T Quotes
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“There are stories told to him only at this time of year. Fantastic, magical stories, the old Hollier in the woods finding only three red berries, which peel back in the night to reveal gifts of frankincense, gold and myrrh, Christmas in hot deserts, dust-blown countries, the necklace of tears, and the story of the robin.”
Source: Haweswater
“There are stories we take on from our culture, and there are stories based on our own personal history. Some of those stories lock us in limiting beliefs and lead to suffering, and there are others that can move us toward freedom.”
“There are stories we tell to teach, and others whose horror outweighs their usefulness, so we bury them in the dust of the past, sparing those who come after their weight.” — The Hunter”
Source: The One Who Held the Flame
“There are stories within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night, shouted above the roar of the day, and played out between lovers and enemies, strangers and friends. But all are fragile things made of just twenty-six letters arranged and re-arranged to form tales and imaginings which will dazzle your senses, haunt your imagination and move you to the very depths of your soul.”
“There are stories you build and there are stories you construct; then there are the stories that you hack out of rock removing all the things that are not the story.”
Source: Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
“There are stories, like maps that agree... too consistent among too many languages and histories to be only wishful thinking.... It is always a hidden place, the way into it is not obvious, the geography is as much spiritual as physical. If you should happen upon it, your strongest certainty is not that you have discovered it but returned to it. In a single great episode of light, you remember everything.”
Source: Against the Day
“There are storm clouds before the storm, there are the living before the dead. I need a figurehead, a banner bearer who will announce my arrival to the world.”
Source: The Wing Warrior
“There are story-room sessions where you think about the big picture, like a novel, but once you have certain things in place, you have to treat each episode like an hour of TV, and think that maybe this will be the only episode that anyone will ever watch. You want to have some sort of beginning, middle, and end to the episode, even if you have storylines that are carrying over. You still want it to feel like a cohesive hour of entertainment. And you can't think about both at the same time.”
“There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.”
“There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. Admirable gardens of absurd beliefs, forebodings, obsessions and frenzies. Unknown, ever-changing gods take shape there.”
“There are strange hells within the minds war made.”
Source: Collected Poems
“There are strange moments in life when the mind rests without any kind of worries. When our mind is quiet, when our mind is in silence, then the new arrives.”
“There are strange red depths in the soul of the most commonplace man. I am tenderhearted by nature, and have found my eyes moist many a time over the scream of a wounded hare. Yet the blood lust was on me now. I found myself on my feet emptying one magazine, then the other, clicking open the breech to re-load, snapping it to again, while cheering and yelling with pure ferocity and joy of slaughter as I did so.”
Source: The Lost World
“There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper.”
Source: The Great Return: Machen's Collection
“There are stranger things here than Thebans know about.”
Source: The Sacred Band
“There are strategies available to us to avoid unnecessary willpower expenditure.”
“There are strawberries growing among my bulbs. Wild ones, seeded from God knows where, poking their pale little fingers among the tulips and crocuses. Wild strawberries are invasive; not quite as invasive as dandelions, but those little heart-shaped leaves conceal a powerful hunger for conquest, sending their runners everywhere, each one an outpost preparing itself for a future invasion.
And yet I cannot bring myself, père, to curb their cheery exuberance. Though more or less worthless in terms of fruit, the little white flowers and pretty leaves make excellent ground count cover, keeping the thistles and ragwort at bay without suppressing my daffodils. And besides, in summer, there may be enough of the tiny red berries to put on a tart, or flavor a glassful of sweet white wine. That is, if the birds do not steal them first. They too enjoy their sweetness.
Those strawberries will creep, Reynaud, said Narcisse's voice in my mind. Let them stay, and in a month, your beds will be nothing but strawberries.”
Source: The Strawberry Thief
“There are street artists. Street musicians. Street actors. But there are no street physicists. A little known secret is that a physicist is one of the most employable people in the marketplace - a physicist is a trained problem solver.”
“There are streets to enjoy, there are streets to wander aimlessly and also there are streets to contemplate!”
“There are strengths in Islamic tradition. Islam actually, as a monotheistic religion, which defined man as a responsible agent by itself, created the idea of the individual in the Middle East and saved it from the communitarianism, the collectivism of the tribe.”
“There are strings in the human heart that had best not be vibrated.”
“There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.”
“There are strong people who aren't able to climb. It's about reading the rock, knowing how to position your body and having the tenacity to not let go.”
“There are struggles you cannot win, but a man can meet his own heart if value is found in loss. Give yourself permission to cry.”
Source: A Punctual Paymaster
“There are students whose religious upbringing is going to make them feel uncomfortable in a class where certain kinds of secular ideas are presented. There are students whose ideas about history or sexuality are going to be similarly challenged to question, to affirm or to change those ideas. That doesn't mean they shouldn't be exposed to them; that's why they're at school. That's why they come to university: to be taught how to think well and critically about material that they're being presented with. But it's the teacher who is certified to teach them how to do that.”
“There are studies that have shown that we make decisions, ethical and otherwise, based on the way we imagine ourselves as characters in the stories of our lives. In other words, if we imagine ourselves brave or crazy or open, we're more likely to make decisions in a given situation based on how we imagine ourselves, whatever the facts may be.”
“There are studies that tell us that stress and lack of self-image, lack of self-esteem, severe dieting, binge dieting and binge eating can also be very damaging to a body and bring on various kinds of abnormalities.”
“There are stylists I really love. I'm a huge Joan Didion fan - if I wrote something that she might like, then I'd feel very proud. I want the action to move as quickly as it does in A Book of Common Prayer, where one thing bonks right into another very quickly.”
“There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise.”
“There are subjects where reason cannot take us far and we have to accept things on faith. Faith then does not contradict reason but transcends it. Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“There are substantial issues that remain, however, related to direction, hierarchy, and paternalism in missional mentalities. The heart and the willingness behind going are to be applauded. Jesus modeled an incarnational gospel and contextual approaches are to be valued over attractional models like those found in the megachurch movement. Concerns abound, though, in the shadow of the colonial legacy. How does one reclaim or reform a concept that has been so thoroughly corrupted and has taken on so much baggage? Is repentance enough? Can the form actually be redeemed and repurposed?”
Source: Decolonizing Evangelicalism: An 11:59 p.m. Conversation
“There are substantial rewards for adopting a regular routine of investing and following it no matter what, and additional rewards for buying more shares when most investors are scared into selling.”
Source: Beating the Street
“There are substitutes for oil; there is no substitute for fresh water.”
Source: The population explosion
“There are subtle things you can do without crossing the line. If I see I've got up my opponent's nose, I will be over the moon. Job done.”
“There are subtle ways and overt ways of alienating a child from a parent, but either way it's evil”
“There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.”
Source: Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works
“There are succulent loins of fatty pork fried in scales of thin bread crumbs and served with bowls of thickened Worcestershire and dabs of fiery mustard. Giant pots of curry, dark and brooding as a sudden summer storm, where apples and onions and huge hunks of meat are simmered into submission over hours. Or days. There is okonomiyaki, the great geologic mass of carbs and cabbage and pork fat that would feel more at home on a stoner's coffee table than a Japanese tatami mat.”
Source: Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture
“There are such a lot of things that have no place in summer and autumn and spring. Everything that’s a little shy and a little rum. Some kinds of night animals and people that don’t fit in with others and that nobody really believes in. They keep out of the way all the year. And then when everything’s quiet and white and the nights are long and most people are asleep—then they appear.”
Source: Moominland Midwinter
“There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.”
Source: Dracula
“There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think perfection; where grace and spirit are united to worth, where the manners are equal to the heart and understanding; but such a person may not come in your way, or, if he does, he may not be the eldest son of a man of fortune, the near relation of your particular friend, and belonging to your own county.”
Source: Jane Austen's correspondence and letters: The complete and definitive edition
“There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close.”
“There are such people, aren't there, so low in human spirit and so insignificant in their being that they can only gain your attention by frightening you.”
Source: Autobiography
“There are such people, unfortunates who have to be angry before they can feel alive. I had sometimes wondered if it were some old relic of pagan superstition, the fear of risking the jealousy and anger of the gods, that made such people afraid of even small happinesses. Or perhaps it was only that tragedy is more self-important than laughter.”
“There are such repulsive faces in the world.”
Source: War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
“There are such things as consecrated griefs, sorrows that may be common to everyone but which take on a special character when accepted intelligently and offered to God in loving submission.”
“There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman! No human being is unimportant. My inspiration comes in opening opportunities that all alike may be free to live life to the fullest.”
Source: Seventy years of life and labor: an autobiography
“There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.”
“There are sufficient resources in the world for the needs of everybody, but not enough for the greed of even a significant minority.”
Source: The Theology of the Hammer
“There are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed.”
“There are superior, spiritual laws inherent in human nature”