T Quotes
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“There is a line from Dante that says, "The arrow seen before cometh less rudely." President John F. Kennedy put one aspect of the same thought into one of his state of the union messages this way: "The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining." The Boy Scouts say it best of all: "Be prepared." That isn't just cracker-barrel wisdom with us; it is theology. "If ye are prepared ye shall not fear." (D&C 38:30)”
Source: However Long and Hard the Road
“There is a line from the Marina Tsvetaeva poem I'm so fond of: "In this most Christian of worlds/ All poets are Jews." What she means is that writers and artists are outside the normal flow of daily life, the normal flow of society in general.”
“There is a line in Verlaine I shall not recall again,
There is a street close by forbidden to my feet,
There's a mirror that's seen me for the very last time,
There is a door that I have locked till the end of the world.
Among the books in my library (I have them before me)
There are some that I shall never open now.
This summer I complete my fiftieth year;
Death is gnawing at me ceaselessly.”
Source: Dreamtigers
“There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.”
Source: The Library at Night
“There is a line somewhere in Wozzeck that translates out to, roughly, 'The world is awful.' Yes, I said to myself as I shot across the Bay Bridge not giving a fuck how fast I drove, that sums it up. That is high art: 'The world is awful.' That says it all. This is what we pay composers and painters and the great writers to do: tell us this; from figuring this out, they earn a living. What a masterful, incisive insight. What penetrating intelligence. A rat in a drain ditch could tell you the same thing, were it able to talk. If rats could talk, I'd do anything they said.”
Source: The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
“There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, "The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more difficult pleasures." The presumption of that formulation is that the more difficult pleasures are actually better than the easier pleasures. That is why one makes the exchange.”
“There is a linear way in which black comedians are expected to talk about race by all audiences - black people are like this, white people are like this - and it really is hard to break through that. I never was doing it that way.”
“There is a linking chain in the form of kashay (anger-pride-deceit-greed) between the Self and the non-Self.”
Source: Pratikraman
“There is a list of things Im not allowed to discuss at the dinner table! I am extraordinarily passionate about the Black Death, which is not something most people are into.”
“There is a little bit of a head vs. heart kind of battle that happens sometimes with the song. There's the goose bump thing, where the melody or whatever it is just gets you and you don't know why. Sometimes, it's in a genre that you didn't think you liked and, all of a sudden, the song hits you and you just say, wow, I feel the hairs on the back of my neck. I love this song.”
“There is a little bit of divine in every demon,
Confluence in life's phenomenon,
Polarities specialized..
With duality get #Mickeymized!!!”
“There is a little bit of everybody in everybody.”
“There is a little bit of evil in all of us, and it's very easy to draw that out.”
“There is a little bit of Hitler in all white people.”
“There is a little bit of hubris to want to change the past. It implies that you know better - that things didn't happen the way that they were supposed to.”
“There is a little bit of me infused in every character I play.”
“There is a little bit of Nils Bohlin in every car.”
“There is a little bit of that schoolyard attitude of, it's one thing for a guy your own size to mouth off to you, but if there's a little guy, you should just smack him around. And it's probably bad advice in the schoolyard. It's certainly not a good way to run a foreign policy because even when you are dealing with a non-peer, militarily, war is complicated.”
“There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.”
“There is a little gland in the brain in which the soul exercises its functions in a more particular way than in the other parts.”
“There is a little good in all evil.”
Source: Where the Red Fern Grows
“There is a little Hitler in everyone.”
“There is a little narrowing to his eyes at the end of it that makes me understand that this is a test. Whether or not I'm brave enough to go into the stall with Corr after yesterday morning, after I've had time to think about what happened. The thought of it makes my pulse trip. The question is not if I trust Corr. The question is if I trust Sean.”
Source: The Scorpio Races
“There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week.”
“There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a lot of them, but most of them I have not read yet. I'll read them when they call me from the shelf.”
“There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.”
“There is a logic of language and a logic of mathematics.”
Source: Run to the mountain: the story of a vocation
“There is a logical explanation for everything, often mistaken for the reason it happened.”
“there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock”
Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993
“There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.”
“There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship's, smooths and contains the rocker. It's an inside kind--wrapped tight like skin. Then there is the loneliness that roams. No rocking can hold it down. It is alive. On its own. A dry and spreading thing that makes the sound of one's own feet going seem to come from a far-off place.”
“There is a loneliness that must be particular to monsters, I think, the feeling that each is the only child of a species.”
Source: Vampires in the Lemon Grove: Stories
“There is a loneliness that only exists in the mind. The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their world fall apart and all they can do is stare blankly.”
Source: The Great Gatsby
“There is a lonesome field of tall grasses within which one might pass a warm dusk eve and watch the stars and fireflies bring new illumination against the periwinkle sky and amidst the faint symphony of crickets and marsh frogs. A breeze whisks over and nearly flattens the fibrous stalks, and there is a sense of renewing peace that fills the form on this eve that one might wish to carry forward into all moments thereafter—a resplendent sense of contentment. All is finally and lastingly to one’s satisfaction.
And yet, right now, this notion of satisfaction seems illusory and unattainable.
At these depths, it seems too like a childish game.”
Source: trenches parallax leapfrog
“There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it from a democracy into a plutocracy.”
Source: Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United
“There is a long and honorable tradition of citizens in service to their nation that goes back at least as far as Cincinnatus, the Roman citizen who, more than once answered his country's call, then returned to his farm and his family and his work.”
Source: Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
“There is a long and interesting tradition of really marginal left-field music that becomes commercially successful. And I will, for a brief minute, fit into that tradition.”
“There is a long history in country music of songs celebrating drinking and lamenting drinking. Country songs for the most part have always been heavily rooted in reality. The first artists were the people next door. They would sing on their porch or in their living room or at a barn dance. They sang about what they knew, and a lot of that was drinking.”
“There is a long history of extremist movements recruiting damaged and isolated individuals to do their dirty work.”
“There is a long history of loneliness in literature. Of loneliness as a prerequisite to love. Almost like you can’t really love someone unless you’ve been alone and loveless for a long time. At least, if you’re a woman. Almost as if this protracted alone time is a purification, prepares a girl to be worthy of a man’s love.”
Source: Being Lolita
“There is a long history of monetary experience. It tells us that government is at heart a counterfeiter and therefore cannot be trusted to control money, and that this is true of both autocratic and popular government.”
“There is a long standing tradition of using code to evade censorship in China, so that goes on. The trouble is the Chinese government has created the world's most sophisticated censorship machine.”
“There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.”
Source: The Collected Stories
“There is a long tradition in China for writers and journalists to take pen names, partly as protection from retaliation by authorities. If Facebook requires the use of real names, that could potentially put Chinese citizens in danger.”
“There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics.”
Source: Parting Shots from My Brittle Bow: Reflections on American Politics and Life
“There is a longing among all people and creatures to have a sense of purpose and worth. To satisfy that common longing in all of us we must respect each other.”
“There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.”
Source: On Love: A Novel
“There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.”
Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain
“There is a lore simple and sure, that asks no discipline of weary years--the language of the soul, told through the eye.”
Source: The western home: and other poems
“There is a loss that is eternally irreparable; thus eternity—even more frightful—far from wiping out the recollection of what is lost, is an eternal recollection of what is lost!”
Source: The Essential Kierkegaard