T Quotes
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“This doesn’t mean I almost died. It means I chose to stay.”
“This doesn't mean that we stop helping people set goals or that we stop expecting people to grow and change. It means that we stop respecting and evaluating people based on what we think they should accomplish, and start respecting them for who they are and holding them accountable for what they're actually doing. It means that we stop loving people for who they could be and start loving them for who they are. It means that sometimes when we're beating ourselves up, we need to stop and say to that harassing voice inside, "Man, I'm doing the very best I can right now.”
Source: Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution
“This doesn’t sound like a romantic couple’s vacation at all! It sounds more to me like you and Fang are on the equivalent of a college student’s Spring Break! You two really need to get it together and grow up!”
-Anatomy to Wraith, Chapter 8”
Source: Forgotten
“This doesn't happen in America! Maybe Ohio, but not in America!" Homer Simpson”
“This doesn't just involve you, honey. If it did, then what you suggest might be the best option. But it involves Shea and, by proxy, everyone at KGI because now you and your sister both are part of us. We don't run from a fight. It's not what KGI is about. KGI is about family. It's about protecting what matters the most to us. It's about never letting anyone take what is ours. You and Shea are ours now, we'll protect you with our last breaths.”
“This doesn't mean abandoning our values and ideals; wherever we can, it's in our interest to help foster democracy through the diplomatic and economic resources at our disposal.”
Source: Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House
“This doesn't mean that they commit themselves to the view that this is all there is. Many scientists (including me) think that this is the case, but other scientists are religious, and believe that what is observed in nature is at least in part a result of God's will.”
“This doesn't mean you're getting a discount." Audrey heaved a mock sigh. "Oh well. I guess I'll have to ply you with sexual favors, then." Gnome choked on the soup. "I'm old enough to be your grandfather!" Audrey winked at him, gathering the empty bags. "But you're not.”
Source: Fate's Edge
“This doesn't seem like one of those 'truth will set you free' situations.”
“This doesn't show that there is anything wrong with our theoretical understanding, any more than the intuition that the Earth is at rest shows that there must be something theoretically wrong with Copernicanism, or the intuition that time is moving shows that there is something theoretically wrong with the block universe 'B series' view of change.”
“This dog is quite similar to me. He doesn't care that much and sleeps all the time.”
“This dog, who shall be under your care, belongs to the best of humankind’s creation. For man transformed that which he feared into something which could love him. The dog, Theo, is the great witness to the one truth. There is but the one truth. Four words like my tale. The truth is this: Love triumphs over fear.”
Source: the dog
“This dog, which, although no beauty, was of an uncommon breed, I had made my friend and companion; and it certainly deserved the name better than the majority of those who had assumed it.”
“This dogged, same track approach (by the NCI) is even more astonishing.”
“This dogma (the soul) has been present in human psychology from earliest antiquity. No one has ever touched the soul, or has seen one in a test tube, or has in any way come into a relationship with it as he has with the other objects of his daily experience.”
Source: Behaviorism
“This dogmatic and insistent moralism clearly ends by seriously impairing Toynbee's judgment. He refuses to concede what common experience teaches, namely that the wicked do quite often flourish like the green bay tree, that in human affairs force and violence are occasionally decisive, or that love and gentleness are sometimes productive of evil.”
Source: The Chatham House Version: And Other Middle Eastern Studies
“This doom she chose, forsaking the Blessed Realm, and putting aside all claim to kinship with those that dwell there; that thus whatever grief might lie in wait, the fates of Beren and Lúthien might be joined, and their paths lead together beyond the confines of the world.”
“This door did not want to be found.
Yet it couldn’t hide what it truly was from Evangeline.
The jagged shape of it was unmistakable. One side was a sloping curve, the other a serrated slash, forming one half of a broken heart—a symbol of the Fated Prince of Hearts.”
Source: Once Upon a Broken Heart
“This door was once a colossal oak tree about three hugs around and as high as the blue.”
Source: This House, Once
“This door's wide-open now. It's going to happen whether you like it or not.”
“This dope money here is Lil Treys scholarship
Cause aint no to tuition for havin no ambition
And aint no loans for sittin your ass at home”
“This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.”
“This drama had become her mess to deal with, and she had no idea where to even begin trying to mend all of the broken pieces back together. If mending them was even possible.”
Source: Mending
“This dream has a pulse. He can feel it drumming a frail tattoo: My son, my son, my son…”
Source: Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Ones Who Couldn't Let Go
“This dream is our exhibition. Of the magic that's missing. We are on planet earth on a mission - Twin Flame Tradition”
Source: Coming Home
“This dream of absolute, universal equality is amazing, terrifying, and inhuman. And the moment it captures people's minds, the result is mountains of corpses and rivers of blood.”
Source: To build a castle: my life as a dissenter
“This dream of our youth will fade out as the splendor Fades from the skies when the sun sinks to sleep.”
Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)
“This dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming to pass all over the earth.”
Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes
“This dream the world is having about itself
includes a trace on the plains of the Oregon trail,
a groove in the grass my father showed us all
one day while meadowlarks were trying to tell
something better about to happen.”
Source: The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems
“This dreaming is one way of presenting what Zen Master Kosho Uchiyama means when he says, “Everything you encounter is your life.” Each encounter is both meeting the eternal Other—what is always outside and unknown—and meeting ourselves in the particular form of the moment.”
Source: This Truth Never Fails: A Zen Memoir in Four Seasons
“This dress code should be mandatory for most events.”
“This dress exacerbates the genetic betrayal that is my legacy.”
“this dress is the most perfect article of clothing I've ever worn - not only because it's beautiful and fits me like a dream, but also because it has deep pockets that hold a phone and some lipstick without ruining the line of the dress.”
Source: The Cousins
“This dress is what I want to see on you tomorrow evening and what I want to take off you tomorrow night," he whispers.”
Source: A Jade's Trick
“This dress was a tube of finely pleated silk, each pleat as fine as a harp string... driven by an urge she didnt question, she quickly shed her clothes and slipped the dress over her head. Knotting the belt around her waist, she went to the mirror. Her reflection stunned her. The natural elasticity of the pleats defined her curves molding like rows of vines to the contours of the land... Shauna stared at her face before her, growing leaner and far more beautiful. Unable to blink or move, she felt an unbearable sadness swinging through her. Tears began to course down her cheeks. Where did this grief come from? ... It came from a cause more terrible and one without remedy. The woman in the mirror flared her airs back at her in desperate appeal.”
Source: A Gown of Thorns
“This dress won't fit without a twenty-two-inch waist, although just once I'd like to see you down to twenty.”
Source: Heartless
“This drink has a magical power. It strengthens the weak, and revives those who have fainted. Those tired after work and physical activity can return their life forces by this drink much sooner than by nourishment. ... It works as a diuretic, an appetizer, an antitoxin.”
“This drive contains footage of you at a three-day orgy?' Hunt demanded.
'Let me know if it gets you hot and bothered, Athalar.' The Viper Queen took another hit of the cigarette. Her green eyes drifted toward his lap. 'I hear you're one Hel of a ride when you pause the brooding long enough.”
Source: House of Earth and Blood
“This drive to always want more is based on the misconceptions that having more will make me more happy, more important, and more secure, but all three ideas are untrue. Possessions only provide temporary happiness. Because things do not change, we eventually become bored with them and then want newer, bigger, better versions.”
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?
“This drives populists to be skeptical of the pursuit of truth, and to argue... that 'power is the only reality.' They thereby seek to undercut or appropriate the authority of any independent institutions that might oppose them. The result is a dark and cynical view of the world as a jungle and of human beings as creatures obsessed with power alone. All social interactions are seen as power struggles, and all institutions are depicted as cliques promoting the interests of their own members...”
Source: Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
“This dual position suggests a basic tension or 'existential dilemma' in human living that each of us seeks to resolve: the search for, and attempt to construct, a way of being that somehow will balance our unique reflections upon our lived experience with the perceived demands and desires of being-with-others. In this sense, the fundamental project of living, for all of us, becomes the struggle to achieve relational balance between or experience of our own self-construct, our experience of others as we have construed them to be, and our experience of that 'between-ness' that emerges through our every encounter with the world.”
“This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the conscious mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal-intellect suggests one course, and our hearts, or intuition, another.”
“This duality, making yourself better while teaching and developing others' judgment capabilities, is the key to leadership that is both productive and principled.”
“This duet was my soundtrack. What my grandmother would call a ‘poor pearl’ mindset—always careful to overly dramatize the phrase and make ‘poor’ sound more like ‘paw’ before drawing out the ‘purl’ in her trademark Brooklyn/Italian drawl. Somewhere, Sergeant Stunod was rubbing his hands together, maniacally watching me slip into his shadow world. He could taste victory with each ‘poor purl’ I added to the string I was tripping over.
— Chapter One: Mosquitos | Miseries | Mindsets, p. 18”
Source: Breaking Building Belonging: Why the Voices We Follow Matter
“This dull, difficult novel I have brought with me on my trip—I keep trying to read it. I have gone back to it so many times, each time dreading it and each time finding it no better than the last time, that by now it has become something of an old friend. My old friend the bad novel.”
Source: Can't and Won't
“This dull river has a deep religion of its own; so, let us trust, has the dullest human soul, though, perhaps, unconsciously.”
Source: Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of
“This dumb little moment was the first time I heard a stranger hating me in public. I knew then, for real, that thousands of people were having the exact conversation all over the world every moment of every day. Those people were real and their thoughts were formed by overblown or just straight made up stories about me that I could never adequately defend myself against. People all over the world whom I had never met and would never meet hated me. HATED. And what they thought about me was completely out of my control.”
Source: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“This duo inside of me causes the perfect opportunity to live and learn twice as fast as those who choose to accept simplicity.”
“THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, / Was saved the Union of These States.”
“This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height.”
Source: The Sun Watches the Sun