T Quotes
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“Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“Though I don’t consider myself religious, I've come to the realisation that there's something out there. And while I am certain no one truly knows who or what, what matters is faith itself. Faith is a personal, unique thing to each of us, and we should respect one another's beliefs.”
“Though I don't like the crew, I won't sink the ship. In fact, in time of storm I'll do my best to save it. You see, we are all in this craft and must sink or swim together.”
“Though I doubt she needs it, keep her safe, Prince.'
'I always keep what is mine safe,' ...”
Source: A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
“Though I doubted I would ever be blessed with a mate of my own, I still wished to plan for the possibility. The bookstores in Starzzia are popular among the human females who live here. Eventually, I went from purchasing books from Earth to further my studies to buying them in the hope that one day I would have a mate of my own who might enjoy them. And offspring, too. I have collected many children’s books as well.”
Source: Alien Warrior's Promise
“Though I enjoy the occasional eBook from time to time, I will only stop reading books printed on paper when they pry them from my cold, dead, withered hands, and even then, they will be hard pressed to take them from me.”
“Though I exist in the realms of day and night, I'm only truly alive in the moments between.”
“Though I FALL, I Will Fall As A TEMPLE; Though I RISE, I Will Rise As GOD, TIRUMAAL SRI MURUGA PERUMAL”
“Though I feared I would have no progress when I put down the drink, [my writing] hasn't changed. The creative search, and the fragments that I collect, reflects that.”
“Though I feel I should warn you that you that you could be here for a while. My friends aren't really known for their punctuality.”
“Though I felt dissatisfied, at least I felt like somebody, a person, rather than a thing exemplifying the second law of thermodynamics (all order tends toward entropy, decay, etc.).”
“Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time.”
“Though I had no respect for Jack Lewis, I respected the hole in his chest. He was dying, and you owe the dying your attention.”
Source: We, the Drowned
“Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.”
“Though I hated her, I was absolutely aware that my hatred was unjust. I knew that what I really hated was myself. And I would hate us both so much more when she was dead.”
Source: Midnight Sun
“Though I have considerable interest in Europe and in traveling, I am most content with simply working and allowing the world that I'm creating to unfold before my eyes.”
“Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.”
Source: That Affair Next Door and Lost Man’s Lane
“Though I have looked everywhere / I can find nothing lowly / in the universe.”
Source: Expressions of sea level
“Though I have many words,
What woman's satisfied,
I am no longer faint
Because at her side?
O who could have foretold
That the heart grows old?”
Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats
“Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so many rainy winter nights, that the contents have seeped into me as if by osmosis.”
“Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.”
Source: Her Brothers Her Journal
“Though I have seen a great deal of the sights, traveled a number of the available paths, there are always corners that remain unexplored, doors that remain unopened.”
“Though I have to admit, I had a good laugh when I realized you thought I was a bloodsucker." He smiles. "Oh, well excuse me. I mean since there are immortals running around, I figure we may as well bring on the faeries, wizards, werewolves, and—" I shake my head. "I mean jeez, you talk about all this like it's normal!”
Source: The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland
“Though I have usually posed as a Catholic, I have not done my duty for 15 years, and have not the slightest tincture of faith left.”
“Though I hope to have a few more seasons still in senior football, I am studying to be a physiotherapist and masseur when my playing days are over. We married men have to look to the future, you know.”
“Though I imagine in your case, trying not to fall just made you fall harder.”
“Though I knew how this failure would hurt you, I had to fold like a grey moth and let go.
You could not believe I was more than your echo.”
Source: Interlunar
“Though I knew I shouldn’t have cared, the words still hurt like pinches, and pinches can be very painful when done in the same place many times in a row.”
“Though I knew in my mind that others had felt such loss, this loss was mine, and I felt that no one would ever understand it, and to try to explain the lonliness and pain I felt would be futile.”
Source: Dreams Unleashed
“Though I knew so far as Anarchism was concerned I was backing a lost cause, it didn't seem to matter as every other cause had won at some time but that of the people themselves. At least it threw so a light on any other political persuasion.”
“Though I knew that this tangle consisting by turns of Mama and Jan or Matzerath and Mama – sighing, straining, then moaning in exhaustion, falling apart, trailing sticky threads – meant love, Oskar still couldn't believe that love was love, and moved by love sought other loves, yet always returned to that same tangle-love, hated that love till he'd practised that love himself and was forced to defend it in his own eyes as the only true and possible love.”
Source: The Tin Drum
“Though I know consciousness kind of boxes you in, it still encompasses the artists that I knew were conscious throughout history of music - they're the ones that you look at as the legends.”
“Though I know for a fact that some of my fans would be happy for me to do anything that's going to help me be successful, namely to go to a major label, and I thank them for that, there'd be a lot of people who I think wouldn't be so happy with that change, and when I DO get dropped, then where would I be?”
“Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.”
“Though I know I tell an awful lot of lies, I wouldn't really like to do anything that was dishonest.”
Source: They Came to Baghdad
“Though I know that he had something to do with the attack simulation, and with all those deaths, I find it difficult to pair those actions with the man I see in front of me. I wonder if this is how it is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likeable as good men.”
“Though I lack the art
to decipher it,
no doubt the next chapter
in my book of transformations
is already written.
I am not done with my changes.”
Source: The Collected Poems
“Though I later found a career as a journalist and an essayist, fiction is my first love and I never left it, even though there was no easy way to make a living from it.”
“Though I leave the house as little as possible, I have the impression that someone is disturbing my papers. More than once I have discovered that some pages were missing from my manuscripts. A few days afterward I would find the pages in their place again. But often I no longer recognize my manuscripts, as if I had forgotten what I had written, or as if overnight I were so changed that no longer recognized myself in the self of yesterday.”
“Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus.”
“Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.”
“Though I lost you years ago, I dreamed you were here. That dream gave me the inspirational feeling that I could make it one more day.”
“Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.”
“Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.”
“Though I love you like a brother, I would rather be your lover.”
“Though I love you to the core of my being, so thoroughly that every cell comprising me aches to be near you, I must accept that we can never be together. For our existence parallels the sun and the moon—a temptation in constant, beautiful view, yet if the sun were ever to kiss the moon it would devour the heavenly orb whole. Oh, my darling, if only I were the moon! Then I would dare taste your lips and be happy for my last and final joy! But alas, I am the sun, and I will not venture to destroy the one I love.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Though I’m curious as hell, I’m also afraid of what the answer might be.”
Source: U-Day
“Though I'm not sure, I thought I saw women dressed in black, with her head and face covered by a black veil, duck behind a tree as we approached the road and parked car. Hiding so we wouldn't see her. But I caught a glimpse, enough to reveal the rope of lustrous pearls she wore. Pearls that were there for a thin white hand to lift and nervously, out of long habit, twist and untwist into a knot. Only one women I knew did that--and she was the perfect one to wear black, and should run to hide!
Forever hide! Color all her days black! Every last one!”
“Though I may accumulate a great deal of riches in this world, it is only my wealth of knowledge, talents, and emotional bonds that I keep when I leave.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.”
Source: Poems New and Collected