T Quotes
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“They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice."”
“They call me a border crosser. I didn't cross a line on a map, but a line drawn around a life.”
“They call me a right-winger, which is an insult - I'm simply a racist and a separatist.”
“They call me Baelon the Brave,” the prince told his wife at her bedside, “but I would sooner fight a dozen battles than do what you’ve just done.”
Source: Fire & Blood
“They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.”
“They call me deranged, a fractured fool,
But madness is my kingdom, my only rule.
Every twitching line, each shattered rhyme,
The writhing chaos of a lunatic’s mind.
A delirious dreamer, a nightmarish scribe,
A maniacal poet, where absurdity thrives.
Twisted nightmares, the crowd to engage.
Bleeding raw horror onto every page.
My pen carves scars, my paper weeps,
In the cradle of chaos, sanity sleeps.”
“They call me deranged. The hope is that they are right! It is of no greater or lesser import for yet another fool to wander this Earth. But if I am right and science is wrong, then may the Lord God have mercy on mankind!”
Source: The Water Wizard – The Extraordinary Properties of Natural Water: Volume 1 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series
“They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven't changed. The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.”
“They call me Fearless Felix.”
“They call me Freestyle Freddy and I'm always ready to rap. Even when I wake up from a nap. Economic devastation's kinda sweeping the nation. It's time for us to wake up and get an education.”
“They call me Good Time Emo. Because I love a good time! And my name is Emo.”
“They call me racist too just because I disagree with a President who happens to be black. You are not racists - you are patriots.”
“They call me Ricky Fatton. Mind you I've had a lot on my plate recently. I got measured for this suit the other week. They measured my pants, jacket, top to bottom. Bloody hell Ricky you're a Mark F they said, a size up from a marquee.”
“They call me Seymour Butts, cause I get more ass than most.”
“They call me superman, I'm here to rescue you.”
“They call me Superman, leap tall hoes in a single bound.”
“They call me Tater Salad”
Source: I Had the Right to Remain Silent...But I Didn't Have the Ability
“They call me the Caretaker.”
Source: Low life
“They call me the confuser. Is he a man... is he a woman? Ooh, I'm not sure if I mind.”
“They call me the father of illustrated journalism. What folly! I never thought any such thing. I had a small newspaper, which had been dead for years, and I was trying in every way to build up its circulation. What could I use for bait? A picture, of course.”
“They call me the Morning Star. That star by which griffin-riders and travelers navigate the wastes in the dark months of winter. The last star that disappears when daylight returns in the spring.”
Source: Morning Star
“They call me the trippy king.”
“They call me…
They see through the walls;
But I was never like that
I had the beauty
Of being normal
But then I went out of my head
I'm not a beast;
I'm more moral than anyone;
I am finding myself again”
Source: Rose: Future Heart
“They call me, The Sharkalator”
“They call our ancestors demons. They insunuate that we shared our lives, meals, and dreams with demons.”
“They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak.”
“They call Ray Robinson the best fighter, pound for pound. I'm the best fighter, ounce for ounce.”
“They call television a medium because nothing's well done.”
“They call the Kurds; 'The world's largest nation without a state.
No need mercy! we may have "No Friend But the Mountains" but we have four states; Bakur, Başur, Rojava, Rojhilat. BBRR”
“They call the Kurds 'The world's largest nation without a state, No need mercy we may have "No Friend But the Mountains" but we have four states; Basur, Başur, Rojava, Rojhilat. BBRR”
“They call them fools, who are unable to resist the slightest chance love might exist.”
“They call them performance artists, but they shouldn't be making an album. They should just be dancers. I don't know, I'm a musical snob. I feel like if you're going to record music and you're going to be a singer, you have to be able to sing.”
“They call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters.”
“They call them the haunted shores, these stretches of Devonshire and Cornwall and Ireland which rear up against the westward ocean. Mists gather here, and sea fog, and eerie stories. That's not because there are more ghosts here than in other places, mind you. It's just that people who live hereabouts are strangely aware of them.”
“They call themselves conservatives but that’s not it, either. They don’t want to conserve what we now have. They’d rather take the country backwards – before the 1960s and 1970s, and the Environmental Protection Act, Medicare, and Medicaid; before the New Deal, and its provision for Social Security, unemployment insurance, the forty-hour workweek, and official recognition of trade unions; even before the Progressive Era, and the first national income tax, antitrust laws, and Federal Reserve. They’re not conservatives. They’re regressives. And the America they seek is the one we had in the Gilded Age of the late nineteenth century.”
“they call themselves patriots and fathers of the homeland. What idea of the homeland can they have? One that is egotistical, which begins and ends with them. They are everything.”
Source: A Nation Of Women: An Early Feminist Speaks Out / Mi opinión sobre las libertades, derechos y deberes de la mujer
“They call themselves Sephardic Jews, but that's not the important thing. The important thing is that some come from the Muslim world and some come from the Christian world. I would call them the Muslim Jews and the Christian Jews. It sounds absurd but you know what I mean.”
“They call themselves the Ku Klux Klan and they hate pretty much everyone who isn't like them. If you have the wrong color, religion, or birthplace, they don't like you. Around here it's mostly foreigners they hate.”
“They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say 'Shit, it's raining!”
Source: Cold Mountain
“They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.”
Source: My Hope For America
“They call us forgotten.
Dust in the breeze.
But how do you forget
the roots of the trees?”
Source: Dreamer In Chains: Poems of Exile and Resilience
“They call us monsters because it makes it easier to hurt us. But monsters are people, too.”
“They call war an art, but it isn't. It largely consists in outwitting people, robbing widows and orphans, and inflicting suffering on the helpless for one's own ends - and that's not art: that's business.”
Source: Lydia Bailey
“They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“They call you lazy when you don't bother trying and unrealistically ambitious when you try hard.”
“They call you out for being unkind and rude. How many people have fallen into traps for being kind? ...How easy it is to avoid being fooled for something because you were kind and then they used it against you?”
Source: You Are Always Innocent
“They called and said, "I know we're not supposed to even tell you, but you've been offered to play the President." And I said, "OK. Say yes." And they were like, "Do you want to read it maybe?" And I was like, "No, I just want to be the president."”
“They called each other by their Christian name, were always arm in arm when they walked, pinned up each other's train for the dance, and were not to be divided in the set; and if a rainy morning deprived them of other enjoyments, they were still resolute in meeting in defiance of wet and dirt, and shut themselves up, to read novels together.”
Source: Northanger Abbey / Love and Freindship
“They called each other family and that’s what they were—sisters. Many people in the world had family of the heart, kin by choice rather than by blood, and hers had come along in her darkest hour and saved her life.”
“They called her the iron lady
She walked with dignity and pride
They called her the iron lady
Because glory was on her side”
Source: On The Edge of Town