T Quotes
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“They say you keep who loves you the most, not who sex you the most.”
“They say you lack the art of judging people.
problem is, we take people are they present themselves,they do not wear a tag of being selfish and ungrateful when you meet them.
you understand they were wrong when you're destroyed, cheated and misused.”
“They say you learn by doing, but you don't have to. If you learn only from your own experience, you're limited. By reading the Internet you can find out more. What grows in what season. The best way to strip an artichoke. What type of onions work best in French onion soup. Endless detail on any topic. You can learn from people who are experimenting with Swiss buttercream, or perfecting their gluten-free pumpernickel crackers, or taste-testing everything from caviar to frozen pizza to ginger ale. All of their failures keep you from having to fail in the same way.”
Source: The Kitchen Daughter
“They say you never grow poor taking profits. No, you don't. But neither do you grow rich taking a four-point profit in a bull market. Where I should have made twenty thousand dollars I made two thousand. That was what conservatism did for me.”
“They say you never know who's the real hero and who's the real coward until you're looking death in the face. I've always been afraid of plenty of things, but fear isn't what makes you a coward. It's how depraved your heart becomes when fear gets pumped through it.”
Source: Full Tilt
“They say you only go around once, but with a muscle car you can go around two or three times.”
“They say you’re always at the place you need to be.
But perhaps it’s not so that we go to stay, but see to leave.”
Source: Can I Tell You Something?
“They say you're big before you're small I'm sure glad I don't know it all.”
“They say you’re only as old as you feel but try telling that to a ninety-year-old on their deathbed, just wishing he could do all the bloody things he wants to do.”
Source: Veiled
“They say you're only as old as you feel. I think I may be an exhumed mummy or something.”
Source: Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
“They say you’re too young to lead, too naive to understand—but what they really fear is that you’ll see the world clearly, and choose to change it anyway.”
“They say you should know your limits and work within them. But how can you really know your limits unless you try to expand them?”
“They say you should never eat before you go to bed, but I've found just having a tiny little snack - like half an apple or something like that - before you go to sleep really helps.”
“They say you should treat your body like a temple. I treat mine like a fast-moving dumpster.”
Source: The Terrible and Wonderful Reasons Why I Run Long Distances (Volume 5)
“They say you shouldn't judge a book by its cover. But if there's a shirtless guy on your cover, or your title includes the words billionaire, alpha-male, werewolf or werebear, your "book" is probably a pile of unimaginative, derivative drivel devoid of a single original thought. Yet another poorly written romance clone the world didn't need.”
Source: The Ugly Truth About Self-Publishing: Not another cookie-cutter contemporary romance
“They say you shouldn't try to be someone you're not, but what about someone you almost are?”
Source: Never Enough
“They say you start weaving clearer, sharper memories after you've been to a place at least twice. Because then the reflection is more of validation. Let the rush come to you and let your senses be flushed the first time. There will be time for reflection after you've had your fill.”
“They say you waste time asleep, but I'm just trying to dream.”
“They say you're nobody til somebody kills you
But where I'm from you're nobody til you kill somebody”
“They say you're not supposed to put metal in a microwave oven. They're right.”
“They say your attitude determines your latitude.”
“They say your childhood influences your tastes and interests, or your approach if you're an artist. So what you create, whatever you saw, whatever your childhood was like - it influences how you're going to end up.”
“They say your enemy for a reason is a suspect for all your misfortunes.”
Source: Norina Luciano
“They say your genetics are going to set your direction regardless of what happens, but I think there's more to it than that.”
“They say your hardcore's not yours, and it's not fate. Nobody's gonna tell you what shit like that means.”
“They say your heart breaks to let the light in, but at some point some of our hearts break so hard and so often that they’re just filled with light, which has no choice but to shine back out. Maybe saints realize that before the rest of us do, which is why they’re always pointing to their hearts. They ask us not to harden against, but open to. They speak in tongues of trinkets, flowers and beads and glitter, small innocent things that insist throughout even the darkest times—bits of bright that are the philosophers’ stone. Strung up and clung to, shapeshifting the world itself.”
Source: Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir
“They say your life flashes before your eyes right before you die, you see things in your life, the important moments --the moments that tested you, the moments that made you who you are. I don't know about my life flashes before me, I was thinking about my white coat... it's the moment my life started, same fitting should be on me when it ends
We're all gonna die. We don;t get much say on how or when, but we do get to decide how we are gonna live. So do it, decide. Is this the life you want to live? Is this the person you want to love? Is this the best you can be? Can you be stronger? kinder? more compassionate? Decide. Breathe in...Breathe out...and decide.”
“They say you’re meant to live everyday as if it were your last, which I’ve always thought was daft, since no one would ever pay the gas bill if that was the case, but what if it were your first?”
“They say, "Gee, you look great." That means they thought you looked like hell before.”
“They say, "God told me", or "God replied to me". And yet most of the time they are talking to themselves.”
“They say, "Katie, you're wrong." And if I say, "How dare you say that? I have studied and studied." Or, "I am an expert in" whatever area we're talking about. Or, "No, you are wrong! And I think you're rude!" Or anything like that, and if we don't say it out loud, maybe we think it, but that's stressful. The moment I've defended, in any way, I've started the war.”
“They say, 'Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.' They don't realize that not everybody's bootstraps are the same length.”
“They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?”
Source: A Grief Observed
“They say, 'To serve is to love,' and I think to serve is to heal, too.”
“They say, don't cry because it's over but instead smile because it had happened.”
Source: I Too Had a Love Story
“They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“They say, he must had an angel, cuss look how death missed his ass. Unbreakable, what you thought they'd call me Mr. Glass?”
“They say, Keep your enemies closer. But what if you live with them?”
“They say, oh, let’s have multiparty politics. Let’s have different parties change and be in charge of the Government. Is it that simple? You vote in a Division Three government, not a Division One government, and the whole economy will just subside within three, four years. Finished.”
“They say, the tongues of dying men
Enforce attention, like deep harmony;
Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain;
For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain.”
Source: King Richard II: Third Series
“They say, You can't give a smile away; it always comes back. The same is true of a kind word or a conversation starter. What goes around, comes around.”
Source: How to Work a Room: Learn the Strategies of Savvy Socializing - for Business and Personal Success
“They say, you know, about evolution, it surely happened because their fossil record shows that. Look, my body and your body are miracles of design. Scientists are pretending they have the answer as how we got this way when natural selection couldn't possibly have produced such machines.”
“They say...the stopwatch never lies. Speed kills but absolute speed kills absolutely.”
“They say: 'If a man knew himself, he would know all mankind.' I say: 'If a man loved mankind, he would know something of himself.”
“They say: Belief is important. I say: No, actions are important. Judge by deed, not by creed.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“They say: sufferings are misfortunes," said Pierre. 'But if at once this minute, I was asked, would I remain what I was before I was taken prisoner, or go through it all again, I should say, for God's sake let me rather be a prisoner and erat horseflesh again. We imagine that as soon as we are torn out of our habitual path all is over, but it is only the beginning of something new and good. As long as there is life, there is happiness. There is a great deal, a great deal before us.”
“They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!”
“They scold their own hearts but it actuates no real change, only deepens the wound. But they can’t look away from it. Thus, by paralyzing their Present, we beat The Adversary on His home turf. And loop after loop, the depressed haunt and harrow themselves, sometimes for years, when they have only, for a brief moment, to look away from themselves, to look up.”
“They scored 26 points in three quarters. That's solid defense.”
“They scored too early.”