T Quotes
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“They are playing above the ground.”
“They are pleased to deceive themselves, as if they deceived Fate at the same time.”
Source: On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
“They are poets of gesture.”
“They are possibly the dumbest people on the planet... We Americans suffer from an enforced ignorance. We don't know about anything that's happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing.”
“They are prepared for a God who strikes hard bargains but not for a God who gives as much for an hour's work as for a day's. They are prepared for a mustard-seed kingdom of God no bigger than the eye of a newt but not for the great banyan it becomes with birds in its branches singing Mozart. They are prepared for the potluck supper at First Presbyterian but not for the marriage supper of the lamb.”
“They are preparing to go to war, and with so little time to waste, they say what they mean.”
Source: 300 Arguments: Essays
“They are presented attractively for the same reason that kittens are cute - so that they can draw you in, then pounce on you for the kill. Seriously. Stay away from kittens.”
Source: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians
“They are preserving the sanctity of marriage, so that two gay men who've been together for twenty-five years can't get married, but a guy can still get drunk in Vegas and marry a hooker at the Elvis chapel! The sanctity of marriage is saved!”
“They are pretty to look at," - Jace Wayland”
Source: City of Bones
“They are provoked to anger and aggression, which are virile passions. These make a man think that he is in danger of suffering some future evil (which he intends to resist). When men are so disposed, they do not have mercy on others. Likewise the proud do not have mercy because they despise others and look upon them as evil, taking it for granted that these people deserve to suffer whatever they have to suffer.”
Source: Summa Theologica
“They are quite hopeless - drooling, driveling, doleful, depressing, dropsical drips.”
“They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall.”
“They are reluctant to do the serious work of change, feeling that it would be easier to throw a new blanket over the moldy mattress and carry on with life as usual.”
Source: Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
“They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That's the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are trying to build.”
“They are responsible for starting this relationship and wanting to help Africa. The United States is very well suited for this as they are a country that has the capacity, they have better access to technology and they are a successful country.”
“They are safe but they are not in their homes. They are city-less. I think it's just a disaster for everyone.”
“They are saying that a man will have to die to protect his life. if you agree to fight you agree to die. Now if you die to protect your life you aren't alive anyhow so how is there any sense in a thing like that? A man doesn't say I will starve myself to death to keep from starving. He doesn't say I will spend all my money in order to save my money. He doesn't say I will burn my house down in order to keep it from burning. Why then should he be willing to die for the privilege of living? There ought to be at least as much common sense about living and dying as there is about going to the grocery store and buying a loaf of bread.”
Source: Johnny Got His Gun
“They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that broken parts add color and music to the staff of life.”
Source: The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place
“They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses.”
“They are self-loathing people, these leftists. I can't imagine what it would be like to get up and live their life every day. To have to be mad all the time, at everybody else, knowing full well you are a failure and having the inability to do anything about it because you will not look at yourself. You gotta blame George W. Bush or you gotta blame corporations, or you have to blame somebody. Blame talk radio.”
“They are sharing a drink called loneliness.”
“They are sick in their minds. They say they brought 65 tanks into center of city. I say to you this talk is not true. This is part of their sick mind.”
“They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.”
“They are silent for a moment, watching the waves come closer and closer to their feet. There is always the temptation, thinks Ruth, to stay just a little bit too long, to stand on the water’s edge until the spray actually gets you. And it’s not always the wave you expect, the spectacular breakers hurling themselves against the shore. Sometimes it’s the sneaky waves, the ones that come from nowhere, sucking the sand away from your feet; sometimes it’s these waves that take you by surprise.”
Source: The Crossing Places
“They are simple people, most of them, but that doesn't make them subhuman.
You are telling them Jesus loves them, but not much.”
“They are simply a memory, and as you overwrite that data card, erasing them forever, you feel an irrational twinge of loss.”
Source: In the Dream House
“They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.”
Source: Poems
“They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“They are so beautiful: your words "S, he told me. And I said "No, you are!”
“They are so beautiful: your words" She told me. And I said "No, you are!”
“They are so black, Celie, they shine.”
“They are so busy, Julia, trying to help the world that they've forgotten how to help themselves. They've forgotten how to be happy, and it is a happy man or woman who helps the world most.”
Source: Witch
“They are so caught up in their happiness that they don't realize I'm not really a part of it. I am wandering along the periphery. I am like the people in the Winslow Homer paintings, sharing the same room with them but not really there. I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that's not my natural habitat. I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story, but passing too quickly to be noticed or understood.
. . . There are moments I just sit in my frame, float in my tank, ride in my car and say nothing, think nothing that connects me to anything at all.”
Source: Every Day
“They are so confident that they will run on forever. But they won't run on. They don't know that this is all one huge big blazing meteor that makes a pretty fire in space, but that some day it'll have to hit.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.”
Source: Letters: Edited by Madeline House & Graham Storey. Associate editors: W.J. Carlton [and others]
“They are so frail humans. So easily crumpled and broken, like flower petals under foot.”
Source: The Goblin Market
“They are so knowing, that they know nothing.”
Source: Andria
“They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are.”
Source: Fall On Your Knees
“They are specific places I have discovered here and there when I am on the road to take photos. I go especially to take photos.”
Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007
“They are staring at the photographer in perplexity. A few even wear naive smiles, as if forgetting the extreme poverty of the arid plains.”
Source: Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan
“They are still enough to bend the world.”
Source: Flowers for Ukraine
“They are still trying to bomb with artillery and rocket-propelled grenades to hit the Republican Guard who are controlling Saddam International Airport.”
“They are strewn with the wreckage of dead Empires - past Powers - only the Albanian "goes on for ever."”
“They are strong
They are the rock.
They are important
Lets love them.
Lets respect them
Lets honor them.
Lets appreciate them
Lets protect them
Lets support them
Lets save them
Lets listen to them
Lets believe them
Lets be there for them.
They are our children, our sisters, our girlfriends, our friends, our wives, our mothers, our grand mothers, our colleagues, our neighbors. They don't need to prove themselves or to explain themselves to anyone. They need to be who they are. Phenomenal women.
To all the women out there .
Happy Women's Month”
“They are strong wives, devoted moms, and beautiful women, trying to find a way to earn and keep their wings because God knows, it's not easy being married to the military.”
“They are stuck in the past, while you, darling, forge the future.”
Source: Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light
“They are stupid, aren't they?" Dr. Orwell agreed, as though they were talking about the weather instead of insulting young children.”
Source: The Miserable Mill
“They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans.”
“They are surely gods who speak to him With steady voices
A glance from him drives men to their knees
His sigh brings cities to ruin
I wonder if he dreams of surrender
On a bed of white flowers
Or is that the mistaken hope
Of every would-be conqueror?
The world was not made for beauty like his”
Source: Captive Prince: Volume Two
“They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Thucydides (Illustrated)