T Quotes
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“Thomas Wollaston, in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, complained that Darwin did no seem to know what a species actually was. The British Quarterly, deliberately sitting up trouble, speculated that a time might come when a monkey could propose marriage to a genteel British lady. Perhaps cruelest of all was a cartoon in Punch magazine, depicting a gorilla with a sign on its neck. Deliberately evoking the anti-slavery tract of Darwin's Wedgwood forbears, the sign read:"Am I a Man and a Brother?”
Source: Darwin's Notebook: The Life, Times, and Discoveries of Charles Robert Darwin
“Thomas: Is it [my brain] fixed? Brenda: It worked, judging from the fact that you're not trying to kill us anymore.”
“Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.”
Source: The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
“Thomson sought the wilderness, never seeking to tame it, but only to draw from it, its magic of tangle and season.”
“Thomson's views on the recent age of the world have been for some time one of my sorest troubles.”
Source: Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution
“Thongs are the leading cause of pregnancy in the United States.”
“Thongs don't show. With jeans, you're always going to get panty lines and I think that's just a big mistake.”
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“Thor and Loki are defined by each other.”
“Thor frowned as if he’d just had a thought, which must have been a painful experience.”
Source: The Hammer of Thor
“Thor has been banished from Scandinavia, Ra's sun has set in Egypt and Zeus lies buried in the snow at Mount Olympus. But the myths of lord Ram reign strong India, Lord Krishna has not ceasrd to dance in out hearts.”
Source: Immortal India: Articles and Speeches by Amish
“Thor is a legend after all and if you're getting a legend back, you've got to get the Darby in.”
“Thor looked at Maddy. "What d'you mean, Father?"
He had loosened his grip on Loki, who was now flattened against the cell wall as far from Jormungand as he could manage while Ellie, incensed at this latest invasion, lashed out at the serpent with her walking stick.
"Terrific," said Loki under his breath. "Come to Netherworld. Meet the kids.”
Source: Runemarks
“Thor looked out on the two great rolling rivers of cloud. It was a bad way for one to go, cold and suffocating. Yet if he went that way he could keep on his shoulder the hammer which he would not leave in another's charge. He stept out into the Cloud River that flowed by the Rainbow Bridge, and with his hammer upon his shoulder he went struggling on to the other river.
Odin, Tyr, and Baldur were beside Urda's Well when Thor came struggling out of the Cloud River, wet and choking, but with his hammer still upon his shoulder. There stood Tyr, upright and handsome, leaning on his sword that was inscribed all over with magic runes; there stood Baldur, smiling, with his head bent as he listened to the murmur of the two fair swans; and there stood Odin All-Father, clad in his blue cloak fringed with golden stars, without the eagle-helmet upon his head, and with no spear in his hands.”
Source: THE CHILDREN OF ODIN: The Book of Northern Myths
“Thora is so much simpler. She is a hollow thing with no past no future. No desires. No anger. Only fear. Only obedience”
Source: Ash Princess
“Thorby had two choices. Be adopted quietly or make a fuss and be adopted anyhow”
Source: Citizen of the Galaxy
“Thoreau had been her favourite philosopher to study. But who seriously goes confidently in the direction of their dreams? Well, apart from Thoreau. He'd gone and lived in the woods, with no contact from the outside world, to just sit there and write and chop wood and fish. But life was probably simpler two centuries ago in Concord, Massachusetts, than modern life in Bedford, Bedfordshire.
Or maybe it wasn't
Maybe she was just really crap at it. At life.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“THOREAU KNOWS
(The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.)
Making sense of things,
Trying to track
Nine pebbles of sadness
To their source.
Sly crows
Stole them a mile back,
But Thoreau knows
I should walk anyway
Under sun-coined trees
Thick with wood-thrush song
Till I reach undergrowth
Dense and itchy with the past
Till the air cools and I am near
Enough to con crow talk
Mouth fulls, stories dark.”
Source: Reincarnation & Other Stimulants: Life, Death, & In-Between Poems
“Thoreau the “Patron Saint of Swamps” because he enjoyed being in them and writing about them said, “my temple is the swamp… When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most impenetrable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place, a sanctum sanctorum… I seemed to have reached a new world, so wild a place…far away from human society. What’s the need of visiting far-off mountains and bogs, if a half-hour’s walk will carry me into such wildness and novelty.”
Source: Walden and Other Writings
“Thoreau was an idiot.”
“Thorkell Mylrea had waited long for a dead man's shoes, but he was wearing them at length.”
Source: The Deemster
“Thorn box
Meaning: Girlhood
Bursaria spinosa | Eastern Australia
Small tree or shrub with furrowed dark grey bark. Smooth branches are armed with thorns. Leaves yield pine-like fragrance when bruised. Sweetly scented white flowers bloom in summer. Provides nectar to butterflies and safety to small birds. Intricate architecture of thorns is much sought after by spiders for constructing webs.”
Source: The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
“Thorn bushes grow where armies have camped.”
“Thorn gazed back and forth between the two of us. "You could have left me behind, but you stayed. I won't forget that.”
Source: Into the Mist
“Thorn. Good demon overlord.”
Source: Son of No One
“Thorn plants a kiss on my forehead and ruffles my hair. He says, chuckling, “West. You know it always goes west.”
Source: Pearl of Meissa
“Thorn stood without motion, for only when you are truly still can you be the centre. She stood without sound, for only silent can you listen. She stood without fear, for only the fearless can understand their peril.
Thorn waited. Fearless as flowers, bright, fragile, open to the sky. Brave, as only those who’ve already lost can be.”
Source: Red Sister
“Thornclaw looked doubtful. “That ShadowClan warrior was right. It’s not up to ThunderClan to save every cat.”
Bramblestar met his gaze. “If we can save one life, StarClan would want us to try.”
Source: Bramblestar's Storm
“Thorne blinked at her, then down at the sewage he could barely make out in the darkness. "Don't you have some tool in that fancy hand of yours that can get us across?" Cinder glared, light-headed from her body's instinctively short breaths. "Oh, wow, how could I have forgotten about my grappling hook?”
“Thorne cleared his throat. "We need to get back to the house. We've already risked drawing enough attention, and she..." He looked at Winter. There was an edge to his expression, like he didn't trust anyone who was more attractive than he was. "...will definitely draw attention.”
Source: Winter
“Thorne’s dislike of theory was legendary. In his view, a theory was nothing more than a substitute for experience put forth by someone who didn’t know what he was talking about.”
Source: The Lost World
“Thorne waved his hand. "They already showed the clips. And now you've achieved the dream of every red-blooded girl under the age of twenty
five"
"Right, my life is a real dream come true."
Thorne wiggled his eyebrow. "Maybe not, but at least dreamy Prince Kai knows your name.”
Source: Scarlet
“Thornes whiten yet doe nothing.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Thorns make the pedestrian,
Roses make rosary.
Action builds the world,
Imagination treats anxiety.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog;
but you're never friendless ever, if you have a dog.”
“Thorns with rose petals, beauty with imperfection, softness of insensibility, pain of love; duality of human nature”
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“Thorny compositions that sound as if female teen punkers the Shaggs received doctorates in the music of 12-tone composer Alban Berg, and then rewrote their Philosophy of the World.... Carefully notated structures and interplay morph effortlessly into free improvisation that is intelligent and expressive, but never self-indulgent. Also featuring intense lyrics sung with their clear and melodic voices, the two women make transcendent chamber music outside of any genre.”
“Thorough preparation must lead to success. Neglect nothing.”
“Thoroughbred racing is really my true passion. I'm living my dream.”
“Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.”
“Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is a lover's most stoical virtue, as the lack of it is a lover's most venial sin.”
Source: FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel
“Thoroughly to believe in one's own self, so one's self were thorough, were to do great things.”
“Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.”
Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts
“Thoroughly to unfold the labyrinths of the human mind is an arduous task.... In order to dive into those recesses and lay them open to the reader in a striking and intelligible manner, 'tis necessary to assume a certain freedom in writing, not strictly perhaps within the limits prescribed by rules.”
Source: The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia
“Thoroughly understand what it is to understand, and not only will you understand the broad lines of all there is to be understood but also you will possess a fixed base, an invariant pattern, opening upon all further developments of understanding.”
Source: Insight: A Study of Human Understanding