T Quotes
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“They were like two traveling birds from opposite ends of the world that accidentally fell for each other. And now, their worlds were colliding. Crashing. Ending.”
Source: Cupid's Serenade
“They were like waking up to what was being done to their malenky persons and saying that they wanted to go home and like I was a wild beast. They looked like they had been in some big bitva, as indeed they had, and were all bruised and pouty. Well, if they would not go to school they must have there education. And education they had had.”
“They were linked by a single thread but now the thread divides, two twins, two lives. As the space between the twins widens, they don't notice it at first. The light that stands between them.”
Source: The Shock of the Light
“They were little things, but it was always the little things that rubbed a person raw. That hurt the most.”
Source: The Bitter and Sweet of Cherry Season
“They were looking for a flame, but I came to earth to start wildfires. My heart carries medals of war, I've never been one to love small.”
Source: Fragile but Fierce: A Quote Collection
“They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.”
“They were looking for a unifying theory without God. I look for how everything is unified through God.”
Source: The Genesis Trust
“they were looking for housekeepers and cooks, and I was dying to get out of Australia and see the rest of the world. It's a Sagittarius thing, you know. We just move on and on, like tumbleweeds.”
Source: Tropical Getaway
“They were lovebirds. They entertained each other endlessly with little gifts: sights worth seeing out the plane window, amusing or instructive bits from things they read, random recollections of times gone by. They were, I think, a flawless example of what Bokonon calls a duprass, which is a karass composed of only two persons.”
Source: Cat's Cradle: A Novel
“They were lovely, your eyes, but you didn't know where to look.”
“They were lying on a bed of soft moss at the edge of The Crooked Forest. He could hear waves crashing along the shore. She was sprawled out in a robe of silver, her hair spread beneath her like a tide pool.”
Source: How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
“They were made up names in Dune that I didn't know how to pronounce, but I knew how I should sound because I was a sci-fi fan myself. I hadn't read the book, but I knew that I was the princess of the universe. I went in and sort of made her up, and David Lynch thought it matched and cast me.”
“They were making a deal for a property that clearly was a property that we wanted to own, so we had to act, and act as quickly as we could, and make the offer more attractive.”
“They were many beautiful young men in the world, but Tella believed that none of them could be trusted with something as fragile, or valuable, as a heart”
“They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that really meant something.”
“They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.”
“They were married before they were friends, which is another way of saying:
Their marriage was the occasion of their friendship.
They were married before they noticed many small differences in background, aspiration, education, ambition. (...)
Noting such differences, Leah was in some sense disappointed in herself that they did not cause real conflict between them. It was hard to get used to the fact that the pleasure her body found in his, and vice versa, should so easily overrule the many objections she had, or should have had, or thought she should have had.”
Source: NW
“They were me, as I'd once been. And I was them, as they could be.”
Source: Becoming
“They were meant to carry you. Not just when it’s convenient. Not just when you were small. For your entire life. You were brought into the world to be loved, and guided, and carried. That’s the deal they made, the day you were born.”
Source: Let's Call It a Doomsday
“They were men, and free. I was a woman, and a slave. And that’s a chasm no amount of sentimental chit-chat about shared imprisonment should be allowed to obscure.”
Source: The Silence of the Girls
“They were mirrors to each other. Gwinvere Kirena would have been perfect for him—if he could love what he saw in the mirror.”
Source: The Way of Shadows
“They were missing all the enthusiasm, the creativity; that whole excitement about the music was lost. A lot of people are really going back looking for that.”
“They were more than hostile. In the first place, I was a south Georgian and I was looked upon as a fiscal conservative, and the Atlanta newspapers quite erroneously, because they didn't know anything about me or my background here in Plains, decided that I was also a racial conservative.”
“They were more than partners, more than brothers; they were very nearly the same person.”
“They were mostly in their 20s and 30s, and, with a few exceptions, were playing a major role in a program for the first or second time. In many ways they resembled the teams that made up the Apollo Project: young engineers, often right out of school, with seemingly limitless confidence and energy. NASA people who worked on Apollo and stayed with the agency for twenty years or more hold the fondest memories for that frantic period and time of their life. In interviews for this book, there often was a similar sense of nostalgia and accomplishment among the F-8 DFBW alumni. However, if for many of those immersed in Apollo the rest of their careers seemed anti-climatic, this is not true of the F-8 engineers. They went on to several more projects before many of them landed on the administrative floor of Center Building 4800, each with challenges comparable to those of the fly-by-wire program.”
Source: Computers In Spaceflight: The NASA Experience
“They were never my pack, not even Hot Pie and Gendry. I was stupid to think so, just a stupid little girl, and no wolf at all.”
“They were never scared of the kids who might die, or the empty spaces they would leave behind. They were afraid of us-the ones who lived.”
Source: The Darkest Minds
“They were new money, without a doubt: so new it shrieked. Their clothes looked as it they'd covered themselves in glue, then rolled around in hundred-dollar bills.”
Source: The Blind Assassin
“They were nice enough people and all, but there wasn't much love in them. Because they were too busy being afraid. Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well in a place where it was always dark.”
Source: The Stand
“they were nice in a useless sort of way, which is, after all, the only way to be truly nice.”
Source: Dhalgren
“They were nicely written and nicely directed episodes [Star Trek: Enterprise]. I enjoyed working with Scott [Bakula]. So it was good to do, and, as you said, it did serve to enhance the Soong legacy.”
“They were no better than common thieves. They stole our childhood. But even with that, I was heartbroken that I would not know the Wozniaks anymore, the only people who came close to being parents to me. I would be conscious of their absence for the rest of my life. I needed them. You know, if you think about it, we all need each other. But even with all of the evidence against the Wozniaks, I had conflicted emotions about them, then and now. They were the closest I had to a real family and real parents.
But now I was bankrupt of any feelings at all towards them at all.
I felt then, and feel now, a great sense of loss. I felt as if I were burying them. when I never really had them to lose in the first place. Disillusioned is probably a better word. In fact the very definition of disillusionment is a sense of loss for something you never had. When you are disillusioned and disappointed enough times, you stop hoping. That’s what happens to many foster kids. We become loners, not because we enjoy the solitude, but because we let people into our lives and they disappoint us. So we close up and travel alone. Even in a crowd, we’re alone.
Because I survived, I was one of the lucky ones. Why is it so hard to articulate love, yet so easy to express disappointment?”
Source: No Time to Say Goodbye: A Memoir of a Life in Foster Care
“They were no longer standing the way he'd stood them, no longer engaged in the glorious basking that overwhelmed him on the headland. They were leaning toward the light now, craning toward it. He’d been dead wrong about the blitheness. The buttercups now seemed to know — to understand with that purely physical knowledge that all living things possess — that something was wrong. Their craning was like a cry: they were calling out with all the body language they possessed for a life or a place they had no minds with which to remember.”
“They were no longer the big, bad, scary kings of the afterworld. They were wounded boys who had grown into angry, resentful men”
Source: A World of Lost Words
“They were not a bunch of freaks, neither were they bible bashers, they were people who cared about each other, their friends and their families.”
Source: The Ultimate Religion
“They were not a family anymore. They were strangers. Tied together by chains, but they had rusted, and there was no hope for them to reconnect. Something had disappeared, and perhaps it was their sanity.”
Source: Disenchanted
“They were not beggars; well, not in the usual sense. They were Christians, who wanted not just my nephew's money but their souls.”
Source: See Delphi and Die
“They were not easy years. You have to understand, I was raised in a lovely neighborhood, as was Mitt, and at BYU, we moved into a $62-a-month basement apartment with a cement floor and lived there two years as students with no income... Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time.”
“They were not failures, they were new found ways of what does not work
"I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying”
“They were not friends, Comdrade Pillai and Inspector Thomas Matthew, and they didn't trust each other. But they understood each other perfectly. They were both men whom childhood had abandoned without a trace. Men without curiosity. Without doubt. Both in their own way truly, terrifyingly, adult. They looked out into the world and never wondered how it worked, because they knew. They worked it. They were mechanics who serviced different parts of the same machine.”
“They were not friends. They didn't know each other. It struck Tom like a horrible truth, true for all time, true for the people he had known in the past and for those he would know in the future: each had stood and would stand before him, and he would know time and time again that he would never know them, and the worst was that there would always be the illusion, for a time, that he did know them, and that he and they were completely in harmony and alike. For an instant the wordless shock of his realization seemed more than he could bear.”
Source: Talented Mr. Ripley ; Ripley under ground ; Ripley's game
“They were not good people—they had too much money to have ever been good people”
Source: The Temple of My Familiar
“They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.”
Source: Jack London Six Pack
“They were not hired for their looks or their sophistication; the most competent ones specialized in puzzles, music, and foreign languages.”
Source: D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
“They were not holding hands, but their shadows were.”
Source: Beloved
“They were not, I am certain almost, first-rate gentlemen. (How different from our other officers.) But they are gone to Virginia, where they may sing, dance, and eat turkey hash and fry'd hominy all day long, if they choose.”
Source: Sally Wister's Journal: A True Narrative Being A Quaker Maiden's Account Of Her Experiences With Officers Of The Continental Army, 1777-1778
“They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy. They were the women of early America.”
Source: A People's History of the United States
“They were not my friends, after all. They were just the people I went to school with.”
Source: The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel
“They were not pretty, these women. Pretty did not begin to describe them.
They were shrewd. Powerful. Wily. Proud. Dangerous.
They were strong.
There were brave.
They were beautiful.”
Source: Stepsister
“They were not struggling with themselves to play just one more round of a computer game or keep reading their Twitter feed. For them, sleep was not a battle of self-control. Instead, high “self-control” people performed better at the more habitual, automatic tasks than low “self-control” ones. High “self-controllers” were simply proficient at automating.”
Source: Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick