T Quotes
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“There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch the world do it. Just read the newspaper.”
“There are worse ways to die than warm and drunk.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“There are worse words than cuss-words, there are words that hurt.”
Source: Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I, and Other Works
“There are worst things in life than kissing boys.”
Source: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
“There are wounds of self-love which one does not confess to one's dearest friends.”
“There are wounds of the spirit which never close and are intended in God's mercy to bring us nearer to Him, and to prevent us leaving Him by their very perpetuity. Such wounds then may almost be taken as a pledge, or at least as a ground for a humble trust, that God will give us the great gift of perseverance to the end. This is how I comfort myself in my own great bereavements.”
Source: Selections from the Prose and Poetry of John Henry Newman
“There are wounds of time and there are wounds of person, Misafir. Sometimes people come through their wounds, but time does not. Sometimes it's the other way around. Sometimes the wounds are so grievous, there's no coming through them at all.”
Source: Inland
“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”
“There are writers I know and respect who are very good about what's outside, and not too hot about what's inside.”
“There are writers I return to no matter what I'm working on, writers like the South African J.M. Coetzee. He has an ability to make you feel that he is writing for you alone.”
“There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.”
“There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“There are writers who can show you the excellence of their brains and writers who show you the depths of their souls: I don't know any writer who does both at the same time as brilliantly as Roxane Gay.”
“There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.”
“There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have the power.”
“There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot.”
“There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.”
“There are writers who will do whatever they are told regardless of the circumstances - these are called 'hacks.' Your job isn't to make life difficult for your editor. But once a piece of crap goes out with your name on it, it is gone forever and will haunt you.”
“There are writers you admire, for the skill or the art, for the inventiveness or for the professionalism of a career well spent. And there are writers-sometimes the same ones, sometimes not-to whom you are powerfully attracted, for reasons that may or may not have to do with literary values. They speak to you, or speak for you, sometimes with a voice that could almost be your own. Often there is one writer in particular who awakens you, who is the teacher they say you will meet when you are ready for the lesson.”
“There are wrongs for which religion makes no provision, and of which it has no comprehension.
--"Wanda”
“There are yawning gulfs into which large chunks of me have fallen. I do not always know where I am at present.”
Source: Something happened
“There are years from my childhood that I cannot remember and I cannot forget.”
“there are years in me
that have not slept”
Source: Home Body
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader
“There are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such views”
“There are young men who want thrills but no longer value sex, so they do completely different things, including aggressive things.”
“There are young people today that move like old people from eating too much junk food and not getting enough exercise.”
“There are young people today who feel that we shouldn't have developed the atomic bomb, that it was a mistake. Through no fault of their own, they don't have this sense of history. They didn't live through this most terrifying period when we thought we were losing the race with Adolf Hitler.”
“There are young women who have goals other than finding a husband.”
Source: Devil in Spring
“There are younger, stronger swimmers coming up and they are hungry. I can't influence what they do, I only know what I can do and I know how greedy I am to defend my title.”
“There are your enemies, the Red Coats and the Tories. They are ours, or this night Molly Stark sleeps a widow!”
“There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it”
Source: The quality of mercy: an autobiography
“There are “bus bench” workouts and “park bench” workouts. A bus bench and a park bench look exactly the same, but your expectations sitting in them are radically different.”
“There are “well-known secrets” out there and there are people who are “so happy they could die.” Sometimes people are so sad they have to laugh and sometimes things feel so wrong, they’re right. Basically what I’m saying is, I usually don’t know what people are talking about.”
Source: Seriously...I'm Kidding
“There are, above all, times in which the human reality, always mobile, accelerates, and bursts into vertiginous speeds. Our time is such a one, for it is made of descent and fall.”
“There are, after all, approaches to be made other than the dependable routes that massage sentimental expectations and provide easy opportunities for emotional identification.”
“There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have relinquished belief only with regret. To this I reply: who wishes that there was a permanent, unalterable celestial despotism that subjected us to continual surveillance and could convict us of thought-crime, and who regarded us as its private property even after we died? How happy we ought to be, at the reflection that there exists not a shred of respectable evidence to support such a horrible hypothesis.”
Source: The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
“There are, almost by definition, an unlimited number of Hells - potentially at least a personal one for every living sapient being.”
Source: Turtle Recall: The Discworld Companion . . . So Far
“There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.”
Source: Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)
“There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Hopefully, educated people can succeed in shedding light into these areas of prejudice and ignorance, for as Voltaire once said: "Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities."”
“There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.”
“There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.”
Source: The Works of Victor Hugo
“There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.”
“There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.”
Source: The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document
“There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of workers in the world, the people who do all the work, and the people who think they do all the work. The latter class is generally the busiest, the former never have time to be busy.”
Source: I Pose
“There are, broadly speaking, two types of drinkers. There is the man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, whose brain is bitten numbly by numb maggots; who walks generously with wide-spread, tentative legs, falls frequently in the gutter, and who sees, in the extremity of his ecstasy, blue mice and pink elephants.... The other type of drinker has imagination, vision. Even when most pleasantly jingled he walks straight and naturally, never staggers nor falls, and knows just where he is and what he is doing. It is not his body but his brain that is drunken.”
“There are, by the most conservative counting, two grave and deeply regrettable collateral victims of the peer-review gruesome stratagem: one is the daring of thought (wished-washed to the lowest common denominator), and the other is the individuality, as well as the responsibility, of editors (those seeking shelter behind the anonymity of "peers", but in fact dissolved in it, in many cases without a trace).”
“There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake.”
Source: Essays of Schopenhauer: Top Essays
“There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. ... The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.”
Source: The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer
“There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. The first kind have had thoughts or experiences which seem to
them worth communicating, while the second kind need money and consequently write for money.”
Source: Essays of Schopenhauer: Top Essays