T Quotes
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“There are books which one should not attempt before having passed the age of forty.”
“There are books which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.”
“There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace. And then one day we find, in some summing-up of our life and put attitudes towards experience, that their influence has been enormous.”
“There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.”
“There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.”
“There are bound to be deniers. Whenever you set up a thesis there's bound to be somebody who comes the opposite way …like Holocaust deniers.”
“There are bound to be differences in any artistic collaboration with landscape elements, or theater, of lighting elements.”
“There are boundless possibilities for us if we dare to act in God and dare to believe!”
Source: Ever Increasing Faith
“There are boxers possessed of such remarkable intuition, such uncanny prescience, one would think they were somehow recalling their fights, not fighting them as we watch.”
Source: On Boxing
“There are boxes of clementines
in the kitchen and the thing is that
I love you again. The thing is that
I love what orange tastes like so
I eat too much of it and end up sick.
Last year, I brought up questions
about mending after loss
and all orange could bring was
eye spasms and stomach aches.
But now, the only pain left is left
in rinds, and there are plenty of ways
to remove it from the heart.
I won’t do it, though. Instead, I will
mock the break with more breaking
and eat all the clementines again.
I only say “again” because
I don’t know how to say
I never stopped.”
“There are boys lying awake, hating themselves. There are boys screwing for the right reasons and boys screwing for the wrong ones. There are boys sleeping on benches and under bridges, and luckier unlucky boys sleeping in shelters, which feel like safety but not like home. There are boys so enraptured by love that they can't get their hearts to slow down enough to get some rest, and other boys so damaged by love that they can't stop picking at their pain. There are boys who clutch secrets at night in the same way they clutch denial in the day. There are boys who do not think of themselves at all when they dream. There are boys who will be woken in the night. There are boys who fall asleep with phones to their ears.”
Source: Two Boys Kissing
“There are boys so enraptured by love that they can't get their hearts to slow down enough to get some rest, and other boys so damaged by love that they can't stop picking at their pain.”
Source: Two Boys Kissing
“There are boys who will make you cry, and then there are boys who are worth spending your fabulous energy on.”
Source: Crushed
“There are boys you look at and want to touch with your mouth, and there are boys you look at and want to wear one of those surgical masks everyone in China had during bird flu. There are a lot more bird-flu boys at large.”
Source: Night of Cake and Puppets: A Daughter of Smoke and Bone Novella
“There are brains so large that they unconsciously swamp all individualities ties which come in contact or too near, and brains so small that they cannot take in the conception of any other individuality as a whole, only in part or parts.”
“There are branches of learning and education which we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and these are to be valued for their own sake; whereas those kinds of knowledge which are useful in business are to be deemed necessary, and exist for the sake of other things.”
Source: Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens
“There are brands out there, plus-size brands, that all they want to do is sell their clothes and be done.”
“There are brave men. And there are brave women.”
“There are braying men in the world, as well as braying asses; for what is loud and senseless talking any other than away of braying?”
“There are breathtaking views from the top of the highest mountains. You can only experience them if you dare to climb. So, muster your courage to go on a hike.”
Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World
“There are brilliant out lesbians and gay men and bisexuals and transgendered people and heterosexuals keeping the fire of change alive. Not a day goes by when I don't feel grateful to them for their work.”
“There are broad shoulders, the saying went, even where there are no broad shoulders.”
Source: The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine
“There are broader and narrower definitions of the new economy. The narrow version defines the new economy in terms of two principal developments: first, an increase in the economy's maximum sustainable growth rate and, second, the spread and increasing importance of information and communications technology.”
“There are brothels now that are run a certain way, and women make educated choices to become part of the sex industry. Their health is taken care of, and their children can be put through school. But, sadly, there's the underbelly of that, and I think that back then women did hold a lot more power in that regard.”
“There are brown eyes in the world, after all, as well as blue, and one pair of brown that meant heaven to me as the blue had never done”
“There are bruises on the limbs that won't break that are far more uncomfortable and traumatic than those that do. They call it depression, an ill-fated monster that devours, cuts, breaks, and crushes you from within.”
“There are bugs and there are the pigeons and other predators, but you shouldn't be afraid of them, because this is how nature works.”
“There are bullfighters who do it just for the money-they are worthless [said Hemingway]. The only one who matters is the bullfighter who feels it, so that if he did it for nothing, he would do it just as well. Same holds true for damn near everyone.”
Source: Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir
“There are buoyant powers of healing at work in the world that do not depend on us, that we need not finance or keep functioning and that are not at our disposal.”
“There are bursts of things like Abraham Lincoln or Ronald Reagan or Franklin Delano Roosevelt or same-sex marriage that change very much what we thought we were all about.”
“There are but a few blood purifiers and these are all in the body. We know them as the liver, kidneys, lungs, colon, and a few glands.”
Source: Hygienic Review
“There are but a few that look on themselves as concerned at all, just like a company of simple sheep in a fat pasture. The butcher comes and fetches one today, another tomorrow. The rest feed on and take no notice of what is become of their lost companions. 'Tis as if a company of condemned persons (reprieved for a time) should be appointed to be executed one after another...”
“There are but few commanders who properly appreciate the value of celerity.”
“There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.”
Source: The Personal Memoirs of General U. S.
“There are but few naval powers, but there are many land powers.”
“There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.”
“There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.”
“There are but few talents requisite to become a popular preacher; for the people are easily pleased if they perceive any endeavors in the orator to please them. The meanest qualifications will work this effect if the preacher sincerely sets about it.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.
“There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.”
“There are but three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the warrior and the poet. To know, to kill and to create. The rest of mankind may be taxed and drudged, they are born for the stable, that is to say, to practise what they call professions.”
Source: Intimate Journals
“There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live.”
“There are but three political-economic roads from which we can choose... We could take the first course and further exacerbate the already concentrated ownership of productive capital in the American economy. Or we could join the rest of the world by taking the second path, that of nationalization. Or we can take the third road, establishing policies to diffuse capital ownership broadly, so that many individuals, particularly workers, can participate as owners of industrial capital. The choice is ours.”
“There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world,--to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it; the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions
“There are but three ways for the populace to escape its wretched lot. The first two are by the routes of the wine-shop or the church; the third is by that of the social revolution.”
“There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: "I shall suffer," and "I shall die.”
“There are but two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.”
“There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party.”
Source: The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant: April to September, 1861
“There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever.”
Source: America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island
“There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.”
“There are but two sorts of government: one where men show their teeth at each other, and one where men show their tongues and lick the feet of the strongest.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)