T Quotes
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“Thing is," he says, his chin resting on my head, "there's no single way to be a badass. Your mother and aunts coming here and making new lives for themselves? Badass. My mother running her own firm even after she and my father divorced? Badass. You facing the obstacles in your path and reinventing yourself in the process? Badass. There's room for different kinds of greatness. Even if you cry doing it. Hell, especially if you cry doing it.”
Source: The Worst Best Man
“Thing is though, while the rest of us dig for bones, Joplin here digs for stories”
Source: The Whispering Skull
“Thing is, we could discuss it out loud in front of the gentlemen over there, or you could get off my case and make a pleasant farewell. That is to say, fuck off.”
Source: Amsterdam
“Thing is, I don't like ties. I like to win....by big margins.”
Source: Rules of Attraction
“Thing is, I wasn't in the library, didn't study too much, didn't get the best grades, but honestly, I didn't party a lot either. I stayed in a lot.”
“Thing is, just the title alone will get some people interested: everyone has heard of Alcatraz, and they know that really bad people were there. Bad people are intriguing.”
“Thing is, while I know better, I like sounding ignorant. Talk like this and people figure you're about as dumb as a fencepost, which suits me fine. Makes it all that much easier to take advantage of 'em.”
Source: The Onion Girl
“Thing is: the internet's made of IP addresses, opinions, and assholes. It's what's there. That's the basic equipment.”
“Thing that got me was not her list of things she hated, since she was obviously crazy as a Cyborg, but fact that always somebody agreed with her prohibitions. Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws — always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up. Because not one of those people said: "Please pass this so that I won't be able to do something I know I should stop." Nyet, tovarishchee, was always something they hated to see neighbors doing. Stop them "for their own good" — not because speaker claimed to be harmed by it.”
Source: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
“Thing that was very different for me is that an American child's reading is filled with Americans.”
“Thing that we wanted to do was redefine what a green job was, what a climate job was. We said: "Wait a minute. There's all these people out there who are doing low-carbon work." It's not just guys in hard hats putting up solar panels. Teaching is low carbon. Caring for the sick is low carbon. Daycare is a green workplace. Overwhelmingly, this is work that is done by women, overwhelmingly women of color, on the frontlines of austerity clawbacks.”
“Thing to know about the Reaches....It’s always trying to kill you. Even the empty places between the stars."
Asher Corsair, Allies and Enemies: Rogues”
Source: Rogues
“THING TO TRY: If you are asked to describe a suspect to a police sketch artist, describe in precise detail, the features of the police sketch artist. This is one of the rare instances where two people can do one self-portrait.”
“Thing was' he faced them, and Harry was astonished to see that he was grinning, 'they bit of a bit more than they could chew with Gran. Little old witch living alone, they probably think they didn't need to send anyone particularly powerful. Anyway' Neville laughed, 'Dawlish is still in St Mungo's and Gran is on the run. She sent me a letter,' he clapped a hand to the breast pocket of his robes, 'telling me she was proud of me, that I'm my parents' son, and to keep it up”
“Thing we're trying to add to this is that lower corporate tax rates as we try and spur the economy. So that's where the Donald Trump attention is. The president's attention is on the middle class, making sure that's simple, fair and better. And then on the corporate tax rate, to try and get folks to invest in America again. His focus has not been on the impact on the top 1 percent.”
“Thing were falling apart. We just could not slow down. We were evolving into something greater, perhaps too much for our own good. And one thing always remained as I moved on. I saved a little bit of love just in case you would ever return home.”
Source: Beautiful Chaos
“Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes.”
Source: The analysis of sensations
“Things [only] exist once they are represented.”
“Things a mother should know: how to comfort a son without exactly saying Daddy was wrong.”
“Things about yourself are never too terrible to say. It's only the things about the ones you love.”
“Things admitted in the dark of night were not always easy to say in the light of day.”
Source: Angels of Ashes and Ivory
“Things ain't like they say they be, but they do!”
“Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.”
“Things always become obvious after the fact”
“Things always change and evolve and now there are a lot of other ways for people to hear music that weren't as available in the past. Yes there are way more venue closures, but at the same time there are so many newer ways via social media and other digital platforms for emerging artists to spread their music and make an impact.”
“Things always change when someone you love dies. You just can't prepare youself for those changes no matter what you do in advance. The only thing that's a certainty in always wondering who's going to be next.”
Source: The Edge of Never, Wait For You, Rule: Scorching Summer Reads 3 Books in 1
“Things always change, and New York teaches you that.”
“Things always get better with time, just wait and see.”
“Things always happen for a reason, that’s what everybody says.”
“But often, not for the reasons we wanted.”
“Yeah, it’s like a rule of life, or something.” Dia menghela napas. “But I think believing that things happen for a reason makes it easier for us to keep going. Dengan menerima kenyataan, kita akan lebih mudah bergerak maju, mengecilkan ruang untuk rasa sesal.”
Source: Melbourne: Rewind
“Things always happen in series.”
Source: Two Plays: Professor Taranne, Translated by Peter Meyer, and Ping Pong, Translated by Derek Prouse
“Things always look better in the morning.”
Source: Magyk: Septimus Heap
“Things always look different from higher up.”
“Things always look ugly on other people, but the truth is, we all start as other people. The sad part is we usually die as other people. And worst of all, we never knew we were the other people all along.”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.”
Source: Fireside Travels
“Things always seem less dire when you're in the country than when you're outside. I don't exactly know why it is, except that people just have to get on with their life, so they do. And you don't have time to do anything other than keep going.”
“Things always seem to end before they start”
“Things always seem to glide away. They come to you, stay a moment, then leave again.”
Source: Getting The Girl
“Things always seemed brighter when Mama laughed.”
“Things always show up
when they don't arrive.”
Source: Ink Blot in a Poet's Bloodstream
“Things always work according to their nature.”
Source: The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen
“Things always work out for me because I do whatever I want without worrying about the consequences.”
Source: Hilarity Ensues
“Things always work out if you don't send that e-mail. That's another great life lesson: I've sent enough e-mails of just "f - k you, f - k you, f - k you" and hit send. I've learned a lot from never being able to take back that I sent that e-mail.”
“Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?”
“Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if one wants to obtain a solid grasp and a perfect command.”
Source: The Complete Novels of Joseph Conrad - All 20 Works in One Premium Edition: Including Unforgettable Titles like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes and Many More (With Author’s Letters, Memoirs and Critical Essays)
“Things and persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. How unconsciously we judge others by the light that is within ourselves, condemning or approving them by our own conception of right and wrong, honor and dishonor! We show by our judgment just what the light within us is.”
Source: Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks
“Things are a lot easier when people know you're human. -Gerald Moore”
Source: Chicken Soup for the Soul: Living Your Dreams: Inspirational Stories, Powerful Principles and Practical Techniques to Help You Make Your Dreams Come True
“Things are achieved when they are well begun.”
Source: The Spanish gypsy
“Things are achieved when they are well begun. The perfect archer calls the deer his own While yet the shaft is whistling.”
Source: Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy
“Things are all made from nothing; hence their true source is nothing.”
Source: Meister Eckhart