T Quotes
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“There is such a thing as a person's spiritual memory, his spiritual experience, which must be present in each of us, regardless of our age. These are the main things, of a seemingly higher realm, that gives us moral momentum, that we derive from the events of our lives, and that hold interest not only for ourselves alone. When this occurs and when the moral residue of external events seems important to us, we naturally want to share it with others.”
Source: Siberia on Fire: Stories and Essays
“There is such a thing as anaesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne.”
“There is such a thing as bad publicity.”
“There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.”
“There is such a thing as crazy-mother bonding. . . . It happens when one realizes the other also has had a crazy mother, and it is both painful and pleasurable. There are more crazy mothers than you might think.”
“There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.”
Source: Notebooks
“There is such a thing as emotional rubbish; it is produced in the factories of the mind. It consists of pain that has long since passed and is no longer useful. It consists of precautions that were important in the past, but that serve no purpose in the present.”
Source: Warrior of the Light
“There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the ecstasy of ear-splitting noise, ecstasy in the soccer stadium.”
“There is such a thing as evil in this world,” Elias told her quietly. “It does not help to look away from it. It does not even help, necessarily, to look at it.” His fingers brushed through her hair, and she shivered. “But sometimes, when you cannot force the world to come to its senses, you must settle only for wiping away some of the small evils in front of you.”
Source: Half a Soul
“There is such a thing as evil in this world [...] It does not help to look away from it. It does not even help necessarily to look at it. [...] But sometimes, when you cannot force the world to come to its senses, you must settle only for wiping away some of the small evils in front of you.”
Source: Half a Soul
“There is such a thing as fanaticism, it is always wrong, and if you disagree, you're wrong too.”
“There is such a thing as fate, but it only takes you so far. Then its up to you to make it happen.”
“There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.”
“There is such a thing as genius, and these are people who do not have a formal disability, DSM-IV-type. They may have liberal eccentricities or quirks in their personality, but they don't rise to the level of a disability.”
“There is such a thing as good interference from your record label. I don't think I get enough interference from my record label.”
“There is such a thing as having too much of a good thing.”
“There is such a thing as honest pride and self-respect.”
“There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.”
“There is such a thing as literary fashion, and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our coats and cocks our hats.”
“There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)
“There is such a thing as man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.”
“There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside.”
“There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness.”
Source: Infinite Jest
“There is such a thing as righteous judgment, but it seems that lately the word 'judgment' has become a curse word, period. The issue isn't whether or not we're insightful enough to avoid being judgmental, but whether or not we're secure enough to accept being judged. It is inevitable for every conscious human being to judge. It may spring from insight and experience and sincerity, and in such cases, it is quite beneficial on the receiving end.”
Source: Killosophy
“There is such a thing as seduction, and it needs encouragement rather than discouragement in our puritanical Anglo-American world.”
Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays
“There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state.”
“There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.”
“There is such a thing as the courage in remaining baffled.”
“There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up. [...] The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. [...] To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.”
“There is such a thing as the impression of luminosity.”
Source: Remarks on Colour/Bemerkungen Uber Die Farben
“There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.”
Source: Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction
“There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.”
Source: TOILERS OF THE SEA
“There is such a thing as too much beauty in a woman and it is often a burden as crippling as homeliness and far more dangerous. It takes much luck and integrity to survive the gift of perfect beauty, and its impermanence is its most cunning betrayal.”
Source: The Prince of Tides: A Novel
“There is such a thing as too much couth.”
“There is such a thing as too much loss. Too much has been taken from you both - taken and taken and taken, until there's nothing left but hope, and you've given that up because it hurts too much. Until you would rather die, or kill, or avoid attachments altogether, than lose one more thing.”
Source: The Obelisk Gate
“There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.”
“There is such a thirst to be known, isn't there? What is it about being known that would cause us to hunger so much after it, at any cost? I'm afraid too many of us have forgotten that far more noble is the journey that one embarks on to know oneself; than the trip one goes on in the search for fame. Isn't it better to know and to know and to know yourself and if your heart is found to be noble, isn't it better that you know this on your own and truly; rather than for you to chase after the thoughts that others might have of you? To be a true royal in heart is better than to be a false royal with a throne.”
“There is such a torture, happily unknown to ancient tyranny, as talking a man to death. Marcus Aurelius advises to assent readily to great talkers--in hopes, I suppose, to put an end to the argument.”
Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne: Complete in Eight Volumes
“There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them.”
“There is such an animal as a nonstylist, only they're not writers - they're typists.”
Source: Truman Capote: Conversations
“There is such an overvaluation of technology stocks that it is absurd. I would include our stock in that category. It is bad for the long-term worth of the economy.”
“There is such dissociation between what the eyes see and what the mind envisions. The final thought is just a matter of interpretation, coloured by our experiences.”
Source: Bombay Rains, Bombay Girls
“There is such insane variety within the world of male genitalia.”
Source: Arcade
“There is such little use for fear.”
“There is such longing in me for music. A closed piano is my biggest nightmare.”
“There is such pleasure in long-term marriage that I really would hate to be
my age and not have had a long-term marriage. Remember, sustaining a pleasurable,
long-term marriage takes effort, deliberateness and an intention to learn about
one another. In other words, marriage is for grown-ups.”
“There is such pressure on kids these days to be the best at everything.”
“There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.”
Source: The diary of John Quincy Adams, 1794-1845: American diplomacy, and political, social, and intellectual life, from Washington to Polk
“There is such solace in the mere sight of water. It clothes us delicately in its blowing salt and scent, gossamer items that medicate the poor soul”
Source: On Canaan's Side
“There is such sweet pain in parting that I could hang forever on thine arms, and look away my life into thine eyes.”