T Quotes
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“There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.”
“There is something suspect about our inability to enjoy anything.”
“There is something sustaining in the very agitation that accompanies the first shocks of trouble, just as an acute pain is often a stimulus, and produces an excitement which is transient strength. It is in the slow, changed life that follows--in the time when sorrow has become stale, and has no longer an emotive intensity that counteracts its pain--in the time when day follows day in dull unexpectant sameness, and trial is a dreary routine--it is then that despair threatens; it is then that the peremptory hunger of the soul is felt, and eye and ear are strained after some unlearned secret of our existence, which shall give to endurance the nature of satisfaction.”
Source: The Mill on the Floss
“There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. Nothing is more touching than the death of the young, the strong.”
“There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“There is something terribly radical about believing that one's own experience and images are important enough to speak about, much less to write about and to perform”
“There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.”
“There is something that can be found in one place. It is a great treasure which may be called the fulfillment of existence. The place where this treasure can be found is the place where one stands”
Source: Hasidism and modern man
“There is something that can happen to every athlete and every human being; the instinct to slack off, to give in to pain, to give less than your best; the instinct to hope you can win through luck or through your opponent not doing his best, instead of going to the limit and past your limit where victory is always found. Defeating those negative instincts that are out to defeat us, is the difference between winning and losing - and we all face that battle every day.”
“There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.”
“There is something that feels stagnant about having things you don't use or wear. But shoes are my thing. Shoes and scarves, I'm a big fan of the scarf.”
“There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion.”
“There is something that governments care for more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy.... Those of you who can break windows--break them. Those of you who can still further attack the secret idol of property, so as to make the Government realize that property is as greatly endangered by women's suffrage as it was by the Chartists of old--do so. And my last word is to the Government: I incite this meeting to rebellion!”
“There is something that happens when we leave the land and enter the ocean. It's unexpected, the environment feels strangely welcoming. The ocean almost feels like... home.”
“There is something that happens when you get emancipated. You approach life differently. You eat differently. You respect yourself more. You respect the gift you have been given.”
“There is something that I have in common with every citizen of Russia, the love for our motherland.”
“There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.”
Source: A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things: As Written
“There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. The sternest comment that can be made against employers as a class lies in the fact that men of Ability usually succeed in showing their worth in spite of their employer, and not with his assistance and encouragement.”
Source: A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things: As Written
“There is something that is transcendental about when we are immersed in that which we most love.”
“There is something that makes him great. His thoughts transcend the mundane, he strategizes in a profound way, he never labours in vain, and he keeps moving from good to great.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“There is something that might be called cinematic beauty. It can only be expressed in a film, and it must be present for that film to be a moving work. When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film. I believe that it is this quality that draws people to come and see a film, and that it is the hope of attaining this quality that inspires the filmmaker to make his film in the first place.”
“There is something that one learns when one is an actress... Every night you go out on that stage. Every night you pretend to be someone you're not. But eventually the curtain is drawn, and your audience goes home, and the costumes and the face paints get put away... No one can pretend forever to be someone they're not.”
Source: A Duke to Remember
“There is something that pretends to be christianity which is mostly mood. The measure of its faith is merely the measure of its feeling.”
Source: Discipline: The Glad Surrender
“There is something that's a great deal more important than parental approval: learning to do without it. That's what it means to become an adult.”
Source: How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success
“There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world.”
Source: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
“There is something that you can do, for a greater good, for a greater cause, one that is far bigger than just yourself. Find it, and then, do it.”
Source: THE BOOK on What Ever You're Into: These are the 52 Timeless Winning Truths you Need To Know to have a chance at Winning
“There is something that you have that no one else ever had ... When you watch Kirk's [Douglas] performance in anything, in anything he's ever done, you cannot take your eyes off of him. It's not possible to look away from him.”
“There is Something, the Being, and this Being cannot be denied empirically or theoretically and cannot be challenged by skepticism. It would also be hard to deny that the Being (Universe) may be God himself (Itself), theoretically or hypothetically. If, for a moment, we forget the idea of intelligent design or the idea of a benevolent God or any God as presented by religions, and even if we forget the idea of a God who creates the world (Creator-God), we can still think of a God who recreates himself in the form of the Universe.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“There is something therapeutic about doing for others that lifts a person out of the rut of self-thought.”
Source: Seduction of the Heart
“There is something thrilling in the mimesis of life's surprising unfolding.”
“There is something to appreciate in every moment of every day. Strive to find it as often as you can. Living with gratitude will change your life.”
“There is something to astrology for those who believe in astrology, as there is something to medicine for those who believe in medicine. Every system works when we give our heart to it.”
“There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you will still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to everything.”
Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
“There is something to be said about a guy who is attractive and doesn't know it. I hate men who are overconfident.”
“There is something to be said about a pastor and a church that develop a missions statement and the people take ownership of it. They get their identity, purpose, and energy from the unique place their church is to be in that community.”
“There is something to be said about designing and building the machine of your dreams.”
“There is something to be said about designing the machine of your dreams.”
“There is something to be said about laying bare the vocabulary of the aristocratic measure, right? There's something to be said about allowing the powerless to tell their own story.”
“There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God.”
Source: The Purity of Desire: 100 Poems of Rumi
“There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.”
“There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a Democrat like myself must admit this.”
Source: In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena
“There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the money touch, but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.”
Source: The days of Armageddon, 1900-1914
“There is something to be said for jealousy, because it only designs the preservation of some good which we either have or think wehave a right to. But envy is a raging madness that cannot bear the wealth or fortune of others.”
“There is something to be said for people who have to work hard, be creative, produce what they have with little - or no - means. Those of us from poor homes have the advantage of thinking for ourselves and of knowing that when times get hard, things could always be worse.”
“There is something to be said for the night. The darkness holds a sense of promise, as if anything could happen. Maybe something good, like a handsome stranger or something with snarling teeth that whispers pretty things as it eats you. Thus, the night is a test. A test of fear and the sweet promise of pain.”
Source: Fear University
“There is something to be said for the openness to form, and literary form because it forces you to actually think about the other person, and their motivations, and to try to see them from all sides and to really write about them not as caricature.”
“There is something to be said for the power of figureheads. After Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, a record number of countries posted female ambassadors to the U.S. - some of whom have dubbed this 'the Hillary effect.'”
“There is something to be said for waking up every morning and seeing the sun.”
“There is something to be said though when you have 4 or 5 guys playing with no net, there is a sense of urgency, It is organic with a lot of anticipation and you can hear it, the way it is played. My favorite bands that I love from way back have a lot of things going on and it makes it real, it is not tangible but it is the spirit of the moment.”
“There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)