T Quotes
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“This will be their 19th consecutive game without a win unless they can get an equaliser.”
“This will be triumph! This will be happiness! Yea, that very thing, happiness, which I have been pursuing all my life, and have never yet overtaken.”
Source: The separation: a tragedy
“This will equally apply to every Latter-day Saint. Salvation is an individual operation.”
“This will hurt ye more than it does me,” she said as she pulled the thread through his skin.
“Nay, lass, you’re but tickling me,” he said, his eyes never leaving hers. His thumb rubbed back and forth over her forearm.
“What are ye doing?” she demanded.
“Hmm?” He blinked, all innocence.
She looked pointedly down at his hand. His thumb stopped.
“I was just distracting myself a bit from the pain,” he said. “Ye’re fair soft.”
“Ye’re accustomed to scratchy wool. That’s just the silk ye feel.”
“No, I can imagine ye beneath your clothes,” he said. “I’m thinking your skin puts silk to shame.”
Source: Sins of the Highlander
“This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.”
“This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“This will never serve,” he said, casting a disdainful eye over the cell. “I will not have your breath at risk.”
“My lord-“
“Peace, Will.” The Earl drew himself up to his full, slight height as if the gesture pained him. “Thou’rt here for thine own protection.”
Source: Hell and Earth
“This will not be a campaign of half measures, and we will accept no outcome except victory.”
“This will not last forever. One day soon it will be over and a week or a month after that it will seem as though it were no more than a dream. A nightmare, perhaps. But not something real. That's the remarkable thing about humanity; our capacity to forget.”
Source: The Mind Is Its Own Place
“This will of Stirner's, this restless probing of all given knowledge, this endless questioning, and the continuous bending towards new understanding.”
Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky
“This will play right into Obama's hands. He's humanitarian, compassionate. They'll use this to burnish their, shall we say, 'credibility' with the black community -- in the both light-skinned and dark-skinned black community in this country. It's made-to-order for them. That's why he couldn't wait to get out there, could not wait to get out there.”
“This will pose a serious dilemma for the PAP; the more unprepared the Opposition is to administer Singapore, the more likely the PAP will remain in power. However, as one-party dominant states do not last for too long, and simply waiting for the PAP to fracture and for one faction to lead the Opposition to capture power, or worse still, what if the PAP is suddenly voted out of power, the harm to Singapore could be irreparable. Would it not be a duty and obligation for the one-party dominant state to also think of Singapore and its interests to prepare an alternative government that will continue administering the Republic in the best interest of its people?”
Source: Is the People's Action Party Here to Stay?: Analysing the Resilience of the One-party Dominant State in Singapore
“This will provide an engine, an example that will allow Europe to go faster, further and better.”
“This will serve as a foretaste to that torment of hell which consists in having to review one's entire life with the knowledge that comes of hindsight, where the worst thing is not the confrontation with obvious misdeeds but with deeds one once considered worthy.”
Source: Letters to Milena
“This will serve as a foretaste to the torment of hell which consists in having to review one's entire life with the knowledge that comes of hindsight, where the worst thing is not the confrontation with obvious misdeeds but with deeds one once considered worthy”
Source: Letters to Milena
“This will serve as a foretaste to the tournament of hell which consists in having to review one's entire life with the knowledge that comes of hindsight, where the weary things is not the confrontation with obvious misdeeds but with deeds one once considered worthy”
Source: Letters to Milena
“This will sound like I grew up on another planet, except for those people who are past 55, 60 maybe. When I was growing up, my mother and her generation basically felt that you should only work as a way of passing time until you got married and had at least two children. And the only careers that were open for women at the time was teacher or nurse - which are fantastic careers, I mean fantastic and I actually am a former math teacher.”
“This will sound strange, and yet I'm sure it was the point: it was a bit like being high. That, for me, anyway, had always been the attraction of drugs, to stop the brutal round of hypercritical thinking, to escape the ravages of an unoccupied mind cannibalizing itself.”
“This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.”
“This will wreck you! Today, treat everyone you meet as if they're going to be dead by midnight. extend all the kindness and understanding you can, and do it with no thought of any reward.”
“This willful deafness to religious argument, so new in our history, has had various effects. A principal one is encouragement of the already widespread view that religion doesn't have a lot to do with modern concerns - the way people live, the way they think.”
“This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education. One submits oneself to other minds (teachers) in order to increase the chance that one will be looking in the right direction when a comet makes its sweep through a certain patch of sky.”
Source: On Beauty and Being Just
“This willingness to be frank and plain about the way that the world is, is a good first step. But that doesn't mean that you get what you want.”
“This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy, this Senior Junior, giant dwarf...Cupid.”
“This wind is mystical yet tame, and it sings to me.”
Source: Old Magic
“This Windows 95 hairball has become so big, so unmanageable, so hard to use, so hard to configure, so hard to keep up and running, so hard to keep secure. Windows 95 is a great gift to give your kid this Christmas because it will keep your kid fascinated for months trying to get it up and running and trying to figure out how to use it.”
“This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.”
“This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk.”
Source: The works of Jonathan Swift ...: with copious notes and additions, and a memoir of the author
“This winter, there will be no voices, no glimpses, no arms.
only the fabric of poetry, to keep me warm.”
Source: Turquoise Silence
“This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.”
Source: God Emperor of Dune
“This wise old whiskery fish swims up to three young fish and goes, 'Morning, boys, how's the water?' and swims away; and the three young fish watch him swim away and look at each other and go, 'What the fuck is water?' and swim away.”
Source: Infinite Jest
“This witch had been crafted from the darkness between the stars.”
Source: Queen of Shadows
“This, with the kid gloves of gentility white libs always use when they want to make your annoyance feel unreasonable. The flop-sweating jargon invoked to signal their literacy on the subject of your existence. That fart holding wince when they sense their good intentions going unrewarded.”
Source: Rejection
“This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative emotions.”
Source: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Practices for the Quest; Relax and Retreat
“This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It is a necessity, because it tries to provide the conditions wherein we are able to yield ourselves to intuitive leadings, promptings, warnings, teachings, and counsels and also to the inspiring peace of the soul. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative emotions.”
Source: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Practices for the Quest; Relax and Retreat
“This withdrawal of theology from the world of secular affairs is made more complete by the work of biblical scholars whose endlessly fascinating exercises have made it appear to the lay Christian that no one untrained in their methods can really understand anything the Bible says. We are in a situation analogous to one about which the great Reformers complained. The Bible has been taken out of the hands of the layperson; it has now become the professional property not of the priesthood but of the scholars.”
“This witnessing consciousness, this formless dimension of yourself, is the awareness in which your experience happens, yet it remains untouched by this experience at all times. It is similar to the background of white on which you are reading these words. This white background allows any and every word to exist within it, yet it is not confined to any of these words. Similarly, your awareness allows any and every form to exist within it, but it is not bound to any of these forms.”
Source: The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom
“This woman [Bow] was not simply a reflection of who her husband was. She was her own whole self. And even if we weren't exploring life through her eyes, when we did see her it was clear that she had a full life.”
“This woman [Hillary Clinton] has been in public, has been a nationally known figure for over 30 years. Why does anybody have to tell us who she is? And why does she need to be "humanized"?”
“This woman [Hillary Clinton] is as steeped and deep inside the establishment as anybody in this campaign.”
“This woman [Lena Dunham] makes up being raped or something at Oberlin College and then she did commercials for Hillary [Clinton] so she's a darling, she ran that TV show at HBO. HBO's a left-wing enclave. It's worshiped. And so she benefits from that.”
“This woman could be my downfall. Could make me forget who I am. All I am.”
Source: All I Am: Drew's Story
“This woman could break him when nothing that had come earlier in his life ever had.”
Source: Vendetta Road
“This woman could make a saint sin.”
Source: Love Restored
“This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.”
“This woman enabled her husband to cheat, and she wasn't doing either one of them any favors. Instead of leaving him, she would take him home, scold him, and then carry on with business as usual. Inside though, she would be hurting.
No woman could love a cheater and not pay the price for it.”
Source: Delicate Devastation
“This woman gained comfort in her misery by thinking GREAT THOUGHTS OF CHRIST.”
Source: Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
“This woman goes into a gun shop and says, 'I want to buy a gun for my husband.' The clerk says, 'Did he tell you what kind of gun?' 'No,' she replied. 'He doesn't even know I'm going to shoot him.”
“this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night”
“This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!”
Source: Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality