T Quotes
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“They think you’re one of us now,” he whispers. “Don’t ever let that bitch think she’s got something over you again. Understood? We don’t do weak.”
Source: Break the Girl
“They thought Bacchus was presiding over the festivities, until Nemisis appeared - the retributive goddess whom the Romans aptly called Invidia. Nothing would surive but the stories, the tales of a quest for lasting pleasure, which left a trace of beauty: the disarray of falling stars didn't come to naught after all.”
Source: Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby
“They thought children, especially girl children, were all sugar and lace, and that when those children fought, they would do so cleanly and in the open, where adult observers could intervene. It was like they'd drawn a veil of fellow-feeling and good intentions over their own childhoods as soon as they crossed the magic line into adulthood, and left all the strange feuds, unexpected betrayals, and arbitrary shunnings behind them”
Source: Across the Green Grass Fields
“They thought depression was like bieng 'depressed'. They thought it was like being in a bad mood, only worse. Therefore, they tried to get him to snap out of it.”
“They thought he was scared all the time because he was a coward. The truth was, only he could see the world clearly enough to know how truly scary it was.”
Source: Ghost of a Chance
“They thought I am limited because of where I come from. They don't know that having no roof makes you limitless.
REMOVE THE ROOF AND YOU CAN SEE THE SKY. HAVING NO ROOF MAKES YOU LIMITLESS.
छत हटा दीजिए सारा आकाश आपका हो जाएगा”
“they thought I had guts they were wrong I was only frightened of more important things”
“They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior”
“They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.”
“They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.”
Source: Frida Kahlo, 1910-1954: an exhibition organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
“They thought I was crazy in Mexico when I said, 'I'm going to Hollywood.' Nobody thought I could make it.”
“They thought man was a creature of rapacious self-interest, and yet they wanted him to be free- free, in essence, to contend, to engage in an umpired strife, to use property to get property.”
Source: The American Political Tradition And the Men Who Made It
“They thought more before nine a.m. than most people thought all month. I remember once declining cherry pie at dinner, and Rand cocked his head and said, 'Ahh! Iconoclast. Disdains the easy, symbolic patriotism.' And when I tried to laugh it off and said, well, I didn't like cherry cobbler either, Marybeth touched Rand's arm: 'Because of the divorce. All those comfort foods, the desserts a family eats together, those are just bad memories for Nick.'
It was silly but incredibly sweet, these people spending so much energy trying to figure me out. The answer: I don't like cherries.”
Source: Gone Girl
“They thought, or Peter at any rate thought, that she enjoyed imposing herself; liked to have famous people about her; great names; was simply a snob in short. Well, Peter might think so. Richard merely thought it foolish of her to like excitement when she knew it was bad for her heart. It was childish, he thought. And both were quite wrong. What she liked was simply life.
“That's what I do it for," she said, speaking aloud, to life.
...
But suppose Peter said to her, "Yes, yes, but your parties—what's the sense of your parties?" all she could say was (and nobody could be expected to understand): They're an offering; which sounded horribly vague.
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And she felt quite continuously a sense of their existence; and she felt what a waste; and she felt what a pity; and she felt if only they could be brought together; so she did it. And it was an offering; to combine, to create; but to whom?”
Source: Mrs. Dalloway
“They thought she was just playing cards. They never noticed she was studying people. The difference between amateurs and legends isn’t the cards they’re dealt— it’s what they see while everyone else is distracted.”
Source: Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player
“They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.”
“They thought that I was a man with reasonable judgment, so I was never under pressure from my parents; I could do whatever I wanted. I never had a negative word from them, nothing whatsoever.”
“They thought that the bullets would silence us, but they failed. And out of that silence came thousands of voices. The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions. But nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.”
“They thought that the bullets would silence us, but they failed.”
“They thought they broke you, but instead, they created ways for more light to shine through you.”
“They thought they had written my ending. Instead, I rewrote the story — and the heroine lived.”
“They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry”
“They thought they were so different, Flame and Ice. Enemies always do. The Soviets and the West, they were the same. They looked at each other and saw monsters; they looked at themselves and saw men. But Jordan stood on the outside and knew them each for both monsters and men, the good and the bad bleeding together. They were only villains and heroes in their own stories.”
Source: Cover the Silence
“They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.”
“They thought we had to make the world less perfect or no one would be willing to face the hardships of moving on. There are few people left anywhere who are willing to die for something, for their children maybe, but not for a cause, and certainly not for a patch of raw and barren Mars ground. Apollo thought that we need suffering to create people capable of enduring suffering. World Peace does not breed heroes.”
Source: Seven Surrenders
“They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.”
“They thought we were just basically keeping ourselves underground on purpose. And it was just strange for people to approach music that way. And for rap, trying to get recognition, and be seen as a regular form of music like anything else. I mean, the Soul, R&B, Rock 'N Roll, they would dis the hell out of rap when it first came out.”
“They thought we were stupid to do it, (hide Jews) of course; in fact, it was beyond their comprehension that we would risk so much for Jews.”
“They thought your life was over after that incident, and that’s why they tried to take advantage of you. Now it’s time to prove them wrong.”
Source: Daily Motivational Quotes: Inspirational & life-changing thoughts, Volume 2
“They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.”
“They threw everything at you, hoping you'd crumble, but you stayed solid as a rock. Their issue isn’t with you—it’s with your unyielding strength. You didn’t bend, crack, or even flinch, and that’s what really upsets them. Your resilience is your secret weapon and their discomfort? Just a side effect of your awesomeness. So, keep standing tall and indestructible. Let them deal with their own fragility while you continue to sparkle like the unbreakable star you are. Shine bright!”
“They threw me off the haytruck about noon.”
“They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never dissapointed.”
“They throw rice at a new marriage, then give him beans in a divorcement.”
“They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.”
“They throw their clubs backwards, and that's wrong. You should always throw a club ahead of you so that you don't have to walk any extra distance to get it.”
“They throw Winfield out at second, but he's safe.”
“They tied his arms behind his back to teach him how to swim, they put blood in his coffee and milk in his gin.”
“They tied me back together, but they didn't use double knots. My insides are draining out of the fault lines in my skin, I can feel it, but every time I check the bandages, they're dry.”
“They tire of quiet, that have known the storm”
“They toasted each other, then after she sipped hers, she ate some of the bisque - creamy, a little buttery, with lots of big chunks of lobster and a hint of garlic. It was so good that she asked him for the recipe. He gave it to her and added," But I'll fix it for you anytime.”
Source: Alpha Wolf Need Not Apply
“they told her, “fear the reaper."
she laughed to herself and muttered, 'baby, death ain’t nothing’ more than a quick fuck.
a little bit of silence after he comes.”
Source: moira: a ghost story
“They told me adventures were over, so I got off the internet and got on a plane. They told me kindness was a thing of the past, so I spent a year helping others in need. They told me love was dead, so I fell into it. Head over heels.”
“They told me Corrigan smashed all the bones in his chest when he hit the steering wheel. I thought, Well at least in heaven his Spanish chick'll be able to reach in and grab his heart.”
Source: Let the Great World Spin: A Novel
“They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life.”
“They told me I gave the best milk mustache of anybody.”
“They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.”
Source: Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
“They told me I should be making my own records. So I figured, 'why not?”
“They told me I was everything. 'Tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.”
“They told me I would find it difficult to find work because of the way that I look and they weren't wrong. [laughs] I thought, "Well, I'll prove you wrong" because I genuinely believed that the world was a more diverse place than they perhaps viewed it to be.”