T Quotes
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“They have achieved a level of organization far beyond others of their species. Unfortunately, it is being used for destructive purposes at the moment. Don't look so surprised my dear, it's in the nature of the beast.'
'But these squirrels are not beasts!' Amber protested.
'Oh pish-posh, we are all of us beasts,' the professor replied lightly. 'The trouble comes when we try to pretend that we're not.”
Source: Forest
“They have actually approved a wall to certain portions of the border that hasn't even been built yet. So you could take a year building that out with what has been approved.”
“They have all been so good to me here in Argentina that it is quite overwhelming. Their generosity is simple, sincere and total.”
“They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.”
“They have all let me do what I delt I needed to do, Anfew thought, even when they privately disagreed with it. THey have granted me my wishes-- out of love for me.
Yes, love. For a robot.”
Source: The Positronic Man
“They have all let me do what I felt I needed to do, Andrew thought, even when they privately disagreed with it. They have granted me my wishes-- out of love for me. Yes, love. For a robot.”
Source: The Positronic Man
“They have also been adopting fuel efficiency standards for automobiles in China.”
“They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.”
“They have an absolute willingness to torch the landscape around them to emerge the winner.”
Source: The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
“They have an amazing proliferation of TV channels now: The all-cartoon channel, the 24-hour-science fiction channel. Of course, to make room for these they got rid of the Literacy Channel and the What's Left of Civilization Channel.”
“They have an ordinary life, full of ordinary things - if love can ever be called that.”
Source: Ruin and Rising
“They have an unusual relationship. And when things are good, it's magic.”
Source: Fade
“They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an overcoming, a long outwaiting.”
Source: Conversations with N. Scott Momaday
“They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.”
“They have beautified and decorated the shrine, but they have kept it empty of the divinity which gave a significance to the paraphenaila of the shrine”
“They have become so lost in their own darkness that they see nothing but darkness in everything.”
Source: Reckless IV: The Silver Tracks
“They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.”
“They have been brainwashed by this fucked up system that has condemened us and by doctors that call us a disease and a bunch
of freaks. Our family and friends have also condemned us because of their lack
of true knowledge.”
Source: Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR): Survival, Revolt, and Queer Antagonist Struggle
“They have been busy digging a grave for you. Not knowing that their own time of death is set to be right after they're done digging. Shush! Don't lift even a finger because they'll be resting in the same grave that they've been digging for you. Your order of protection is far from expiring. You're fully covered.”
“They have been busy digging a grave for you. Not knowing that their own time of death is set to be right after they're done digging. Shush! Don't lift even a finger because they'll be resting in the same grave that they've been digging for you. Your order of protection is far from expirying. You're fully covered.”
“They have been disrespecting our values and morals for very long time because of the nature of their values system.”
“They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
“They have been grand-jurymen since before Noah was a sailor”
Source: Twelfth Night
“They have been having sex for eighteen months now (he realizes he has to make himself stop counting, as if his sexual life is a prison term, and he is working toward its completion).”
Source: A Little Life
“They have been instructed by nature and the sacred laws to serve the living God, who is superior to the good, and more simple than the one, and more ancient than the unit; with whom, however, who is there of those who profess piety that we can possibly compare?”
Source: The Works of Philo
“They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why.”
Source: Fun & Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements
“They have been promising us for a long time — in every culture — that they are going to take us to heaven. They promise heaven because they are making a hell out of this place.”
Source: Of Mystics & Mistakes
“They have been talking about a dictatorship and they were right because there's a dictatorship and there's a government that has been fighting that dictatorship, the dictatorship of the media.”
“They have been talking about me, it's obvious. Their cheeks are plump and pink and shining like they've been eating too much sugar, but actually it's Gossip Glow, the flushed look that comes from throwing another woman under the bus.”
Source: Bunny
“They have been taught nothing but destruction and learned nothing except that a man's desires can be achieved simply by killing anybody who stands in his way.”
Source: The Leopard Hunts in Darkness
“They have called for "unconditioned submission", and they have been answered by "total independence.”
“They have called Operation Iraqi Freedom a war of choice that isn't part of the real war on terror. Someone should tell that to al Qaeda.”
“They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.”
Source: The wisdom of Narnia
“They have chosen to worship power and strength, Cerisia,” Allystaire said, softening his voice somewhat. “I will pay them in the wages they deserve.”
Source: Crusade
“They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.”
“They have concluded that it is their duty to rush forward on their journey no matter what the weather; I, on the other hand, am for waiting for favourable wind and current. They are for risking all for God at the snap of a finger; I am for taking advantage of every opportunity to secure my life and estate. They are for holding to their ideas even though all the world would be against them; I, however, am for religion insofar as the times, conditions, and my safety allow it. They are for religion when walking in rags and abuse; I am for it when it walks in silver slippers, in sunshine, and with applause.”
Source: The Pilgrim's Progress
“They have decided to tour under the name of Ten Years After which I don't think is very cool. To be honest, they have had to do that as it's the only way they can get any work.”
“They have demons on Antarctica?” “Yeah,” Ash breathed. “It wasn’t always covered by ice, that was just a precaution when they buried them.”
Source: Inferno: Chronicles of Nick
“They have different accents in America " Brisbane smiled. "Just as we do here." I waved a hand. "They all sound alike to me.”
Source: Deanna Raybourn Lady Julia Grey Volume 2: Dark Road to Darjeeling\The Dark Enquiry\Silent Night bonus story
“They have dog food for constipated dogs. If your dog is constipated, why screw up a good thing? Stay indoors and let 'em bloat!”
“They have done me so much wrong. I have found no rest since the day I left Lahore. See these eyes, they are of little use now. See these hands of mine, they tremble. My skin looks now like a shrivelled date. Though my Waheguru knows, that despite these physical infirmities, a rare strength wells up within me when I think of Duleep and Lahore.”
Source: Fourteen Springs of Separation
“They have done their worst, and continued to deny me even the privileges accorded to the common herd . . . but I am sustained by the consciousness of my imputed 'crime' being an honourable one”
“They have done this through sexual repression, economic repression, political repression, social repression, ideological repression and spiritual repression.”
“They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.”
Source: Step by Step: 1936-1939
“They have Easter egg hunts in Philadelphia, and if the kids don't find the eggs, they get booed.”
“They have eliminated rigidity, both physical and psychological, in order to support more fluid processes whereby temporary teams are created to deal with specific and ever-changing needs. They have simplified roles into minimal categories; they have knocked down walls and created workplaces where people, ideas, and information circulate freely.”
Source: Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World
“they have enough testosterone between them, if testosterone were electricity they could light up New York City for the month of August”
“They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom”
“They have four categories: happy, satisfied, dissatisfied, disgusted. If they hit happy, they've screwed up; They never want you to be happy. On the other hand, they don't want you so disgusted you quit. The sweet spot is somewhere between dissatisfied and disgusted.”
“They have given their sons to the military services. They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made the planes and welded the tanks. Riveted the ships and rolled the shells.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1942, Volume 11