T Quotes
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“The anxiety in me grew, as this place that had always felt like home in my mind began to shed the rose-colored visions I had coated it in.”
Source: Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity
“The anxiety in me grew, as this place that had always felt like home in my mind began to shed the rose-colored visions I had coated it in. It wasn't quite right. I was welcomed by many, but I didn't belong. It wasn't quite home anymore.”
Source: Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity
“The anxiety in my life isn’t every moment. Sometimes it’s manageable. Occasionally I don’t think about it that much. But it’s always lurking.”
“The anxiety is, "Are they going to come?" and when you get there and it's full you say, "I'm good. I can stop freaking out." But when it's four days out and they're scrambling to find more radio shows and Good Morning Phoenix and all these weird shows, then that gets very tiring.”
“The anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed.”
“The anxiety of fate is conquered by the self-affirmation of the individual as an infinitely significant microcosmic representation of the universe .”
Source: The Courage To Be
“The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter.”
“The anxiety of not knowing what my next gig is keeps me hungry.”
“The anxiety of the sexual act is my sexual act: a love story.”
Source: So Sad Today: Personal Essays
“the anxiety of the unpredictable came only when you dealt with amateurs”
Source: The Fraternity of the Stone
“The anxiety was like poison ivy. It took nothing to set off that mental itch-a chance remark, remembering an event from the day before-but once it started I found it impossible to stop the cycle. My thoughts twisted in a circle, my pulse hammered, I couldn't concentrate.”
Source: The Beast: A Journey Through Depression
“The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.”
“The anything-goes passiveness of the religious and political Left is matched by the preachy moralism of the religious and political Right. The person who uncritically embraces any party line is guilty of an idolatrous surrender of her core identity as Abba's Child. Neither liberal fairy dust nor conservative hardball addresses our ragged human dignity.”
“The Anza Borrego Desert is a place of power, where different planes and realities intersect. It is easier to see and enter into other planes here.”
“The AP has only so many reporters, and CNN only has so many cameras, but we've got a world full of people with digital cameras and Internet access.”
“The Apache don't have a word for love," he said. "Know what they both say at the marriage? The squaw-taking ceremony?" "Tell me." "Varlebena. It means forever. That's all they say.”
Source: Four complete novels
“The APAP sleep apnea machine would trigger 'Descent Fatigue' after concluding therapy in the morning.”
“The Apartheid system has systematically infiltrated the struggle and eliminating our heroes, and chose their own preferred candidates to lead us”
Source: The Azanian
“The apartment below mine had the only balcony of the house. I saw a girl standing on it, completely submerged in the pool of autumn twilight. She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”
Source: A Girl I Knew
“The apartment faces an alley and is entered by a fire-escape, a structure whose name is a touch of accidental poetic truth, for all of these huge buildings are always burning with the slow and implacable fires of human desperation.”
“The apartment is a laboratory in which we conduct experiments, perform research on each other. We discover Henry hates it when I absentmindedly click my spoon against my teeth while reading the paper at breakfast. We agree that it is okay for me to listen to Joni Mitchell and it is okay for Henry to listen to the Shaggs as long as the other person isn't around. We figure out that Henry should do all the cooking and I should be in charge of laundry and neither of us is willing to vacuum so we hire a cleaning service.”
Source: The Time Traveler's Wife
“The apartment was built at the edge of a high cliff so that when you looked out the back window it seemed as if you were twelve floors up instead of four. It was very much like living on the edge of the world - a last resting place before the final big drop.”
“The apartment was entirely, was only, for her: a wall of books, both read and unread, all of them dear to her not only in themselves, their tender spines, but in the moments or periods they evoked… Her self, then, was represented in her books; her times in her records; and the rest of the room she thought of as a pure, blank slate.”
“The apartments are made for eels.”
“The apartments of the rich are cabinets of curiosities: a conglomeration of classical antiquity, gothic, renaissance; Louis XIII... Something from every century but our own, a predicament that has arisen in no other period... so that we seem to be subsisting on the ruins of the past, as if the end of the world were near.”
“The apathetic people without feeling, from any angle, do not feel ashamed.”
“The apathetic practice of not speaking up on behalf of those who cannot speak for themselves is the highest and most common moral failing.”
“the apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension.”
“The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.”
Source: The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses
“The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.”
Source: Selections from the writings and speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an appendix ...
“The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.”
“The apex of Egypt's Middle Kingdom had redefined the powerful hydraulic nation. The catastrophe that marked the end of this period of prosperity and regional integration appears to have been a climate-induced migration crisis. it contained a crucial insight that would go unheeded by most subsequent hydraulic hegemons: In the relationship between water and society, the resilience of the state is not just a function of its proficiency in harnessing its own resources; it is equally a function of all others in the system succeeding at doing the same.”
Source: Water: A Biography
“The apex of glorifying God is enjoying Him with the heart. But this is empty emotionalism where that joy is not awakened and sustained by true views of God for who He really is”
Source: Think
“The apex of mathematical achievement occurs when two or more fields which were thought to be entirely unrelated turn out to be closely intertwined. Mathematicians have never decided whether they should feel excited or upset by such events.”
Source: Indiscrete Thoughts
“The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.”
Source: The Promised Land
“The apex of perfection in equestrian art is not an exhibition of a great deal of different airs and movements by the same horse, but rather the conservation of the horse's enjoyment, suppleness and finesse during the performance, which calls for comparison with the finest ballet, or performance of an orchestra, or seeing a play by Racine, so moving is the sight of perfectly unisoned movements.”
“The aphorism "Whatever is, is right," would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence that nothing that ever was, was wrong.”
Source: A Tale of Two Cities: A Story of the French Revolution
“The aphorism is a slippery plaything.”
“The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.”
Source: All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms
“The aphorism offers a momentary sense of mastery over some confusion or unhappiness.”
“The aphorism sometimes casts off cynicism and expresses strong feeling.”
“The aphorism wants to be at the same time both main line and off beat.”
“The aphorism, the apothegm, in which I am the first among the Germans to be a master, are the forms of “eternity”; it is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book — what everyone else does not say in a book.”
“The aphorism: a platitude that swerves, or slides all the way around.”
“The aphorist is a hit and run artist.”
“The Aphrodite's yours, Joss. Take care of her for me."
"Aye, I will." A knowing look passed between them. "I'll look after the ship, too.”
Source: Surrender of a Siren
“The Apocalypse can come along any moment!”
“The apocalypse didn't happen overnight. The world didn't end in a satisfying climax of explosive special effects. It was slow. It was boring. It was one little thing at a time. One moral compromise, one abandoned ideal, one more justified injustice. No dramatic wave of destruction sweeping across the world, just scattered spots of rot forming throughout the decades, seemingly isolated incidents until the moment they all merged.”
Source: The Burning World
“The apocalypse is coming, that's the one thing I like about George Bush, I really think he can get us into the ... apocalypse, like the BIBLICAL ... I really think he believes that he'll be the guy in the white hat. I think he's read the Stephen King novel The Stand a couple times, and he really thinks there's a dark man in the desert somewhere and he's gonna fight him or something.”
“The apocalypse is for your own good, and the revelation you find in it will be of some comfort during dark times.”
Source: Finding Jesus