T Quotes
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“This song is basically saying, "Give us all the suffering, we'll withstand it all!”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“This song is for the goners, whose smiles are dust”
Source: Thistlefoot
“This song is for the guy who keeps yelling from the balcony, and it's called 'We hate you, please die.'”
“This song of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is other music in these hills, by no means audible to all. On a still night, when the campfire is low and the Pleiades have climbed over rimrocks, sit quietly and listen, and think hard of everything you have seen and tried to understand. Then you may hear it - a vast pulsing harmony - its score inscribed on a thousand hills, its notes the lives and deaths of plants and animals, its rhythms spanning the seconds and the centuries.”
“This sordid affair has become an unacceptable distraction for Representative Weiner, his family, his constituents and the House - and for the good of all, he should step aside and address those things that should be most important - his and his family's well-being.”
“This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.”
“This sorrowful world... envelop it as gently as the night sky. -- Eugeo”
“This sorry poem
Isn't long
It's simply to say
I was wrong!!”
“This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.”
Source: DON JUAN
“This sort of behavior is left to the psychotic, dogmatic, fundamentalist believers you see on your TV everyday letting off bombs and killing people in the name of God. Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.”
“This sort of dwindling band of true believers each year gets together and talks about the wonderful progress that's been made. None of the rest of us can ever see that.”
“This sort-of déjà-vu happened increasingly. Yes, of course there were the occasional slip-ups she made — like 'forgetting' Ash had asthma (which he tried to keep under control via running):
'How long have you had it?'
'Since I was seven.'
'Oh yes, of course. I thought you'd said eczema.'
'Nora, are you okay?'
'Yes. Um, fine. It's just I had some wine with Lara at lunch and I feel a bit spaced out.'
But slowly, these slip-ups became less frequent. It was as though each day was a piece fitting into a puzzle and, with each piece added, it became easier to know what the absent pieces were going to look like.
Whereas in every other life she had been continually grasping for clues and feeling like she was acting, in this one she increasingly found that the more she relaxed into it, the more things came to her.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“This sort of encouragement is vital for any writer. And lastly the publication of Touching the Flame, which was on hold for two years and went through a few publishers before finding a stable home.”
“This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.”
Source: The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke
“This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart, was something I had not experienced with any other woman.”
Source: A Severed Head
“This sort of sickness is a nothingness, really – a state of limbo; neither well enough to be a functioning member of society nor possessing a sign of illness that signals to the world you are sick. There’s no broken arm. Not even a sore throat and hacking cough.”
“This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.”
“This soul has no home, no voice. Therefore it will burn in the sea as shadow until the darkness dawns.”
“This soul-o trip on Bessie was a spiritual renewal, a healing, a time to realize that no matter what life throws in my direction, I can cope, endure, and reach the other side of any situation a stronger woman.”
Source: Riding Soul-O
“This soul of mine is a wild ocean, restless to flow.
This soul, finds music in the flow.”
“This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.”
Source: The Common Reader
“This souls'prison we call England.”
“This sound meditation is gentle and subtle, but its benefits are extensive, in that it allows you to gently release tension that arises from your present circumstances, and if you choose to work with it further it can help release negativity from your past.”
“This sound, which like all music--indeed, like all pleasure--I had been numbly unresponsive to for months, pierced my heart like a dagger, and in a flood of swift recollection I thought of all the joys the house had known: the children who had rushed through its rooms, the festivals, the love and work, the honestly earned slumber, the voices and the nimble commotion, the perennial tribe of cats and dogs and birds, "laughter and ability and Sighing, And Frocks and Curls." All this I realized was more than I could ever abandon, even as what I had set out so deliberately to do was more than I could inflict on those memories, and upon those, so close to me, with whom the memories were bound. And just as powerfully I realized I could not commit this desecration on myself.”
Source: Darkness visible: a memoir of madness
“This sounded good — I like physical experiences that involve surrender. I didn’t know, however, very much about experiences that demand surrender — that run over you like a truck, with no safe word to stop it. I was ready to scream, but labor turned out to be the quietest experience of my life.”
Source: The Argonauts
“this sounds a little simple, but I think if we didnt know illness we wouldnt really feel the exhiliration of good health. and if we never cried, we wouldnt be able to recognize joy. in a way, the good only gains value when it is contrasted with the bad”
Source: The Faith Club: A Muslim, a Christian, a Jew: Three Women Search for Understanding
“This sounds admirable! I do so much admire what you are doing. Using this wonderful old house.”
Source: A MAN WHO SEEMED REAL: A story of love, lies, fear and kindness
“This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.”
“This sounds cheesy but when I would get in discussions with people about religion or spirituality, a lot of people would say, "I believe God is nature, there's God in that tree" - and I would think, What the hell are they on about? But it was about four or five years ago in Hawaii where that all made sense to me and I got it all, and I felt God was in the trees and in the grass and the flowers, and I completely understood.”
“This sounds corny, but I once told a kid when I was in a the library conference, the best - not the best, what I really hope for is that someday 20, 30 years from now, some kid, 12-year-old, 15-year-old, in Des Moines will be going through the stacks, if they have stacks anymore - they probably won't - and find a book of mine and get something from it.”
“This sounds crazy, but it is so.
Nor is it perhaps really love when I say that for me you are the most beloved; love is to me that you are the knife which I turn within myself.”
Source: Letters to Milena
“This sounds crazy, but I know so many famous people, I'm just not intimidated by anyone. I feel really comfortable with it.”
“This sounds crazy, but my goal is to be nominated for an Oscar. I was the kid who was practicing my acceptance speech when I was ten.”
“This sounds geeky, but when I run, I like to listen to musicals like Les Miserables. The soundtracks are 75 minutes or longer, and I keep going until the story ends, so it feels like a good workout.”
“This sounds like a big problem for everyone but me.”
“This sounds like a brag, but I know how to make good fried rice. I learned in college. There are two secrets - take the rice after you cook it and let it get cold in the fridge. Then cook the egg like you're making a fried egg and just before it's done, dump the rice and veg on it and swirl it around.”
“This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard to make a living as a writer. At that point, I was more interested in fiction writing.”
“This sounds like my autobiography, but I thought this would be a good time to sound off about myself, as I think that I have been silent too long about my views and opinions.”
“This sounds really lame, but I'm pretty proud of my feet.”
“This sounds really lame, but I'm pretty proud of my feet. I've gotten so many compliments for having nice feet. If someone has a foot fetish, I'd have an in. I love foot rubs, too. I'll take one whenever I can.”
“This sounds so bleak when I say it, but we need some delusions to keep us going. And the people who successfully delude themselves seem happier than the people who can't.”
“This sounds so bogus, but I would love to, at some point when my kids are in college, is just go do a whole season at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and do a year of plays. Most actors miss the days of live theater.”
“This sounds strange to many people, but I work out for exactly 16 minutes every day, and do so at maximum speed by running 2.5 miles. This keeps me healthy without taking up too much time so I can stay focused on other things. It's one of the most efficient things I do each day.”
“This soup tastes like windows”
“This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.”
Source: Freedom at Risk: Reflections on Politics, Liberty, and the State
“This southern city which seems only peripherally and accidentally America. This city which was once an outpost of Spain and once a region of Mexico. This city webbed with boulevards bearing the names of Spanish psychotics and saints. This incomplete city which seems to have no recognizable past, no ground that could be called unassailably sacred. This incomplete city that speaks of an impending terror.”
Source: Palm Latitudes
“This space station [Yang Liwei] was little more than a giant Orbital Denial Station. If those charges were to detonate, the debris...any future space launch would be grounded for years. It was a "Scorched Space" policy. "If we can't have it, neither can anyone else.”
“This spark between us is so strong. Sometimes, I feel it might steal the oxygen from the air around us."
"Exactly." He smiles and leans in to kiss her on the mouth.”
Source: The Peacock Summer
“This speaker reminds me of my childhood in Budapest. There were gypsy magicians who came to town to entertain us children. But as I recollect, there was one important difference: the gypsy only seemed to violate the laws of nature, he never really violated them!”
Source: Theodore Von Kármán, 1881-1963: In Memoriam
“This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal.... We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards with a delight that a cabbage patch or even an elegant vegetable garden cannot provoke.”
Source: Jane Grigson's Fruit Book