T Quotes
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“There is in me a darkness that, by darkness challenged, will rise up and have its way.”
Source: Odd Apocalypse
“There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.”
“There is in me an insatiable thirst for a quest. For discovering things greater than ourselves. Beyond that is a murky darkness which beckons me to its call. I seek movement for movement's sake. There is no destination except the verb of motion...I seek to dive into the unknown and allow its wisdom to take me away. And when it is finished with me, it will bring me back and things will never be the same again.”
Source: Chapter One: Costa Rica
“There is in Moscow a great curiosity for things American, and a great sympathy for things Negro. So, being both an American and a Negro, I am met everywhere with friendly questions from children and adults as to how we live at home. Is there really a crisis, with people hungry and ragged when there are in America so many factories, so much technique, so much wheat, and cotton and livestock? How can that be? Do they actually kill people in electric chairs? Actually lynch Negroes? Why?
The children in the Moscow streets, wise little city children, will oft times gather around you if you are waiting for a streetcar, or looking into a shop window. They will take your hand and ask you about the Scottsboro boys, or if you like the Soviet Union and are going to stay forever. Sometimes as you pass a group of children playing, they will stop and exclaim, "Negro!" But in wonder and surprise a long ways from the insulting derision of the word "Nigger" in the mouths of America's white children. Here, the youth in the schools are taught to respect all races.”
Source: Good Morning, Revolution: Uncollected Social Protest Writings
“There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“There is, in my experience, something malevolent about Instagram that slays discipline and stunts intellectual growth.”
Source: By the River Mandovi
“There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world.”
“There is in my soul only age and decay. I am Death's handmaid.”
Source: Pietra and Other Horrors: Five Tales of Terror
“There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.”
“There is in some men a dispassionate neutrality of mind, which, though it generally passes for good temper, can neither gratify nor warm us: it must indeed be granted that these men can only negatively offend: but then it should also be remembered that they cannot positively please.”
“There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.”
Source: The Poems of William Cowper
“There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.”
Source: The Poems of William Cowper
“There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the judgment at hand, a truth more profound than any that underlies our somewhat enfeebled ideas of universal benevolence and the determined progress of the race.”
Source: Missionary Methods: St. Paul's or Ours?
“There is in stillness oft a magic power
To calm the breast, when struggling passions lower;
Touch'd by its influence, in the soul arise
Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.”
Source: The Poems of John Henry Newman (1905) [Leather Bound]
“There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.”
Source: Selected Writings to 1845
“There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.”
“There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.”
“There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.”
“There is in the American Government...a want of unity.... The Sailors, the helmsman, the engineer, do not seem to have one purpose or obey one will so that instead of making steady way the vessel may pursue a devious or zigzag course, and sometimes merely turn round and round in the water.”
“There is in the body, a current of energy, affection and intelligence, which guides, maintains and energizes the body. Discover that current and stay with it.”
“There is in the chemist a form of thought by which all ideas become visible in the mind as strains of an imagined piece of music. This form of thought is developed in Faraday in the highest degree, whence it arises that to one who is not acquainted with this method of thinking, his scientific works seem barren and dry, and merely a series of researches strung together, while his oral discourse when he teaches or explains is intellectual, elegant, and of wonderful clearness.”
“There is in the child a special kind of sensitivity which leads him to absorb everything about him, and it is this work of observing and absorbing that alone enables him to adapt himself to life”
“There is in the clergy of all Christian denominations a time-serving, cringing, subservient morality, as wide from the spirit of the gospel as it is from the intrepid assertion and vindication of truth.”
Source: Diary, 1794-1845: American Diplomacy and Political, Social, and Intellectual Life from Washington to Polk
“There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.”
Source: The Natural: A Novel
“There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.”
Source: The Potter's Field
“There is in the heart of woman such a deep well of love that no age can freeze it.”
“There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.”
Source: And Even Now: And, A Christmas Garland
“There is in the living being a thirst for limitlessness.”
“there is in the most occidental part of Iberia, a very strange society, they don´t rule themselves, nor do they allow others to rule them.”
Source: "Bellum Britannicum", De bello Gallico, IV. 20-30, V. 8-23; 1881 [Leather Bound]
“There is in the Sacred Heart the symbol and express image of the infinite love of Jesus Christ which moves us to love in return.”
“There is in the soul a desire for not thinking.
For being still. Coupled with this
a desire to be strict, yes, and rigorous.
But the soul is also a smooth son of a bitch,
not always trustworthy. And I forgot that.”
Source: All of Us: The Collected Poems
“There is in the soul a something in which God dwells, and there is in the soul a something in which the soul dwells in God.”
“There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.”
“There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events beyond the range of those events that the procedures of the natural sciences are fit to observe and describe. There is human action.”
Source: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method
“There is in the world no rock or tower of such a height that it cannot be scaled by any man (provided he lack not feet) if ladders are placed in the proper position or steps are cut in the rock, made in the right place, and furnished with railings against the danger of falling over.
If we examine ourselves, we see that our faculties grow in such a manner that what goes before paves the way for what comes after.”
“There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity. All young people should be taught now to put up with loneliness ... because the less man is compelled to come into contact with others, the better off he is.”
“There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.”
“There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green of the emerald - all shining together in incredible union. Some by their splendor rival the colors of the painters, others the flame of burning sulphur or of fire quickened by oil.”
“There is in this Universe much of what seems to be design.”
Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
“There is in this world in which everything wears out, everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust, that destroys itself still more completely, leaving behind still fewer traces of itself than Beauty: namely Grief.”
Source: In Search of Lost Time: Or
“there is in this world no line so bad that someone won't someday copy it.”
“There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation.”
Source: Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson
“There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.”
“There is in true Beauty, as in Courage, somewhat which narrow Souls cannot dare to admire.”
“There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.”
Source: A Selection from His Works
“There is in us all that line that prevents us from fully understanding those who are different.”
Source: QB VII
“There is in us an instinct for newness, for renewal, for a liberation of creative power. We seek to awaken in ourselves a force which really changes our lives from within. And yet the same instinct tells us that this change is a recovery of that which is deepest, most original, most personal in ourselves. To be born again is not to become somebody else, but to become ourselves.”
Source: Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation
“There is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality.”
“There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.”
Source: A book of prefaces