T Quotes
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“There's nothing wrong with being part of a group. Humans are social, so it's no surprise that people band together. In fact, many important human achievements, like the civil rights movement, are inspired by groups. But group behavior can also create a sense of division.”
Source: Middle School - Safety Goggles Advised: Exploring the WEIRD Stuff from Gossip to Grades, Cliques to Crushes and Popularity to Peer Pressure
“There’s nothing wrong with disappearing sometimes.”
Source: Deerly Delectable
“There’s nothing wrong with fighting when you have no choice. As a matter of fact, it’s what you should do, but when you fight, fight to win.”
Source: A Punctual Paymaster
“There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say--unless you insist on saying it.”
“There's nothing wrong with helping someone without a cost. Especially if there's no end return.”
“There's nothing wrong with her except she's completely fucked up.”
Source: Super Sad True Love Story
“There's nothing wrong with not looking like something. It just means you don't fit the stereotype yet.”
“There's nothing wrong with Sam," I said again. "He's...nice."
Mercy groaned. "You mean he was too nice, don't you?"
"I'm not used to people being so nice to me. It was kinda creepy."
"I'm gonna offer you some advice," Mercy said, leaning in closer to me. "When a boy is a gentleman to you and is actually nice, Amerie, you don't shoot him down. You don't call them creepy and chase them away! God, I don't know what to do with you."
"Stop trying?" I offered hopefully."
"Not a chance.”
Source: My Heart Be Damned
“There’s nothing wrong with seeking input and fresh perspectives from others. But when you have a habit of making decisions and looking for answers outside of yourself, you risk cutting yourself off from your innate truth, which undermines your own intuition. No matter how well-intentioned the advice offered may be.”
Source: Intuitive Guide: How to Trust Your Gut, Embrace Divine Signs, & Connect with Heavenly Messengers
“There's nothing wrong with show business when you're old enough to swim with sharks, but until then, beware the flame.”
Source: Forever We Dream
“there's nothing wrong with starting small if you just keep going. You just take what you have, whether it's a little idea or a little bit of extra time or a little bit of money, and you make the most of it. You do the best you can with that little bit, and you keep working at it, and pretty soon it will grow. It might even get so big that the whole world knows about it someday.”
Source: Live Original: How the Duck Commander Teen Keeps It Real and Stays True to Her Values
“There's nothing wrong with wanting less pain or a different experience of it. There is nothing wrong with wanting to transform generations of passed down trauma. But, what gets more complicated is when those desires bleed into the ableist model of cure that's the only model most of us have for having more ease and less pain. That model and its harsh binary of successful and fixed or broken and fucked, is part of what contributes to suicidality and struggle in long-term survivors.”
Source: Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
“There's nothing wrong with wanting release, but we must make sure that the stimuli we use for release do not involve the violation of human will.”
Source: Vatican Virus: The Forbidden Fiction
“There's nothing wrong with wanting to be with someone."
"There is when your only reason is the being, not the someone.”
“THERE’S NOTHING WRONG with wanting to lose the extra weight you may be carrying around, whether the extra load comes from literal pounds or from pounds of pain. However, for deep and lasting physical and emotional transformation to occur, you first need deep and lasting spiritual transformation. Matthew 6:33 makes it clear: When you turn your eyes, first and foremost, on God, everything else will fall into its rightful place. Conversely, when you look to the scale first, it’s nearly impossible to see past it to the soul.”
Source: The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation
“There’s nothing wrong with you at all. Sometimes people say or do things that are mean because there's something the matter with them. With Lydia, it seems there’s always something wrong with her.”
Source: Lights Out: Book 2
“There's nothing wrong with you choosing you.”
“There's nothing wrong with you, there are just more assholes in this world than good people.”
“There's nothing wrong with your color, being you," he said firmly. "Nothing wrong with what the good Lord gives us in His world, Cussy Mary." He didn't know, couldn't know, the load I'd carried as a Blue, the scorn and hatred and gruesome marriage. How dare Pa call me vain and now Jackson. How dare he too? "Nothing wrong—" Jackson repeated. I stepped back and shot out a shaky hand. "No, Jackson Lovett, you're wrong. There is nothing wrong with your color in your world, a world that wants only whiteness.”
Source: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
“There's nothing wrong. You are just happy because you met people who see the world differently.”
Source: You Can't Get There from Here: A Year on the Fringes of a Shrinking World
“There's nothing you can do, Sirus. No one can do this for me, and no one can swoop in and rescue me every time I'm challenged. I have to do this on my own.”
“There's nothing you can find - … nothing you can even imagine – that doesn't originate, develop, or exist in relation to other things.”
Source: Buddhism Plain & Simple: The Practice of Being Aware, Right Now, Every Day
“There’s nothing you can’t do if you want it bad enough.”
Source: For Always
“There's nothing you can't do,
no dream that's too far.
You can travel the world,
swing on the highest star.”
Source: Nothing You Can't Do
“There's nothing you can't fuck up if you try hard enough.”
Source: A Long Way Down
“There’s nothing you could do to me that hasn’t already been done. Life already broke my heart.”
Source: Gaslight
“There’s nothing you could have done….
There isn’t ever anything I can do. Stormfather, why can’t I save them?”
Source: The Way of Kings
“There's nothing you want more than to want -- you'll obsess over something, and convince yourself that so long as you get it, you'll be happy, but then once you do, you're immediately dissatisfied and want something else.”
Source: I Am Not Jessica Chen
“There's now a worldwide industry of companies that offer rewards to political actors - politicians, lobbyist, think-tanks, activists - who show greater loyalty to maximising corporate profits than they do to principles of equality, let alone the public good. It's parasitic capitalism, and it's the economic model that the opponents of fairness prefer.”
Source: On Fairness
“There’s nowhere else I’d rather be than by your side.”
Source: Dark Alpha's Awakening
“There’s nowhere else in the world like the English countryside in the middle of summer.”
Source: Love Story
“There's nowhere in existence you could go that I wouldn't find you, Violence.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“There's often a deeper truth to be found beneath the excuses we make for ourselves and our lives. Once I stopped looking for tired excuses, I started to find some honest answers.”
“There's often an assumption that the goal of change management is to reach a new stable state. The "Refreeze" stage in Lewin's model exemplifies this. However, in today's world, continuous adaptation is often more critical than stability. The only constant is change. Therefore, companies need a framework which helps them to perpetually recreate themselves and be resilient, not one that assumes the goal of stability.”
Source: GAME CHANGR6: An Executives Guide to Dominating Change, by applying the R6 Resilience Change Management Framework
“There's one best thing about childhood our genuine smile...”
“There's one big difference between the poor and the rich,' Kite says, taking a drag from his cigarette. We are in a pub, at lunch-time. John Kite is always, unless stated otherwise, smoking a fag, in a pub, at lunch-time.
'The rich aren't evil, as so many of my brothers would tell you. I've known rich people -- I have played on their yachts -- and they are not unkind, or malign, and they do not hate the poor, as many would tell you. And they are not stupid -- or at least, not any more than the poor are. Much as I find amusing the idea of a ruling class of honking toffs, unable to put their socks on without Nanny helping them, it is not true. They build banks, and broker deals, and formulate policy, all with perfect competency.
'No -- the big difference between the rich and the poor is that the rich are blithe. They believe nothing can ever really be so bad, They are born with the lovely, velvety coating of blitheness -- like lanugo, on a baby -- and it is never rubbed off by a bill that can't be paid; a child that can't be educated; a home that must be left for a hostel, when the rent becomes too much.
'Their lives are the same for generations. There is no social upheaval that will really affect them. If you're comfortably middle-class, what's the worst a government policy could do? Ever? Tax you at 90 per cent and leave your bins, unemptied, on the pavement. But you and everyone you know will continue to drink wine -- but maybe cheaper -- go on holiday -- but somewhere nearer -- and pay off your mortgage -- although maybe later.
'Consider, now, then, the poor. What's the worst a government policy can do to them? It can cancel their operation, with no recourse to private care. It can run down their school -- with no escape route to a prep. It can have you out of your house and into a B&B by the end of the year. When the middle-classes get passionate about politics, they're arguing about their treats -- their tax breaks and their investments. When the poor get passionate about politics, they're fighting for their lives.
'Politics will always mean more to the poor. Always. That's why we strike and march, and despair when our young say they won't vote. That's why the poor are seen as more vital, and animalistic. No classical music for us -- no walking around National Trust properties, or buying reclaimed flooring. We don't have nostalgia. We don't do yesterday. We can't bear it. We don't want to be reminded of our past, because it was awful; dying in mines, and slums, without literacy, or the vote. Without dignity. It was all so desperate, then. That's why the present and the future is for the poor -- that's the place in time for us: surviving now, hoping for better, later. We live now -- for our instant, hot, fast treats, to prep us up: sugar, a cigarette, a new fast song on the radio.
'You must never, never forget, when you talk to someone poor, that it takes ten times the effort to get anywhere from a bad postcode, It's a miracle when someone from a bad postcode gets anywhere, son. A miracle they do anything at all.”
Source: How to Build a Girl
“There’s one big thing I know, to pay back injury done to me with terrible injuries.”
Source: Greek Lyric Poetry
“There’s one boxing match I saw on TV:
One was aggressive, the other’s lazy.
At bout’s end, waiting for the decision,
oh how the lazy prayed it’s he who won.
Action can defeat a million prayers,
yet many see prayers like wish-givers.
If prayers can well move hills and mountains,
why yet work when praying is more certain.”
“There's one diagnosis for everything -- Chernobyl. No matter what happens, everyone says: Chernobyl. People get mad at us: "You're sick because you're afraid. You're sick from fear. Radiophobia." But then why do little kids get sick and die? They don't know fear, they don't understand it yet.”
Source: Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
“There's one good thing about a mistake. As long as you're alive, you still have time to fix it.”
Source: The Nation
“There's one important rule: never turn your back on crazy.”
Source: Nina's Friends
“There’s one kind of writing that’s always easy: Picking out something obviously stupid and reiterating how stupid it obviously is. This is the lowest form of criticism, easily accomplished by anyone. And for most of my life, I have tried to avoid this. In fact, I’ve spend an inordinate amount of time searching for the underrated value in ostensibly stupid things. I understand Turtle’s motivation and I would have watched Medelin in the theater. I read Mary Worth every day for a decade. I’ve seen Korn in concert three times and liked them once. I went to The Day After Tomorrow on opening night. I own a very expensive robot that doesn’t do anything. I am open to the possibility that everyting has metaphorical merit, and I see no point in sardonically attacking the most predictable failures within any culture.”
Source: Eating the Dinosaur
“There's one last drink remaining, a tall and narrow glass full of bubbly golden liquid. There are sliced strawberries submerged beneath a topping of vanilla ice cream. Alexander hands it to her.
"What is it?" she asks.
"A strawberry prosecco float. Who says vanilla ice cream can't be fancy?”
Source: Knives, Seasoning, & A Dash of Love
“There’s one last reason why none of us ever tries to escape. There are a few of us who just don’t have anywhere else to go.”
Source: No Hope For The Hopeless At Kings Park
“There’s one more thing that happens as I listen to life stories. I realize I’m not just listening to other people’s stories; I’m helping them create their stories. Very few of us sit down one day and write out the story of our lives and then go out and recite it when somebody asks. For most of us it’s only when somebody asks us to tell a story about ourselves that we have to step back and organize the events and turn them into a coherent narrative. When you ask somebody to tell part of their story, you’re giving them an occasion to take that step back. You’re giving them an opportunity to construct an account of themselves and maybe see themselves in a new way. None of us can have an identity unless it is affirmed and acknowledged by others. So as you are telling me your story, you’re seeing the ways I affirm you and the ways I do not. You’re sensing the parts of the story that work and those that do not. If you feed me empty slogans about yourself, I withdraw. But if you stand more transparently before me, showing both your warts and your gifts, you feel my respectful and friendly gaze upon you, and that brings forth growth. In every life there is a pattern, a story line running through it all. We find that story when somebody gives an opportunity to tell it.”
Source: How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
“There’s one of those stupid Facebook memes. The ones with silly phrases, that get tons of “likes.” It goes something like this: “What makes you miserable in life is the mental image you have of how things should happen.”
Source: Un lavoro vero
“There's one other thing I'd like to remind you of, my dear. There've been many times when you've sworn to me that after all that life has dealt you, it was no longer possible for you to believe in anything. I replied that both life and my studies had led me to the same conclusion. I asked you, 'What is a person permitted, once he's realized that truth is unattainable and consequently doesn't exist for him?' Do you remember your answer?"
"I do, ibn Sabbah. I said something like this: 'If a person realized that everything people call happiness, love and joy was just a miscalculation based on a false premise, he'd feel a horrible emptiness inside. The only thing that could rouse him from his paralysis would be to gamble with his own face and the face of others. The person capable of that would be permitted anything.”
Source: Alamut
“There's one problem with all psychological knowledge - nobody can apply it to themselves. People can be incredibly astute about the shortcomings of their friends, spouses, children. But they have no insight into themselves at all. The same people who are coldly clear-eyed about the world around them have nothing but fantasies about themselves. Psychological knowledge doesn't work if you look in a mirror. This bizarre fact is, as far as I know, unexplained.”
Source: Prey
“There's one sentence inscribed in all our hearts.
Yeah, a command that's inscribed in the heart of every living person... No, a command inscribed in the heart of every living being.
Yes, and that inscription says just this.
Live happily!
A cat. A dog. A zebra. A tiger. A cicada. And even a human.
Equally, they all must live happily!
No animal lives without seeking happiness. They all live to seek their own happiness.
Because they are commanded to do so.”
“There’s one thing about being a worrier, you’re prepared to go to mind-torturing lengths to worry today today on the off-chance it will avoid an even worse worry tomorrow. The alternative would be not to fret today as the catastrophe is unlikely to happen tomorrow.”
Source: A Horse in the Bathroom: How An Old Stable Became Our Dream Village Home