T Quotes
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“There are always seasons to a career and perhaps always the grass is often greener, you're often looking at other people's careers going, "Damn, they get all the good roles. Why didn't I read that? Why didn't they ask me to do that?"”
“There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel
“There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people to say: 'I said then that it would be so'”
Source: War and Peace
“There are always so many things happening [to us] at one time. We read Isherwood's A Single Man in class, and we had to ask: How is he talking about all this stuff: teaching, being lonely, all his memories, all at the same time? He's telling us: This is where my head is at, let me be straightforward. And of course, try be artful about it.”
“There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.”
Source: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: The perspective of the world
“There are always some doubts when you do a new album though. You wonder whether you succeeded or not, especially when you waited as long as I did for this one - seven years. You're never really sure if it will be a nice record or not.”
“There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.”
“There are always some of us, not a few, in every generation, who go over wholly to the green flag. It is such a passionless fealty, so reticent a love, that neither do trumpets sound for it nor quarrels arise from it. Only, you will find that those who have pledged allegiance are happy about it in quiet.”
“There are always some people who are ready to embrace a doctrine, a notion, a dogma, and they miss the real teaching.”
Source: Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers
“There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.”
Source: The world according to Garp
“There are always surprises. Life may be inveterately grim and the surprises disproportionately unpleasant, but it would be hardly worth living if there were no exceptions, no sunny days, no acts of random kindness.”
Source: The Tortilla Curtain
“There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.”
“There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend.”
Source: New and Selected Poems 1974-1994
“There are always these moments in life when the limits of suffering are reached and we become heroes and heroines.”
Source: The Katherine Mansfield notebooks
“There are always things I have to remove. I might look at a shot for five months, when somebody new to the screening room will say, 'hey, there's a modern air conditioner in that window.' It's a process.”
“There are always things that I think I wish I could have done better.”
“There are always things that you see that are pretty tough, sure. But what keeps you going is when you see people rise above toughness and rise above really hard conditions, and make something of it.”
“There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting.”
“There are always things to improve on. I want to improve on my defense, and you can never be a perfect hitter. I want to focus on just playing more and being able to improve on all parts of my game.”
“There are always those Gossip Girl walk-and-talk scenes where you're walking and just talking about life and death. You're having a serious conversation, looking someone in the eye, but everywhere around you, it's literally a circus.”
“There are always those people wringing their hands and groaning about their failures as if always caused by other people or circumstances beyond their control. They rant about why things can’t be done. Hah! People actually doing those very things repeatedly interrupt the naysayers! That is not only fun, but also it makes the discipline and effort of doing the right things even more satisfying and personally rewarding.”
Source: Healthy Thinking Habits: Seven Attitude Skills Simplified
“There are always those times when you're going to be down. It's how you step through it that makes you the person you are.”
“There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange for a payment of money out of the Federal Treasury. Whenever they find some abuse needs correction in their neighborhood, instead of applying the remedy themselves they seek to have a tribunal sent on from Washington to discharge their duties for them, regardless of the fact that in accepting such supervision they are bartering away their freedom.”
“There are always those who aspire to deprive minorities of their equality and civil rights. They NEVER sleep – they wait for an opportunity to realize their aspirations – and those minorities who stop being willing to demonstrate timeously that they are willing to fight for their rights, are destined to lose them.”
Source: Pearls Before Swine
“There are always those who say legislation can't solve the problem. There is a half-truth involved here. It is true that legislation cannot solve the whole problem. It can solve some of the problem. It may be true that morality can't be legislated, but behavior can be regulated.”
“There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence, were something weak and helpless. These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy begging for a few paise, walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, "Business as usual." But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a different story. Their faces go red, their chests heave mightily, they sputter angry words. The degree of their indignation is astonishing. Their resolve is frightening.
These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart. Meanwhile, the lot of widows and homeless children is very hard, and it is to their defense, not God's, that the self-righteous should rush.”
Source: Life of Pi
“There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God... These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside.”
Source: Life Of Pi, Illustrated
“There are always those who would put on armour and go into battle. but the real genius is in finding a way to get what you desire without dying for it.”
“There are always three sides to every memory…yours, theirs, and the truth, which lies somewhere in between the two”
Source: Seize The Night
“There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.”
Source: The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking
“There are always times in life that you don't fit in. But you have to go forward and make a place for yourself. That's what growing up is all about. Being strong and believing in yourself-even when you're most afraid.”
Source: Kristin Hannah's Coming Home 4-Book Bundle: On Mystic Lake, Summer Island, Distant Shores, Home Again
“There are always times where the place of a commander isn't back with his Major State, but onward with his troops.”
“There are always tons of names on a movie of people that didn't actually do anything on that film. I feel bad for the people that busted their ass because they get the same credit as someone who did nothing. It's kind of a weird thing.”
“There are always too few perfect breasts in this world; leave yours alone.”
Source: The Princess Bride
“There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.”
“There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before.”
“There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.”
Source: Wide Sargasso Sea
“There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations.”
“There are always two forces warring against each other within us.”
Source: The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness
“There are always two journeys within a journey: The first is the journey itself, and the second is the journey of the changes in you while traveling!”
“There are always two kinds of people in every country: Progressives and reactionaries; wise people and ignorant; democrats and fascists; libertarians and oppressive. All struggles happen between these two parties. If you are in the first group, your greatest reward will be dignity and victory!”
“There are always two or three or four sides to every story.”
“There are always two parties;
the establishment and the movement.”
“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.”
“There are always two people involved in cruelty, aren't there? One to be vicious and someone to suffer! And what's the use of getting rid of - of wickedness, say - in the outside world if you let it creep back into things from inside you?”
“There are always two risks. There's the risk of not trying something new, and there's the risk of not trying it. . . . Either way, there's risk. And sometimes stepping out and trying something new is actually the less risky thing to do.”
Source: How to Be Here: A Guide to Creating a Life Worth Living
“There are always two sides of a coin, our Life too has two sides... on one side there is life where there are questions and fears but, on the other side there is a whole new world full of answers and peace.”
“There are always two sides to a coin, and you should always try looking at the side that makes you feel happier.”
“There are always two types of people in this world: Those who turn darkness into more darkness and those who turn darkness into more light!”
“There are always Uncles at Christmas.”
Source: Παιδικά Χριστούγεννα στην Ουαλία