T Quotes
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“They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people, they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now.”
“They want everything to be better for their children. I think athletes are starting to see that and that's why they're starting to speak out.”
“They want explanation, not faith; God gives them faith as the explanation.”
“They want families to come to New York and go to the theater, so the theater is all geared toward family entertainment. It's money, you know.”
“They want from us = we to think that they control us... they want to bend our brains... but ain't true... it's as simple as far as it goes.”
“They want it. They get it. You get it. They want you.”
“They want liberalization! I'll give them liberalization. I'll loosen the screws until the Americans beg me to tighten them again.”
“They want me. I want them. I want this place. I want everything to be simple and beautiful and warm.”
Source: Cold Spell
“They want me on the television shows now because I did so well on Celebrity Assholes.”
“They want me to believe that 16 Arabs who never flown a passenger jet were capable of navigating a plane at over 400 mph directly into their targets without any threat from the most powerful armed forces in the world and in the most protected airspace in the world. These same people want me to also believe that Building 7, that wasn't hit by any plane, fell to the ground as well.
All one needs to know is that both Building 7 and the exact spot on the pentagon that was hit stored the investigation files that would have placed some very wealthy people in prison.”
“They want me to give another concert but I have no desire to do so. You cannot imagine what a torture the three days before a public appearance are to me.”
“They want me to give them something new, things they'd never dare look at, things that are far beyond their imagination, which is why Gregory asks, "But whats the worst thing you ever saw?" rather than "How is that girl doing now? Were you able to help her, by any chance?”
Source: We Had to Remove This Post
“They want me to write differently. Certainly I could, but I must not. God has chosen me from thousands and given me, of all people, this talent. It is to Him that I must give account. How then would I stand there before Almighty God, if I followed the others and not Him?”
“They want more production and they want it cheaper. But no matter what happens, the creative idea will be perpetuated by somebody who comes up with a vision. I don't care if there are three CEOs - it takes one guy with an idea.”
“They want people to believe the Constitution says that if you are born to on a illegal alien mother, that you are automatically an American citizen. They want to insist that that's what the Constitution says, but it doesn't.”
“They want politics and think it will save them. At best, it gives direction to their numbed desires. But there is no politics but the manipulation of power through language. Thus the latter’s constant debasement.”
Source: Splendide-Hotel: Meditation on Rimbaud
“They want somebody to hit home runs, and I can be that guy. Why not me, right?”
“They want the federal government controlling the Social Security, like it's some kind of federal program.”
“They want the woman to be a sexual machine and do everything asked of her without refusal or complaint, but they also want her to fake that she’s not a sexual machine. She must look happy doing it. She can express feelings, but only the male-pleasing ones.”
Source: Any Girl: A Memoir of Sexual Exploitation and Recovery
“They want this resource for themselves. They're blaming us for the low salmon runs. But we're not the ones overfishing. We've always caught what we needed. Some years are better than others, but we respect the cycle. We did not create this mess. You see over there? They are allowed to catch more than us because the government said they could. And further out, in the ocean, they can catch even more.”
“They want to be something. They'll have real jobs. And money. I don't know what I want to be. I mostly trained myself to do well at school as an antidote to all the dark thoughts, the ones that said 'no one likes you very much' and 'you have nothing to show for your life except schoolwork'.”
Source: It Sounded Better in My Head
“They want to be the agents, not the victims, of history. They identify with God's power and believe they are godlike. That is their basic madness. They are overcome by some archtype; their egos have expanded psychotically so that they cannot tell where they begin and the godhead leaves off. It is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate — confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.”
Source: The Man in the High Castle
“They want to be tied up, I tie them up. They want to be spanked, I spank them. They want to be called names, I call them names. But try and drink a little of their blood, and they scream like babies. What about my needs?”
Source: Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story
“They want to beat the Don Dadda. It means, 'The Man.'”
“They want to cook you and eat you," she said distatefully, "which is ridiculous. You'd taste terrible."
"Thank you, grandmother.”
Source: The Son of Neptune
“They want to criticize you, let them criticize and do not worry. Just be transparent with your people and tell them this is the reality.”
“They want to deceive their people first because now they are in a very shabby situation”
“They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict.”
“They want to erase us. It's their divine mandate. They want to make us better, to improve us, by turning us into a mirror of themselves”
Source: The Burning God
“They want to go to the bar and eat a few snacks, have a couple of cocktails or glasses of wine, and go home. People don't sit down at the table and have a whole three or four courses.”
“They want to hold onto something they never had in the first place. Anybody who claims to have some interest in me as an individual artist or even as part of the Beatles has absolutely misunderstood everything I ever said if they can't see why I'm with Yoko. And if they can't see that, they don't see anything. They're just jacking off to - it could be anybody. Mick Jagger or somebody else. Let them go jack off to Mick Jagger, okay? I don't need it.”
“They want to kill your power to dream, to want happiness. But you can’t let that stop you. You can’t let them win. We deserve this happiness, and more. We should forgive ourselves for our fathers’ misdeeds. And stop punishing ourselves for their crimes. Because otherwise, it was all for nothing.”
Source: And then the Devil Cried: Episode One
“They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.”
“They want to play at being mothers. So let them. Expressing tenderness in their own way will not prevent girls from enjoying a successful career in the future; indeed, the ability to nurture is as valuable a skill in the workplace as the ability to lead.”
“They want to see their expectation... Entertainment has nothing to do reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.”
Source: Jurassic Park
“They want to talk to you tomorrow.”
“Tomo…” Chase choked on the word. “As in the day after today?”
“Is there any other kind?”
Source: Seven
“They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive.”
Source: Moonraker
“They want us to be afraid.
They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes.
They want us to barricade our doors
and hide our children.
Their aim is to make us fear life itself!
They want us to hate.
They want us to hate 'the other'.
They want us to practice aggression
and perfect antagonism.
Their aim is to divide us all!
They want us to be inhuman.
They want us to throw out our kindness.
They want us to bury our love
and burn our hope.
Their aim is to take all our light!
They think their bricked walls
will separate us.
They think their damned bombs
will defeat us.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that my soul and your soul are old friends.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that when they cut you I bleed.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that we will never be afraid,
we will never hate
and we will never be silent
for life is ours!”
“They want us to fight and hate each other not for the war but for control. So that we will depend on them not only for the commands but for the peace and joy. They need us to live in fear so that we will look and ask for answers. Look for it and see for yourself, understanding and healthful faith is what they don’t want. I wouldn’t say it’s that they hate us and need us all to die but if you look at it from the beginning. If one doesn’t do it the other will.”
Source: Neglected But Undefeated: The Life Of A Boy Who Never Knew A Mother's Love
“They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.”
“They want you confused, compliant, and consuming. But wealth is built by people who think, plan, and act with conviction.”
Source: Money's Dirty Little Secrets: How to Break the Rules, Get Filthy Rich, and Laugh All the Way to the Bank
“They Want You To Be A Docile Apathetic Consumer”
“They want you to believe the Sun is hot. I urge you to ask yourself 'Have they ever touched it? Think about it.”
“They want you to remain the same, to stay average,
do not let them...Elevate!”
“They want you to think that darkness or evil is only something that gets inflicted on you by the outside world, but I know better, and I think the freak does, too. Sometimes the darkness lives inside you, and sometimes it wins.”
“They wanted a Grisha queen. Mal wanted a commoner queen. And what did I want? Peace for Ravka. A chance to sleep easy in my bed without fear. An end to the guilt and dread that I woke to every morning. There were old wants too, to be loved for who I was, not what I could do, to lie in a meadow with a boy’s arms around me and watch the wind move the clouds.”
Source: Ruin and Rising
“They wanted a wreck, I gave them a fortress.”
Source: Unwanted
“They wanted black women to conform to the gender norms set by white society. They wanted to be recognized as 'men,' as patriarchs, by other men, including white men. Yet they could not assume this position if black women were not willing to conform to prevailing sexist gender norms. Many black women who has endured white-supremacist patriarchal domination during slavery did not want to be dominated by black men after manumission.”
“They wanted clean-cut people to showcase their middle-class lives.”
Source: The Ultimate Religion
“They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything!”
Source: Lord Jim