T Quotes
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“There are some women who are flirts upon principle; they consider it their duty to make themselves as pleasing as possible to every one.”
“There are some women who’d be offended in my place,” I told him. “I’m not helpless and I turn into a monster.”
“Maybe I’m afraid and I want company.” He pretended to shiver. “I may need a big strong monster to protect me. You wouldn’t leave a defenseless attractive man out on the streets alone, would you?”
Source: Gunmetal Magic
“There are some women who see nothing wrong with misogyny. In fact, they see a man as a higher being in the social hierarchy than themselves. Yet, they wonder why things don't change in our society.”
“There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain ... Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment.”
Source: Bluebeard's Egg
“There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain. The painless ones go around putting their hands on hot stoves, freezing their feet to the point of gangrene, scalding the lining of their throats with boiling coffee, because there is no warning anguish. Evolution does not favour them. So too perhaps with the fearless women, because there aren't very many of them around. ... Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment.”
Source: Bluebeard's Egg
“There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed.”
“There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.”
“There are some women, we have to admit this, there's some women who support Hillary Clinton simply because they think it's great that a woman might be elected president for the first time.”
“There are some wonderful aspects to Christmas. It's magical. And each year, from at least November, well, September, well, if I'm honest, May, I look forward to it hugely.”
Source: Is It Just Me?
“There are some wonderful parts in the movie [Loulou] where Loulou used to be a dancer and a cabaret. To see her kind of be able to interact with another human being so isolated for so long, it's just neat to see that being played out and how fun and explore that.”
“There are some words I find impossibly difficult ... 'Love,' 'feeling' and especially 'happiness' are at the head of the list. This is not because I haven't experienced any of them but because whenever I think about using the words I don't really know what anyone means by them. I'd find it easier to sit down and write a book about each (coming, obviously, to no conclusion) than to use them casually in speech or writing.”
“There are some words in the Lord’s Prayer that I don’t know. But I do know the word art. It’s a necessary inclusion, I think. We should all be artists. Especially if God is doing art in heaven; we should follow his example.”
Source: The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
“There are some words that once spoken will split the world in two. There would be the life before you breathed them and then the altered life after they'd been said. They take a long time to find, words like that. They make you hesitate. Choose with care. Hold on to them unspoken for as long as you can just so your world will stay intact.”
Source: Small Island: A Novel
“There are some works which the authors must consign unpublished to posterity, however uncertain be the event, however hopeless be the trust. He that writes the history of his own times, if he adhere steadily to truth, will write that which his own times will not easily endure. He must be content to reposite his book till all private passions shall cease, and love and hatred give way to curiosity.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers ... and Others; to which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author
“There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.”
“There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact.”
“There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this is clear.”
“There are some writers who sweep us along so strongly in their current of energy--Normal mailer, Tom Wolfe, Toni Morrison, William F. Buckley, Jr., Hunter Thompson, David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers--that we assume that when they go to work the words just flow. Nobody thinks of the effort they made every morning to turn on the switch. You also have to turn on the switch. Nobody is going to do it for you.”
Source: On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
“There are some writers who wrote too much. There are others who wrote enough. There are yet others who wrote nothing like enough to satisfy their admirers, and Jane Austen is certainly one of these.”
“There are some young women movie stars who are doing it everywhere, smoking in every movie, sometimes even with placements with a pack of cigarettes.”
“There are some, I know, who see beautification as a frill, as an extra, or as something that is luxurious enough to postpone. Well, they make me impatient because I am convinced that beauty and order in our environment are not frills. I am convinced that they are urgent necessities because they will determine whether our grandchildren can live in a decent land or whether they will be surrounded by glittering junkheaps.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969
“There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have appeared but for a beauty.”
“There are sometimes problems for which there is no immediate solution, and there are sometimes problems for which there is no solution.”
“There are songs about abortions, about slashing your arms with razors, about imagining your own funeral in New Orleans, about rock stars cheating on their wives, sex.”
“there are songs about life, but fewer about death and that is some small consolation as there are many more on love than there are hate.”
Source: Number Poetry
“There are songs and artists now who are trying to do the same thing: be honest to their experiences.”
“There are songs and melody that make you really happy. And there are spiritual gifts that you have - giving these gifts away sometimes gives you that feeling of inspiration. These seconds of awareness make you realize that any second can be your favorite one, and it really is up to you.”
“There are songs I really enjoy playing. I like playing "Say It" live because it's a long jam, kind of like shoegaze, so I do enjoy that.”
“There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them.”
Source: The Bridges Of Madison County
“There are songs that make you cry, right?"
"Sure," I say.
"When you're dead, everything in the world is like a song that makes you cry.”
Source: I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It
“There are songs you should not sing if you want to succeed. Songs that make you feel weak. Songs that make you bleed from within. Songs that make you question your abilities. Songs that make you stop dreaming. Those are songs you should certainly never sing.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“There are sons of God who do not yet appear so to us, but now do so to God; and there are those who, on account of some arrogated or temporal grace, are called so by us, but are not so to God.”
Source: Concerning the Eternal Predestination of God
“There are sordid souls that eat and drink and breed and die, and imagine they have lived.”
Source: The House Behind the Cedars
“There are sores which slowly erode the mind in solitude like a kind of canker.”
Source: The Blind Owl
“There are sort of Kurdish districts there in Mosul, or there used to be, but the Kurds mostly fled or were driven out. The same is true of the Christians.”
“There are souls beneath that water. Fixed in slimethey speak their piece, end it, and start again:'Sullen were we in the air made sweet by the Sun;in the glory of his shining our hearts poureda bitter smoke. Sullen were we begun;sullen we lie forever in this ditch.'This litany they gargle in their throatsas if they sand, but lacked the words and pitch.”
Source: The divine comedy
“There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.”
“There are souls in this world who have the gift of finding joy everywhere, and leaving it behind them when they go.”
“There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.”
Source: Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings
“There are souls that can't encounter to each other.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.”
“There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.”
Source: Les Miserables Volume One
“There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus.”
“There are special places on our planet, places of power, healing and renewal, places where the mind-body connection is enhanced and that enable us to get back in touch with our deepest innermost feelings.”
“There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding”
“There are species that retain their characteristics even in conditions that are relatively different from their natural ones; other species in similar circumstances instead become extinct; otherwise what takes place is racial mixing with other elements in which no assimilation or real evolution occurs. The result of this interbreeding closely resembles Mendel’s laws concerning heredity: once it disappears in the phenotype, the primitive element survives in the form of a separated, latent heredity that is capable of cropping up in sporadic apparitions, even though it is always endowed with a character of heterogeneity in regard to the superior type.”
Source: Revolt Against the Modern World
“There are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems - that's where film noir always hits fertile ground.”
“There are specific ways the system actually is rigged and distorted so that our perception of our money is manipulated, very similar to how a stage magician does illusions. And also, like those stage tricks, these
financial manipulations are easy to see through with just a little bit of education and focus.”
Source: Outsmart the Money Magicians: Maximize Your Net Worth by Seeing Through the Most Powerful Illusions Performed by Wall Street and the IRS
“There are spiders living comfortably in my house while the wind howls outside. They aren't bothering anybody. If I were a fly, I'd have second thoughts, but I'm not, so I don't.”
“There are spirits in Hawaii. They're very protective and very good and they watch over these islands. I must confess, they're not entirely happy with what they see, with the way the civilization is moving. But they're patient. They've been here for a long time, and they'll be here long after the human beings have ceased to inhabit the islands.”