T Quotes
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“There was no other prisoner who evoked rage and frustration in the citizens of Florida the way Bundy did. For many of them, he was no longer a human being; he was a cause.”
Source: The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
“There was no other sound in the world like a car crash.”
Source: The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)
“There was no other way to describe it. These guys looked like zombies.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“There was no other way to say it. After being heartbroken for so long, I had made myself completely numb inside. Maybe not from physical pain, but anything emotional, yes. Sexual pleasure? Numb to that, too. I’d have been a great actress. After all, I had the perfect, mind-blowing orgasm down to an art. Suppose I deserve an Oscar for that.”
“There was no part of him that was not broken, that had not healed wrong, and there was no part of him that was not stronger for having been broken.”
“There was no particular point at which I stopped being promising.”
Source: Sixty stories
“There was no place at all for me in my father's military world.”
“There was no place else she'd rather be than slow-dancing on a beach with the sexiest, sweetest, most attentive man she'd ever been with.”
Source: Keeping Mr. Right Now
“There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave. No place in all the land but one - the pulpit. It yielded last; it always does. It fought a strong and stubborn fight, and then did what it always does, joined the procession - at the tail end. Slavery fell. The slavery texts in the Bible remained; the practice changed; that was all.”
Source: What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings
“There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.”
Source: The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor
“There was no point dwelling on what happened yesterday when all that ever mattered was what to eat tomorrow. Everything else was bygones—remnants of the past in wispy strands of memory, getting hazier by the day until one day it would snap, and that was that.”
Source: Brilliant White Peaks
“There was no point getting all worked up about a kiss. One kiss does not a relationship make. I'd kissed boys before, and usually by the next day the kiss had evaporated like a dewdrop in the sun.”
Source: If I Stay
“There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.”
“there was no point in owning anything in L.A. . . . in this she had a curious premonition or grasp of 'place.”
Source: Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
“There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the stronger, and this will always be "the man in the street." Arguments must therefore be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics and psychology.”
“There was no point in tears outliving eyes, so she let them fall.”
Source: A Year of Marvellous Ways
“There was no point in telling my father. He'd never let me quit after only one day. He couldn't help me and he'd make some terrible blunder if he tried. Parents are too innocent for the Boschian landscapes of middle school.”
Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“There was no point in waiting until the next world. You had to do everything now, every kind of sin.”
Source: Memnoch the Devil
“There was no point in wallowing. Magnus refused to
wallow. Wallowing was for elephants, depressing people, and depressing elephants.”
Source: What Really Happened in Peru
“There was no point trying to escape her loneliness through a new interest.”
Source: Last Chance Saloon: A Hilarious Romantic Comedy About Best Friends and Heartbreak in Their Thirties
“There was no point where this Entity started or ended. I could not say it was standing over there or it came from that direction. It was everywhere at once. The communication taking place was instant, complete and silent. No words, no symbols or sounds. Yet any misunderstanding was impossible. This was a communion, not a conversation.”
Source: Beyond the Sphere: Encounters with the Divine
“There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty.”
“There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.”
“There was no predicting every future outcome after a single decision.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“There was no predicting how Merripen would fare in Win's absence, but Cam had a feeling it wasn't going to be pleasant. They couldn't have been more opposite, the pale blond invalid and the huge Rom. One so refined and otherworldly, the other brown and rough-hewn and barely civilized. But the connection was there, like the path of a hawk that always returned to the same forest, following the invisible map that was etched in its very nature.”
Source: Seduce Me at Sunrise
“There was no press involvement, there was no pressure. Life was very pure and it became more complicated.”
“There was no pretention here, no hidden meanings in the phrases they spoke, no elaborate plans designed to impress the other. Though it had always been easy to spend time with Mike, she suddenly realized that in the whirlwind of the past couple of weeks, she'd almost forgot how much she enjoyed it.”
“There was no private ownership of land. "You could own a knife, or you could own a horse, but you couldn't own ground any more than you could own the sun or the wind. The Earth was their mother and part of the Cosmos given to all creatures by the Great Spirit.”
Source: The Odyssey of a Hippie Marijuana Grower
“There was no private property in the past. Everything was communal property. In the Indian community where I was born, everything belonged to the community. This way of life is more equitable.”
“There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.”
“There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the odds of heads or tails is always one-in-two, no matter how many times one has flipped the coin and gotten heads. Every flip, the odds are the same. Every day, you could be unlucky all over again.”
“There was no Prussian bastion to stop the Scotsman's swift conquest of the territory once claimed by reason.”
“There was no publicity. You had to like it. There was no pressure, just great competition. The attitude of the coaches and players was exceptional.”
“There was no question about it- the girl in the photograph was staggeringly beautiful. She was Miss Canal Zone, a runner-up in the Miss Universe Contest -- and in fact far more beautiful than the winner of the contests. Her beauty had frightened the judges.”
Source: The Sirens of Titan
“There was no question in my mind on that muggy August day that within less than a year - and on my father's birthday - Look Back in Anger would have opened, in what still seems like an inordinately long, sharp and glimmering summer.”
Source: Looking Back: Never Explain, Never Apologise
“There was no question of forgiving them. She had not, in any case, a forgiving nature; and the injury they had done her was not done by them. If she were to start forgiving she must needs forgive Society, the Law, the Church, the History of Europe, the Old Testament, great-great-aunt Salome and her prayer-book, the Bank of England, Prostitution, the Architect of Apsley Terrace, and half a dozen other useful props of civilization.”
Source: Lolly Willowes
“There was no question of generation change or saying goodbye to the past or modernizing sloganising.”
“There was no question that Jorge 'Billy' Nayor liked to get high; he just didn't think of himself as a drug dealer per se. To him it was just a little friendly bartering with close friends, their friends and so on. Unfortunately, the authorities didn't see it that way.”
“There was no question that the captains who made a habit of testing the boundaries of the rules would never be revered by the public the way Derek Jeter was. But this theory suggested that calling their behavior thuggish was an oversimplification. These were aggressive acts that pushed the limits of what’s acceptable, but they were also instrumental.”
Source: The Captain Class: The Hidden Force that Creates the World's Greatest Teams
“There was no quick grief for Andrew because he had been so slowly lost. First from my heart, then from my mind, and only finally from my life.”
Source: Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold
“There was no race - but to the extent that there was an arms competition, it was almost entirely on the Soviet side, first to catch up and then to surpass the Americans.”
Source: The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking
“There was no racism; there was no problem [in Mecca].”
“There was no real animosity in his voice or his mind. It was the simple desire to obstruct found in everyone, and often expressed where there is no fear of retaliation.”
Source: They'd Rather Be Right
“There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.”
“There was no real gender definition in the sense of how you treat people in those days with gender differences. You avoided them. My parents always told me that you do not make fun of anybody, and so I didn't see anything funny about it.”
“There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.”
Source: Fight Club
“There was no real strategic decision about editorial tone. It was kind of a write whatever you want to write, and we'll see how it goes. I think that we lucked out in that all of the women who started writing at Feministing.com were really funny, and I don't think that's something people are used to seeing or hearing when they read feminism. You know, you think feminism and you kind of think academic, women's studies, dry, humorless; there are all of these stereotypes that go along with what feminist thought is and what feminist writing is.”
“There was no reality to pain when it left one, though while it held one fast all other realities faded.”
Source: All this and Heaven too
“There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during the war was in poetry. One reason for this is that poets are not arrested as quickly as prose writers.”
Source: Men at War: The Best War Stories of All Time
“There was no reason for a revolution in Paraguay.”