T Quotes
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“They hadn't much faith in travel, nor a great belief in a change of scene as a panacea for spiritual ills; they were simply glad to be going.”
Source: Save Me the Waltz: A Novel
“They hadn’t counted on the highly controlled jabberjay having the brains to adapt to the wild, to pass on its genetic code, to thrive in a new form. They hadn’t anticipated its will to live.”
Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)
“They hammered on the outer gate and called, but there was at first no answer; and then to their surprise someone blew a horn, and the lights in the windows went out. A voice shouted in the dark: 'Who's that? Be off! You can't come in. Can't you read the notice: No admittance between sundown and sunrise?' 'Of course we can't read the notice in the dark,' Sam shouted back. 'And if hobbits of the Shire are to be kept out in the wet on a night like this, I'll tear down your notice when I find it.”
Source: The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King
“They hand me one lemon, then another, and all I can think when their fingertips leave is that we're mixing ourselves together. That's what happens when skin presses skin. We think of ourselves as solid and separate, but we're not. We trade and swap tiny pieces of ourselves all the time.”
Source: The Heartbreak Bakery
“They hand you a menu of options,
let you pick the color of your cage,
convince you that choosing between A or B
is autonomy.
But no one tells you —
A and B were designed by the same hand.”
Source: Emotional Roller Coaster: Confessions of a soul reborn from the ashes
“They handled it very badly. It was disappointing and very humiliating. John York was very rude. He never consulted with me over what he said to the press.”
“They hanged my mother. I watched her body swing from the lower branches of a silk cotton tree. She had committed a crime for which there is no pardon. She had struck a white man. She had not killed him, however. In her clumsy rage she had only managed to gash his shoulder”
Source: I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
“They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged. And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.”
Source: Works
“They hate being unable to control you.”
Source: There and Never, Ever Back Again: Diary of a Dark Lord
“They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of working men, but they adore humanity. Only they always speak of humanity as if it were a curious foreign nation. They are dividing themselves more and more from men to exalt the strange race of mankind. They are ceasing to be human in the effort to be humane.”
“They hate me because I am the worst thing possible. I am the bad mother.
But here's a secret: in America there are no good mothers. They simply don't exist. Always, there are a thousand ways to fail at this singularly important job. There are failures of the body and failures of the heart. The woman who is unable to breastfeed is a failure. The woman who screams for the epidural is a failure. The woman who picks up her child late knows from the teacher's cutting glance that she is a failure. The woman who shares her bed with her baby has failed. The woman who steels herself and puts on noise-canceling earphones to erase the screaming of her child the next room has failed just as spectacularly. They must all hang their heads in guilt and shame because they haven't done it perfectly, and motherhood is, if anything, the assumption of perfection.”
Source: What Lies Between Us
“They hate me. I am 100 percent positive that everything Gerval just said is only giving voice to what they’ve all been thinking this whole time.”
Source: Ballad & Dagger
“They hate me” I tell him. “Despise me. And they’ll hate you too. Despise you. But we’ll be here long after they’re all gone.”
Source: The Damned Utd
“they hate on me but they hated jesus.”
“They hate people and their stories; they have hated for so long and with such intensity that in the end the darkness enveloped their whole bodies until their shapes were no longer discernible. That is also why they are so difficult to defeat, because they can disappear into walls or into the ground or float up. They're ferocious and bloodthirsty, and if you're bitten by one you don't just die; a far more serious and terrible fate lies in store: you lose your imagination. (talking about shadows)”
Source: My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
“They" hate us because they feel--and "they" are not wrong--that it is within our power to do so much more, and that we practice a kind of passive-aggressive violence on the Third World. We do this by, for example, demonizing tobacco as poison here while promoting cigarettes in Asia; inflating produce prices by paying farmers not to grow food as millions go hungry worldwide; skimping on quality and then imposing tariffs on foreign products made better or cheaper than our own; padding corporate profits through Third World sweatshops; letting drug companies stand by as millions die of AIDS in Africa to keep prices up on lifesaving drugs; and on and on.
We do, upon reaching a very high comfort level, mostly choose to go from ten to eleven instead of helping another guy far away go from zero to one.
We even do it in our own country. Barbara Ehrenreich's brilliant book Nickel and Dimed describes the impossibility of living with dignity or comfort as one of the millions of minimum-wage workers in fast food, aisle-stocking and table-waiting jobs. Their labor for next to nothing ensures that well-off people can be a little more pampered.
So if we do it to our own, what chance do foreigners have?”
Source: When You Ride Alone You Ride with Bin Laden: What the Government Should be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism
“They hate us because we are atheists and we feel sorry for them because they are religious.”
“They hate us because we don't even know why they hate us.”
“They hate whom they fear.”
“They hate you because you act like you're better than they are...." "[they are] Four that you humiliated in the yard. Four who are probably afraid of you. I’ve watched you fight. It’s not training with you. Put a good edge on your sword, and they’d be dead meat; you know it, I know it, they know it. You leave them nothing. You shame them. Does that make you proud?”
Source: A Game of Thrones
“They hate you because you act like you're better than they are”
Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows
“They hate you because you're challenging their belief system.”
“They hate you not because of what you have done but because of who you are; you are different from who they are, and you are occupying the ground they want for themselves.”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“they hate you when your up but they love you when your down that's why i never give a soul my last pound”
“They hated children as they hated themselves; they beat them for their own good, and educated them from the perspective of their own incapacity to love life.”
“They hated me, because they knew from birth that i m bigger than them.”
“They have - they do still hit me occasionally, and it's an overwhelming grief for what - even though my life is so good now, even including going through treatment for cancer, my life is incredible.”
“They have a baby grand piano, but no one in the family plays. They have shelves of books they've never read, and the tension between the couples was so thick it nearly choked us.”
Source: Out of The Easy
“They have a choice as a club. They don't have to sell. Maybe Southampton's objectives have changed. They were looking to be a Champions League club, I believe. They obviously wanted to change... I don't have sympathy, no.”
“They have a desire to put on plays and to fulfill that traditional role of a theater in a community: to be the place where people go to hear the truth.”
“They have a few drinks, and maybe the prawn sandwiches, and they don't realise what's going on out on the pitch.”
“They have a joy for life in Brazil unlike any country I've ever seen.”
“They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on.”
“They have a lot of trouble with pronunciation, because they can't move their jaw muscles, because of malnutrition caused by wisely refusing to eat English food, much of which was designed and manufactured in medieval times during the reign of King Walter the Mildly Disturbed.”
Source: The World According to Dave Barry
“They have a new CEO in Wells Fargo . I don't know much about him. The lady who was involved to some degree in the shenanigans along with the CEO are gone. So I need to see where things stand before we go any farther at this point.”
“They have a nostalgia for a world that never existed. - On Nationalists”
“They have a pill for it. They have an industry. They make millions. Did you know people get rich off of sadness? I want to meet the millionaire of American sadness. I want to look him in the eye, shake his hand, and say, It's been an honour to serve my country.”
Source: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“They have a plentiful lack of wit.”
“They have a policy in China for their big companies called "Go abroad." It's a rational thing for both the company and the country to say, "We want big, successful companies." Particularly in areas where they need it: agriculture, energy, technology. I think banking, too. One or two have bought a trading house. Some have already begun expanding around the world. Of course they're going to have those ambitions. Why wouldn't they? They're just doing it methodically. It's a logical strategy and, well-executed, they will succeed.”
“They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“They have a saying, the French, that no woman, can be truly beautiful who is not also sometimes truly ugly.”
Source: Scarlett, Part 2
“They have a science fair in Tucson, Arizona, USA. The media showed the kids with glowing blue Tesla coils! I was thinking to myself "They do not know Nikola Tesla went crazy!!!".”
“They have a sign at the beach, "no glass bottles". I think that's so the other sand particles don't feel like underachievers.”
“They have a special confidence in Christ, plus thoughtfulness plus faithfulness plus humility: for there are no things, in all creation, more beautiful, more rare than the so very disciplined and free, joyful and principled daughters of God.”
Source: Healology
“They have a very low rate for attempted murder and a high rate for successfully concluded murder. It seems that when a French person sets out to kill someone, they make a good job of it.”
Source: The Xenophobe's Guide to the French
“They have a voice and I love seeing them in such a positive way. - JC, 15, USA”
Source: 5SOS: The Fans' Story
“They have a word in Finnish called sisu, which basically means guts. It’s the strongest word in the Finnish language. You tell a Finn he doesn’t have sisu, that’s like spitting in his face.”
“They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!”
“They have access to your brain, they have access to your body. They hack your brain, they hack your body to make you think certain things, to make you do certain things. To extract thoughts. Invisibly. But nothing is reliable.”
Source: Reality Is Just A Possible Fantasy
“They have accorded me my constitutional rights, and that is to their credit because the media hate campaign against me has been so intense and so vicious that it's a miracle that the police have taken such a professional approach.”