T Quotes
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“There was no mistaking it, in the 1950’s Liberia proudly, reflected its American roots. Flaunting their power, the palatial homes near Monrovia, owned by the wealthy Americo-Liberians, stood out when compared to the hovels most Liberians had to live in. Although they showed their wear, they were direct copies of the many antebellum Southern Mansions of the Deep South in America. Overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, these somewhat rundown but grand buildings looked strangely out of place. The best visual description of Liberia would be a low-priced remake of the film Gone With The Wind, having the lead parts taken by Americo-Liberians and the rest played by the indigenous tribal natives. The upper-crust of Liberian society continued imitating the attire and gentile customs of the pre-Civil War era in the American South. In the mid 1950's, Liberia had all the trappings of an American colony stuck in the distant past.”
“There was no mistaking it, throughout the 1950’s, Liberia proudly brandished its American roots by flaunting the palatial homes overlooking the Atlantic Ocean near Monrovia or the antebellum style mansions dominating rubber plantations owned by wealth Americo Liberians who considered themselves privileged. Their homes were closely modeled after the affluent homes of the pre-civil war era in the Confederacy. These beautiful homes stood out when compared to the dirt floor, thatch roofed village homes most Liberians lived in. The best visual description of Liberian architecture,would be in film clips taken from the movie Gone With The Wind.. In the 1950's, Liberia had all the trappings of an American colony stuck in the past.
To a great extent it was this great social divide between the indigenous natives and the Americo-Liberians that brought on the two civil wars in Liberia. This aspect of life in Liberia is highlighted in Seawater Two and will be covered in my upcoming book about the history of West Africa. Many of the Americo Liberians including President Talbert, have been killed of displaced. Because of the fierce civil wars in Liberia the coastal ships of the Farrell Lines fleet were sunk in “The Port of Monrovia” and much of Liberia’s antebellum architecture has been destroyed .”
“There was no mistaking Jed was a man on a mission. And I was the mission.”
Source: Parks and Provocation
“There was no mistaking, even in the uncertain light, the hand, half crabbed, half generous, and wholly drunken, of the Consul himself, the Greek e's, the flying buttresses of d's, the t's like lonely wayside crosses save where they crucified an entire word.”
Source: Under the Volcano: A Novel
“There was no money in the sport but we'd be out there day in, day out, rain or shine, doing it.”
“There was no monitoring of astronomy staff for central sleep apnea, even when we would sleep at high altitude.”
“There was no monitoring of sleep in very high altitude workers that were sleeping at 9,200 feet. No warnings were given about high altitude induced sleep disorders.”
“There was no moon but the night sky was a riot of crisp and glittering autumn stars. There were streetlights too and lights on buildings and on bridges which looked like earthbound stars and they glimmered repeated as they were reflected with the city in the night water of the Thames. It’s fairyland thought Richard.”
“There was no more dangerous a time in a nation's life than the passing of a ruler when the succession was in doubt.”
“There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions.”
“There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness.”
“There was no more grass, no flowers, not even any moss: dusty granite blocks covered the ice and an occasional grinding groan reminded us that we were on a slow-moving glacier.”
“There was no more meaningless phrase in all of language than "Cheer up!" The only way to get someone to cheer up was to help them forget, and saying "cheer up" had quite the opposite effect, only reminding the person why he or she was depressed in the first place.”
Source: Spiral
“There was no more reasonable sequitur between “provocation” and “reaction” in the case of the French Revolution than in the case of the Jews and the Nazis, the Armenians and the young Turks, the old Russian regime, the Kerensky interlude and bolshevism, Portuguese colonial rule in Angola and the horrors perpetrated by savage monsters of Holden Roberto’s “Liberation Front,” the Belgian administration in the Congo and the delirious atrocities of Gbenye and Mulele, British colonialism in Kenya and the Mau-Mau. We have to face the fact that man is not “good”—only the extraordinary man is, only the heroic saint or the saintly hero, while the noble savage belongs to the world of fairy tales.”
Source: Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot
“There was no more yelling or calling out, but they could not contain the small snatches of laughter. They were only humans, playing in the snow, in a house”
Source: The Book Thief
“There was no name for the disease; his body had gone insane, forgotten the blueprint by which human beings were built. Even now the disease still lives on in his children. Not in our bodies, but in our souls. We exist where normal human children are expected to be; we're even shaped the same. But each of us in our own way has been replaced by an imitation child, shaped out of a twisted, fetid, lipidous goiter that grew out of Father's soul.”
Source: Speaker for the Dead
“There was no need for a term like ‘magical thinking’ in the Golden Age of Man...there was only genuine everyday magic and mysticism. Children were not mocked or scolded in those days for singing to the rain or talking to the wind.”
Source: Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny
“There was no need to burn our ships upon arrival, like the explorers of old, to ensure the crew's dedication to the mission. Instead, we'd burned our home.”
Source: Mind Painter
“There was no need to fear new things. Shaking hands with a foreigner didn't make me foreign.”
Source: The Sunset Emperor
“There was no need to hurry that future—yet the length of his own youth pressed upon him. Whatever he was to do next he wanted to begin now. But how to begin and on what?”
Source: The Eternal Wonder
“There was no need to inform us of the protocol involved. We were from Chicago and knew all about cement.”
“There was no news in the Dan Rather piece. They didn't say [to Bush]: "We found a piece of paper that was overlooked in the 300,000 pieces of paper that were covered in the Iran-Contra hearings, and we have a piece of news we'd like to ask you about." CBS decided to create a media event and cover it in its own fashion. This was unprecedented in American history. CBS cancelled two-thirds of the newscast... to get a guy and take him out.”
“There was no normal. There never had been. "Normal" and "natural" were the biggest lies we'd ever created.”
Source: The Bone Season
“There was no number on the door. I heard whispering. I stood in the middle of the hall, with my right ear turned toward the room. I listened as if it were speaking to me. The whispering became intoxicating.”
Source: Tales of the Other Side
“There was no one alive who did not contribute his share of mystery to the world.”
Source: The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories
“There was no one around called 'Val' when I was young, so I wanted to be John or Bill. Now I like it.”
“There was no one around me who didn't work hard.”
“There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who cared whether she lived or died. Sometimes the horror of that thought threatened to overwhelm her and plunge her down into a bottomless darkness from which there would be no return. If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?”
Source: Clockwork Angel
“There was no one clear point of loss. It happened over and over again in a thousand small ways and the only truth there was to learn was that there was no getting used to it.”
Source: State of Wonder
“There was no one color that could paint Lena Duchannes. She was a red sweater and a blue sky, a gray wind and a silver sparrow, a black curl escaping from behind her ear.”
“There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.”
“There was no one innocent amongst us, I realized then. We were all sinners, one way or the other. We hurt with our hands, with our mouths, or with our minds. But what matters was the ‘why’.
~Eyes of a Goddess”
“There was no one left to speak for me.”
“There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.”
“There was no one really like John Bender at my high school.”
“There was no one she wanted to see more. There was no one she wanted to see less.
"Why?" she whispered. "Why are you here?"
"The winds blew," he said.”
Source: The Next Person You Meet in Heaven
“There was no one there to hear them scream no. Or maybe there was; but that no wasn’t deemed worthy of being heard. Maybe they heard it and they didn’t care. A woman’s no can so easily be turned into a yes by men who do not want to listen.”
Source: The Surface Breaks
“There was no one to be seen so she gave in freely to her sobs as she made her way home, pressed her arms against her stomach; the pain lodged in there like an ill-tempered foetus.
Let a person in and he hurts you.
There was a reason why she kept her relationships brief. Don't let them in. Once they're inside they have more potential to hurt you. Comfort yourself. You can live with the anguish as long as it only involves yourself. As long as there is no hope.”
Source: Let The Right One In
“There was no one to blame but the mighty, ruthless stranger. Thus was complexity reduced to demonology, which is a defining feature of anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, or, indeed, any "anti-ism.”
“There was no one to call me to bed, no one to demand that the rhythms of my life operate in a duet.”
Source: Great House
“There was no one to care or hear his cry. Not a single soul could comprehend the hurt inside him.”
Source: Becoming the Conjurer
“There was no one to complain to in the woods, so I did not complain,' Knight said.”
Source: The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
“There was no one to understand Me until I created the whole world.”
“There was no one, when I was in school, who talked about going in and blowing up students. The teachers were very stern and hateable, but nobody ever mentioned murder.”
“There was no opiate like a French pillow.”
Source: The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
“There was no opposition organized against Bela Kun. Like Lenin he surrounded himself with commissaries having absolute authority. of the 32 principle commissaries 25 were Jews, a proportion nearly similar to that in Russia. The most important of them formed a Directory of five: Bela Kun alias Kohn, Bela Vaga (Weiss), Joseph Pogany (Schwartz), Sigismond Kunfi (Kunstatter), and another. Other chiefs were Alpari and Szamuelly who directed the Red Terror, as well as the executions and tortures of the bourgeoisie.”
“There was no other concern; there was no other focus [in the Governor's School]. It was simply there to learn and grow and perform, and that was pretty amazing and informative. I'd say that was a big pivotal moment for me.”
“There was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of Justice, to do no injury, to live honestly, and give everyone his due.”
“There was no other love that could compare with the love of woman for woman.”
Source: Queer Patterns
“There was no other path for me. I knew this was my path. I had to follow it.”