T Quotes
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“They are again in the dirt in the desert.”
“They are all a rotten lot. Schmidt and the Americans and we are the only people who would do any standing up and fighting if necessary.”
Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations
“They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything.”
Source: The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton
“They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are the old language of the imagination; one of the ten thousand tragedies of their disappearance would be a silencing of this speech.”
Source: A Field Guide to Getting Lost
“They are all but stomachs, and we all but food.
To eat us hungerly, and when they are full,
They belch us.”
“They are all but stomachs, and we are all but food;
They eat us hungerly, and when they are full
They belch us.
“And then they blame us for their indigestion.”
—Emilia, #Othello #onmen”
Source: By Any Other Name
“They are all different and I find it hard to tell what flute suits me best.”
“They are all gone somewhere. Someone on twitter, someone on instagram, someone on facebook...No one is at home.”
Source: Yet Another New Land
“They are all I have left—the stars and the memory of the many times I wished upon them. But with all those wishes, I asked for only one thing. To see him again. But I will not see him again. I do not see him now.”
Source: The Starlight Crystal
“They are all my favourites. All of them.”
“They are all paranoid." Apparently, this voice does not see itself in the "all" of dementia.”
“They are all trapped into setting innocents aside due to reality gaps of "logic" of the crowd and letting guilty rise…
Reality poses obstacles to fair and just people with injustice and unfairness and abuse. The incompetent reign and those who have true worth are set aside.”
Source: Reality Is Just A Possible Fantasy
“They are all unique and lovingly constructed. There's one for a chocolate ganache tart striped with hazelnut and praline, a honey cake with orange marmalade filling, coconut cream-filled doughnuts with meringues in the center.”
Source: The Golden Spoon
“They are all up — the innumerable stars—
And hold their place in heaven. ...
There they stand,
Shining in order, like a living hymn
Written in light, awaking at the breath
Of the celestial dawn, and praising
Him Who made them, with the harmony of sphere.”
“They are also difficult to reconcile with archaeological evidence of how cities actually began in many parts of the world: as civic experiments on a grand scale, which frequently lacked the expected features of administrative hierarchy and authoritarian rule. We do not possess an adequate terminology for these early cities. To call them ‘egalitarian’, as we’ve seen, could mean quite a number of different things. It might imply an urban parliament and co-ordinated projects of social housing, as with some pre-Columbian centres in the Americas; or the self-organizing of autonomous households into neighbourhoods and citizens’ assemblies, as with prehistoric mega-sites north of the Black Sea; or, perhaps, the introduction of some explicit notion of equality based on principles of uniformity and sameness, as in Uruk-period Mesopotamia.
None of this variability is surprising once we recall what preceded cities in each region. That was not, in fact, rudimentary or isolated groups, but far-flung networks of societies, spanning diverse ecologies, with people, plants, animals, drugs, objects of value, songs and ideas moving between them in endlessly intricate ways. While the individual units were demographically small, especially at certain times of year, they were typically organized into loose coalitions or confederacies. At the very least, these were simply the logical outcome of our first freedom: to move away from one’s home, knowing one will be received and cared for, even valued, in some distant place. At most they were examples of ‘amphictyony’, in which some kind of formal organization was put in charge of the care and maintenance of sacred places. It seems that Marcel Mauss had a point when he argued that we should reserve the term ‘civilization’ for great hospitality zones such as these. Of course, we are used to thinking of ‘civilization’ as something that originates in cities – but, armed with new knowledge, it seems more realistic to put things the other way round and to imagine the first cities as one of those great regional confederacies, compressed into a small space.”
Source: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
“They are also one of the few species, other than humans, that can recognize themselves in a mirror. That morning, as Nola had faced the image of her wet self over the locker room sink, she’d wondered about the scientists who devised that experiment. Why give a perfectly happy animal a mirror?”
Source: No Two Persons
“They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.”
Source: Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis
“They are always saying God loves us. If thats love Id rather have a bit of kindness.”
Source: The Captain and the Enemy
“They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I think is much more harrowing than sexuality for children.”
“They are always wrong about Isobel.”
Source: Girl of Dust and Smoke
“They are among the three hundred million Africans who earn less than a dollar a day, and who are often pushed out of the way or killed for such things as oil, water, metal ore, and diamonds.”
Source: The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur
“They are an essential tool to give new life to what you already have in your wardrobe. Accessories are like vitamins to fashion: you should use them liberally as such.”
“They are asleep. This is the condition they prefer. They are afraid of the world and sleep is a way of dealing with their fear. Someday they will wake. Perhaps something frightful will happen. Indeed, there is no better invitation to the frightful than ignorance - that is, sleep. (29)”
Source: The Church of Dead Girls: A Novel
“They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.”
“They are avoiding you because they don't have the courage to face you.”
“They are bearcrawls ... a bearclaw is a donut”
“They are becoming hysterical. This is the result of frustration.”
“They are blaming you just to satisfy their need to be right, even when they know they are wrong.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“They are born, put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called "work" in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they talk about thinking "outside the box"; and when they die they are put in a box.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“They are both all over physical sports that require being focused, accurate and having good strength. They are both fast with big consequences if things go wrong, so I have to be alert and aware at all times. With racing there is much more endurance and technical skill.”
“They are both exposed now, to each other, and also to the wind, which has stirred itself again and buffets and nudges and pushes them from all directions. Only the faintest turning up of his mouth, barely visible- you can hardly see his face for beard- but it seems to Lizzie at this moment that his eyes have been becalmed.”
Source: Mr Peacock's Possessions
“They are both ways to measure the information dimension. The more dimensional an object is, the less differentiable it is. The more differentiable it is, the less dimensional it is. Dimensions are what objects share together. Any value, if it's unknown, can be a dimension. It's only NOT a dimension if it's known, in which case it becomes a unit of information, called a bit. A bit denotes ONE (1) difference between two (2) objects.”
Source: Mercy Ai: Age of Discovery
“They are bound to each other by their mutual disgust and discomfort: Caleb tolerates his body, and he tolerates Caleb's revulsion.”
Source: A Little Life
“They are brothers,” Benny repeated softly. “That is a bond you cannot break.”
Source: Candidate
“They are but beggars that can count their worth; But my true love is grown to such excess I cannot sum up half of my wealth.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“They are but beggars that can count their worth.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators
“They are by far the worst drivers. They are spiteful, dithering, old and in the way. They should have their licences taken away.”
“They are called 'Emos' now, and before that they were 'Goths.' They didn't have a name for it when I was one, but I was that black-wearing teenager and yes, I wore a little eyeliner.”
“They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything.”
“They are called, "SELF-worth" and "SELF-esteem" for a reason... we can't let others decide what we are worth, that is so dangerous! Empower yourself!”
“They are caught between one world and another, and they no longer belong anywhere.”
Source: The River and the Book
“They are children, Sansa thought. They are silly little girls, even Elinor. They’ve never seen a battle, they’ve never seen a man die, they know nothing. Their dreams were full of songs and stories, the way hers had been before Joffrey cut her fathers head off. Sansa pitied them. Sansa envied them.”
Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows
“They are choking on gratitude.
They will preach peace and forgiveness
while bathing their sorrows in vintage gold,
forged by History on twisted spines and bones,
shattered between love and shame
for the sake of patterns in sand.”
Source: Spare Change
“They are closing the mine in two weeks, they say. Six days a week bumping down in the gondola, pecking out the rocks and hauling them back up, doing it again the next day for twenty-seven years, one cave-in, three thin raises, and a failed strike. Where am I going to go every day, what am I going to do with all that sunshine?”
Source: 420 Characters
“They are coming to teach us good manners!" I replied in English. "But they won't succeed, because we are gods.”
Source: The Leopard
“They are coming to teach us good manners,” I replied in English. “But they won’t succeed, because we think we are gods.”
Source: The Leopard
“They are commiting murder who merely live.”
Source: Collected Poems: 1930–1993
“They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. (v)”
“They are compulsive liars. A tactic they use is to add a nugget of truth to the lies so make them more believable.”
“They are constantly trying to drive us into a corner because we have an independent position, because we maintain it and because we tell it like it is and don't engage in hypocrisy. But there is a limit to everything. And with Ukraine, our Western partners have crossed the line, playing the bear and acting irresponsibly and unprofessionally.”