T Quotes
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“They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.”
Source: The Immoralist
“They established their patriotic credentials long ago, and are either supportive of the Bush agenda or know when to keep their traps shut.”
“They even let me do the ads for the album. I definitely want it all to be presented right, but I don't want to be selling. I mean, people do deluxe editions, and I don't even really know how I feel about those yet.”
“They even say that an altar dedicated to Ulysses , with the addition of the name of his father, Laertes , was formerly discovered on the same spot, and that certain monuments and tombs with Greek inscriptions, still exist on the borders of Germany and Rhaetia .”
Source: The Agricola and Germany of Tacitus
“They eviscerated the book by making it an action movie for young people aged 15 to 25, and it seems that The Hobbit will be the same kind of film.”
“They examined all my organs. Some of them are quite remarkable and others are not so good. A lot of museums are bidding for them.”
“They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.”
Source: Romans KJV: King James Version
“They exorcised my sparkle. I glittered anyway.”
Source: A Queer Kind of Hallelujah
“They expect that potential employers and coworkers will attempt to measure their commitment and competence through their participation in stereotypically masculine activities, such as tinkering (Margolis and Fisher 2003; McIlwee and Robinson 1994).”
Source: Pathways, Potholes, and the Persistence of Women in Science: Reconsidering the Pipeline
“They expected the crowd that had already gathered, golden in the torchlight of dawn. Some were tired. Some were smiling. The latter stunned Isaiah, but not Samuel. These were people after all. There was, therefore, some kind of happiness to be found in someone else being humiliated for once. Failure of memory prevented the empathy that should have been natural. Samuel knew, though, that it was selective memory, the kind that was cultivated here among the forget-me-nots.”
Source: The Prophets
“They experience it as an inner calling. It tends to dominate their thoughts and dreams. They find their way, by accident or sheer effort, to a career path in which this inclination can flourish.”
Source: Mastery
“They explained that if men want to put a large phone into their jeans, it has to be able to fit their buttocks. This is a company ranked worldwide number 1, number 2 in displays, and their marketing says this.”
“They explained their concerns and she said, “I feel a kind of isolation that you’ll never be able to understand. What you see is a mere fraction of what’s happening inside, but at least my inner and outer worlds are reflecting each other. You wouldn’t want me to throw worlds off balance, would you?”
“They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy.”
“They exploit, disrespect, and sabotage Black people, then cry victim when held accountable. They never saw themselves as part of us until they needed support. Now they want the same people they betrayed to defend them. They should know and learn that accountability is not oppression.”
“They expected to lose. And therefore, they lost. [..] People who start thinking deep dark thoughts in the middle of a war start expecting to lose.”
“They faced each other in silence for a long minute, both of them clearly uncomfortable. He hated all the awkwardness between them.
To hell with that. He smiled at her. "So do I get to know what's in that diary?"
She blushed crimson. "That diary got you into this mess. You could have been killed. How can you joke about it?"
"No joke. I'm sincerely interested." An understatement. He would have given his antique baseball bat collection to know what she'd written about him ten years ago.
"I was a foolish teenager."
"And now?" He stepped closer.”
Source: Guardian Agent
“They faced each other naked. Anticipation played between them, a sexual tease.
"Sit or stand?" he asked.
"I'll straddle you."
He positioned the chair, and sat. She slipped onto his lap, as if she was meant to sit there.
Breast to chest.
Thigh to thigh.
Sex to sex.
Every part of their bodies sought its counterpart.
Arousal brought his mouth down on hers, and he kissed her with a thoroughness and intensity that stole all breath and thought. His tongue thrust between her lips, tasted and seduced. She kissed him back, giving, taking, craving him.
He touched her, all over. Her shoulders and breasts. He circled her nipple, then her navel with his forefinger. Sensations overtook her. She squirmed, dug her nails into his shoulder. Her breath bathed his neck, his chest.
More kissing. More touching. More moans.
He embraced her and drank in her soft sighs.
She fanned out her fingers, ran them up and down his back, feeling the flex and flow of his muscles. The man was built. Her legs tightened around him. He felt good wedged between her thighs. Primal intimacy.
Hot, heavy, their breathing came together.
As did their bodies.
He cupped her bottom, angled her to accept him. She was wet, slick, when he entered her. They caught their reflection in the mirror. His penetration, the role of his hips, the rocking of their bodies, their building climax. Their raw need. Triple sexual.
Time went away and she began to unravel. Her orgasm stretched to the breaking point. She moaned. Stiffened. Shattered.
He came a second after her. His release of breath was rough, rushed. His expression going from pain to pleasure.”
Source: The Cottage on Pumpkin and Vine
“They faced each other. 'I'm going to enjoy this,'Melancholia said. 'I daresay I'm not.”
“They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death.”
“They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems
“They failed to realize my life was bitter, cutthroat, and fucking sour. I have never been spared grace or mercy. I knew my life purpose was for me to be in pain every second of my life.”
Source: Pinwheels and Dandelions
“They failed to see that globalisation was merely a tactic to prise power from nation states towards international conglomerates. Once the power was siphoned from the people and democratic control was circumvented, the ability to assert global governance without any democratic restraint was available.”
Source: TechBondAge: Slavery of the Human Spirit
“They fall silently
the steps of her arrival -
crossing snow so pale
even the morning sky would fall
into nights amber
(if it knew of her ways & worth);
for she has entered the palace of gold
- her hair braided with hope
tainted with autumn leaves
that seem like a hanged man's rope -
for her name is war and
her crown is crafted out of grief.”
“They favour learning whose actions are worthy of a learned pen.”
Source: The remains of ... George Herbert
“They fear that without compulsion the masses will not work. But during our own lifetime, have we not heard the same fears expressed twice? Once, by the anti-abolitionists in America before the emancipation of the Negroes, and, for a second time, by the Russian nobility before the liberation of the serfs? 'Without the whip the Negro will not work,' said the anti- abolitionist. 'Free from their master's supervision the serfs will leave the fields uncultivated,' said the Russian serf-owners. It was the refrain of the French noblemen in 1789, the refrain of the Middle Ages, a refrain as old as the world, and we shall hear it every time there is a question of sweeping away an injustice. And each time actual facts give it the lie. The liberated peasant of 1792 ploughed with an eager energy, unknown to his ancestor so, the emancipated Negro works more than his fathers; and the Russian peasant, after having honoured the honeymoon of his emancipation by celebrating Fridays as well as Sundays, has taken up work with an eagerness proportionate to the completeness of his liberation. There, where the soil is his, he works desperately; that is the exact word for it. The anti-abolitionist refrain can be of value to slave-owners; as to the slaves them- selves, they know what it is worth, as they know its motive.”
Source: The Conquest of Bread
“They fear that without compulsion the masses will not work.
But during our own lifetime, have we not heard the same fears expressed twice? Once, by the anti-abolitionists in America before the emancipation of the Negroes, and, for a second time, by the Russian nobility before the liberation of the serfs? ‘Without the whip the Negro will not work,’ said the anti-abolitionist. ‘Free from their master’s supervision the serfs will leave the fields uncultivated’, said the Russian serf-owners. It was the refrain of the French noblemen in 1789, the refrain of the Middle Ages, a refrain as old as the world, and we shall hear it every time there is a question oof sweeping away an injustice. And each time actual facts give it the lie.”
Source: The Conquest of Bread and Other Writings
“They fear what they don't understand. And that fear turns to hate for reasons I'm sure even they can't begin to comprehend.”
“They fear you as I once feared you,” he said. “As you once feared me. We are all someone’s monster, Nina.”
Source: Six of Crows
“They feared him, and because they feared him, they hated him.”
Source: The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel
“They feared him, and because they feared him, they hated him.
....You see, they didn't understand that really he had one of the kindest hearts in the world; and he didn't understand that they hated him just because they didn't know him.”
Source: The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel
“They feared Me
because
I feared Nothing.”
“They feared you, and love can’t exist when there’s that much fear.”
Source: Cast in Fury
“They feed on his happy emotions, feelings
and aura. They break his soul, they break his mind, they break his body. He remember the day he met them. He was young to see the danger. He didn’t know that they were devil.
He didn’t know that they will fill him with so much anger. At first they gave him comfort and numbed him from the pain. They paralyzed his senses. They feed on his life force energy. They were dangerous. They feed on his soul and abilities. They feed on his happy emotions, feelings and aura. They break his soul, they break his mind, they break his body. They break his spirit, they leave him breathless. They were jealous soul and in pain. They didn’t want to see his success."
- Shwin J Brad”
Source: Mindfulness and stress relief
“They feed the crocodile in the hope that he will eat them last.”
“They feel guilty for having survived so they pretend the bad things never happened
Exodus (1960) screenplay”
“They feel life is for the taking, and that everyone deserves happiness no matter what the cost. I must remember these tricks if I ever decide to have my soul surgically removed.”
Source: Split: A Memoir of Divorce
“They feel that fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you, you know, of any kind of nature - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothing.”
“They fell asleep smiling. It is to erase the fixed smiles of sleeping couples that Satan trained roosters to crow at five in the morning.”
Source: Jitterbug Perfume
“They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.”
“They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it's a good thing.”
“They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several letters of the alphabet away from how they normally felt.”
Source: Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)
“They [feminists] did not accept that some women, simply because they were born into a patriarchal religion, were unworthy of the freedoms they themselves were fighting for. Today, by contrast, feminists steeped in multicultural ideology excuse the inequality imposed upon women across the Muslim world, including in the parallel societies of Europe. They pointedly “respect” this misogynistic culture rather than agitating for it to evolve. Western feminists have effectively relegated their Muslim sisters to the past. They are sleepwalking as their own rights begin to be eroded.”
Source: Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
“They [feminists] share the instinct for tyranny and destruction - and they are filled with self-loathing. In the end, leftist feminists yearn to submit to, and submerge themselves within, a despotic monolith. Because they despise their own society and are bent on its destruction, they cannot concede that adversarial cultures may be more evil, because that would legitimize their own host society - and they can't allow that. It would rob them of the moral indignation -- and the identity of being victims -- that lies at the foundation of their politics of hate.”
“They fight like puppies. They are young, and boys. They are full of anger and impatience. Women have less trouble with these things. It's part of what makes us better fighters.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate.”
Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“They fight so much for two reasons. One is they don't want to be blamed for breaking the spending caps. And secondly, they don't want to be blamed for spending the Social Security surplus on non-Social Security problems.”
“They fight to uphold the law in their own countries, yet they fight to break the law in mine. The same laws, principles, behaviors, conduct, and rules they enforce at home, they oppose when my country enforces them. They expect my country to disregard these standards, turning it into a free for all. While they demand strict enforcement of laws in their own nations, they want my country to abandon them. What is considered wrong in their country, they want to be acceptable in mine. As a result, my country has become a banana republic, lawless and a haven for criminals.”
“They figured out a way to control that hamburger disease. You dip the hamburger into the scalding hot coffee before eating.”
“They filled our lives so much, the films they were in made us laugh, think and cry. Through their work they shared a piece of our soul. We will miss them with the sadness with which we miss an old friend.”