T Quotes
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“They wouldn’t have understood if they found him crying, when he woke and remembered all at once that he had once had a wife and child, so they never found him this way.”
Source: Flies to Wanton Boys
“They wouldn’t understand anyway. The cheese fell off their crackers a long time ago.”
Source: The Echo Chamber
“They wouldn't want you to mope, would they? Those who didn't make it. Not after all they did for you, even if they did nothing but die, and unwillingly, and not for you.”
Source: Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
“They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again.”
Source: Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll
“They wouldn't be politicians if they knew what they were doing.”
“They wouldn't call it falling in love if you didn't get hurt sometimes, but you just pick yourself up and move on.”
“They wouldn't let me play; only Alice would play games with me anymore.”
“They wouldn't let us into Russia. They thought we'd corrupt the youth or something.”
“They wouldn't listen to the fact that I was genius.”
“They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk rock doesn't sell advertising, it won't make any money.'”
“They wouldn't tell Scipio how much of the counterfeit cash was left since, as Riccio put it, 'You're a detective now, after all.”
“They wouldn't understand, and I don't feel the need to explain, simply because I know in my heart how real it was. When I think of you, I can't help smiling, knowing that you've completed me somehow. I love you, not just for now, but for always, and I dream of the day that you'll take me in your arms again”
“They wouldn’t even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters.”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five
“They wouldn’t have believed me, and if they had they would have wanted me to explain. And I had no explanation, no answers. When you’re on a battleground, you don’t have the luxury of time to dwell on the various historical factors and sociopolitical influences that caused the war. You just keep your head down and try to survive it, to shove the pages back in the book, close the covers and pretend that nothing’s broken, nothing’s wrong.”
Source: Good in Bed
“They wrapped her up like a baby burrito to show to Mom. Here were a mother and her daughter and I love them both so much. I couldn't wait for Courtney to come to the hospital so I could have all my women together.”
Source: Don't Make Me Stop This Car: Adventures in Fatherhood
“They write for those who ache before they climax.”
Source: Epiphany
“They write songs about California girls for a reason.”
Source: Ten Things We Shouldn't Have Done
“They write them long because they can't write them short.”
“They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.”
Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle
“They wrong opportunity who say she knocks but once”
“They wrongly believe that good intentions move mountains. Bulldozers move mountains. But there are exceptions.”
Source: Managing in the Next Society
“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”
Source: By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades
“They wrote it that my moustache was insured for 13 million.”
“They wrote that I'd gained 30 pounds over the summer and lost it in a week because I was dating three guys at once!”
“They wrote to me and said something about it, and I said that if it doesn't involve any work, I'll do it.
(On being named Minnesota's first Poet Laureate)”
“They yearn for what they fear for.”
Source: The inferno
“They yell at me because I can't see what they see. Nobody can explain to me why my eyes work different than theirs.”
Source: Wintergirls
“They yell at me to be dignified. But what are the dignified people like? The people who are held up as examples of me? They are snobs. Frightful snobs I'm a curiosity in Hollywood. I'm a big freak, because I'm myself!”
“They yoked themselves to a car and drew her all the long way through dust and heat. Everyone admired their filial piety when they arrived and the proud and happy mother standing before the statue prayed that Hera would reward them by giving them the best gift in her power. As she finished her prayer the two lads sank to the ground. They were smiling and they looked as if they were peacefully asleep but they were dead. (Biton and Cleobis)”
Source: Mythology
“They'd been standing like that for thirty seconds of forever.”
Source: The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition
“They'd branded me like some kind of animal. Lower than an animal. A number.”
Source: The Bone Season
“They'd had fun, for sure. They laughed and enjoyed being together. But if she was painfully honest with herself, something was missing. Something in the way Tim looked at her. She remembered her mom's word. "I saw the way he looked at you...he adores you." Maybe that was it. Tim looked at her on a surface level. He smiled and seemed happy to see her. But When Cody looked at her, there were no layers left, nothing her didn't reveal, nothing he couldn't see. He didn't really look at her so much as he looked into her. To the deepest, most real places in her heart and soul.”
Source: Take Two
“They'd never been lovers, of course, not in the physical sense. But they'd been lovers as most of us manage, loving through expressions and gestures and the palm set softly upon the bruise at the necessary moment. Lovers by inclination rather than by lust. Lovers, that is, by love.”
“They'd poisoned me, dammit. Probably to trade my dead body to the barbarians for Wulfgar's safe return. Or maybe just for the fun of it.”
Source: Heir Apparent
“They'd rather hate you for the truth than love you for the lies.”
“They'd rather see me fail than succeed,
That's why I'm alone on my own with no team.
Don't need no green, though I got some to spend;
In the end...all I really need is a friend.”
“They'd smash up the world if they thought it would make a pretty noise.”
“They'll [China] probably be a fully developed nation. The road there just is not going to be that easy. You're going from a macromanaged, top-down economy to a market-managed, micromanaged type of economy, with all the potential corruption issues, SOE [state-owned enterprise] reform, and market reform that come with it.”
“They'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood.”
“They'll be days like this" my momma said.
When you open your hands to catch, and wind up with only blisters and bruises.
When you try to step out of the phone booth and try to fly , and the very people you want to save, are the ones standing on your cape.
When your boots will fill with rain, and you'll be up to your knees with disappointment
And those are the very days you have all the more reason to say "Thank you".”
“They'll be granted immunity!" I feel myself rising from my chair, my voice full of resonant. "You will personally pledge this in front of the entire population of District Thirteen and the remainder of Twelve. Soon. Today. It will be recorded for future generations. You will hold yourself and your government responsible for their safety, or you'll find yourself another Mockingjay!”
“They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations.”
“They'll crucify you for staying the same, and they'll crucify you for change. I'd rather be crucified for changing.”
“They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.”
Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)
“They'll get it all from you sooner or later 'cause they own this f**kin' place. It's a big club and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the big club. By the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table is tilted, folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. Good, honest, hard-working people: white collar, blue collar, it doesn't matter what color shirt you have on.”
“They'll give you an Oscar if they think you're about to drop dead. The problem with The Oscars is, the average age of The Academy is 84. They wheel those people in from Palm Springs and hook up their IVs and they vote. The people that go to movies are under the age of 28, for the most part, so there's this total disconnect between what the Academy thinks is a great movie and what the audience actually wants to see.”
“They'll have to bring in Mulder an' Scully, because there ain't no CSI on the planet that'll ever be able to explain this.”
Source: The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted
“They'll invite you to all the parties, but that doesn't mean you have to go all the time.”
“They'll just cut our wrists like Cheap coupons and say that death Was on sale today.”
“They'll kill for that knighthood, but don't ever think they'll die for it.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons