T Quotes
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“There are some seismic cultural shifts that are underway online, and they are adding new vital layers to our digital landscape.”
Source: From the Ground Up: Digital Fundraising For Nonprofits
“There are some self-inflicted life sentences. We all carry prisons of regret inside our heads, unable to break free of the guilt and pain they cause us.”
Source: His & Hers
“There are some sequences in films that I think work filmicly, that stand out to me, but thats much more to do with the staging and the cutting and the mood of the thing as a sequence, the way everything comes together.”
“There are some serious limitations in Mo Yan's situation as a writer in China today - just as there are for Jia Zhangke, one of the world's greatest film directors. He can only phrase his dissent obliquely, in his art. Writers in "free" societies labor under no such constraints. They can write more or less whatever they want in both their fiction and their commentary. Yet so many of them look oddly inhibited, even timid, and depressingly a couple of prominent figures actually positioned themselves to the right of their governments, intelligence agencies, and corporations.”
“There are some short essays that are very grave, and most contemporary novels are lighter than air.”
“There are some sick people in this world.”
“There are some sights that, once seen, can never be unseen. They replay themselves on a loop in your mind’s home-theatre system with Dolby surround sound until you’re so desperate to be rid of them that you’ll resort to other loops simply to dislodge them for a while.”
Source: The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted
“There are some silences that are so huge, and fraught, and haunted, and weighed, and shocked, that they just are; there's nothing you can say about them that makes any sense. All you can do is witness them, and feel some deep ache that such things arrive, and must be endured, with wordless aching all around.”
Source: The Plover
“There are some silent people who are more interesting than the best talkers.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“There are some similarities, of course (between Iraq and Vietnam). Death is terrible.”
“There are some simple maxims which I think might be commended to writers of expository prose. First: never use a long word if a short word will do. So, if you want to make a statement with a great many qualifications, put some of the qualifications in separate sentences. Third: do not let the beginning of your sentence lead the reader to an expectation which is contradicted by the end.”
Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
“There are some singer-songwriters who start out as poets. So someone like Leonard Cohen wrote and published poetry in the early 60s, but then started writing songs. Bob Dylan's a poet in the sense of bard, aoidos or vates.”
“There are some singers that have great technique and then there are those that have a certain quality or style in their voice. Some have both, like Freddie Mercury, but to me, I prefer style over technique.”
“There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.”
“There are some sins that can never be forgiven, for to do so would be to commit a far greater sin.”
Source: The Little Bird
“There are some sins which are more justly to be denominated surprises than infidelities. To such the world should be lenient, as, doubtless, Heaven is forgiving.”
“There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic.”
Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays
“There are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about, because when you are neutral you are an accomplice. Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing.”
“There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime.”
Source: THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO: Classic French Literature
“There are some sleeping dogs that should be left to lie; there are some questions that should not be asked.”
Source: Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural
“There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.”
Source: A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published
“there are some some times in life where you have to let your feelings go and do what must be done”
Source: The Black Banner
“There are some songs we do, like "Last Chance," I love it! But sometimes you just don't like your voice on certain things.”
“There are some songs where I'll have had the music for 20 years and then finally the lyric will come through. That's not common but it does happen. Then there are other songs that come really quickly.”
“There are some souls so base and filthy that they love gain and interest as noble souls love fame and virtue, knowing one pleasure only, that of making money or of not losing it; anxious and avid for their ten per cent; entirely preoccupied with what is owed them; forever concerned about the depreciation or discredit of money; buried, and as it were engulfed, amid contracts, title-deeds and parchments. Such people are neither parents, friends, citizens or Christians, nor, perhaps, even men; they merely have money.”
“There are some souls who develop a penchant and an unhealthy appetite for a certain kind of experience. So, they experience an awful lot of those experiences. These souls are addicted, just like a smoker is, to cigarettes. But it does not make them any less inferior or bad. It just delays their journey.”
Source: The Gods Are Not Dead
“There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.”
“There are some stories, histories and facts a child must know by age 14. Must! A little boy or girl- is no longer little by the time he or she is 14. Whether you like it or not. One thing that separates them from younger "children" is CONSCIOUSNESS. They are more conscious of their existence. In every way. Their thoughts, Their feelings, Their actions and inactions are conscious ...brought to the surface. They have yearnings. Financial, emotional, sexual even. And yes those yearnings are conscious too. If by age 14, you haven't brought to consciousness certain doctrines, ideals, facts, histories, to that child, you can be sure it could cause a distortion in his perception and understanding of life...going forward. Many people treat these young adults like babies. They ain't babies. They are conscious adults in the making!”
“There are some stories that should never be told and some names that should never be spoken. Because those stories are told that take you back in time and the names haunts you. Our story and your name is a kind of them.”
“There are some stories you can't hear enough. They are the same every time you hear them. But you are not. That's one reliable way of understanding time.”
“There are some strong female performers out there. But the industry's pre-occupation with the packaging of how a woman looks has gone completely the other way, back to almost the 60s, early 70s.”
“There are some styles I do not want to take credit for and usually these hairstyles are on the heads of customers who are only too happy to spread the word.”
Source: Blow Me: Hairy Adventures in the Salon Industry
“There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.”
“There are some sufferings that inflict physical pain on your body; they are bearable. But they pale in comparison to the anguish that penetrates one's very soul when someone dear to you than life leaves you without any reason.”
“There are some sufferings that we seem as a creature to forget, or we would never survive as a creature among all the other creatures.”
Source: The Secret Scripture
“There are some superficial things that connect me to the stream. There's instrumentation, there's timbre, use of electronics, the way that samples are used, the way the electric guitar is used. I'm thinking of things that are particular to this era. But I don't always feel particularly close to the music of my peers. I often feel that I have more in common with writers and visual artists. I try to connect to people in an emotional kind of way.”
“There are some surely whom you like and whom you dislike, for whom you entertain esteem and for whom you feel contempt? Have you not thought that you have some duties toward them, that you can aid them in leading better lives?”
Source: Cosmopolis
“There are some surprising payoffs with only a few minutes' practice, like eliminating the loss of concentration that multitasking usually brings. Short daily mindfulness practice in beginners also improves memory, to the point that a group of students who volunteered for a study got significantly better scores on their graduate school entrance exams.”
“There are some tales not for telling, whether because they are too long, too precious, too laughable, too painful, too easy to need telling or too hard to explain. After all, after years and travels my secrets are all I have left to chew on in the night.”
“There are some teachers who just perform miracles. They can manifest things from the other world into this world. They have siddha powers. They are not necessarily enlightened.”
“There are some teams and logos you see, no matter where you are in the world, and you know exactly who they are and what they mean.”
“There are some tempers--how shall I describe them--formed either of such impenetrable matter, or wrought up by habitual selfishness to such an utter insensibility of what becomes of the fortunes of their fellow-creatures, as if they were not partakers of the same nature, or had no lot or connection at all with the species.”
Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author
“There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues.”
“There are some terrific resources on how to find individual purpose but relative resources on how to discover purpose and apply to an organization. My challenge was to show organizations how they could unlock the purpose of their organizations and put it to good use for employees to apply to their own jobs. The net effect is to help individuals, teams and organizations to optimize performance by understanding how to use purpose for good intention.”
“There are some that are - REM Behavior Disorder, we'll see some court documented cases. And they really need to have a thorough evaluation with a sleep specialist.”
“There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.”
“There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.”
“There are some things (like first love and one’s first reviews) at which a woman in her middle years does not care to look too closely.”
Source: Cold comfort farm
“There are some things a girl never forgets, Ry. And one of those is a kiss from the right guy”
Source: About That Night
“There are some things a woman can just tell.”
Source: The Tutor