T Quotes
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“Those moments when we learn that mothers rage and fathers kill, that friends betray and authority is fallible, or that our own blank, innocent ignorance can destroy the pure, the good, and the loved are moments the very memory of which constitutes the beginning of a strategy to live in a world where such horrors exist.”
Source: The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village
“Those moments when you don't feel self-conscious, when you escape that, are when you produce something meaningful.”
“Those moments when you feel you want to read something truly beautiful. The eyes make a tour of the library, and there is nothing. Then you decide to take no matter what, and it is full of beautiful things.”
Source: The journal of Jules Renard
“Those monkey-thumbs were meant for dogs. Give me my thumbs, you fu**ing monkeys!”
“Those Montana Indians were so tough that white people were scared of them. Can you imagine a place where white people are scared of Indians and not the other way around? That's Montana.”
“Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions.”
Source: Nietzsche: 'On the Genealogy of Morality' and Other Writings Student Edition
“Those mortals who operate in the grey area between conviction and incredulity are in a position to choose most meaningfully, and with most meaningful consequences […] Perhaps only a doubter can appreciate the miracle of life without end.”
“Those most beset by commands are children. It is a miracle that they ever survive the pressure and do not collapse under the burden of the commands laid on them by their parents and teachers. That they in turn, and in equally cruel form, should give identical commands to their children is as natural as mastication or speech.”
Source: Crowds and Power
“Those most likely to be raped or sexually assaulted are young women between the ages of 16 and 24, women with their whole lives ahead of them. This one act of violence will alter their lives forever.”
“Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.”
“Those mountains had been there since before I was born, and they'd still be there when I was gone. They'd stayed standing through every tragedy I could think of, all the way right back through time, and for me, that meant something. Maybe that beauty can't really be beaten, that good things endure somewhere.”
“Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.”
Source: Poetical works
“Those movies... ridiculously inaccurate. The real gods of Asgard — Thor, Loki, Odin, and the rest — are much more powerful, much more terrifying than anything Hollywood could concoct.”
Source: The Sword of Summer
“Those Muslims in Americas army that stand with the Constitution, I support them, and I think we all have to.”
“Those mutually opposed manifestos are written with the same eloquence, they breathe the same virtuous indignation, and one is just as sincere as the other; that is to say both of them are equally brazen in their lies, and it is only fools who are deceived by them. Sensible persons, all those who have had some political experience, do not even take the trouble of reading such manifestos.”
Source: The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin
“Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.”
“Those nearest to our nearest may not happen to be the people who would have been our chief chosen friends, but they must be our friends; or memories are wounded and life made very ugly.”
Source: The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 04: What's Wrong with the World; The Superstition of Divorce; Eugenics and Other Evils; Divorce vs. Democracy; Social Reform vs. Birth Control
“Those negatively affected by globalization, those who are losing their jobs, and losing their skills, people out of training, must be looked after. Governments must establish policies, and governments and companies must actually address that issue, so that those who lose out from globalization can be retrained, recycled, re-established, cared for.”
“Those neon light nights, couldn't stay out of fights, keeps a-haunting me in memories. There is one in every crowd, for crying out loud, why was is always turning out to be me?”
“Those new regions [America] which we found and explored with the fleet . . . we may rightly call a New World . . . a continent more densely peopled and abounding in animals than our Europe or Asia or Africa; and, in addition, a climate milder than in any other region known to us.”
“Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.”
“Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.”
Source: Glass, Irony, and God
“Those nights when my paid was at its sharpest, it would have been so easy to slide into resentment and hatred. Yet as much as I loved him, I loved myself more.”
Source: Daughter of the Moon Goddess
“Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovine about them.”
“Those North Korean hackers are at it again. Earlier today they leaked Santa's naughty list.”
“Those not chasing their dreams should stay out of the way of those who are.”
“Those not favorable to the money trust could be squeezed out of business and the people frightened into demanding changes in the banking and currency laws which the Money Trust would frame.”
“Those not present are always wrong.”
“Those numbers had names, and many had family; each of those losses was keenly felt. No, there was nothing casual about casualties when they were your friends and countrymen.”
Source: Mayhem at the Mill
“Those numbers with Tony are so often and so interesting.”
“Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective.”
“Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.”
“Those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things,
Fallings from us, vanishings;
Blank misgivings of a Creature
Moving about in worlds not realised,
High instincts before which our mortal Nature
Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised”
“Those of different faiths and no faith should seek areas of common agreement based on their different perspectives.”
“Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.”
Source: Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion
“Those of fire move about the earth with inspiration and purpose. They are creative, and can consume and be consumed by their desires [...] My father-to-be was of the water and could not find a hold in the banks of earthiness. Water people can easily get lost.”
Source: Crazy Brave
“Those of little faith are of little hatred.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“Those of little faith mistake local cloud cover for general darkness. Keeping spiritually intact results in our keeping precious perspective by seeing "things as they really are."”
“Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood.”
Source: Table Money: A Novel
“Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.”
Source: Van Wyck Brooks: the early years: a selection from his works, 1908-1921
“Those of us and so many other stalwart critics and opponents and questioners and dissidents in conservative media were attacked for doing what those people in the mainstream media should have been doing. Do your job! Subject these political candidates to the same amount of scrutiny that you are now trying to compensate for with the incoming Trump administration!”
“Those of us directed towards the right were lined up in threes with much shooting and beating. I was in the first row, at the platform’s edge. Suddenly, we see a group of older women and women with children nearing the road, under the platform. In the first row I see my mother supported on both sides by two friends. She too becomes aware of me. And out of the throat of this reticent, soft-spoken woman who I don’t remember ever raising her voice, breaks out a terrible, desperate, piercingly loud, howling shout: ‘GYURIKA!!!”
“Those of us forced to read the London papers sometimes speculate about which is greater: the average British hack's sloth, mendacity, ignorance, obsequiousness, capacity for drink, or aversion to paying for that drink. Smart money tends to split between the latter two.”
“Those of us forged in the crucibles of difference know that survival is not an academic skill.”
“Those of us have minimized expectations walk around with a greater sense of thankfulness (because so many wonderful things that we didn't expect come our way each day).”
“Those of us in positions of responsibility, we'll need to be less concerned with the judgment of special interests and well-connected donors, and more concerned with the judgment of posterity.”
“Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid America.”
Source: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
“Those of us in the west have figured out a lot of ways to damage the lives of poor people in this country and around the world over the years.”
“Those of us living in the state of in between have certain advantages and disadvantages. The advantage of being exposed to a new culture and in my case the freedom that comes with living in the USA. The disadvantages of course being that you will never experience again being a center or quite home anywhere.”
“Those of us lucky enough to have a share of privilege in the more free societies should not be asking this question, but doing something to answer it.”