T Quotes
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“there
are times
that my faith
gets weary
from the
aching in my back
where my wings have
yet to grow
– the butterfly process”
“There are times that one treasures for all one's life, and such times are burned clearly and sharply on the material of total recall. I felt very fortunate that morning.”
Source: Travels with Charley and Later Novels 1947–1962: The Wayward Bus / Burning Bright / Sweet Thursday / The Winter of Our Discontent / Travels with Charley in Search of America
“There are times that you talk to someone for days, weeks, months and years, but the don't mean much. Then you find someone that you spend a little time with and they leave a legacy and a desire...”
“There are times through the process that you just think, "Is this all worth it?" It's very, very difficult to get a movie made, and it's very difficult to get a movie made that turns out well, and that fans love, and that the marketing gets right.”
“There are times throughout history and it doesn't take long for either an American or a German, to think about times in the history of their country where the law provided the Government to do things which were not right.”
“There are times to act the master, there are times to act the slave - let your partner decide what they want, and act accordingly.”
Source: Woman Over World: The Novel
“There are times to kill and times not to kill. Please bear this in
mind with grave consideration.”
“There are times to let things happen, and times to make things happen. Now is that time. You will either make things happen, watch what happens, or wonder what happened.”
Source: No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life
“There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.”
“There are times today when Rachel looks at Zach and sees an effusion, she sees him in colours of yellow and blue, sun and sky. She sees the yellow crew-neck jumper and blue jeans the boy of eight years old appeared in the day he came to Chelsea from the Coram Family via the two or three previous fosterers who returned him there, defeated, pronouncing him uncommunicative and maladroit in the extreme, animal, said one; unruly. So why this boy? For Katya the fractious? Of all the orphan boys in the world, why him? Of all potential mothers, why Katya? What did she see? Everyone has a part and a destiny. Rachel remembers the yellow jumper the boy rarely removed, even after the family shopping spree for a new wardrobe at Harrods followed by lunch in a restaurant with napkins large as small tablecloths, and heavy cutlery and wine for Katya and Lev and a pervasive daunting hush. Zach had never been to a restaurant before and chose spaghetti, because he knew what it was. He ate it with knife and fork.
On the day he arrived in Chelsea, he stopped in the vestibule to slip his feet from lace-ups without undoing the bows, removing his shoes with institutional efficiency, left hand still held in Katya's right. Rachel sees that boy still, blue and yellow. Sky and sun.”
Source: Be My Wolff
“There are times we have to put our body on the line for what we believe, for the injustices we see even within our own families.”
Source: A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams
“There are times we need to tell ourselves, "Good job!" when we know that is true.”
Source: Wisdom for the Way: Wise Words for Busy People
“There are times we spent money when we shouldn't, the choices we make define the results we get”
“There are times when a broken tool is better than a sound one, or a twisted personality more useful than a whole one. For instance, a whole beer bottle isn't half the weapon that half a beer bottle is...”
Source: In Case of Fire
“There are times when a corps commander's life does not count.”
“There are times when a day from my childhood comes to me, swirls around me, teases me as I try to catch the memory in my hands, as I try to catch the scents, the sounds, the warmth of the sun on my young face. In bare feet, I reach for it, the memory that is. I reach for summer nights, playing chase, reach across a thousand miles to the comfort of my father’s voice, to the rush of heat when my mother opens the oven to check on the baking, reach toward the rush of laughter, toward home, toward the glory days of my youth. The only way to catch an elusive memory is to open my heart and swallow it whole. When I die, I’ll be stuffed full of memories, too many to fit into a casket.”
“There are times when a feeling of expectancy comes to me, as if something is there, beneath the surface of my understanding, waiting for me to grasp it. It is the same tantalizing sensation when you almost remember a name, but don't quite reach it. I can feel it when I think of human beings, of the hints of evolution suggested by the removal of wisdom teeth, the narrowing of the jaw no longer needed to chew such roughage as it was accustomed to; the gradual disappearance of hair from the human body; the adjustment of the human eye to the fine print, the swift, colored motion of the twentieth century. The feeling comes, vague and nebulous, when I consider the prolonged adolesence of our species; the rites of birth, marriage and death; all the primitive, barbaric ceremonies streamlined to modern times. Almost, I think, the unreasoning, bestial purity was best. Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will burst in upon me and I will see the other side of this monumental grotesque joke. And then I'll laugh. And then I'll know what life is.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“There are times when a golfer is tempted to throw her clubs away and forget the whole 'humblin' business.' At other times, she wouldn't trade places with a queen-that's when the shots are long and true, and putts are dropping.”
“There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.”
“There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared.”
Source: The End of the Affair
“There are times when a man has need of the open heavens to compass his thoughts.”
Source: They Loved to Laugh
“There are times when a man has to forget his chivalry and talk turkey to the other sex. His ancestor, Sieur Pharamond, had realized this when, returning home from the Crusades rather earlier than had been expected, he found his wife in her boudoir singing close harmony with three troubadours.”
Source: The Luck of the Bodkins
“There are times when a man's greatest need is to have someone to love, some focal point for his diffused emotions. Also there are times when the irritations, disappointments, and fears of life, restless as spermatozoids, must be released in hate.”
“There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is”
Source: The Majesty of Calmness
“There are times when a man should sleep entwined in the warm flesh of a woman, his flanks plummeting into the perfumed bedding while she lovingly rolls her sweet shoulders into his chest. Whereas, there are times to be stoic and solitary—sleeping alone on a wooden board with twill sheets and splinters that scratch the skin.”
“There are times when a market such as housing, transportation or the stock or mortgage market keep rising and people with capital want to join in this growth. Soon the markets become overheated, partly because of the abundance of investment money and speculation. This is when the government should raise interest rates and increase the cost of borrowed money. Governments are shy about doing this because it could cause the very recession. Yet this is the best time to do this so that the inevitable recession never reaches the magnitude of the recent Great Recession.”
“There are times when a storm is just a storm.”
Source: The Darkest Hour
“There are times when a time from my childhood comes to me, swirls around me, teases me as I try to catch the memory in my hands, as I try to catch the scents, the sounds, the warmth of the sun on my young face. In bare feet, I reach for it, the memory that is. I reach for summer nights, playing chase, reach across a thousand miles to the comfort of my father’s voice, to the rush of heat when my mother opens the oven to check on the baking, reach toward the rush of laughter, toward home, toward the glory days of my youth. The only way to catch an elusive memory is to open my heart and swallow it whole. When I die, I’ll be stuffed full of memories, too many to fit into a casket.”
“There are times when acceptable answers are not available.”
Source: Life Is A Cocktail
“There are times when advice falls silent; what truly heals is the quiet gift of presence—a listening ear and an understanding heart.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“There are times
when all I can take in
lies between my headlights.”
Source: Drive Through the Night
“There are times when American politics seems like little more than two groups in a fever to prevent each other from trespassing upon their respective soothing versions of unreality”
Source: Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire
“There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white.”
“There are times when any amount of being within the world is like rubbing bare skin against sandpaper, when any form of motion is a kind of abrasion, leaving you raw and pink and vulnerable to the next thing. At these times I prefer to close my eyes and be still, still like the cups or candles or crackers on the table, nerveless and open. I closed my eyes and tried to think of the thing furthest from my situation.”
Source: Intimations: Stories
“There are times when anyone who does not lose his mind has no mind to lose.”
“There are times when being strong is the only option.”
Source: Immortals, Vol. III.
“There are times when born hollandaise heads, as well as nouveaux turbot freaks and recherche escargotphiles alike crave the saignet abundance of a New York steak.”
“There are times when breakfast seems the one thing worth getting up for.”
Source: Forever panting
“There are times when burning a bridge is the best gift you can give another person.”
“There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing.”
“There are times when each of us has to have some gumption to take a stand as to what we wish to preserve or change in order to maintain our self-respect and not be as "a reed shaken with the wind" (Matt. 11:7) . . . . We lose much credibility and strength, and we risk being weighed on an uneven balance, when, Don Quixote-like, we go around "tilting windmills".”
Source: Reach Up for the Light
“There are times when even justice brings harm with it.”
Source: Sophocles
“There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.”
Source: Iacocca: An Autobiography
“There are times when even the best of doctors are helpless... It, therefore, makes more sense in keeping metabolic diseases at bay, through prevention. And, that’s where individual involvement in implementing effective lifestyle changes assumes importance.”
“There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)
“There are times when even to live is an act of bravery.”
Source: Why I am a Stoic
“There are times when every act, no matter how private and unconscious, becomes political.”
“There are times when everything wearies us, including what we would normally find restful. Wearisome things weary us by definition, restful things by the wearying thought of procuring them. There are dejections of the soul past all anxiety and pain; I believe they're known only by those who elude human pains and anxieties and are sufficiently diplomatic with themselves to avoid even tedium. Reduced, in this way, to beings armoured against the world, it's no wonder that at a certain point in their self-awareness the whole set of armour should suddenly weigh on them and life become an inverted anxiety, a pain not suffered.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“There are times when eye contact can move to the dark side and become creepy, hostile, rude, or condescending. When it is overused or made for the wrong reasons, eye contact can make others feel uncomfortable and leave a terrible impression . . .
• obsessive staring
• mocking
• too much intensity
• inappropriate focus
• averting eyes
• obvious contempt
• gawking, ogling
• casting the "evil eye"
• over-watching
• intimidating
• unwelcome looks
• rolling the eyes”
Source: The Art of Body Language: 8 Ways to Optimize Non-Verbal Communication for Positive Impact
“There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.”
Source: The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides