T Quotes
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“There must be people who pray even for those who never pray.”
“There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.”
“There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.”
“There must be power in the word of a satyagraha general, not the power that the possession of limitless arms gives, but the power that purifies life which strict vigilance and a ceaseless application produce.”
“There must be progress, certainly. But we must ask ourselves what kind of progress we want, and what price we want to pay for it. If, in the name of progress, we want to destroy everything beautiful in our world, and contaminate the air we breathe, and the water we drink, then we are in trouble.”
“There must be provision for the child to have contact with nature; to understand and appreciate the order, the harmony and the beauty in nature.”
“There must be public servants who are working regularly among the people.”
“There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them. Whenever I’m sad I’m going to die, or so nervous I can’t sleep, or in love with somebody I won’t be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: 'I’ll go take a hot bath.'
I meditate in the bath.The water needs to be very hot, so hot you can barely stand putting your foot in it. Then you lower yourself, inch by inch, till the water’s up to your neck.”
“There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them. Whenever I’m sad I’m going to die, or so nervous I can’t sleep, or in love with somebody I won’t be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: 'I’ll go take a hot bath.'
I meditate in the bath.The water needs to be very hot, so hot you can barely stand putting your foot in it. Then you lower yourself, inch by inch, till the water’s up to your neck.
I remember the ceiling over every bathtub I’ve stretched out in. I remember the texture of the ceilings and the cracks and the colors and the damp spots and the light fixtures. I remember the tubs, too: the antique griffin-legged tubs, and the modern coffin-shaped tubs, and the fancy pink marble tubs overlooking indoor lily ponds, and I remember the shapes and sizes of the water taps and the different sorts of soap holders.
I never feel so much myself as when I’m in a hot bath.”
Source: the bell jar
“There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.”
Source: the bell jar
“There must be real gods
see, the painted gods
how fair!”
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
“There must be reasons why we men are so hipped on breasts as if we'd all been weaned too soon.”
“There must be relaxation in full extension.”
“There must be Religion. Otherwise the poor would murder the rich.”
“There must be religion. When that ligament is torn, society is disjointed and its members perish... [T]he most important of all lessons is the denunciation of ruin to every state that rejects the precepts of religion.”
“There must be renewed recognition that societies are kept stable and healthy by reform, not by thought police; this means there must be free play for so-called subversive ideas - every idea subverts the old to make way for the new. To shut off subversion is to shut off peaceful progress and to invite revolution and war.”
Source: The Best of I.F. Stone
“There must be repressed truth even in lies.”
Source: The Madman and the Nun & The Crazy Locomotive: Three Plays, Including The Water Hen
“There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.”
Source: The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
“There must be room for penitence to mend Life's broken chance;
else noise of wars would unmake heaven.”
Source: A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary: With Some of Their Later Poems
“There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.”
Source: Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries
“There must be satisfaction gained in accurately naming the thing that torments you.”
Source: Women Talking
“There must be some deep psychological reason why we turn so instinctively toward home at this special time. . . . A place where every day will be Christmas, with everybody there together. At home.”
Source: Marjorie Holmes: The Inspirational Writings: A Collection Consisting of Love and Laughter;...
“There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people.”
“There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.”
“There must be some kind of internal time distortion effect in here, because when I look at myself in the little mirror above my sink, what I see is my father's face, my face turning into his. I am beginning to feel how the man looked, especially how he looked on those nights he came home so tired he couldn't even make it through dinner without nodding off, sitting there with his bowl of soup cooling in front of him, a rich pork-and-winter-melon-saturated broth that, moment by moment, was losing - or giving up - its tiny quantum of heat into the vast average temperature of the universe.”
Source: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
“There must be some kind of way out of here,' said the joker to the thief.”
“There must be some limit to the thing. It cannot go on to infinity.”
Source: Organon of Medicine
“There must be some mixture of happiness in everything but sin.”
“There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.”
Source: Art
“There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my brain tells me it is the angle at which two lines prop each other up, the leaning-together from the vertical which produces the false arch. For lack of a keystone, the false arch may be as much as one can expect in this life. Only the very lucky discover the keystone.”
Source: Angle of Repose
“There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance, said the Ellen Ward of my dream, that woman I hate and fear. I am sure she meant some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my brain tells me it is the angle at which two lines prop each other up, the leaning together from the vertical which produces the false arch.”
“There must be some part of Man that is more than his daily round. Some part of him that will use his profit on a matter of no profit.”
“There must be some people for whom difficult behaviour wasn't a reason to end their relationship with you. if they liked you...they were prepared to maintain contact, even if you were sad, upset or behaving in very challenging ways.”
Source: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
“There must be some place in this burg with signs of life," he grumbled.
This attitude of boredom toward our city by the soldiers and their wives irritated me to the point of scratching anger.
"Someday you'll realize that you never had it so good," I predicted.
But when I became older, I realized that most people are completely lacking in sensitivity to and harmony with the world in which they live. In a larger sense, that is. Unless they are surrounded by their own familiar possessions and a few habitual friends, all is meaningless. There is nothing under the sun to interest them.”
Source: The Duchess of Angus
“There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.”
Source: Pattern Recognition
“There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies. If it weren't for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family's turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.”
Source: Under the Wolf, Under the Dog
“There must be some wisdom in the folk saying: Its the strong swimmers who drown.”
“There must be somebody there, because somebody must have said "Nobody.”
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh
“THERE MUST BE SOMEONE YOU RELY ON
EVEN EARTH HAS AN AXIS TO GO AROUND
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“There must be something about art... almost all cultures have done art. It's a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.”
“There must be something between us, even if it's only an ocean.”
“There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There is something beyond, O deathless like a sea-shell, moaning for the bosom of the ocean to which you belong!”
“There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.”
“There must be something beyond your existence. Now people endlessly dwell on their own issues and identity. There is nothing beyond that, no higher cause, no greater calling. And that’s exactly why they are so depressed, so disenchanted. What could be worse than being your own 'god'? You can be sure no one will ever worship you. What’s to worship?”
Source: Without the Mob, There Is No Circus
“There must be something ghostly in the air of Christmas — something about the close, muggy atmosphere that draws up the ghosts, like the dampness of the summer rains brings out the frogs and snails.”
Source: Told After Supper
“There must be something good in a thing that pleases so many; even if it cannot be explained, it is certainly enjoyed.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“There must be something here for me to get or to share or to do. So I have the duty that I do, the dharma that I do - which I love - with my teaching, with my family, my son, my students, my girlfriend.”
“There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“There must be something in here that can drill through eight miles of
solid rock.”
He considered a hand drill, a tape measure, a corkscrew, and the iron staff we’d almost died retrieving from Geirrod’s fortress. He threw them all to the floor.
“Nothing!” he said in disgust. “Useless junk!”
Perhaps you could use your head, Hearthstone signed. That is very hard.
“Oh, don’t try to console me, Mr. Elf,” said Thor.”
Source: The Hammer of Thor