T Quotes
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“This salt mist blots out everything
that comforts and speaks to the traveler:
roads, bridges, towns, trees.
There's no face I might see and know,
only the mist whose insistent hand
runs over our faces and flanks.”
Source: Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
“This same economic system, based on short-term growth and endless profits is also the reason for pretty much everything else that is lousy in our society, from private prisons to Fox News. What I'm arguing is that, in fact, what we've been told is a lie.”
“This same formula by which Buddhists so anti-rationalistically and anti-banausically describe the "relation" between soul and body also applies to the relation between lover and lover, parent and child, member and community.”
“This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.”
“This same Jesus, though, didn't say we had to be in relationship with everyone. We are not to 'throw [our] pearls to pigs.' (See Matthew 7:6.) He didn't deeply entrust his heart to Pharisees. You see him slipping through the throng of people bent on killing him. Often he withdrew from crowds in order to be with his Father. His is a story of connection with others, yes, but it's also a reminder that relationships don't come with an easy-to-understand blueprint.”
Source: The Seven Deadly Friendships: How to Heal When Painful Relationships Eat Away at Your Joy
“This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.”
“This (San Francisco) is the most beautiful city in America, Probably because it looks nothing like America”
“This [sand-dollar hunting] had become one of our rituals together, and though she would search for other varieties of shells when I was out of town or unable to see her, she would wait until I appeared on her front porch before setting off to extract these mute delicate coins from their settings in the sand. At first, we had collected only the larger specimens, but gradually as we learned what was rare and to be truly prized, we began to gather only the smallest sand dollars for our collection. Our trophies were sometimes as small as thumbnails and as fragile as contact lenses. Annie Kate collected the tiniest relics, round and cruciform and white as bone china when dried of sea water, and placed them in a glass-and-copper cricket box in her bedroom. Often we would sit together and admire the modest splendor of our accumulation. At times it looked like the coinage of a shy, diminutive species of angel. Our quest to find the smallest sand dollar became a competition between us, and as the months passed and Annie Kate grew larger with the child, the brittle, desiccated animals we unearthed from the sand became smaller and smaller. It was all a matter of training the eye to expect less.”
Source: The Lords of Discipline
“This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh!”
“This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars — they would think the country has gone insane.”
“This Sarah Perez had the most beautiful eyes in the world, those green eyes spangled with gold that you love so much: the eyes of Antinous. In Rome, such eyes would have made her a concubine of Adrian; in Madrid they helped her become the princess of Eboli ensconced in the bed of the king. But Philip II was extremely jealous of those wonderful emerald eyes and their delicate transparency, and the princess - who was bored with the funereal palace and the even more funereal society of the king - had the fancy and the misfortune to cast her admirable gaze upon the Marquis de Posa while she was leaving church one day. It was on the threshold of the chapel, and the princess believed herself to be alone with her camarera mayor, but the vigilance of the clergy was equal to the challenge. She was betrayed, and that very evening, in the intimacy of their bedroom, in the course of some violent argument or tempestuous tussle, Philip threw his mistress to the floor. Blind with rage he leapt upon her, tore out her eye and devoured it in a single gulp.
'Thus was the princess covered in blood - a good title for a conte cruel, that, which Villiers de l'Isle Adam has somehow omitted to write! The princess was henceforth one-eyed: the royal pet had a gaping hole in her face. Philip II, who had the Jewess in his blood, could not cleave so closely to a princess who had only one eye. He made amends to her with some new titles and estates in the provinces and - regretful of the beautiful green eye that he had spoiled - he caused to be inserted into the empty and bloody orbit a superb emerald enshrined in silver, upon which surgeons then inscribed the semblance of a gaze. Oculists have made progress since then; the Princess of Eboli, already hurt by the ruination of her eye, died some little time afterwards, of the effects of the operation. The ways of love and surgery were equally barbarous in the time of Philip II!
'Philip, the inconsolable lover, gave the order to remove the emerald from the face of the dead princess before she was laid in the tomb, and had it mounted in a ring. He wore it about his finger, and would never take it off, even when he went to sleep - and when he died in his turn, he had the ring bearing the green tear clasped in his right hand.”
Source: Monsieur de Phocas
“This Saturday? As in tomorrow Saturday? We have to give lectures in twelve hours? We're not prepared for that! I can't just pull a cyber-crimes lecture out of my ass!" He could, but it was the principle of the thing.”
Source: Divide & Conquer
“This Saturday I'm having a Yard Sale. I'm selling sod in cute little squares. (Buy Two, Get A FREE Duck!)”
Source: Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.
“This sausage roll only contains 2% of your daily intake of calories... if you lick it.”
“This saying is both true and terse:
There's nothing bad but might be worse.”
“This scar is a symbol of his love for me. The great lengths he will go to protect me. Heaven and back. - Audrey -”
Source: Meet Me in the Vines: A Second Chance Romantic Suspense (Oakwood Valley Book 1)
“This scar will forever be a reminder that no matter what, I’ll always protect you. - Donovan -”
Source: Meet Me in the Vines: A Second Chance Romantic Suspense (Oakwood Valley Book 1)
“This scene expresses the basic situation of immaturity; lyricism is an attempt to face that situation: the individual expelled from the protected enclosure of childhood wishes to enter the world, but at the same time, because he is frightened of it, he fashions an artificial replacement world out of his own verse. He makes his poems revolve around him like the planets around the sun; he becomes the center of a small universe in which nothing is alien, in which he feels as much at home as a child inside its mother, for everything here is fashioned only from the substance of his soul. Here he can accomplish everything that is so difficult "outside;" here he can, like the student Wolker, march with a proletarian crowd to make a revolution and, like the virginal Rimbaud, lash his "little girlfriends" because that crowd and those girlfriends are not fashioned out of the hostile substance of an alien world but out of the substance of his own dreams, and they are thus he himself and do not shatter the unity of the universe he has constructed for himself.”
“This scene may disturb you, so you have to pay attention.”
“This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.”
“This scholarly shortfall did not happen by chance. Part of it has to do with particular discomforts characteristics of left-leaning academic social scientists. Conducting high-quality ethnographic or long-term participant observation research can require a great deal of empathy for one’s subjects. Such research involves more or less taking on the perspective of the people and culture being studied. It means listening to their stories with honesty and, if only for a moment, giving their experiences and their explanations the benefit of the doubt. But most social scientists know the facts about inequality, wealth, and privilege, and thus find the empathy required for ethnographic research in short supply when it comes to the ultra-wealthy. Empathy is more naturally given to the people and communities obviously suffering harm, rather than, say, a Wall Street financier who struggles with the life complexities and social-psychological dilemmas that accompany immense wealth and power.”
Source: Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West
“This school is enough to make anyone a communist.”
Source: Among Others
“This scrappy attitude is not the empty bluster of a fearful ego with a yellow comb-over seeking to preserve itself. It is a knowing of one's own strength, fortified by the mortal dangers of poverty, labor, mysogyny, White supremacy.
It is the Statue of Liberty looking a bully in the eye in a barroom and saying to someone standing behind her, "Hold my torch.”
Source: Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class
“This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.”
“This scripture [Romans 13:1-6] is wrested from the scope of God's Spirit, and the nature of the place, and cannot truly be interpreted to mean that the power of the civil magistrate may be exercised in spiritual or soul matters.”
“This scroll tells us how to find Aeaea and approach Circe," Jocasta said, pulling everyone's focus back to her parchment. "It's a map - a heavily riddled map - but I think I've deciphered most of it.”
Source: A Curse of Queens
“This search for happiness can knock us out of sync with God. As the life of Jesus makes clear, keeping in sync with God is about obedience. Any other pursuit will get in the way.”
Source: Living beyond the limits : a life in sync with God
“This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.”
Source: The Path to No-Self: Life at the Center
“This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.”
“This search is my purpose; not because you chose it for me, Lord, but because I chose it for myself.”
Source: Omphalos
“This search is my purpose; not because you chose it for me, Lord, but because I chose it for myself. Amen.”
Source: Omphalos
“This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.”
“This season carries a frequency unfamiliar to history,” says the Lord. “I am orchestrating alignments that make no earthly sense but unlock heavenly strategies. You won’t echo past victories — you will originate patterns that rewrite testimony. I’ve assigned favor to follow your footsteps like a shadow, not to remind you of yesterday, but to prove that glory goes where obedience walks. Watch how I weaponize your rest — even silence will thunder with deliverance.”
“This season don't get lost in making the perfect meal or become overwhelmed with all the folks in your house. Use this time to center yourself.”
“This season has been full of rewards. The dinners and banquets just keep on coming. It's great. We want to carry it on as long as we can.”
“This season is a leveler. The 'shege' is right in your breast pocket. I know families in this country (Nigeria) who have no access to justice, simply because they cannot afford the bills. This is a grim form of inequality we have not had enough conversation about. The scarcity of money is threatening both law and society. The affluent wax stronger, but the rest of us…Jack London calls The People of the Abyss.”
“This season is my most special and most cherished. All my focus is on getting that championship back here.”
“This season is your reason to remember me
And all the time we have shared
Decorating each other’s lives”
“This season isn't going to be without several crises. There's no doubt about it. They're coming.”
“This season of life is called unlocking all fears, be prepared to do anything you were afraid of.”
“This season trim your inner tree with self kindness. You deserve it. Because you are perfect, just as you are.”
“This season won’t last forever,
Fifty-One months in the cold,
We are who we are because, together,
We faced the dark night of the soul”
Source: Tired Wonder: Beginnings and Endings
“This season, over eight productions, I am presenting four young tenors.”
“This seat is for VIPs only," he said, removing the placard and lifting the pillow. "That would be you."
Isabella felt like a piece of mozzarella cheese that'd been stretched and dunked and stretched again as it arrived at its final destination. A night that was supposed to be celebratory had become royally embarrassing, and now it was taking a turn toward the romantic?
"This is so nice," she said, finally looking at Gabe as he escorted her to her stool. His face was open and eager and focused entirely on Isabella. Was it because of her hair? Her dress? Her makeup? Well, no: when he'd first met her, she was wearing overalls and a tie-dyed Ben & Jerry's T-shirt and hadn't showered in two days and was about to get fired, and he'd still seemed smitten.
"Will you let me cook for you? Put yourself into my hands?"
If Isabella had a kink, this would be it.
"Ummm... a hundred percent yes?" she answered.”
Source: Food Person
“This seclusion of the artist with his work, sometimes misconceived as a selfish thing, is in truth as needful a tool as any, if a vision is to be made clear to others. And all the men I have known do creative work obtained it; either mechanically, by the walls of a workroom, or by that withdrawal into themselves which is part of their power.”
“This secular Leftist denial of human free will is one of the reasons the Left recoils from labeling evil as evil, and (correctly) ascribes talk about good and evil to the religious.”
Source: Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph
“This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with fifteen years of straight A's, but I knew that's what marriage was like, because cook and clean and wash was just what Buddy Willard's mother did from morning till night, and she was the wife of a university professor and had been a private school teacher herself.”
Source: the bell jar
“This seemed pretty good.
Almost annoyingly good.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“This seems charmingly paradoxical: scientists seek one truth but often voice many opinions; journalists often speak of many truths while voicing a uniform view.”
Source: Taken By Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming
“This seems clear enough: When truly present in nature, we do use all our senses at the same time, which is the optimum state of learning.”
Source: The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age