T Quotes
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“they come
different and the same
with each it is different and the same
with each the absence of love is different
with each the absence of love is the same”
“They come for you in the morning in a limousine; they take you to the studio; they stick a pretty girl in your arms... They call that a profession? Come on!”
“They come from miles around, my characters do, traveling the great distance from the fringes of my mind’s eye, some even making the long and arduous haul from my childhood, just to sit and talk. They do this whenever I’m alone.”
Source: A Story Box Full Of Regret: The Collected Shortish Stories of Rhyan Scorpio-Rhys
“They come from the part that hates the Other, that will not change. They come from the sum of all your pettiness and stupidity and dullness. You fear tomorrow, and you've made your fear your God”
Source: Monstrous Regiment
“They come in all shapes and sizes, all races and creeds and genders. That's the scariest thing of all”
Source: Along Came a Spider
“They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.”
Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words
“They come out of nowhere, instantaneously materialize and just as quickly they break and vanish. Chasing after such fleeting mirages is a complete waste of time. That is what I choose to do with my life.”
“They come to Rapture thinking they're gonna be captains of industry, but they all forget that somebody's gotta scrub the toilets.”
“They come to see, they come that they themselves may be seen.
[Lat., Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipse.]”
“They come to us, these restless dead, Shrouds woven from the words of men, With trumpets sounding overhead (The walls of hope have grown so thin And all our vaunted innocence Has withered in this endless frost) That promise little recompense For all we risk, for all we've lost.”
Source: Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:
“They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.”
“They come with cold bones in heavy boots. See how they tremble. The folly of man . . .”
Source: The Manningtree Account
“They communicated without words from the most primitive part of the soul. I remembered her laughing about this, saying that she felt like an animal, and how she realized that we are less human in our times of greatest love and greatest fear.”
Source: The Beekeeper of Aleppo
“They compare Steve McManaman to Steve Heighway and he's nothing like him, but I can see why - it's because he's a bit different”
“They condemn our town. Separate it from their own, where the same secrets pulse.”
Source: I Stop Somewhere
“They condemn what they do not understand.”
“They confused beauty with innocence and harmlessness.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass
“They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.”
“They constantly try to escape
From the darkness outside and within
By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.
But the man that is will shadow
The man that pretends to be.”
Source: The Rock
“They consume whatever you feed them with a bit
of shine, to keep you afloat in your convictions”
Source: Two Plays : Family of Four & Weltschmerz
“They contain round archipelagoes of romantic isles, even as the Polynesian waters do; in large part, are shored by two great contrasting nations, as the Atlantic is; the furnish long maritime approaches to out numerous territorial colonies from the East, dotted all round their banks; here and there are frowned upon by batteries, and by the goat-like craggy guns of lofty Mackinaw; they have heard the fleet thunderings of naval victories; at intervals, they yield their beaches to wild barbarians, whose red painted faces flash from out their peltry wig-wams; for leagues and leagues are flanked by ancient and unentered forest, where the gaunt pines stand like serried lines of kings in Gothic genealogies; those same woods harboring wild Afric beasts of prey, and silken creatures whose exported furs give robes to Tartart Emperors; they mirror the paved capitals of Buffalo and Cleveland, as well as Winnebago villages; they float alike the full-rigged merchant ship, the armed cruiser of the State, the steamer, and the beech canoe; they are swept by Borean and dismasting blasts as direful as any that lash the salted wave; they know what shipwrecks are, for out of sight of land, however inland, they have drowned full many a midnight ship with all its shrieking crew.”
Source: Moby Dick
“They continue going up and down the food aisles, collecting a wide variety of different ingredients. Alexander thinks of it as a puzzle. He sees the pieces that Eden's picking up, but for the life of him, he can't see the overall picture.
Gochujang, Japanese chili miso, chocolate chips, ketchup, garlic powder, graham crackers, sesame seed oil, and fresh shrimp straight from the tank.”
Source: Knives, Seasoning, & A Dash of Love
“They continue to criticize me for my outside shooting, but I continue to make outside shots.”
“They continued this deadly dance across the battlefield, played to the music of gunfire, which rattled them as much as it rattled the hulls of almost every landship in sight, and almost every one they couldn't turn quickly enough to see. Then the music took a bullet of its own, for Jacob no longer heard the song of Andil’s gun.”
Source: Hopebreaker
“They continued to watch each other from across the room, both frozen for a moment by the shadow of distant possibilities.”
“They control Europe under the attractive and falsely uniting banner of the “European Union”, the Middle East under the convenient banner of “fighting terrorism”, Africa and South America under the false and misleading banners of “democracy and development”, and many other banners under which the most hideous crimes are daily committed against humanity. Indeed, a closer examination reveals that all these banners are just different logos for one and the same goal, which is to ensure that the overwhelming—and overwhelmed—majority of people are imprisoned, disabled, and deprived of their fair share of bread, sun, and dignity.”
“They control the brain and make it think certain thoughts they force it to think that may or not have existed. Then they create clone recordings that essentially are fake but may sound realistic.”
“They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind.”
“They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening”
Source: 1984
“They could do worse, and they undoubtedly will.”
“They could draw many parallels between dolphins and Xenomorphs.”
Source: Alien: Invasion
“They could fall in love with fresh, new people, or they could have the courage and humility to tear off some essential layer of themselves and reveal to each other a whole new level of otherness, a level far beyond what sort of music they liked. It seemed to her everyone had too much self-protective pride to truly strip down to their souls in front of their long-term partners. It was easier to pretend there was nothing more to know, to fall into an easygoing companionship. It was almost embarrassing to”
“They could for example point out that the use of an expression like "natural modesty" is not always defensible, for if it is "natural" to be modest, it must be something you are born with, something innate. But is it really innate, Sophie--or is it socially induced? To someone who has traveled the world, the answer should be simple: It is not "natural"--or innate--to be afraid to show yourself naked. Modesty--or the lack of it--is first and foremost a matter of social convention.”
Source: Sophie’s World
“They could have been removed. They could have been hidden. They could have been destroyed.”
“They could have given me any number. They could have given me number one-hundred one. The number is nothing. I could have played my whole career without a number
on my back, and it still wouldn't have changed the person.”
“They could kill him, but they’d never own him again.”
Source: The Legend of Bass Reeves: Being the True and Fictional Account of the Most Valiant Marshal in the West
“They could never go back to being a uniracial congregation again. It brings excitement. It brings life. It allows them to be able to know people they would never know, to meet people that are outside the congregation they would have never connected with, you know, through the networks that they developed in the congregation.”
“They could never make me hate you. Even though what you was doing wasn't tasteful.. Even though you out here looking so ungrateful.. I'm a keep it moving, be classy and graceful”
“They could not see what they could not imagine”
Source: The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
“They could not truly look dead, because they did not ever look alive.”
Source: The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel
“They could not understand that there is some few people in the world who do good without being asked. It were a hot day, I were a little boy, and ice-cream cones are always good. And that man just looked at me and thought I would like one--which I did. That is one reason why I do not hate all white folks today because some white folks will do good without being asked or hauled up before the Supreme Court to have a law promulgated against them.”
Source: The Return of Simple
“They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another.”
“They could pretend when they were alone. Lie to themselves about what this was between them. Hell, he could invent a million reasons why he’d stalked over and staked his claim here. But the truth lay behind the sound of her moan and Tyler’s answering groan.
Kissing Sherry wasn’t about her damn rules.
It wasn’t to save his career.
This woman was in his arms because he wanted her there.”
“They could put Hillary Clinton's brain in a jar in the Oval Office, and she'd be elected. People are really sick.”
“They could put up a warning sign or something. Hello. Welcome to Hinderstap. We will murder you in the night and eat your bloody face if you stay past sunset. Try the pies. Martna Baily makes them fresh daily.”
Source: The Gathering Storm
“They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn't laugh or be sad with him.”
“They could read it on each other, their faces wrinkled pages. Words hiding in the folds of their clothes. She was made of letters then, as all of us are now.”
Source: Lost Everything
“They could steam up windows with their kisses, but as soon as they started using their mouths for other things—like talking—everything got so complicated.”
Source: The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection
“They could take everything else away from me, but I had myself, entire. Elisabeth was more than the woman who bore the name, more than the notes she produced, more than the people who defied her. I was filled with myself, for they could not take my soul”
Source: Wintersong
“They could take sesame seeds off the market and I wouldn't even care. I can't imagine 5 years from now saying, "Remember sesame seeds? What happened? All the buns are blank!"”