T Quotes
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“This is BATL.
War in miniature.
War as a game.
War under glass.”
Source: Against the Machine: Evolution
“This is beautiful, good and virtuous. It is most prolific and healthy without us. So the best human course is to absent ourselves from it, to do what the original Thetfordians did, but on a grand scale. Evacuate the planet."
"Uh."
"Think of it for a minute. I'm not talking mass suicide. I'm talking about balancing our material needs with our aesthetic or, if you want to call it that, our spiritual needs. We'd be seriously bummed if all the wilderness disappeared. We care about Earth and the things that live here because we co-evolved with them, so our brains are the products of millions of years' worth of selection for being awed and satisfied by this kind of place. At the same time, we're consultive top predators with the propensity to engage in self-evolution. We've hacked Lysenkoism into Darwin.”
Source: Walkaway
“This is beautiful," I said, ignoring the shop window to trace the gleaming stone walls fronting another boutique.
"You know what's funny?" Jacob asked. He didn't wait for my answer. "You can see beauty in everything, except for yourself."
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I swallowed hard. Erik thought my body was beautiful, Karin that it was enviable. At random times, people had noted that my hands were beautiful, or my hair. The Twisted Sisters had called my art beautiful. Mom had the best intentions and always told me before and after my laser surgeries that I would be beautiful. But no one had ever said that I was beautiful, all my parts taken together, not just the bits and pieces.”
Source: North of Beautiful
“This is beautiful indeed; the colored people have given this to the head of the government, and that government once sanctioned laws that would not permit its people to learn enough to enable them to read this book.”
Source: Narrative of Sojourner Truth
“This is beauty, love, and truth all rolled into one. This is joy. And now that I've found it, how can I give it up? Life and work are the most wonderful things a man can have.”
Source: Flowers for Algernon
“This is because fear and love are enemies. They come from two opposing kingdoms. Fear comes from the devil, who would like nothing more than to keep you permanently disconnected and isolated. Love comes from God, who is always working to heal and restore your connection with Him and other people and bring you into healthy, life-giving relationships.”
“This is because having to obey one concept of right is inherently unjust. God has given each of us a unique sense of right, so when we are forced to live under someone else’s for years and years, we run the risk of losing our own. But not everyone can be crushed. Sooner or later the longing for freedom is bound to assert itself.”
Source: Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex by Anne Frank
“This is because he has a pearl in his soul, innocence; and pearls do not dissolve in mire. So long as man is a child, God wills that he be innocent.”
Source: Les Misérables
“This is because I define myself in part by my color. And I know it is the proverbial slippery slope: That there are associations with red hair that I utterly reject and others I wear proudly means nothing to anyone else, since I don't get to choose how the observer sorts those same traits. Grazing through the stereotypes, I am on the delicatessen plan, winding a way over the menu offerings, picking, choosing and rejecting; adhering to some, dismissing others. Having adopted a method of personal vigilance that allows me to be on the lookout for associations that suffuse my color with preferred associations and to reject those I choose not to adopt, I enhance my self-image. But to other people my red hair is more a take-it-or-leave-it experience: Red-haired, to them, I may also be a certain type of person, complete with temperament.”
Source: Roots of Desire: The Myth, Meaning and Sexual Power of Red Hair
“This is because Spirit is as much the Irrational as it is the Rational. Academicians need to show some humility in the face of what will always be Irrational. They only see half the picture.”
Source: The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
“This is because the nature of this place is a strong emotion - "nostalgia" is their word for it - which means a longing for what has never been, or at least not in the form and shape imagined.”
Source: Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta
“This is because white people need to show off the books that they have read. Just as hunters will mount the heads of their kills, white people need to let people know that they have made their way through hundreds or even thousands of books.”
Source: Stuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions
“This is beef short ribs marinated in miso.
First you mix hatchō miso and Sendai's red miso with sake.
Then you place the short ribs in the mixture; they should be left to marinate for a day or so.
Then you take the ribs out and grill them over a charcoal fire."
"Miso and beef are a great match, aren't they?
It's a pity that people in other countries don't know about miso.”
Source: Sake
“This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?" And Merlin said quietly, "Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.”
Source: The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“This is biblical ethics. It has little to do with the middle-class ethics of avoiding a few things which are supposed to be wrong and doing a few things which are supposed to be right. Biblical ethics means standing in ultimate decisions for or against God.”
“This is bigger than math! You can’t just swap one of us out for another!”
Source: Ten Thousand Skies Above You
“This is bizarre," I say. "I think it's beautiful," he says. I give him a look. "What?" He laughs a little. "They each have an equal role in government; they each feel equally responsible. And it makes them care; it makes them kind. I think that's beautiful.”
Source: Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)
“This is black; fear, falling, release...excitement, risk, danger...
And at any moment, death.
Freedom.”
“This is BLOSSOM!”
Source: The Blossom Shoppe
“This is Bourbon Street, isn’t it? Where’s the freakin’ bourbon?”
Source: Forgive Me
“This is brain surgery. Ski masks on my bullets, let 'em commit brain burglary. Emergency, it's an emergency. Someone in all black left the whole scene burgundy.”
“This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.”
Source: The Shambhala Principle: Discovering Humanity's Hidden Treasure
“This is bril. I can’t wait to shop. Very bril.” Okay, maybe one too many “brils,” but it was progress.”
Source: Lost in London
“This is Buffalo, New York. It's like. Scranton without the charm.”
“This is Buford,” Leo announced. “You name your furniture?” Frank asked.”
“This is Burma, and it will be quite unlike any land you know about.”
“This is business: they don't care about your lyrics;
The better you sell, the better future for their children.
Controversy sells, so they support conflict,
Makes more progress, means more profit.
An artist gets killed, they say they're 'so sorry,'
Meanwhile, they tell you the date of his next project.
What a life...death made them more profit:
Record companies get paid for your drama.”
“This is by far the most serious crisis civilisation has ever faced.”
“This is called "spiritual lifting." It's not heavy lifting. The governor of Texas should not be confused with Arnold Schwarzenegger. That's a powerful position. The governor of Texas can't do any heavy lifting really. It's not that powerful a position.”
“This is called 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'; it is called the 'asylum of the oppressed,' and some have been foolish enough to call it the 'Cradle of Liberty.' If it is the 'Cradle of Liberty,' they have rocked the child to death.”
Source: The Works of William Wells Brown: Using His
“This is called ‘Black Box’, for the girl who holds the key to mine.”
Source: Black Box
“This is called synchronicity - a state in which you almost feel as if you are in a collaborative arrangement with fate.”
Source: I Can See Clearly Now
“This is called the tabula rasa theory—the notion that how other people treated you in early life gives rise to certain patterns or “scripts” which then determine your self-image and your expectations of what will happen to you later in life. (...) Now psychological astrology views all this slightly differently. Rather than just being born a blank slate and having things done to you which then lead you to form opinions about life and yourself, psychological astrology believes that you are already born with an innate predisposition which expects certain things to happen.”
Source: The Development of the Personality: Seminars in Psychological Astrology, Vol. 1
“This is catharsis. The act taps in, meets them where they are. It’s confusing, hollow. So incredibly sad. And so we’ll stay inside it a while. Not picking it apart. Not interrogating the hungry pain body, but just confirming. Yes. This place feels exactly this way. This is where you are. I get it.”
Source: The Power of Amie Martine
“This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban and Lord High Chancellor of England: Sylva sylvarum (century IX-X) Physiological remains. Medical remains. Medical receipts. Works moral: Colours of good and evil. Essays of counsels civil and moral. Theological works
“This is certainly a very tricky point: How to ally yourself to other leftist forces without losing your feminist specificity.”
“This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn't gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S.”
“This is certainly the raunchiest, if you use that word, raunchy. The roots of Jim Henson, though, was adult comedy.”
“This is chitchat on the people channel.”
Source: Underworld
“This is Christian hope, that the future is in God's hands.”
“This is Christmas – the season of perpetual hope.”
“This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system.”
“This is classic Donald Trump. This is the movement, not the party. He has been agitating against the leadership, the Washington establishment, the status quo, people who have held power, people that didn`t take on President Barack Obama to the extent he wanted to or the base wants to.”
“This is classic when you begin thinking about what is a great founder is, you navigate what is apparent paradoxes.”
“This is clearly cultural imperialism, which explains why Western culture is, in fact, the sole (main) global culture. Yet, this is consistently disguised and presented as "globalism, the sole ideology of the 21st century and the future.”
“This is Clive Christian Number One. It's one of my favorite fragrances, and one of the most exquisite. It's made from entirely pure ingredients, mainly natural aged sandalwood from India and Tahitian vanilla, but a lot of the other ingredients - the ones that produce the fine top notes- they change slightly every year, depending on availability and the perfumers' preference."
Using her skills, she smelled the scarf. "Pineapple, plum, mirabelle, and peach, heart notes of jasmine, ylang ylang, orris, and carnation. I'm betting this is the '08.”
Source: The Orchard
“This is closest we'll ever be. This is our escape. Our secret closet, our letter of invitation to Hogwarts, our death-star run. After this we're back to the real world, and from there the hill slopes down and only stops at six feet under.”
Source: The Paradox of Vertical Flight
“This is Cloud City-around here, a smile beats a blaster every single time.”
Source: Star Wars, Vol. 1: The Destiny Path
“This is college?' Schyler asked. 'or Downton Abbey?”
“This is common sense. This is nature, and what we're trying to do is defy nature because a certain group of people want to be affirmed by society.”