T Quotes
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“There is something on earth greater than arbitrary or despotic power. The lightning has its power, and the whirlwind has its power, and the earthquake has its power; but there is something among men more capable of shaking despotic thrones than lightning, whirlwind, or earthquake, and that is, the excited and aroused indignation of the whole civilized world.”
Source: THE WORKS OF DANIEL WEBSTER; VOLUME II
“There is something only you can do better”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“There is something only you can do better than everyone else”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“There is something out of gear about graded schools and all that. Memory is developed at the expense of what in general we are pleased to call thought and character.”
Source: Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett
“There is something outrageous about such a huge body of evidence being put together, then being confirmed in all kinds of other scientific disciplines, particularly genetics, and having other people just sort of deny it for reasons that have nothing to do with truth.”
“There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.”
“There is something paradoxical in the fact that by establishing an export market we subject our entire domestic production to the vagaries of that market.”
“There is something particularly appealing about teaching a subject that seems to deal with the lowest kind of relationships-accidents, ambulance chasing-because you can show students that these raise the most fundamental questions about the structure of society.”
“There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph or painting.”
“There is something particularly special and personal about the circle and how its curves comfortably rule every aspect of our lives.”
Source: Parallelism Of Cyclicality
“There is something particularly unique about the films of Hong Sang-soo...it's got to do with his masterful sense of storytelling... as the critic Manny Farber once said of Hitchcock's ROPE Hong Sang-soo's pictures unpeel like an orange.”
“There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.”
“There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain.”
Source: Vertigo
“There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposition of beauty, which gains perfection through nurtured imperfection.”
“There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.”
“There is something powerful in Metallica, a will, a drive.”
“There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's something delightful about it, something naughty, secretive, forbidden, thrilling. It's like a spell, of sorts. It deflates them, reduces them to the common denominator where they can be dealt.”
“There is something powerfully beguiling about the excited eyes of a young woman. They can pull all manner of nonsense out of a foolish young man, and I was no exception to this rule.”
“There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting.”
“There is something predetermined in the mutual attraction between Germany and Russia. Otherwise, this attraction would not have survived two ghastly World Wars.”
“There is something profoundly satisfying about sharing a meal. Eating together, breaking bread together, is one of the oldest and most fundamentally unifying of human experiences.”
“There is something quite healthy to the feeling of anger. When you listen to music that makes you hate more the ones you're supposed to hate, for example, we can say music has a healing power. It would be unhealthy to love people that constantly hurt you, either they are family, spouses or even children. It is sick to think that anyone can be immune to hate, as it is delusional to believe some people, for having a pretty face or an innocent smile, are immune to karma, to the price they must pay for what they do, in this or previous reincarnations. You see, you may not hate them, and they will still pay the price for what they do. So hate is nothing more than the need to scratch the skin when a large bird is above your head plucking your brain. It's normal. To hate it is also normal. And to hit that bird really hard is healthy. To kill the bird may not be necessary, but wouldn't be unnatural either.”
“There is something quite peculiar to be found in the deep, unconscious seriousness with which two young people of opposite sex regard each other when they meet for the first time. the searching and penetrating glance they cast at each other, the careful inspection all the features and parts of their respective persons have to undergo. This scrutiny and examination is the meditation of the genius of the species concerning the individual possible through these two, and the combination of its qualities. The degree of their mutual pleasure in and longing for each other proves to be in accordance with the result of this meditation. After this longing has reached a significant degree, it can be suddenly extinguished again by the discovery of something that had previously remained unobserved. In all who are capable of procreation, therefore, the genius of the species meditates thus concerning the race to come. The constitution of this race is the great work with which Cupid is occupied, incessantly active, speculating, and pondering. Compared with the importance of his great business concerning the species and all the generations to come, the affairs of individuals in all their ephemeral totality are very insignificant; hence he is always ready to sacrifice these arbitrarily. For he is related to them as an immortal is to mortals, and his interests are related to theirs as the infinite to the finite. Therefore, conscious of managing affairs of a higher order than all those that concern only individual weal and woe, he pursues them with sublime and undisturbed calm amid the tumult of war, in the turmoil of business life, or during the raging of a plague; and follows them even into the seclusion of the cloister.”
Source: The World as Will and Representation: A Philosophical Foundation of Western Metaphysics and Aesthetics
“There is something quite wonderful about sharing a secret.”
“There is something rather than nothing because the laws of mathematics and logic would exist even if nothing else did, and therefore there cannot be nothing because those laws are something.”
“There is something rather unique about the bonding that takes place between two individuals.”
“There is something really amazing about you.. Your unique ideas and thoughts that you bring to this world. Your smile, your laugh.. It's you and you are valuable, worthy and cherished..”
“There is something really good to say about humility. Being confident and humble is a great combination, maybe the best of all!”
Source: Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
“There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.”
“There is something really mysterious about lions. They could rip you apart if they wanted to, but at the same time they look so cuddly. Can you imagine what humans look like to animals? They must think we're so weird.”
“There is something really nice about learning that you can take the reins of your life and your career.”
“There is something really nice about learning that you can take the reins of your life and your career. There are a lot of times, doing what we do, that you feel no control and get very panicky feeling. It's nice to know that you are able to do it on your own.”
“There is something really so iconic about the original Predator, and it is exciting. It's not just special effects. It's not like you bring a puppet in, these are characters and so we were involved in developing the look and the attitude of all the characters.”
“There is something reassuring about the toilets. Bodily functions at least remain democratic. Everybody shits.”
“There is something relentless about the serenity of nature which has a crushing effect on the human mind. The lavish splendour of her phases, which completely ignores human strife, fills the race of men with the sensation of their own ephemeral insignificance and drives them mad.”
Source: Clochemerle
“There is something remarkable about each one of us. Seize the opportunity to look within and rediscover yourself.”
“There is something remarkably and peculiarly English about the passion for sitting on damp seats watching open-air drama only the English have mastered the art of being truly uncomfortable while facing up to culture.”
“There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love.”
Source: I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition
“There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase - the pursuit of happiness - is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.”
“There is something romantic about feeding a predator from the palm of your hand, I think- a creature which might bite you if it chooses, but chooses not to. But how does one turn such awful beauty to lead and ink on a page?”
Source: Our Hideous Progeny
“There is something romantic about the thought of all the apartments that aren’t for sale.”
Source: Anxious People
“There is something sacred about slowing down. It gives space for grace to catch up, for truth to sink in, and for your soul to breathe again.”
Source: Take a Breath with Him Companion Guidebook - Experiencing God When You're Getting Back On Your Feet
“There is something sad about traveling, because as you discover the enormous amount of life and living that exist in all these places and hidden corners, you are left with two contradictory feelings: first, traveling strongly confirms the idea that one can only see what one is intellectually, spiritually, and physically prepared to see…Everything we encounter depends on our palate in the same way tasting food is that encounter between the food and the palate. Second, there is something excruciatingly painful about leaving a place as soon as you begin to feel at home. There is a deep sorrow in knowing that all the things, places, lakes, wildflowers, animals, and people that we encounter will continue their lives without us. Even more painful is the realization that there are many more lives and much more beauty that we will never get to experience."
[From “Can We Travel Without Being Tourists?” published on CounterPunch on March 15, 2024]”
“There is something sadly wrong when it is more important to us whether others are a part of our denomination, rather than whether they repent of sin, believe on Christ and live holy lives.”
“There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.”
Source: Enjoyment of living
“There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.”
“There is something servile in the interpretation of sin as crime which infringes the will of God and calls for legal proceedings on the part of God. Sin is dividedness, a state of deficiency, incompleteness, dissociation, enslavement, hatred, but it is not disobedience and not formal violation of the will of God.”
“There is something sexy about a computer nerd.”
“There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.”
Source: My Story
“there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail, but who is there to know it? It dies and is buried, and is decently interred on the bookseller's shelf; but the play dies to laughter, to scorn and disdain.”
Source: My Story