T Quotes
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“This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964
“This is not a just image, this is just an image.”
“This is not a legitimate congressional exercise. This is not a fact-finding hearing. This is theater. This is a charade. This is stage craft. This is nothing more than a political hit job on a women`s right to choose. Which, by the way, is constitutionally protected.”
“This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in.”
Source: Lighthousekeeping
“This is not a love story. It is my life, and as such, there is love, loss, war, death, and sacrifice. It's about things that needed to be done and choices made. I regret nothing.”
Source: Devil's Punch: A Corine Solomon Novel
“This is not a man who sees America like you and I see America. Our opponent is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country. Americans need to know this.”
“This is not a marriage of love. this is more like mutual prostitution... and it is working!”
“This is not a matter of subjective theory, but of plain, historical fact. If there had never been a nation of Israel, there would have been no patriarchs, no prophets, no apostles, no Bible and no Saviour. In John 4:22, Jesus Himself summed all this up in one simple statement: "Salvation is from the Jews." Christians from all other racial backgrounds owe to the Jewish people a spiritual debt which can never be calculated.”
“This is not a matter of virtue-it's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free of my natural, hard-wired default-setting, which is to be deeply and literally self-centered, and to see and interpret everything through this lens of self.”
Source: This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
“This is not a men vs women issue. It’s about people vs prejudice.”
Source: Everyday Sexism
“This is not a movie about smelling the urine! It's another kind of movie." Volker Schlöndorff got Billy Wilder to agree to these conversations - you can buy it - because Volker spoke German at times. And he said to Billy Wilder: "What is in your mind?" And he said: "If you're going to try to tell the truth to the audience, you'd better be funny or they'll kill you." And I haven't forgotten that.”
“This is not a museum of tragedy. It is not the museum of difficult moments. It is the museum that says -here is a balanced history of America that allows us to cry and smile.”
“This is not a must-win; World War II was a must-win (Referring to the Super Bowl)”
“This is not a new idea; this is the idea of the age of reason. This is the philosophy that guided the men that made the democracy that we live under. The idea that no one really knew how to run a government led to the idea that we should arrange a system by which new ideas could be developed, tried out, and tossed out if necessary, with more new ideas brought in—a trial and error system.”
Source: What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character
“This is not a new world - it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements...technological advances...and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like everyone of the super-states that preceded it - it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.”
“This Is Not a Novel memorializes the treasures and detritus of one man's singularly cultured mind. (...) If you don't know Writer's work at all, try This Is Not a Novel. There may be some doubt about exactly what kind of book it is, but not that it's altogether wonderful.”
“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
“This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years.”
“This is not a philosophy of not looking where one is going; it is a philosophy of not making where one is going so much more important than where one is that there will be no point in going.”
Source: The Way of Zen
“This is not a phone business. This is the smallest video camera, it's the smallest computer, smallest TV.”
“This is not a piece of paper, but my arm extending across all the damn miles between us to hold you and hug you with all the strength, we have had to gain from the pain.”
Source: Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989
“This is not a place, after all. It is BETWEEN places. This is NOWHERE. A brief thought: I could stay here, abandon my quest, hang forever in the void, safe and cold and alone.”
“This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid.”
“This is NOT a pretty good business. You cannot be pretty good and be a national headliner. That becomes the allure.”
“This is not a problem. I'm making everybody very calm, distracted by my bad results and then I'm going to shoot. One good result and I'm coming back. This is a distraction, it's the calm before the storm.”
“This is not a reaction against a negative world. It's a response to a negative world.”
“This is not a reaction to your words or actions, rather, it is in direct response to them”
“This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it.”
“This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely.”
“This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.”
“This is not a story, he told himself. This is reality, and I am living it right now.”
Source: The Stardust Thief
“This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic; at least I do not mean it to be. It is a glimpse of two lives running parallel for a time, with similar hopes and convergent dreams.”
Source: The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
“This is not a story which denies trans identities; nor that argues trans people deserve to lead anything other than happy lives, free of harassment, with access to good healthcare. This is a story about the underlying safety of an NHS service, the adequacy of the care it provides and its use of poorly evidenced treatments on some of the most vulnerable young people in society. And how so many people sat back, watched, and did nothing.”
Source: Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
“This is not a sweet skein of thought. Unthread it, Rachel.”
Source: Be My Wolff
“This is not a time for fear, brethren, but rather a time for faith - a time for each of us who holds the priesthood to be his best self.”
“This is not a time to back away from the principles that this country was founded on.”
“This is not a time to cast blame. Those who do so may be hiding behind the excuse of helping but it is a power play and actually quite hurtful.”
“This is not a time to keep the facts from the people-to keep them complacent. To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public. For, as the poet Dante once said: 'The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”
“This is not a time to quail, it is not a crisis, nor should we see it as an excuse for wobbling or self-doubt. But it is a moment for hope...”
“This is not a time to whine. Now is the moment to illuminate your path. It is Thanksgiving time.”
Source: The Gift of Thanksgiving
“This is not a time when women should be patient. We are in a war and we need to fight it with all our ability and every weapon possible. Women pilots, in this particular case, are a weapon waiting to be used.”
“This is not a tough job. You read a script. If you like the part and the money is O.K., you do it. Then you remember your lines. You show up on time. You do what the director tells you to do. When you finish, you rest and then go on to the next part. That's it.”
“This is not a tree-sitting Buddhist Movement. You have go get up from under the tree and do something! You have to get off Facebook and do something!”
Source: The Citizen Army
“This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.”
“This is not a victim rushing to meet her savior.
This is a queen considering whether or not to treat with an enemy.”
Source: Desperate Measures
“This is not a war, this is a test of how far man can be degraded”
Source: Birdsong
“This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life.”
“This is not about celebrity justice, this is about the rights of the children.”
“This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin Powell said that . . .”
“This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin Powell said that . . . In these disturbing and distressing times, surely it's cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than it is to defend yourself against them..Justice is the surest way to get peace.”