T Quotes
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“There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.”
“There have been tons of politicians who were slow to accept equal rights when it meant changes in the established social order. Many eventually came around, admitted they were wrong, and were forgiven. But the ones who actively choose hate-mongering don't ever get a pass.”
“there have been too many events in my life, and in the lives of my friends, which have defied any kind of scientific explanation. Science does not have appropriate tools for the dissection of the spirit.”
“There have been two [career highlights]. Waking up in New York to hear I'd been nominated for Best Actor for a Tony Award on Broadway, for An Ideal Husband. The other one was waking up the morning after the opening night of A Man For All Seasons and reading the reviews.”
“There have been two Geraldo Riveras through his long career. One of them was a reporter who has done some remarkable work. The other was a television show host who did what it took to get an audience.”
“There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.”
“There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.”
“There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy.”
“There have been two lines of progress in this world-political and religious. In the former the Greeks are everything, the modern political institutions being only the development of the Grecian; in the latter the Hindus are everything.”
Source: Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India
“There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.”
“There have been unions based on gold or silver, but not on fiat money - money tempted to inflate - put out by politically independent entities.”
“There have been ups and downs, but it has taught us a lot in life. Going with the team through those ups and downs is a terrific journey.”
“There have been various pesticides that have been properly tested, that have been registered and then have been used and later on they've been discoveredthat they can create harm, like in the case of this Oftanol that was being used here (in Sacramento, against the Japanese beetle). Now they find that it can cause problems at least to animals. So we stopped using it.”
“There have been waves of reform in the past. I see no reason why they wouldn't happen again.”
“There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained a little, but survived after all.”
Source: the female eunuch
“There have been women who stumbled across Feministing randomly, through a bizarre Google search or something, and had no idea what feminism was. They thought it was something older women do, or bought into the hairy bra-burning man-hating stereotype 100 percent. Anything that deviates from that is very exciting for them.”
“There have been years where I've had to take a real job and I wrote during slow times and lunches. I think never forgetting how lucky I am to be able to do something I love has really fueled me.”
“There have been, in recent years, many Asian American pioneers in the public eye who've defied the condescendingly complimentary 'model minority' stereotype: actors like Lucy Liu, artists like Maya Lin, moguls like Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. They are known, often admired.”
“There have certainly been many periods in history when virtue was more rare than under the Caesars; but there has probably never been a period when vice was more extravagant or uncontrolled.”
Source: History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne
“There have definitely been more than a few moments in my life where I'm wondering where the next paycheck will come from and how I'm gonna pay rent.”
“There have existed, in every age and every country, two distinct orders of men - the lovers of freedom and the devoted advocates of power.”
“There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.”
“There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance.”
“There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era.”
“There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness.”
“There have only been two authentic geniuses in the world, Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare and I think you'd better put Shakespeare first, darling.”
“There have only been two world-class goalkeepers. One was Lev Yashin, the other was the German boy who played for Manchester City.”
“There have to be at least two copies of a photograph, otherwise it’s not a photograph.”
“There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies.”
“There have to be more important things going on in the world than my past.”
“There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith.”
“There have to be rules though.” She pulled out of the kiss, withdrawing her finger as well, sliding it down his chin and throat, leaving a wet trail.
“Rules?”
Her gaze locked with his. “This can only be sex. Just seven weeks of utterly debauched, completely strings-free sex.” Her finger moved south, swirling around first one nipple then the other. “No expectations. No commitments. No getting attached. No crying like a baby and asking me not to leave.”
Ryder laughed at the thought, but there was a husky catch to it as her finger trailed down his abdomen.
“I’m not going to fall in love with you,” she continued. “And you’re not going to fall in love with me. I will not give up my dream again, Ryder. Not for you, not for any man. Okay?”
Source: Playing With Forever
“There have to be trans extraordinaries. Do you think we'll get to meet them?"
"Probably," Jazz said, "I've personally met an absurd amount of queer extraordinaire."
"Poor straight people, they really don't get to have much. Except for fake white Jesus, do they?"
They took a moment of silence for the heterosexuals of the world. When enough time had passed (six seconds--straights didn't need that much sympathy), Nick clapped his hands and said, "Okay! I think I'm ready to do this.”
Source: Flash Fire
“There have, for years, been comparative studies of religious fanaticism and factors that correlate with it. By and large, it tends to decline with increasing industrialization and education. The US, however, is off the chart, ranking near devastated peasant societies. About 1/2 the population believe the world was created a few thousand years ago: the justification for the belief is that that is what they were ordered to believe by authority figures to whom they were taught one must subordinate oneself. And on, and on.”
“There haven't been many credible electronic covers records.”
“There he died; and as thou seest me, saw
I the three fall one by one, between the fifth
day and the sixth: whence I betook me,
already blind, to groping over each, and for
three days called them, after they were dead;
then fasting had more power than grief.”
Source: The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
“There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's origin and preferences, he took care to include a yard of long French bread, a sausage out of which the garlic sang, some cheese which lay down and cried, and a long-necked straw-covered flask wherein lay bottled sunshine shed and garnered on far Southern slopes.”
Source: The wind in the willows
“There he is then, the unfortunate brute, quite miserable because of me, for whom there is nothing to be done, and he so anxious to help, so used to giving orders and to being obeyed. There he is, ever since I came into the world, possibly at his instigation, I wouldn't put it past him, commanding me to be well, you know, in every way, no complaints at all, with as much success as if he were shouting at a lump of inanimate matter.”
Source: The Unnamable
“There he is, a woman's living, breathing fantasy, doing his slow, cocky turn, spiky black hair, darkly tanned chest, dimpled smile-killer smile-all in the package of Remington Tate. He's perfection itself, and a new surge of hormones sweeps through me as I do what the rest of the crowd does and take in his visual, so blatantly on display in those low riding boxing shorts and so strikingly sexy, he becomes the center of my attention. The center. Of my. World.”
“There he is, tall, tanned, Italian, sophisticated. So what do you do?" I said, "Er, leap on him and snog him within an inch of his life? Taking care not to strangle myself on his false beard, or disturb his banana.”
“There," he said. "That's a coin trick for you." Shadow, who had been watching closely, put his head on one side. "I need to know how you did it."
"I did it," said Sweeney, with the air of one confiding a huge secret, "with panache and style. That's how I did it." He laughed, silently, rocking on his heels, his gappy teeth bared.
"Yes," said Shadow. "That is how you did it.”
Source: American Gods: Tenth Anniversary
“There he stood , peeping through his own head of rotten pumpkin , scaring away many a flock of birds . His body was as tough and concrete as a straw . Till now he only saw and could not think ,now he could not even see for the rotten pumpkin was taken away and eaten by the farmer who had fallen into a dark abyss due to falling prices of his crops.”
“There he stood, shrouded in past regrets, today's fears, and last night's clothes.”
Source: Charmed
“There he stood, in the camouflage of sun and shade, disfigured by them and masked by his own nakedness.”
Source: The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated
“There he was, her confidant—strong, solid, and unbending.”
Source: Ruby
“There he was, skipping lightly across the surface of the water. He caught my eye and gave me that shit-eating grin again. “Be of good cheer. It is I. Be not afraid.”
Source: Get Thee Behind Me, Santa: An Inexcusably Filthy Children's Time-Travel Farce for Adults Only
“There, he would live in total anonymity, a small-time bandit with no name. Nobody would believe the stories he would recall. Nobody would believe the history of his sadness.”
Source: My sad republic
“There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.”
Source: Poirot loses a client
“There I am, in the Grade Six class picture, smiling broadly. Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hardshelled, firmly closed.”
Source: Cat’s Eye
“There: I am quietly slipping into the water’s depths, towards fear.”
Source: Nausea