T Quotes
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“These vibes are potent
And my words reveal
You are chosen
That's the deal
So let's keep sowing
With our goals clear
As we keep growing
The better we will feel”
“These vines are my calendar. Bare in the winter, budding in the spring, shady in the summer, and tasty in the fall.”
Source: These Yellow Sands: Memories of Manteo
“These vines will be blooming by summer don't you remember? It's just the bones of the garden you're looking at right now." I thought of the trumpet vine and honeysuckle that would green and flower; the jasmine that would sweeten the air, its perfume drifting in the windows of our home.”
Source: The Garden Angel
“These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“These violent delights have violent ends," Juliette whispered to herself. She titled her head up to the clouds, to the light sea breeze blowing in from the Bund and stinging her nose with salt. "You have always known this.”
Source: Our Violent Ends
“These violent delights have violent ends, you have always known this.”
Source: Our Violent Ends
“These violent delights have violent ends.”
“These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.”
“These visions which I saw were not in sleep nor in dreams, nor in my imagination nor by bodily eyes or outward ears nor in a hidden place; but in watching, aware with the pure eyes of the mind and inner ear of the heart.”
“These volunteers—dropping everything in their normal lives at a moment’s notice—showed a dedication that spoke volumes about their commitment.”
Source: Rekindled Flame
“These walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That's institutionalized.”
“These walls breathe with a consciousness fueled by the powers of the Empians.”
Source: Mourning Grey: Part Three The Guardians Of The Temple Saga
“These warriors of the Sacred Band were inscrutable; they loved their war and death and picking through the bones of time to sort out right from wrong, good from bad, holy from profane, honor from dishonor.”
“These waters are sacred to us and for you to be allowed to swim in these waters is a rare honour. What are you waiting for?"
Vartan turned to look at Trisa.
She winked at him and whispered, "Don't worry young man, I've seen it all before. You have nothing to be shy around me for."
"I wasn't..." began Vartan, his cheeks reddening, "Never mind.”
“These ways to make people buy were strange and new to us, and many bought for the sheer pleasure at first of holding in the hand and talking of something new. And once this was done, it was like opium, we could no longer do without this new bauble, and thus, though we hated the foreigners and though we knew they were ruining us, we bought their goods. Thus I learned the art of the foreigners, the art of creating in the human heart restlessness, disquiet, hunger for new things, and these new desires became their best helpers.”
“These wealthy people want to rule and control every aspect of human life on Earth as well in the universe.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“These were African-Arab-Asian values. The only section of Europe that had a high value system during the Dark Ages was the, were those on the Iberian Peninsula in the Spanish-Portuguese area, southern France.”
“These were all decisions made in pursuit of a dream. A dream of reaching for excellence and toward becoming the best I could be as a person and in an activity I loved. At those moments of decision time, I felt strong, confident, powerful, faithful.”
Source: Above All Else
“These were all simple acts of obedience I missed. But not missed because I was unaware. They were missed because I was busy—caught in the rush of endless demands. And the rush makes us rebellious. I knew what to do and blatantly ignored it.
Ignoring God's leading doesn't seem like such a big deal in these cases. In the grand scheme of the world, how big a thing is it that I didn't pick up that cup? After all, how can I be sure it was really God?
I think a better question would be, How can I be sure it wasn't God?”
Source: The Best Yes: Making Wise Decisions in the Midst of Endless Demands – The Perfect Mother’s Day Gift for Christian Moms
“These were always obsessions of mine, even as a very young child. These were things that interested me as the years went on. My friends were more preoccupied with social issues - issues such as abortion, racial discrimination, and Communism - and those issues just never caught my interest. Of course they mattered to me as a citizen to some degree...but they never really caught my attention artistically.”
“These were children. Gerry was their priest. Who could disagree that these children were not justified in trusting their priest? Nobody!”
Source: Betrayal of Faith
“These were choice documents to me... They gave tongue to interesting thoughts of my own soul, which had frequently flashed through my mind, and died away for want of utterance.”
Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
“These were desperate times, the two men agreed; it was easy to stay at home and pull the bedcovers over your heads, but if nothing was done, someone would rip the bedcovers from your face and tug you naked into the street.”
Source: Little
“These were emotions she didn't know how to carry. There was the insult of having her death celebrated when she wasn't even dead. When she was, in fact, amidst them all right now, and only out here because they'd sent killers to fail in her home.
But this? To be dying from the poison of those assassins, and while looking for emergency food to survive the injury, to be told by a drunk rich boy with inconvenient hair that she had never really existed? Now their songs made unkind sense to her. This revelry was a kind of fear, for hatred was the fear people let themselves enjoy.
Never had she imagined such a thing. Humans were so creative in their disappointments.”
Source: Someone You Can Build a Nest In
“These were evenings where the noises and laughter would eventually disappear into the night sky.”
“These were everyday sounds magnified by darkness. And darkness was nothing - it was not a substance, it was not a presence, it was no more than an absence of light.”
Source: Atonement
“These were good people, common people; the salt of the earth people; people whom i should count myself fortunate to know”
Source: The Secret History
“These were highly civil comments for crying out loud. I mean, people are going nuts. USA Today, the Politico. And some people were suggesting that my comments were below the belt. Well, take a look at some pictures. Given where she wears her belts. I mean, she wears them high up there around the bust line. Isn't just about everything about her below the belt when you look at the fashion sense she has?”
“These were in the days before anybody thought to criticize Congressmen, let alone first ladies, for making money on speeches. So Eleanor raked in quite a bit of cash that she may have put, for all I know, to good uses, or maybe not. I just don't know. But I don't think she was any great literary breakthrough.”
“These were just 2 examples out of several people who had used a tremendous amount of willpower to achieve super success & still hadn’t mastered willpower enough to avoid massive failures . It is ironical that both of them had will in their names !
Clearly willpower is something you need to work on everyday else doom will creep into your life”
Source: The Corporate Willpower Book
“These were just inventions, of course, and she [Isabelle] lived knowing, quite well, that such things were not promised to her. She might hope for more but had long ago learned to live with whatever came to pass. Yet sometimes--just sometimes--hope was enough.”
Source: The Sweetness of Water
“These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.”
“These were not the aliens out beaming anyone up. If anything, they'd be the ones providing apologetic form letters to the inconveniently beamed-up.”
Source: Small Orange Fruit
“These were not the belongings of the past prisoner he had imagined. These were a lady’s things—hairpins and stockings and a glove. There were more clues waiting but William no longer felt certain he wanted to know the dark secrets of this cell.”
Source: Katherine's Journal
“These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were fully grown and they became our sole inheritance.”
“These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. There were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works. You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is no substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. I can tell you as I'm sitting here dying, when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have.”
“These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.”
Source: Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .
“These were people who hunted for a way to erase the haunted, malnourished gaze from their souls and replace it with their faith in freedom and safety.”
Source: Caged in Spirit
“These were people... who built redwood decks on their mobile homes and have no idea that smart-aleck Yankees think that is somehow funny. People of the pines. My people.”
Source: All Over but the Shoutin'
“These were reflections that required some time to soften; but time will do almost every thing…”
Source: Mansfield Park
“These were sad people, and for the world I wanted to think of them as decent. Perhaps they were decent enough, but the place made them so offensive to me that all who lived there became there.”
Source: I Am Not Sidney Poitier
“These were specific enablements given to certain believers for the purpose of authenticating or confirming God's Word when it was proclaimed in the early church before the Scriptures were written. The temporary sign gifts included prophecy (revelatory prophecy7), miracles, healings, tongues, and interpretation of tongues. The sign gifts had a unique purpose: to give the apostles credentials, that is, to let the people know that these men all spoke the truth of God. Once the Word of God was inscripturated, the sign gifts were no longer needed and they ceased”
“These were the colloquies in heaven.”
Source: The Iliad
“These were the companions who justified my principles, who gave me the strength to continue against any foe, real or imagined. These were the companions who fought the helplessness, the rage, and frustration. These were the friends who gave me my life.”
Source: Exile: The Legend of Drizzt
“These were the days when I found out what power can do.
It thickens like muscles. It's red-blooded and it tastes like blood.”
Source: Gliff
“These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann's to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.”
“These were the facts. Facts were important. They separated fiction from reality, the tawdry world of Mike Longshott from the concrete spaces of Joe's world.”
Source: Osama
“These were the fetishes that gathered the tribe of white supremacy, that rallied them to the age-old banner, and if there was one mistake, one reason why I did not see the coming tragedy, why I did not account for its possibilities, it was because I had not yet truly considered that banner's fearsome power.”
Source: We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
“These were the fundamentalists, the power-hungry grifters who took advantage of the fact that most people don’t know the Bible all that well. They were charlatans, frauds, hypocrites, and villains. And they made for great TV.”
Source: Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds