T Quotes
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“There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves”
Source: The Martian Chronicles
“There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro.”
“There was always a piano around the house and I've got other brothers and sisters but I'm the youngest, and none of them ever wanted to play it. So I guess I was the only one that was gonna end up playing it, if it was one of us.”
“There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each day. The simple joy of living between summers was gone.”
“There was always a real reason for everything - why spoons tarnished, and jam furred, and people declined into God, or drink, or card games.”
Source: A Rose in the Heart
“There was always a screen behind which one could hide— a superior who in turn had his superior— orders, instructions, duties, commands— and finally the many-headed monster, morale, necessity, hard reality, responsibility, or whatever it was called— there was always a screen behind which to evade the simple law of humanity.”
Source: Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
“There was always a slight upswing in February, the town's coldest month, when out-of-towners liked to hike into the national park to see the famous waterfalls when they rose, like bridal veils, against the mountains. But mostly, from December to April, those who made their living off tourists just suffered through, dreaming of warmer months, of kingfisher-blue skies and leaves so green they looked like they'd just been painted, as if the color would smear if you touched it.”
Source: The Peach Keeper
“There was always a slug on the lettuce. This was too good to be true. He had never trusted Jester, and didn't trust David. He wasn't going to let his gaurd down just yet. Being carful had kept him alive this far. There was no reason to stop being careful now.”
“There was always a solution. Sometimes you had to leave your mind behind, let the ground give out beneath you until a rope of clues appeared and pulled the answer to you.”
Source: The Cosmos of Amie Martine
“There was always a strong possibility that your old life would end. I told you that, didn't I? You wanted to die and maybe you would.'
'Yes, but you said I just needed somewhere to go to. "Somewhere to land", that's what you said. "Another life." Those exact words. And all I needed to do was think hard enough and choose the right life and—”
Source: The Midnight Library
“There was always a strong sense of femininity in the house, always that presence. And while it wasn't founded by a woman, the family always had this brilliant intuition for being surrounded by great women. Not that I am a great woman - I don't want to say that! - but there were always great women in different ages who had really a strong idea of style and could really translate the know-how of the house.”
“There was always a thin barrier between us, which I chalked up to his position of power. And although sometimes this barrier was made of metal, sometimes it was made of gauze that seemed thin enough to tear.”
Source: Everything Must Go
“There was always a unique Beirut sound, it was always there, and so this time I just dove straight into that, instead of daydreaming and wandering.”
“There was always a way, when one knew what one wanted.”
Source: Pope Joan: A Novel
“There was always an opportunity in crisis, however desperate things seemed.”
Source: The Legacy
“There was always an unspoken expectation that I would return one day and follow in my father's footsteps as an imperial guard. My mother grew ill, forcing my father into early retirement. I did my duty."
"That seems unfair."
He huffs out a breath. "It feels unfair. But my parents were older when they had me. You know, the last remnants of a postwar generation, brought up to value sacrifice, discipline, and duty."
"Whoa. Gimu. Peak Japanese." Japanese language is subtly nuanced. There is a myriad of words to describe duty, and among them is the gimu----a lifelong obligation to family or country.”
Source: Tokyo Ever After
“There was always another boy, and then another, and another”
“There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.”
Source: The Collected Edition: Our man in Havana
“There was always dance in opera until people forgot to keep it going.”
“There was always more in the world than men could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace.”
Source: Modern Painters: pt. 4. Of many things
“There was always music in our home. My mom and my dad loved music. I remember when we were kids we would have these great parties at the house with congas and bongos and African drums, and it was amazing. It wasn't until years later that I found out that they were actually Black Panther meetings.”
“There was always one. Every village seemed to have one young woman who believed her beauty could somehow magically protect her from a monster. Somehow, they would be special enough to tame the Beast.
They were always wrong.”
Source: How to Tame a Beast in Seven Days
“There was always resistance and there was always a counter-narrative, but we were told all through the early twentieth century that black people in the South don't want an education, they don't want to vote, they're simple people, they don't want this, they don't want that.”
“There was always so much encouragement, to just really take it and run with it, from Deadheads.”
“There was always so much going on. Never any time to stop and smell the roses. Never any roses to stop and smell anyway.”
Source: Solving for X
“There was always some germ of joy, some little paramecium of happiness wriggling around, waiting for a chance to get out.”
“There was always something hidden. Lying in wait to spring up and ruin everything.”
Source: Sylvia Day Crossfire Novels 1-4
“There was always something immensely comic to her in the thought of living elsewhere than New York. She could not regard as serious proposals that she share a western residence.”
Source: Complete Stories
“There was always something missing in Montreal.”
“There was always something new to be seen in the unchanging night sky.”
Source: The wanderer
“There was always something she loved about a guy with dark features and blue eyes. But, she resigned that she had never seen eyes as beautiful as his. The man was near perfection.”
Source: Broken
“There was always something that meant more to you than me.”
“There was always something to learn from listening to and understanding people´s viewpoints.”
Source: Diamonds in the Rough
“There was always something. It's like with this one, there's always something that's mad that I look back on it and go, that's pretty amazing to say that I've done that or been there.”
“There was always talk of espirit de corps, of being gung ho, and that must have been a part of it. Better, tougher training, more marksmanship on the firing range, the instant obedience to orders seared into men in boot camp.”
Source: The Coldest War: A Memoir of Korea
“There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.”
Source: Ever the Winds of Chance
“There was always the door,
but I was locked in by the room,
I declared my own sentence
and never let them assume,
While they drank away their fear,
I coffeeed my noon,
They said I could never have the sun so
I bid on the moon.”
Source: Ethereal
“There was always this sense, even early on in the campaign, that if the senator Obama could score this upset victory in Iowa, that there was a pretty good chance that he would end up being president of the United States.”
“There was always this sort of weird process in the development and pre-production, thinking, 'How do we get the studio tracks that Joy Division recorded that are so clean and pristine but sound rough and live and how do we get the live versions to actually sound clear enough so you can make out what they're saying?' That was sort of the frustration with Anton Corbijn and myself, figuring out how we make that work.”
“There was always, he thought, this pleasure ahead of him, an ace of joy up his sleeve so he could say you can do anything to me, take everything away, put me in prison, but I will know [her] when we are old.”
“There was an abyss opening up between them, cutting through whatever they’d shared on the train.”
Source: Scarlet
“There was an advert I rather liked. Devastated woman: "I've just seen the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!" Husband: "Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world."”
“There was an age in which it was clear to me that my parents weren't perfect, but then there was an age at which I had empathy for that. And that was through therapy, probably. You have to rebuild and you also have to grow in your understanding of whatever it is your parents are facing, and that takes a major, profound shift of perspective from being a child.”
“There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.”
“There was an agelessness about him, a stillness; on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much the same.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five
“There was an agent who wanted to book me for Glee. He lied and said I could sing. He was like, "If you need a guy in a wheelchair who has a great voice, I've got your guy!" I was like, "What are you talking about?" .”
“There was an agitation against Mumbai Express: because part of it is an English word. There is no Tamil word for Mumbai Express. I am sure all those who were against it, even they wouldn't say 'I love you' to their lovers in Tamil. Many don't even thank in Tamil.”
“There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion; and through their manners were suave, one could sense beneath them that special brutality which comes from the habit of breaking down half-hearted resistances that keep one fit and tickle one’s vanity—the handling of blooded horses, the pursuit of loose women.”
Source: Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life
“There was an alluring symmetry to him.”
Source: In the Cut
“There was an American girl, Priscilla Johnson. She worked for U.P. in Moscow. She knew [John] Kennedy, and she met [Lee Harvey] Oswald around the same time I did. But I can tell you something else almost as curious.”