T Quotes
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“There’s a best time for everything – including the acquisition of capital.”
Source: Capital Acquisition: Small Business Considerations for How to Get Financing
“There's a biblical saying that translates roughly as 'First you will do, then you will understand.' Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and experience something before its meaning becomes apparent. It's one thing to talk about leaving behind a restrictive mindset. It's another to stop being so restrictive. The transfer of words into action, the freedom of it, made me want to carry the action outside the therapy room and into my life.”
Source: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
“There's a big difference between an intervention that's introduced or suggested due to a true medical need - or even by your request - and one that's due to impatience; a difference between someone saying "We're noticing this, let's discuss your options as well as our recommendations and reasons" and "We're noticing this, and you have to do this." In the first case, a care provider gives information and wants to talk options; in the second, the care provider uses fear and shaming to coerce the decision they want. Having a working, respectful, and good relationship with your care provider can make all the difference here, but so can your clarity about this one thing: you deserve respect, options, and support. If you are feeling pressured into an intervention, if you are feeling guilted into an intervention, if you are feeling ignored, disrespected, or embarrassed in any way, as if you need to make a certain choice to please other people in the room, this is not good care and you need a second opinion - or a new care provider.”
Source: Birth Without Fear: The Judgment-Free Guide to Taking Charge of Your Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum
“There’s a big difference between being heard and being understood.”
Source: BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose
“There's a big difference between being in the market for a mate and living with your purchase.”
“There's a big difference between can't and won't.”
Source: This Savage Song
“There's a big difference between hating someone in peace and hating someone during war.”
Source: A History of Glitter and Blood
“There's a big difference between needing to change a plan because new data or new conditions warrant it and deviating from a plan because an avoidable distraction has taken away the focus of an improvement team”
Source: Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation
“There's a big difference between peace and deluding people with peace while you prepare to strike them during their sleep.”
“There's a big difference between school formals and village dances that take place in fantasy worlds, but I'm pretty sure Easton already knows this.”
Source: A Week of Werewolves, Faeries, and Fancy Dresses
“There’s a big difference between teaching and instructing. Telling kids what to do and giving them assignments is not teaching, that’s instructing. On the contrary, teaching includes helping students to cultivate talents, foster understanding, and develop skills. Anyone can instruct, but teaching is a gift.”
“There's a big difference between want and need," she muttered to herself, picking her pad and pen back up. "I mean I want a bikini body, but I need chicken nuggets.”
Source: Lost and Found Sisters
“There's a big difference on being wise and being crafty. The former is the attribute of God, and the latter is that of Satan.”
“There's a big luscious peach of a dream in L.A. The peach has been repeatedly exposed as overripe and tainted with wormholes... but it's still the only giant peach in town. Even if it's wet-brown and crawling with centipedes, everyone wants their bite.”
Source: A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Reexamined as Grotesque Crippling Disease and Other Cultural Revelations
“There's a big overlap between conspiracy theorists, racists, gun nuts, doomsday preppers, fans of the rapture and poor white Republicans. They all have one thing in common: They feel like the oppressed underdogs.”
Source: Bad Choices Make Good Stories - Finding Happiness in Los Angeles
“There’s a bigger cause out there. It’s bigger than any of us here. But we stick together, all right? We stick together and look out for each other. Because you four are all I’ve got left. And I’m not going to see you die. Forever alive, all right? We’re not going to die."
-Sirius Black”
Source: Forever Alive
“There's a bit of a local legend about a jet heart that has turned up over the years," Flynn said. "Any time it turns up, strange things happen.”
Source: Jet Black Heart
“There's a bit of magic in everything
And then some loss to even things out.”
Source: I'll Be Your Mirror: The Collected Lyrics
“There's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going
to let anybody see
you.
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I pur whiskey on him and inhale
cigarette smoke
and the whores and the bartenders
and the grocery clerks
never know that
he's
in there.
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say,
stay down, do you want to mess
me up?
you want to screw up the
works?
you want to blow my book sales in
Europe?
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too clever, I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody's asleep.
I say, I know that you're there,
so don't be
sad.
then I put him back,
but he's singing a little
in there, I haven't quite let him
die
and we sleep together like
that
with our
secret pact
and it's nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don't
weep, do you?”
“There’s a bobby pin, two receipts,
and my mother’s voice trapped in a voicemail
I haven’t had the courage to delete.
my lipstick sits there too
the one I wore the day I didn’t cry.
No one asks why I keep
a drawer full of matchboxes and apology notes.
Sometimes, when I can’t sleep,
I trace the ring mark left by an old mug
and imagine it’s a constellation.
I tell myself the bedside table is not clutter
it’s just the only place I keep remembering
to live.
Some days, I organize it.
Most days, it organizes me.”
Source: A Shelf of Things I Never Said
“There's a book for everyone, even if they don't think there is. A book that reaches in and grabs your soul.”
Source: How to Find Love in a Bookshop
“There's a book of poetry
in the lines of my hands
that no one wants to read”
Source: A Blue So Dark
“There's a bottom of good sense, Mr. Franklin, in our conduct to our mothers, when they first start us on the journey of life. We are all of us more or less unwilling to be brought into the world. And we are all of us right.”
Source: The Moonstone
“There's a brief moment of silence for what we've lost. And in that moment, it ends. Finally. The past of us officially comes to an end.”
Source: The Way I Used to Be
“There's a brute fact at the end of every chain of causality. Some are just harder to accept than others. If you keep asking 'why' in any domain you eventually arrive at something that just seems to be true about reality, at least insofar as we understand it.”
Source: Mind Painter
“There's a bug inside you. Growing in you, eating everything you've forced yourself to forget, everything you don't want to think about. Your bug will decide your fate one day. And... chances are, you will die because of it.”
Source: Boogiepop at Dawn
“There's a bump in your nose now."
He glared at me. "There is not."
"Your mouth is lopsided."
He opened his mouth to argue, but then he just let out a weary groan. "What is the point? I am hideous. I can't wait to change myself back again."
"Don't. I prefer you like this."
He looked surprised, then he began to smile. "Do you?"
"Yes," I said. "You blend into the background. I could almost forget about you entirely. It's refreshing."
Naturally, he found a way to twist this into a compliment. "And am I ordinarily a distraction to you, Em?”
Source: Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
“There's a bunch of stuff I want to do. But a weapon of my own? That's something I don't have yet.”
Source: Play It Cool, Guys, Vol. 1
“There's a card up in your little sweetshop advertising Pomeranian cross puppies free to a good home," he observed. "What's your point?" "I'm not a puppy, you can't give me away.”
“There’s a cat in the wall...” said Jenna.
“Go on,” said Nicko. “I don’t know that one.”
“It’s not a joke. There is a cat in the wall. I can hear it.”
Source: Magyk
“There's a cat on the windowsill,
with a rat in its stomach,
that had eaten the cheese,
that my lover left behind,
the day she went away.
- Saudade”
“There's a catch phrase that you all must have heard at one time or another. You walk into a room or go over toward a group. Someone turns and says with huge emphasis: 'There he is.' As though you were the most important one of all. (And you're not.) As though you were the one they were just talking about. (And they weren't.) As though you were the only one that mattered. (And you're not.) It's a nice little tribute, and it don't cost anyone a cent.
("New York Blues")”
Source: Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories by Cornell Woolrich
“There's a certain amount of ambiguity in my background, what with intermarriages and conversions, but under various readings of three codes which I don’t much respect (Mosaic Law, the Nuremberg Laws, and the Israeli Law of Return) I do qualify as a member of the tribe, and any denial of that in my family has ceased with me. But I would not remove myself to Israel if it meant the continuing expropriation of another people, and if anti-Jewish fascism comes again to the Christian world—or more probably comes at us via the Muslim world—I already consider it an obligation to resist it wherever I live. I would detest myself if I fled from it in any direction. Leo Strauss was right. The Jews will not be 'saved' or 'redeemed.' (Cheer up: neither will anyone else.) They/we will always be in exile whether they are in the greater Jerusalem area or not, and this in some ways is as it should be. They are, or we are, as a friend of Victor Klemperer's once put it to him in a very dark time, condemned and privileged to be 'a seismic people.' A critical register of the general health of civilization is the status of 'the Jewish question.' No insurance policy has ever been devised that can or will cover this risk.”
Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir
“There’s a certain authority to that number. Ten.”
Source: In Limbo
“There’s a certain comfort in knowing what’s gone is gone, but what’s half-gone is pure agony.”
Source: The Squatter: An Old Castle Novel
“There's a certain deeper sort of beauty in the bleak. I see it that bleak is beautiful in part because it is too deathly and grim to fathom itself so.”
“There's a certain drama in going down in a good cause.
Any decent politician is masochistic enough to dream now and then of going down in flames while the
angels sing. But, -Dr. Lamont, to do that one has to have a fighting chance. One has to have something to
fight for that may— justmay— win out.”
Source: The Gods Themselves
“There's a certain freshness and innocence in people who have always lived in one place and can count on witnesses to their passage through the world. In contrast, those of us who have moved on many times develop tough skin out of necessity. Since we lack roots or corroboration of who we are, we must put our trust in memory to give continuity to our lives...but memory is always cloudy, we can't trust it.”
Source: My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile
“There's a certain madness that comes from wanting something you can't have. It can lead to violence, if left unchecked. Better to possess the object of your desires in pieces than to see it in the hands of someone else.”
Source: Rent Girl
“There’s a certain mystique about a priest’s uniform; black slacks, black shirt, and Roman collar that evokes different responses from different people—sometimes reverence, other times disdain.
Being perceived as a pillar of the community can be a heady experience for a new priest, and one’s ego needs to be checked continually. The collar can also be an aphrodisiac for certain women, single or married, who are attracted to and flirt with the “unattainable” priest.”
Source: A Saint and a Sinner: The Rise and Fall of a Beloved Catholic Priest
“There's a certain point in life at which you realise it's no longer interesting that time goes forward -- or rather, that its forward-going-ness has been the central plank of life's illusion, and that while you were waiting to see what was going to happen next, you were steadily being robbed of all you had. Language is the only thing capable of stopping the flow of time, because it exist in time, is made of time, yet it is eternal -- or can be.”
“There’s a certain quiet dignity to it, the chivalrous gesture by the dumpee.”
Source: In Limbo
“There's a certain quixotic calm to an empty school hallway.”
Source: Tuff
“There’s a certain rule you must never forget in order to avoid unnecessary conflicts – opinions don’t matter, feelings are the priority. That said, having different ways of life is alright, but the minute you try to force your own principles unto others, you are already in the wrong.”
Source: Galaxy Pirates
“There's a certain sadness that comes to one who falls in love, the same sadness which is echoed once that love ends.”
“There's a certain Slant of light,
Winter Afternoons –
That oppresses, like the Heft
Of Cathedral Tunes –
Heavenly Hurt, it gives us –
We can find no scar,
But internal difference –
Where the Meanings, are –
None may teach it – Any –
'Tis the seal Despair –
An imperial affliction
Sent us of the Air –
When it comes, the Landscape listens –
Shadows – hold their breath –
When it goes, 'tis like the Distance
On the look of Death –”
“There’s a certain sort of beauty in submission. At least, in the kind Carter is slowly inflicting on me with each sweep of his tongue, each stroke of his hands. I am coming undone beneath him, unraveling into something I hardly recognize.”
Source: Dirty Halo
“There's a certain term - existential loneliness- which describes the loneliness that you can feel no matter how many people you are with, no matter how close you are to them or how much they love you; when you understand that you are completely alone in this world.”
Source: Why
“There’s a certain way I talk about the things I don’t talk about. Maybe that’s true for all of us. We have ways of closing off the conversation so that we don’t ever get directly asked what we can’t bear to answer.”
Source: The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“There’s a certain worth that can only be given to us by God. You see, if you think about it, worth has nothing to do with the object. Worth has everything to do with how much someone is willing to pay for the object. God paid for each and every one of us with His son’s life. That gives me chills. That makes us worth a lot.”
Source: Dear Guys: A New Way To Date