T Quotes
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“There had even been an informal group – the Séance & Science Brigade – dedicated to applying ‘empirical reality to paranormal phenomenon.’ … It was the S&SB that had in effect named Area X, identifying that coast as ‘of particular interest’ and calling it ‘Active Site X’ – a name prominent on their science-inspired tarot cards.”
Source: Authority
“There had, in short, been a lot of lives.
And among those lives she had laughed and cried and felt calm and terrified and everything in between.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“There had never been a Class A1 event; it had always been a purely theoretical designation. Until now.”
Source: Connected Infection
“There had never been a death so foretold.”
“There had never been a shortage of fools in the world”
Source: The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
“There had never been any wait til your father gets home---not with Jean-Louise. She was frightening enough with a wooden spoon and they minded her. They minded him, too, but in a different way---the way children are inclined to behave for strangers.”
Source: Children of Promise
“There had never been such roses as those that bloomed that summer. They clambered everywhere and dripped as if perspiring the heaviest most intoxicating perfume, which seemed to make the very masonry drunk. The senses fused; sometimes these roses emitted low but intolerably piercing pentatonic melodies which were the sound of their deep crimson colour and yet we heard them inside our nostrils.”
Source: The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
“There had not been an attachment to it; it wasn't supposed to change me, it wasn't supposed to make me do anything and, for the first time, it had stopped feeling odd or as though I didn't deserve it, I had learnt to let myself be loved.”
Source: The Wanderess and her Suitcase
“There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean them out.”
Source: Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches
“There had once been a time when I'd dreaded the end of summer, had prayed it would hold out for as long as possible. Now the thought of endless warmth and sun made me . . . bored. Restless.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“There had only ever been two roads home: there was the long road and there was the sea road, and tonight I would take the sea road.”
Source: The Seafarer
“There had to be a better way - if I couldn't find it, I wanted to create it.”
“There had to be a circle of Hell where you were eternally fourteen, eternally in junior high. One of the lower circles.”
Source: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5
“There had to be a hysteria and a fear sent through America in order to get increased war budgets.”
“There had to be a reason why they were not going to marry. They had both been so adamant about it. What the devil was the reason?”
“There had to be a rule somewhere that evil overlords needed to be at least fifty, maybe sixty if they were pushing it.”
Source: Apprentice to the Villain
“There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it's flashing glory.”
Source: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“There had to be more to life than chasing money and grabbing Power.”
Source: Signal to Noise
“There had to be something new, some fresh angle. As the rain pattered down around him, Kapenda thought. What was the weirdest thing he'd seen since this all started? He'd been in the tiny town of Chew Stoke a few weeks earlier, filming the remains of a vehicle that had been washed into a culvert and whose driver had died. In Grovehill, no one had died yet but there were abandoned cars strewn along the streets and surrounding tracks, hulking shapes that the water broke around and flowed over in fractured, churning flurries.
That was old. Every television station had those shots.
He'd been there the year before when the police had excavated a mud-filled railway tunnel and uncovered the remains of two people who had been crushed in a landslide. What they needed was something like that here, something that showed how weak man's civilized veneer was when set against nature's uncaring ferocity. He needed something that contrasted human frailty and natural strength, something that Dali might have painted - a boat on a roof, or a shark swimming up the main street. He needed that bloody house to collapse.
("Into The Water")”
Source: Best New Horror: Volume 25
“There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.”
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night. No car, no car stereo, no silver bracelets, no shuffling, no dark blue tweed suits.”
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“There hadn’t been a plan. Nothing beyond breaking the circle, beyond surviving, and killing him was how she survived. So, now that it was done, how did she keep on surviving?”
Source: As Good As Dead
“There hadn’t really been any decision. As she dragged the round-topped trunk up the steps and propped its lid against the table, she was thinking that you never really made up your mind to anything. You simply bent where the pressure was greatest. You didn’t surrender, because surrender was annihilation, but you gave before the pressure.”
Source: The Big Rock Candy Mountain
“There hadn't been one done since the late 70s. I was living in Brooklyn, had no connection to Roger Corman, to no one in this movie. I didn't go to film school. I'm like the person who should have never made this film. But I just decided to put one foot in front of the other. I was writing film articles for magazines at the time. I convinced an editor from one of the magazines that I was working for to give me a shot to do a piece on Roger. This was an excuse to go meet him.”
“There hadn't really been a climate movement, per se. I think everyone spent twenty years thinking that if we just keep pointing out that the world is on the edge of the greatest crisis by far it's ever come to, then our leaders will do something about it. And it turned out that was wrong. They weren't going to do anything about it.”
“There hadn’t been one specific moment. It was like gradualy waking up. You go from being asleep to the space between dreaming and awake and then into consciousness. It’s a slow process, but when you’re awake, there’s no mistaking it. There was no mistaking that it had been love.”
“There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine, and petty frustration.”
“There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play. In addition, I also would go out into country schools and teach little kids basic guitar and singing a few times a week.”
“There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction
“There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.”
“There has also been a change - a slippage - in our intellectual and moral strength. Seven lean years of drouth and famine have withered a field of ideas.”
“There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other.”
“There has always been a battle between good and evil.”
“There has always been a certain romanticism associated with the airline business. We must avoid its perpetuation at Eastern at all costs.”
“There has always been a confusion in the West about -Islam and about the Middle East and the assumption that the countries are Arab. Iranians very much object to that. They are very proud of their own history, but they have this real inferiority-superiority complex thing about the Arabs and the position of Islam in Iran. One of the reasons why Shi'a Islam is so entrenched in Iran is because it has allowed the Iranians to distinguish themselves from the Arabs, who are mostly Sunni.”
“There has always been a correlation between money and art.”
“There has always been a fierceness within you. It's time to let her out.”
“There has always been a longing in the human heart for a more just, free, loving and creative society. But it was never before possible to fulfill these aspirations, because we had neither the evolutionary drivers and global crises to force us to change, nor did we have the scientific and technological powers that can free us from the limitations of scarcity, poverty, disease, and ignorance. This is the time of awakening for the social potential movement.”
“There has always been a part of me that saw wilderness and risk-taking as the path to freedom.”
“There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.”
“There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.”
“There has always been a strong relationship between music and religion. It is because they both plug directly into the heart and can have real power for good or evil.”
“There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.”
“There has always been excuses for wars, but NONE of them have been good or valid.”
“There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed; for this mind, group hatreds take a place in politics similar to the class struggle in some other modern societies.”
Source: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
“There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.”
Source: Oliphant's Anthem
“There has always been the wind.
Since our planet began to turn, there has been the wind. This ball of dirt and fire and water started to spin. The air stirred. And Earth's time began.
But the beginnings of the wind are lost in the mists of time. The wind blew before the Appian Way wended through Rome. It blew before the Parthenon crowned Athens. Before pyramids sprang up in Egypt.
Before the Mayans. Before the Incas.
Before Man.”
Source: Death in the Time of Ice
“There has always been, and there always will be, an economic cycle.”
“There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States.”
“There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on--a more reliable world in so far as it does not hide that its premise is illusion.”