T Quotes
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“There was enough tension in the room to send a fleet of the nervous running for their tranquilizers.”
Source: Dead Until Dark: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel
“There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made.”
Source: The Silmarillion
“There was even a book dedicated to survival in a Zombie Apocalypse, although, at the time it was written, it was intended as a joke. Now, it was irony.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of equipment for aerial adventure, weighed down by none of the stowaways of inheritance or tradition.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Illustrated)
“There was even a scrap of poetry he treasured which stated that a moving finger having once written could never be lured back to unwrite.”
Source: The End of Eternity
“There was even a story passed among the queen’s court that when freshly hatched, Rhiannon bit her mother on the neck when she tried to cuddle her new daughter. But Rhiannon didn’t believe that for one second. True, she believed she bit her mother, but she didn’t believe her mother had tried to cuddle her.”
Source: Dragon Actually
“There was even a time when Donald Trump didn't get an Emmy for his TV program three years in a row and he started tweeting that the Emmys were rigged against him.”
“There was every proof that the persecution and genocide against Romani minorities had been carried out on the basis of racial ideology. Nevertheless, many Roms encountered difficulties reclaiming their German citizenship. As a result they were also considered to be ineligible for compensation payments, which according to the West German compensation law could be made only to German citizens. By the time their citizenship had been reinstated and compensation claims were filed again, claimants were often informed that the deadline for submitting claims had passed.”
Source: I Met Lucky People: The Story of the Romani Gypsies
“There was every reason to feel natural joy in the world, but for the one that makes it accessible. When your spirit is uneasy, stillness can be a kind of suffering. And when you're young, the unlived life in front of you, all that future, urgent and unreachable, can be unbearable.”
Source: This Is Happiness
“There was everything before in the beginning.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“There was existence in oblivion; there is you in oblivion.”
Source: Just the Way I Feel
“There was five golden rules. My dad made me write them over and over until I knew them like I knew my own name...
Number five: never have a fire in the daytime, 'cause people could see the smoke and come and get us.
Number four: if I ever see anyone other than my dad, I run, and keep running.
Number three: always say my prayers, so as God don't get mad at me and decide to come make me sick too.
Numer two: never forget to pray for my momma, 'cause she was the best and prettiest lady God ever made.
Number one: never, ever leave the woods.”
Source: Sweet Tooth, Vol. 1: Out of the Deep Woods
“There was for everything a possibility, an invisible pattern that could be made manifest given work and the right materials.”
Source: Asimov's Science Fiction, October/November 2011
“There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came.”
“There was French kissing, and then there was Cajun French kissing. Spicier, harder, wilder.”
Source: Endless Knight
“There was frequently a moral lesson lurking just below the surface in Hayek’s accounts, usually having to do with Keynes’s overweening self- confidence and the dangers of hubris. His retelling of their final conversation is illustrative. Hayek had asked Keynes whether he was at all concerned about the uses to which his disciples were putting his theories, and in particular, whether a theory that had made sense in “the age of plenty” of the 1930s might not stimulate inflation as the economy neared full employment. Keynes assured Hayek that were his theories ever to become harmful, he could turn public opinion against them like that, and snapped his fingers. Unfortunately, as Hayek concluded, “six weeks later he was dead”.”
Source: Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950
“There was funky Chinamen from funky China town.”
“There was gold in her, Nina could see it, the shine dimmed by years of being told there was something wrong in the way she was made.”
Source: King of Scars
“There was good in people - deep down, there was always a shred of good.”
Source: Throne of Glass
“There was good in seahorses, in yellow dwarfs of destiny, but they are in no way adapted to the requirements of modern life.
Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)”
Source: The Situationists and the City: A Reader
“There was good reason for the silence of the Holy Spirit as to how,when, in what form Christ ordained the apostles, the reason being to show the indifferency of all forms of words.”
“There was goodness in the world still, even if you couldn't always see it.”
“There was great anxiety about Russian intervention in the recent German elections, perhaps contributing to the frightening surge of support for the right-wing nationalist, if not neo-fascist, "Alternative for Germany".”
“There was great difference in persons; and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.”
“There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country.”
“There was great political uncertainty in South Asia at the time of the Buddha. The older small tribal societies were cracking up and gave way to bigger states. There was much more trade and travel going on than before. To people in the cities the experience of living in a small place where you knew everyone and governed your affairs by consensual democracy had been lost.”
“There was great sadness in the speed at which the days were getting shorter. As if they were trying to redeem something that was irredeemable. With a sense of heartache, I thought about September, when the ferocity of summer would abate.”
Source: Last Summer in the City
“There was grief, and so there always would be. But the gray fog was gone. I felt distant and very clear, like a hawk born upon the highest aether.”
“There was hallucinogenic music on in the background that sounded like a migraine and a woman being tortured by tickling”
Source: Ghostwritten
“There was hardly a touch of earth in her love for Clare. To her sublime trustfulness he was all that goodness could be—knew all that a guide, philosopher, and friend should know. She thought every line in the contour of his person the perfection of masculine beauty, his soul the soul of a saint, his intellect that of a seer. The wisdom of her love for him, as love, sustained her dignity; she seemed to be wearing a crown. The compassion of his love for her, as she saw it, made her lift up her heart to him in devotion. He would sometimes catch her large, worshipful eyes, that had no bottom to them looking at him from their depths, as if she saw something immortal before her.”
Source: Tess of the D’Urbervilles
“There was harmony in proportions, Leonardo learned, and math was nature's brushstroke.”
Source: Leonardo da Vinci
“There was, he added, a generalized yearning for the ideal of literature, as for the lost world of childhood, whose authority and reality tended to seem so much greater than that of the present moment. Yet to return to that reality even for a day would for most people be intolerable, as well as impossible: despite our nostalgia for the past and for history, we would quickly find ourselves unable to live there for reasons of discomfort, since the defining motivation of the modern era, he said, whether consciously or not, is the pursuit of freedom from strictness or hardships of any kind.”
Source: Kudos
“There was He, there was She, they become It.”
Source: AZ
“There was, he thought, a very slight pause before Jason Rudd spoke.”
Source: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
“There was hell in her eyes! She was worn and jaded Her soul is at war with the life she has led. As I looked on that face so strangely faded I wonder God did not strike me dead.”
Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)
“There was her face, like a summer peach, beautiful and warm, and the light of the candles reflected in her dark eyes. [He] held his breath. The entire world waited and held its breath.”
“There was her way with flowers, for instance. At Bourton they always had stiff little vases all the way down the table. Sally went out, picked hollyhocks, dahlias — all sorts of flowers that had never been seen together — cut their heads off, and made them swim on the top of water in bowls”
Source: Mrs. Dalloway
“There was hope and fearful excitement in the new.”
Source: Shantaram
“There was hope. Hope was there.”
Source: Harp and the Lyre: Exchange
“There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.”
Source: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
“There was however, a group of 507 individuals who were permanent street dwellers [in Miami.] These 507 were not indigent, down-on-their-luck families. They were single people and every one of them was mentally ill.”
Source: Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness
“There was huge pressure, especially before the big games. Not many people believed in us, but we believed in ourselves. We wanted to do something good and we did.”
“There was human goodness in the world, she thought-all caught up with desires and dreams, regrets and bitterness, resentments and power, but it was there.”
“There was humiliations, cruelty, abuse, violence. And they were all the time trying to put to fight the prisoners one against the other, filling us with wrong information about the others or giving privileges to some so that the others would feel jealous and would react. And I could see how they were manipulating us.”
“There was I thinking being a shifter had its upsides. Looks like I was wrong.”
“There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of harmless fumbling on the front steps.”
Source: Country Girl
“There was in her voice that authentic note of authority that never fails to produce its effect.”
Source: Crooked House
“There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon.”
“There was, in spite of his playfulness, a deep sadness about James. You felt that he had just stepped out of this sadness in order to meet you, and was to go back in the moment you left him.”
“There was in the House only one dissenting vote, from Barbara J. Lee, a Democrat from California, who warned that military action could not guarantee the safety of the country and that 'as we act, let us not become the evil we deplore.”
Source: War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning