T Quotes
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“They are consumed by the fear of desire.”
Source: Death in Spring
“They are counting the dead.
They ask the old to die willingly.
Sign here, please. There will be
no mourners, no funeral.
Wind is our choir, owl our plainsong.
Birds sing our penillion.
Silence in the first spring leaves
is prayer, last rights and requiem.
- The Hours: Sext”
Source: The Silence
“They are crystals, Mr. Williams,” Ferg said, “but unlike any other crystals on this planet. If I were to put a label on the spheres, each is a Dynamically Layered Organic Crystal Lattice. Something like this has been theorized, but it has remained in the theory stage because no one could imagine how to make them.”
Source: Tom and G.E.R.I.
“They are cutting medicare”
“They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his wrongs. They are deceived who imagine that he arises from his knees with back lacerated and bleeding, cherishing only a spirit of meekness and forgiveness. A day may come - it will, if his prayer is heard. A terrible day of vengeance when the master in his turn will cry in vain for mercy.”
Source: Twelve Years a Slave
“They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them.”
“They are definitely pros and cons to triple threat matches. The cons to them is obviously coming up wth something very original and making sure everything makes sense.”
“They are democratic with their time—communicating with everyone equally and making sure all team members get a chance to contribute.”
Source: The Captain Class: The Hidden Force that Creates the World's Greatest Teams
“They are denied access to the more advanced techniques of releasing the kundalini energy, which bring about quantum leaps in self-awareness.”
“They are different men here, men I cannot properly understand, whom I envy and despise.”
Source: All quiet on the western front
“They are distinct enough that our crude instruments can pick up the differences, yet both are healthy instances of that staggeringly improbable, exquisitely engineered system we call a human being.”
Source: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
“They are done merely for ornament. ... the common people regard them as supernatural.”
“They are doodlehums."
"Doodlehums?"
"Antisocial individuals, intentional circumventors of statutes."
"Oh, hoodlums. Yes I guessed that much on my own. What can you tell me about them?"
"Morton Zeemeister," he said, indulges in many such activities. He is the heavy one with the pale fur. Normally, he remains away far from the scene of his hoodling, employing agents to execute it for him. The other, Jamie Buckler, is one such. He has hoodled well for Zeemeister over the years and was recently promoted by him to guard his body.”
Source: Doorways in the Sand
“They are dumping animal blood into the sea
to bring up the sharks. Sometimes every
aperture of my body
leaks blood. I don't know whether
to pretend that this is natural.”
Source: Diving Into the Wreck
“They are each good when they are out, and each bad when they are in.”
Source: How to be funny
“They are either people of faith who have lost their faith from reading my books, or they are people who had already lost their faith, and something about my books encouraged them to affirm that.”
“They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.”
Source: The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero
“They are emotional gluttons, both of them. They gobbled up every sensation they could extract from marriage, and now they are seeing if separation won't provide them with a few more.”
Source: Lucy Carmichael
“They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what the gods made for fun.”
“They are enthusiasts, devotees. Addicts. Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent. They seek each other out, these people of such specific like mind. They tell of how they found the circus, how those first few steps were like magic. Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars… When they depart, they shake hands and embrace like old friends, even if they have only just met, and as they go their separate ways they feel less alone than they had before.”
“They are equal reality. They are two streams of present reality, both equally promised. The Christian dead are already with Christ now, and Christ really lives in the Christian. Christ lives in me. The Christ who was crucified, the Christ whose work is finished, the Christ who is glorified now, has promised (John 15) to bring forth fruit in the Christian, just as the sap of the vine brings forth the fruit in the branch.”
Source: The Francis Schaeffer Collection: True Spirituality / He Is There and He Is Not Silent
“They are everything. And that’s what I tell them when I whisper,
‘Everything that matters is right here in my arms.”
Source: Desperately Seeking Epic
“They are evil people, the press, the media, they are bad people, and nobody, nobody lies like they do.”
“They are exactly the persons who are to succeed to the government of our country and to rule its future enmities, its friendships and fortunes.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont
“They are experts in the means of becoming miserable, and no matter how fortunate their circumstances are, they will always find a way out and skillfully evade any kind of happiness. Because this entire mental process is happening subconsciously, they think everything about the world is hell - but the truth is that they are turning wherever they go into their own personal hell instead.”
Source: Three Days of Happiness
“They are extreme in their self-analysis at certain times. Nothing, but nothing, escapes their derision. This extends outward. In times of stress, they have little hope of a breakthrough in the wall of negativity.”
Source: Hiding In The Light: Understanding Avoidant Personality Disorder
“They are fairies; he that speaks to them shall die. I'll wink and couch; no man their works must eye.”
Source: The dramatic works and poems of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of Steevens and Malone, with life, and historical, critical, and explanatory notices by A. Cunningham, a glossary and illustrations
“They are fantasies, nothing more. Everyone has fantasies, yet only the very few dare to live them out.”
Source: The Erotic Notebooks
“They are fighting for the chair while I am fighting for your happiness.”
“They are finding solace in substances. But the truth is, if they just dealt with their issues in the first place, then they wouldn't need to self-medicate.”
Source: Supermarket
“They are flooding countries with illegal immigrants so that these immigrants can overpower the locals and dictate what to do. They incite riots and challenge the government, becoming lawbreakers. The government is distracted and wastes resources trying to maintain peace and stability. These immigrants do what the citizens won’t, such as turning against the government or certain politicians. They use these immigrants to put pressure on the government or to create and fabricate certain narratives. They stage events to frame certain people, causing disturbances or disrupting the economy of the country. They make them engage in illegal, unethical, and criminal activities to challenge, punish, or control the government. These illegal immigrants present themselves as citizens of that country, creating false narratives or stereotypes that suggest people in that country behave in certain ways, when in reality it is illegal immigrants behaving like that with stolen identities or passports.”
“They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.”
“They are fools that think that wealth or women or strong drink or even drugs can buy the most in effort out of the soul of a man. These things offer pale pleasures compared to that which is greatest of them all, that task which demands from him more than his utmost strength, that absorbs him, bone and sinew and brain and hope and fear and dreams—and still calls for more. They are fools who think otherwise. No great effort was ever bought. No painting, no music, no poem, no cathedral in stone, no church, no state was ever raised into being for payment of any kind. No Parthenon, no Thermopylae was ever built or fought for pay or glory; no Bukhara sacked, or China ground beneath Mongol heel, for loot or power alone. The payment for the doing of these things was itself the doing of them. To wield oneself—to use oneself as a tool in one's own hand—and so to make or break that which no one else can build or nun—that is the greatest pleasure known to man! To one who has felt the chisel in his hand and set free the angel prisoned in the marble block, or to one who has felt the sword in hand and set homeless the soul that a moment before lived in the body of his mortal enemy—to these both come alike the taste of that rare food spread only for demons or for gods.”
Source: Soldier, Ask Not
“They are fools who do not know how much the half exceeds the whole.”
Source: Theogony
“They are fools who kiss and tell'-- Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he'll only hold his tongue.”
Source: Complete Poetry of Rudyard Kipling: Complete 570+ Poems in One Volume: Songs from Novels and Stories, The Seven Seas Collection, Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads, An Almanac of Twelve Sports, The Five Nations, The Years Between…
“They are forever looking into the nooks and crannies of a thing, whatever the thing may be. Always up very early or very late, going for rides on the backs of whales who deliver the mail; waking up covered in a secret language of hums; writing about the hobbies of feathers; changing shape like a cloud; howling at the moon; being a radioactive night-light in the dark; being a life raft on an ocean of alphabet soup; being great-hearted; being selfless; believing in tall tales, doodlebugs, and doohickeys. Believing. Believing in themselves. Believing in you.”
Source: Confessions of an Imaginary Friend
“They are found on dusty little squares, resigned to rain and sun, they too converted to stone and boredom.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“They are from another world, another way of life that somehow has merged with our own. These worlds are kept separate for the safety of everyone. " "And yet, I connect them." "You do.”
Source: Churning Waters
“They are fruit and transport: ripening melons, prairie schooners journeying under full sail.”
“They are fuelled by an ideology that itself is non-negotiable and forms a continuum that links peaceful, law-abiding but nevertheless intensely ideological Muslims at one end and murderous jihadists at the other.”
“They are fully under our control and nowhere as powerful as the old AIs of the past. They’re individual machines and cannot control vast networks.””
Source: The Polymorph
“They are given a lot of alcohol, suspiciously more than they have a right to, and it tastes good. First, it warms you and gives you beautiful eyes, and then it makes everyone else's eyes beautiful, too. Everything hard becomes soft, and all that is yours becomes theirs. If you give someone your hand, there is someone to take it. And if you say something, there is someone who will listen as if it were worth listening to. You get closer to each other, and it feels good to get closer. Your lips become beautiful, and your mouth becomes gentle and friendly. Everything is warm and all shadows disappear. Sorrow itself takes on the form of happiness.”
Source: A Moth to a Flame
“They are going to leave [Gaza], not because this is a gift from Israel. This is because they failed to confront our people, so don't describe their withdrawal from here...as a gift for the Palestinians. This is because they are defeated here. HAMAS will never recognize the existence of a Jewish State in the region.”
“They are going to surrender or be burned in their tanks. They will surrender, it is they who will surrender.”
“They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.”
Source: pt. I. Of genral principles. pt. II. Of truth. v. 4. pt. v. Of mountain beauty
“They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.”
Source: The Major Works
“They are hare-brain'd slaves.”
Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“They are having a panel look into the intelligence failures in Iraq. It is a seven-person panel and it will include Senator John McCain, but the findings from this panel will not be issued until after the election. President Bush says the commission can go off and report back in a year, you know, the same way it works in the Texas National Guard.”
“They are having quite an argument over Treasury Secretary Mellon's Tax Bill. Mr. Mellon wants to cut the surtax on the rich, and leave it as is on the poor, as there is more poor than rich. I suppose the majority will win.”
“They are here to help pack the gold, mistress. The women wouldn't be able to do it quickly enough , but I reverently ask that you don't tell them I said so. The last time I said anything about Cook's culinary arts, I ate burned food for a week and when I said anything to your lady's maid about how she should do more to help to help you, she put double of starch into my sheets when she ironed them.... She scorched a hole in the sheets at the foot of the bed and my toes got caught in it in the middle of the night.”
Source: Hawk Fae