lover, not with tenderness or even passion. This was a kiss that stole the soul of men. Revulsion at this creature’s kiss was instantly replaced by the warmth stealing through my veins, as if my missing blood were being replenished and contrived to heal me. I craved to keep kissing the beast. My entire being awakened to that kiss feeding me ecstasy, feeding me life.”
Source: The Tiefling: Angel Kissed, Devil Touched
“Then it occurred to me that there are two types of people: those who wait for the whole two lanes of a road to be completely clear before they venture across and those who risk it and charge into the middle, not knowing when they’ll get the chance to make a run for it to the other side. Neither is better than the other. The first one will have fewer problems and fewer adventures, and the second one will have more adventures and make more mistakes.”
Source: To Throw Away Unopened