T Quotes
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“There is something about yourself that you don't know.”
“There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.”
Source: Paine: Political Writings
“There is something addictive about secrets.”
“There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment”
Source: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
“There is something all life has in common, and when I know what it is I shall know myself.”
Source: The Summer of the Falcon
“There is something almost cruel about the Christian's being placed in a world which in every way wants to pressure him to do the opposite of what God bids him to do.”
“There is something almost insane about countries without common borders going to war, something unnatural.”
Source: The Theory of Clouds
“There is something almost sacred about a great library because it represents the preservation of the wisdom, the learning, and the pondering of men and women of all the ages, accumulated under one roof.”
“There is something almost shocking in the notion of so chaste a function carrying this Kantian hurlyburly in her womb.”
Source: The Principles of Psychology: Volume 1
“There is something almost subhuman about living the nocturnal life. You start to understand why all the paranormal creatures and fairytale beasts occupy the night. The darkness is for ghosts haunting old barns, monsters lurking in closets, and overtired people making terrible decisions. That is the natural order of things, and woe unto you who disobeys the rule of the night.”
“There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one's idea for thirty-five years; there's something left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you forever; and with it you will die, without communicating to anyone perhaps the most important of your ideas.”
“There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand. I am practically industrious - painstaking, a workman to execute with perseverance and labour - but besides this there is a love for the marvellous, a belief in the marvellous, intertwined in all my projects, which hurries me out of the common pathways of men, even to the wild sea and unvisited regions I am about to explore.”
Source: Frankenstein
“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
Source: Frankenstein
“There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don't worry or agonize about the outcome”
“There is something attractive about the fact Trump understands the consequences of positions he takes ...he's not afraid to make mistakes, he's also not afraid to admit when he's wrong.”
“There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to enjoy where they live while at the same time protect the plants and animals around them.”
“There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.”
Source: Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
“There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing. (They hang there, the stars, like notes on a page of music, free-form verse, silent mysteries swirling in the blue like jazz.) And as I lay there, it occurred to me that God is up there somewhere.”
Source: Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
“There is something beautiful about a blank canvas, the nothingness of the beginning that is so simple and breathtakingly pure. It’s the paint that changes its meaning and the hand that creates the story. Every piece begins the same, but in the end they are all uniquely different.”
“There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.”
“There is something beautiful about being able to carry 20k books around everywhere on an e-reader.
There is also something beautiful about having all 20k piled in my office in hoarder piles where I can pretend I'm a dragon.”
“There is something beautiful about photography; it allows the self to be reunited with the world.”
“There is something beautiful about watching two people lovingly act silly together; behaving as though no one else existed.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“There is something beautiful and permanent in the world, and that is the love that a person can have for another human being.”
“There is something beautiful in the mundane if you take enough microscope to it and focus in on something that seems innocuous to begin with.”
“There is something beautiful in you seeking freedom.”
“There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.”
“There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.”
Source: Woodrow Wilson: Selections for Today
“There is something between the call of the wild and the need to know what’s all this behind.”
Source: Talismanist: Fragments of the Ancient Fire. Philosophy of Fragmentism Series.
“There is something between us that is still there and I know it will always be there.. You know the worst thing is, we both feel it even today but we behave like nothing ever happened. We talk like strangers, we have moved on like adults, but somewhere inside, we still carry pieces of each other... with unsaid love.. And it hurts to know that our connection survived… but we didn’t.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“There is something beyond power. The totality of one's being. Some call it nirvana. We have a higher destiny. Before you can scratch the surface, you have to bring your life into order.”
“There is something beyond the grave; death does not end all, and the pale ghost escapes from the vanquished pyre.”
“There is something beyond the natural chaos that is woman or the chaos with implied order that is man, and that's the totality. To stay as we are, is not the issue, but to awake from the dream of life.”
“There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.”
Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr
“There is something bittersweet about letting go; about parting from anyone or anything that holds memory.
But it is Spring. The weather is nice outside tonight. I put my writing utensils away for the rest of the season and take back up the old practices of the Forest-Sitting Religion.”
Source: The School of Soft Attention
“There is something breathtaking about the basic laws of crystals. They are in no sense a discovery of the human mind; they just "are" - they exist quite independently of us. The most that man can do is become aware, in a moment of clarity, that they are there, and take cognizance of them.”
“There is something breathtakingly beautiful in vulnerability, when a heart speaks out so deeply that all else melts away and all that remains is honesty.”
“There is something bright and brilliant in me. It doesn't make me feel special. It makes me terribly alone.”
Source: Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
“There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had brought a smaller army I might have had the sense to run. But he overdid it.”
“There is something called destiny which is above all our desires. Only time can tell if the decision was indeed good”
Source: the red diary
“There is something called "The ML Veil" or "ML Wall at this stage in history." This veil or wall signifies a level in the code which humans cannot pass. The code becomes far too dense for humans to understand.”
Source: Beyond the Fringe: My Experience with Extended Intelligence
“There is something called the rapture of the deep, and it refers to what happens when a deep-sea diver spends too much time at the bottom of the ocean and can't tell which way is up. When he surfaces, he's liable to have a condition called the bends, where the body can't adapt to the oxygen levels in the atmosphere. All of this happens to me when I surface from a great book.”
“There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which, we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect, the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself.”
“There is something cathartic about having absolute loss articulated.”
“There is something charming and peculiar about a beginning. You feel it, like the change of seasons, from winter to spring, from spring to summer. You feel it; the new blood pumping inside your veins. You feel it; a thousand butterflies fluttering around your fingers to help you fly. You feel it; on your lips, when you smile at the absurdities of life that suddenly make perfect sense.
You smile... Because in every beginning, there is a rebirth. Because in every beginning, there is a layer of you that you just discovered. A layer you forgot was buried in you all this time. You smile because you are reminded of the immensity of fate. You smile because suddenly you feel so small and you like it.
So let's begin my dear. This life is beautiful.”
“There is something childish and legalistic about churches in which all of the saints observe precisely the same standards. When all lives begin to sink into the same mould of denial and exercise of liberty, something is amiss.”
“There is something chilling about a suffering man, who despite the pain and terror - is smiling.”
“There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.”
“There is something complete about Stevie Wonder, and one senses that he is not only exceptionally important today, but will continue to be for as long as he chooses.”
“There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.”