T Quotes
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“They take advantage of plausible reasoning that is actually fallacy to make people believe what they want for survival purposes.”
Source: The Impossible Proof Of Knowing Nothing
“They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you can’t kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making you live is part of the punishment.”
“They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.”
“They take over your life and then, one day, they walk off with it.”
“They take pride in their schools. They begin to participate, where, when they are renters, they don't do that. So what we're doing by this program is strengthening America.”
“They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.”
“They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.”
Source: Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis
“They take you to the crossroads / at midnight, you offer / your soul as a door prize.”
“They talk about a lot of different things, but I think they definitely have the same school of thought as my husband [Games Of Thrones creator David Benioff], which is that the difference between being a writer and not being a writer is finishing.”
“They talk about Amen Corner but there's so much more to it than what meets the eye on this golf course.”
“They talk about class warfare -- the fact of the matter is there has been class warfare for the last thirty years. It's a handful of billionaires taking on the entire middle-class and working-class of this country. And the result is you now have in America the most unequal distribution of wealth and income of any major country on Earth and the worst inequality in America since 1928. How could anybody defend the top 400 richest people in this country owning more wealth than the bottom half of America, 150 million people?”
“They talk about how men are chasers, but women are just like that too. At least a lot of the women that I know, who tend to be ambitious, professionally driven women, they love that. Like seeking something professional that is hard to get, I think they feel the same way about men.”
“They talk about income inequality. I’m for income inequality.”
“They talk about plants but she talks to plants. She believes plants can listen, talk, dance, and do whatever they want.”
“They talk about the economy this year. Hey, my hairline is in recession, my waistline is in inflation. Altogether, I'm in a depression.”
“They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
“They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.”
“They talk about who won and who lost. Human reason won. Mankind won.”
“They talk badly about you because they have nothing good to say about themselves.”
“They talk like angels but they live like men.”
“They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.”
Source: Under Western Eyes (Unabridged Deluxe Edition): An Intriguing Tale of Espionage and Betrayal in Czarist Russia From the Renowned Author of Heart of Darkness, Nostromo & The Secret Agent (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)
“They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.”
“They talk, you know, the dead. Not in words, of course; I am not losing my sanity. They talk in the wind and the rain, in the way the light falls on ruined buildings and dilapidated stone walls.”
“They talke of Christmas so long, that it comes.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.”
“They talked about nothing in particular, sentences that had meaning only in the sound of the voices, in warm gaiety, in the ease of complete relaxation.”
Source: The Fountainhead
“They talked about teamwork. That's all it is. It's about team effort. No particular player trying to outshine each other. Playing unselfishly and believe. Good things will come.”
“They talked about this novelty called “e-mail” and the Pine System, only available at institutes of higher learning and some libraries. Marcus got his first e-mail address recently but Aidan had gotten his three years earlier, so Marcus considered Aidan “a veteran”. Marcus mentioned that his college had warned its students that e-mail was for “research purposes only”.
“Yeah, we all laughed at that, too”, quipped Aidan. “But just a word of warning: Don't get too much into newsgroups or IRC, or you'll wonder where the last 24 hours went.”
“What’s “IRC’?”
“’Internet Relay Chat’. It’ll be the end of us all”, joked Aidan.”
“They talked aimlessly back and forth, each speaking for the other.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“They talked at full volume. As if life was a vinyl that could only be truly appreciated when plugged into an amplifier and turned way up.”
Source: Cape of Storms
“they talked day and night, as though inside them an endless scroll of paper were unraveling out through the mouth.”
Source: The Wife
“They talked on into the early morning, the high, pale cast of light in the windows, and they did not think of leaving.”
Source: Cathedral
“They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things... They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other.”
“They taught me different was wrong.”
“They taught me that all life forms are important to each other in our common quest for happiness and survival. That there is more to life than just yourself, your own family, or your own kind.”
Source: The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom From a Remarkable Herd of Elephants
“They taught me that no man could be their leader except he ate the ranks' food, wore their clothes, lived level with them, and yet appeared better in himself.”
Source: Lawrence of Arabia: The Man Behind the Myth (Complete Autobiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters): Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Memoirs of the Arab Revolt) + The Evolution of a Revolt + The Mint (Memoirs of the secret service in Royal Air Force) + Collected Letters (1915-1935)
“They taught the women that the home is a shame and in doing so, they successfully decomposed nations. Instead of it being the greatest honour to build a family, it became a laughingstock. And in this becoming, they successfully deconstructed nations. They taught the men that loyalty is merely an option and in doing so, they successfully destroyed nations. Instead of it being the greatest pride to love one woman, it became a joke, a funny side comment. And in this becoming, they successfully poisoned nations. Your home is your atom, your cell, your genome. Your love is your honour, your word, your truth. You wonder why we live in deconstructed nations, you ask one another why you live on torn fibres, cracked ground, and yet you continue to listen to what they tell you. You have put shame where there should be a throne, you have placed a joke where there should be a crown. You have successfully destroyed your nations.”
“They taught us to manage money and how to et a good price for our eggs, chickens or pigs.
We used to know how to do that -- we weren't dumb; but since we never had any surplus, we had no money to manage. The only money we ever saw went right past us; no sooner had we earned a few cents than they were spent on aspirin . . . those kinds of things.”
Source: One Day of Life
“They taught you a lot of things, your family,' I say. The sleight of hand, the wall climbing, the swordsmanship.
'Not to die,' he says. 'That's what they attempted to teach me, anyway. Not to die.'
Considering how often he throws himself directly into the path of danger, I do not think they taught him well enough.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“They tax when you earn a dollar, they tax you when you save it, they tax you when you invest it. If you earn a dividend, they tax it again, and if you're stupid enough to die, they steal up to half.”
“They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.”
“They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.”
Source: Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret
“They teach real young kids and when I was about five my Mom took me to enroll in this thing and they said I could do it. It was definitely my choice, but I would have never thought of it. There's pictures of me playing piano when I'm real, real little, that kind of stuff.”
“They teach us early how to carry things; babies, blame, silence. And when it’s too heavy, they still expect us to smile.”
Source: Us, Women
“They teach us to avoid strangers,
And life teaches us
that human awareness can only be borne out
Of the dagger of strangeness…
That life is tasteless
When we don’t mix it with strangers…
That familiarity is opposed to life!
And thus, I loudly declare:
A stranger I was born. A stranger I wish to remain!
And I ask that you issue my death certificate
The day I become familiar.”
“They teach you, as children, that you might go to heaven. They never teach you that heaven might come to you.”
Source: The First Phone Call From Heaven
“They teach you growing up that you are only one thing at a time—angry, lonely, content—but he’s never found that to be true. He is a dozen things at once. He is lost and scared and grateful, he is sorry and happy and afraid.”
Source: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“They teach you how to handle life in England, but they don’t teach you a thing about death. There’s no book telling you what to do when your mum or dad dies.”
“They teach you that you are not black enough if you don’t hate the whites and you are not white enough if you don’t hate the blacks. What they don’t tell you is that hate will consume you too and make you a bad person. People who avenge, retaliate, reciprocate hate become worse than the person they choose to hate .”
“They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.”