T Quotes
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“They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love.”
“They say that generally, rulers - dictators - tend to be short, like me. It gives them an inferiority complex; when they were kids, they wanted to be big and to crush the small, but they were small themselves. Lenin was short, Stalin was short, Putin...”
“They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.”
Source: Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)
“they say that girls are the ones who want fairy tail endings, but then again, who are the authors of fairy tales? mostly men...”
“They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.”
Source: The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson
“They say that God is in the details. Then again, they also say that the Devil is in the details. Boy, talk about awkward.”
“They say that God lives very high! But if you look above the pines You cannot see our God. And why? And if you dig down in the mines You never see Him in the gold, Though from Him all that's glory shines. God is so good, He wears a fold Of heaven and earth across His face - Like secrets kept, for love, untold. But still I feel that His embrace Slides down by thrills, through all things made, Through sight and sound of every place: As if my tender brother laid On my shut lids, her kisses' pressure, Half waking me at night; and said, "Who kissed through the dark, dear guesser?"”
Source: Poems of the Intellect and the Affections
“They say that God makes problems
Just to see what you can stand
Before you do as the devil pleases
Give up the thing you love”
“They say that God makes problems just to see what you can stand, before you do as the devil pleases.”
“They say that golf isn't a contact sport. Not the way that we play it”
“They say that Good ultimately wins, OK! Sir, Agreed! but the win-loss record of Good vs. Evil is like population of (Moldova vs. China).”
Source: Vigyapans
“They say that grief numbs, but I still feel everything and mostly it hurts.”
Source: Let Him In
“They say that guys who like chick flicks tend to do a little better with the ladies. Well, I INVENTED the chick flick, so you can pretty much guess where that leaves me.”
“They say that he can talk flowers into opening their petals at night, as though his face were that of the sun. He'll steal your heart.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“They say that Heaven is like TV... a perfect little world, that doesn't really need you.”
“They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition
“They say that history is going on somewhere.
They say it won't stop. I have held
One picture still for a long time and waited.”
“They say that Hope is happiness But genuine Love must prize the past; And Mem'ry wakes the thoughts that bless: They rose first -- they set the last. And all that mem'ry loves the most Was once our only hope to be: And all that hope adored and lost Hath melted into memory. Alas! It is delusion all-- The future cheats us from afar: Nor can we be what we recall, Nor dare we think on what we are.”
“They say that humans can read each other in a hundred subtle ways, in the briefest expressions of a face, but somehow, on that day, I had communicated with amazing efficiency the exact opposite of what I most wanted in the world.”
Source: The Age of Miracles
“They say that I am a poet I wonder what they would say if they saw me from the inside I bottle emotions and place them into the sea for others to unbottle on distant shores I am unsure as to whether they ever reach and for that matter as to whether I ever get my point across or my love”
Source: She
“They say that I have no hits and that I'm difficult to work with. And they say that like it's a bad thing.”
“They say that I'm stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it's paid off so far.”
“They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter.”
“They say that if you are born in Sonira, you won't be jealous of heaven -- and if you are born in Igati, you won't be afraid of hell. But for the people of Trishala, their city was their glorious heaven, and it was their living hell.”
Source: The Timingila
“They say that if you get bored enough with calamity you can learn to laugh.”
Source: The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian and Quinx
“They say that if you really love, you never want any harm to befall your beloved. While this may be true of “normal” love, I here attest that, in unrequited love, the case is quite the opposite. One begins to associate suffering with loving and, therefore, you begin to believe that the former begets the latter. If I can make him suffer, I can make him understand that he loves me.”
Source: On Love and Travel: A Memoir
“They say that if you really want to kill yourself, no one can stop you. There are too many ways to do it. You can jump off a bridge or a building. You can hang yourself. You can crash a car or slit your wrists or swim out really far into the ocean until you drown. Sometimes I wonder why I'm not dead, if I really wanted to kill myself.”
Source: Crash Into Me
“They say that if you're afraid of homosexuals, it means that deep down inside you're actually a homosexual yourself. That worries me because I'm afraid of dogs.”
“They say that in Hollywood one can't be honest, but I think honesty counts in Hollywood just as much as it does anywhere else. I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.”
“They say that in the hour before an earthquake the clouds hang leaden in the sky, the winds slows to a hot breath, and the birds fall quiet in the trees of the town square. Yes but these are the same portents that precede lunchtime, frankly.”
Source: Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold
“They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existence, and out of that moment, heaven or hell is born.”
Source: Aleph
“They say that instead of cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. Nothing is mentioned, though, about cursing a lack of candles.”
“They say that it is always poets that die in wars, and I never got over a sense of being in the trenches.”
Source: Springfield Road
“They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.”
Source: Novels, 1930-1935
“They say that it's a crazy world out there. I don't mind contributing by a bit of madness myself.”
“They say that it's almost heaven, but life is our heaven on earth.”
“They say that it’s always darkest before the dawn, but sometimes it’s really darkest the moment you realize a dream was just a dream.”
Source: My Fairy Godmother is a Drag Queen
“They say that it’s hard for men to agree. You’d be surprised how easy it is—when both parties hold as their moral absolute that neither exists for the sake of the other and that reason is their only means of trade.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“They say that Japan's rigorous building codes and regulations saved thousands of lives over there. Or, as Republicans here saw it, it 'fostered a socialist, anti-business environment that's worse than being dead.'”
“They say that Jazz is back, and I don't think it's gone anywhere. But they say it's back.”
“They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that's not how it happened for me.”
Source: Before I Fall
“They say that kings are made in the image of God. If that is what he looks like, I feel sorry for God.”
“They say that life is a highway and its milestones are the years,And now and then there's a toll-gate where you buy your way with tears.It's a rough road and a steep road and it stretches broad and far,But at last it leads to a golden Town where golden Houses are.”
Source: Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems
“They say that life is tough enough. But I guess I like to make things difficult on myself, because I do that all the time. Every day and on purpose. That's because I believe in disrupting my comfort zone.”
“They say that life isn’t measured by how many breaths we take, but by how many moments that take our breath away. Some people will pay any price for those breathless moments.”
Source: The Millionaires' Death Club
“They say that life isn’t measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. I have to agree with that.
[...]
And I am breathless now.
Because I am breaking.
Breaking inside, fragments, jagged and sharp.
Breaking in slow motion.”
Source: Heat Wave
“They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.”
“They say that lightning never strikes in the same place twice, but the same is not true for courage. As it turns out, when courage strikes, it almost always begets more courage.”
Source: The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp
“They say that love and tears are learned without any master; and I may say that there is no great need of studying at the court to learn envy and revenge.”
Source: The Holy Court in Five Tomes. The First Treating of Motives, which Should Excite Men of Quality to Christian Perfection: the Second of the Prelate, Souldier, Statesman, and Lady: the Third of Maxims of Christianity Against Prophaness, Divided Into Three Parts, Viz. Divinity, Government of this Life, and State of the Other World: the Fourth Containing the Command of Reason Over the Passions: the Fifth Containing the Lives of the Most Famous and Illustrious Courtiers; Taken Both Out of the Old and
“They say that love has never been immortal. That it is only the songs, books, and movies which instill this thought in our mind. But tell me then why does my heart yearn to just have a glimpse of you every moment of my life? Why do I keep missing you? Why do I feel restless untill I have spoken to you? Why do I keep thinking about you every night lying there in my bed? Why do I feel incomplete without you in my life?”