T Quotes
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“There were so many Cuban-Americans upset that we were going to Cuba and I was curious to see why they were so angry, and anti-Castro. I found out as soon as we got there. The people were treated terrible. The conditions were terrible. I can see why people risk their lives and limbs to get out. (Fidel Castro) lives like a king and won't help anybody, and has everybody scared to death. Nobody lives a normal life. It was still a good experience, but I thought we should just play that one game.”
“There were so many desperate people on the street crying for help that you had to shut off your heart or the pain would be too much. After a while, you can´t care anymore. And that is what hell is like.”
Source: In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
“There were so many desperate people on the streets crying for help that you had to shut off your heart or the pain would be too much. After a while you can’t care anymore. And that is what hell is like.”
Source: In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
“There were so many different factions and that's I think what my father was taking issue with was the idea of, look, you can't go from male dominance to female dominance and expect anything to be better. We're all shits, ultimately, and we've got to do the best we can together.”
“There were so many different influences in my life: being half Mexican and half Irish, growing up an only child of immigrant parents, being bullied in school, feeling alienated and lonely, this undertone of darkness. All that culminated and came out in my music and made it different.”
“There were so many different versions of him. It was countless versions of a song, and they were all original, and they were all true, and they were all right. It should have been impossible. Was I supposed to love them all?”
“There were so many different ways in which you were required to provide absolute proof of your identity these days that life could easily become extremely tiresome just from that factor alone, never mind the deeper existential problems of trying to function as a coherent consciousness in an epistemologically ambigiuous phyiscal universe.”
“There were so many different ways in which you were required to provide absolute proof of your identity these days that life could easily become extremely tiresome just from that factor alone, never mind the deeper existential problems of trying to function as a coherent consciousness in an epistemologically ambiguous physical universe.”
Source: The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“There were so many fellows ranked over me I couldn't just whoop them all. I had to out-shadow them by talking.”
“There were so many fewer questions when stars were still just the holes to heaven.”
“There were so many forms of prehistoric technology.
Of those, men dig a few which fit into current society.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.”
“There were so many great teachers that had so much to offer. The idea of being rigid, why would you do that? People have their things, but why be rigid with any education when you can take things from here and take things from there?”
“There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago.”
“There were so many Jacks she had known, and he had known so many Hazels. And maybe she wasn't going to be able to know all the Jacks that there would be. But all the Hazels that ever would be would have Jack in them, somewhere.”
Source: Breadcrumbs
“There were so many kind of rich people in New York City. Alice was an expert, but not because she wanted to be; it was like being raised bilingual, only one of the languages was money. One rule of thumb was that the harder it was to tell where someone's money came from, the more of it they had.”
Source: This Time Tomorrow
“There were so many layers of reality to the world. Nothing stopped for death; nothing stopped for grief or horror or tragedy.”
Source: Working Stiff: A Revivalist Novel
“There were so many lean years. A lot of lean years.”
“There were so many levels to the unknown, from safe to dangerous to outright nebulous, scariest of all.”
Source: Lock and Key
“There were so many miracles at work: that a blossom might become a peach, that a bee could make honey in its thorax, that rain might someday fall. I thought then about the seasons changing, and in the gray of night I could almost will myself to see the azure sky, the gold of the maple leaves, the crimson of the ripe apples, the hoarfrost on the grass.”
“There were so many murders out there. Surely, she could have one.”
Source: Nine Liars
“There were so many obstacles and perceived dangers around every corner, but she knew it was the right thing to do. Hadn’t the Lord said to “love your enemies”?”
Source: Once I Knew
“There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.”
“There were so many of these moments that could never be captured accurately, even in the camcorder, only in the heart.”
Source: Now I'll Tell You Everything
“There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed OK at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.”
“There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.”
Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition
“There were so many other people in my life.
I had spent all of my time listening,
learning the longings we all have in common.
I never took the time to hear them in myself
and I heard them speaking to him.
The desire for desire, that hope
for hope, the possibility of everything
truly possible. I had so many friends,
so many nods and conversations,
so many things I’d always wanted
to say to someone.”
Source: The Realm of Possibility
“There were so many outstanding women in scripture that were leaders. And, you know, the organized church sometimes puts boundaries on us that the Bible doesn't.”
“There were so many people who could be your lover, but, if she was honest with herself, there were relatively few people who could move you creatively.”
Source: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“There were so many people who wanted me for their films.”
“There were so many people, so much to navigate, and as the distance fluctuated between us his hand kept slipping, down my arm to my wrist. And maybe he was going to let go as people pressed in on all sides, but all I could think was how when nothing made sense and hadn't for ages, you just have to grab onto anything you feel sure of. So as I felt his fingers loosening around my wrist, I just wrapped my own around them, right, and held on”
“There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof, there would never have been another stanza written about rusting fathers and impotent steelworkers and the Bessemer convertor of love.”
“There were so many places in my time with Rogerson that I wished I could go back to, hitting the stop button at just one moment to stop everything that came after. I had so many If Onlys, but each place I thought to stop meant missing something that came later. I needed it all, in the end, to make my own story find its finish.”
Source: Dreamland
“There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'”
“There were so many sensations in his body that he couldn't feel them all at once, and each, as soon as he felt it, slipped away into the past.”
Source: LaRose
“There were so many stories about Bing's daughter living in sin. We weren't hurting anyone. We were living in love. I couldn't understand why people were trying to hurt us and hurt our families.”
“There were so many stories around, it was almost inevitable some of them would turn out to be true.”
“There were so many things associated with it in terms of music and fashion, and a different way of thinking that, for me, skateboarding represented so much of what I wanted to do with my life at an early age.”
“There were so many things I have had to say sorry for that I wasn’t sorry about.”
“There were so many things I wanted to tell you.
Or rather,
I wished to have things that I wanted to tell you.
What a thing, to be with you and have
no words for it. What a thing,
to be outcast like that.
And then everything unfastened.
It was like something was always dissolving
inside you—
Already it's hard to remember
how you used to comb your hair or how you
tilted your broad face in green shade.
Now what seas, what meanings
can I place in you?”
Source: Incarnadine: Poems
“There were so many things in this world that could kill me. I chose to live how I wanted, and that was on the dangerous side.”
Source: The Wolf and the Sheep
“There were so many times during my career when, after leaning of another fatality, I’d hear the words: ‘And he only had a couple of days left til’ leave…”
Source: Battle Scars
“There were so many ways to be twenty-six years old.”
“There were so many women who had worked throughout the war in every possible job. They were told, "Now leave, so the men can come in" and there was this whole feminizing of women: You have to be very, very retiring and submissive and whatever.”
“There were so many wrongs piling up on both sides, so much of the past being dragged into the present, that living there was like carving the story of your life on to a sepulchral monument.”
Source: Truth or dare
“There were so much affairs of me created by the media... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star.”
“There were some ages in Western history that have occasionally been called Dark. They were dark, it is said, because in them learning declined, and progress paused, and men labored under the pall of belief. A cause-effect relationship is frequently felt to exist between the pause and the belief.”
“There were some days that deserved to be drowned at birth and everyone sent back to bed with a hot brandy, a box of chocolates and a warm, energetic companion. Today was without question one of those days.”
Source: Trace of Magic
“There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to concentrate on getting down to going any work being an art student especially when it's a flighty thing at best.”
“There were some feelings you never forgot.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls