T Quotes
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“Though I may have been a misfit, I was also a romantic.”
Source: Go
“Though I may not . . . be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy - on experience.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“Though I may not be a king in my future life, so much the better: I shall nevertheless live an active life and, on top of it, earn less ingratitude.”
“Though I may not believe in the order of the universe, yet I love the sticky little leaves as they open in spring. I love the blue sky, I love some people, whom one loves you know sometimes without knowing why. I love some great deeds done by men, though I've long ceased perhaps to have faith in them, yet from old habit one's heart prizes them... I want to travel in Europe, Alyosha; I shall set off from here. And yet I know that I am only going to a graveyard, but it's a most precious graveyard, that's what it is! Precious are the dead that lie there, every stone over them speaks of such burning life in the past, of such passionate faith in their work, their truth, their struggle and their science, that I know I shall fall on the ground and kiss those stones and weep over them; though I'm convinced in my heart that it's long been nothing but a graveyard. And I shall not weep from despair, but simply because I shall be happy in my tears, I shall steep my soul in emotion. I love the sticky leaves in spring, the blue sky--that's all it is. It's not a matter of intellect or logic, it's loving with one's inside, with one's stomach. One loves the first strength of one's youth. Do you understand anything of my tirade, Alyosha?" Ivan laughed suddenly.
"I understand too well, Ivan. One longs to love with one's inside, with one's stomach. You said that so well and I am awfully glad that you have such a longing for life," cried Alyosha. "I think everyone should love life above everything in the world."
"Love life more than the meaning of it?"
"Certainly, love it, regardless of logic as you say, it must be regardless of logic, and it's only then one will understand the meaning of it. I have thought so a long time. Half your work is done, Ivan, you love life, now you've only to try to do the second half and you are saved.”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov
“Though I may not flow where the wind guides me, I won’t become still water.”
“Though I may think of this in terms of theology, we cannot attribute all evil and ill-will to the power beneath the earth. Just s friendship is a human thing, so too is the earl's malice.”
Source: Turning Darkness Into Light
“Though I myself am an atheist, I openly profess religion in the sense just mentioned, that is, a nature religion. I hate the idealism that wrenches man out of nature; I am not ashamed of my dependency on nature; I openly confess that the workings of nature affect not only my surface, my skin, my body, but also my core, my innermost being, that the air I breathe in bright weather has a salutary effect not only on my lungs but also on my mind, that the light of the sun illumines not only my eyes but also my spirit and my heart. And I do not, like a Christian, believe that such dependency is contrary to my true being or hope to be delivered from it. I know further that I am a finite moral being, that I shall one day cease to be. But I find this very natural and am therefore perfectly reconciled to the thought.”
Source: Lectures on the essence of religion
“Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.”
“Though I never really had you….
… to me you will always be the one that got away.”
“Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!”
Source: The Rivals: A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden
“Though I never shout at Labour Members or insult them, I can never understand the psychology of some of our men who endeavoured to reason with them.”
“Though I obviously have no proof of this, the one aspect of life that seems clear to me is that good people do whatever they believe is the right thing to do. Being virtuous is hard, not easy. The idea of doing good things simply because you're good seems like a zero-sum game; I'm not even sure those actions would still qualify as 'good,' since they'd merely be a function of normal behavior. Regardless of what kind of god you believe in--a loving god, a vengeful god, a capricious god, a snooty beret-wearing French god, or whatever--one has to assume that you can't be penalized for doing the things you believe to be truly righteous and just. Certainly, this creates some pretty glaring problems: Hitler may have thought he was serving God. Stalin may have thought he was serving God (or something vaguely similar). I'm certain Osama bin Laden was positive he was serving God. It's not hard to fathom that all of those maniacs were certain that what they were doing was right. Meanwhile, I constantly do things that I know are wrong; they're not on the same scale as incinerating Jews or blowing up skyscrapers, but my motivations might be worse. I have looked directly into the eyes of a woman I loved and told her lies for no reason, except that those lies would allow me to continue having sex with another woman I cared about less. This act did not kill 20 million Russian peasants, but it might be more 'diabolical' in a literal sense. If I died and found out I was going to hell and Stalin was in heaven, I would note the irony, but I couldn't complain. I don't make the fucking rules.”
Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
“Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party seems to hate our president [Barack Obama] and a lot of other Democrats.”
“Though I often looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris.”
Source: The Paris Wife: A Novel
“Though I often run out of courage and good sense, stubbornness keeps me going.”
“Though I play at the edges of knowing, truly I know our part is not knowing, but looking, and touching, and loving”
Source: Why I Wake Early: New Poems
“Though I revise constantly as I write, I will usually revise much of the work again after I've reached the ending.”
“Though I should have known better, I had to ask. "What is furniture disease?"
She looked at me like I had the IQ of a grape. "It's when your chest falls into your drawers. Get ready for it, honey, because with that rack of yours, you'll be using them as knee pads before you know it.”
Source: Board Stiff
“Though I sit down now, the time will come whenyou will hear me.”
“Though I soon became typecast in Hollywood as a gangster and hoodlum, I was originally a dancer, an Irish hoofer, trained in vaudeville tap dance. I always leapt at the opportunity to dance in films later on.”
“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not
money, I am become as a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And
though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries,
and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could
remove mountains, and have not money, I am nothing. And though I
bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to
be burned, and have not money, it profiteth me nothing. Money
suffereth long, and is kind; money envieth not; money vaunteth not
itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave unseemly, seeketh not her
own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in
iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth
all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. . . . And now
abideth faith, hope, money, these three; but the greatest of these
is money.
I Corinthians xiii (adapted)”
Source: Keep the Aspidistra Flying
“Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody.”
“Though I still turn up my coat-collar in a lonely way and am always looking at myself in mirrors, they’re only habits and give no clue at all to my character, whatever that is. The most difficult performance in the world is acting naturally isn’t it? Everything else is artful.”
Source: Burning your boats: the collected short stories
“Though I suppose each experience like this, just like everyone's loneliness, feels uniquely uncategorizable—the particular contours of another person's borders that collide with your own before leaving behind a crater that will be there the rest of your life.”
Source: Apartment
“Though I suppose fewer interruptions do make for more reading time.”
Source: Belladonna
“Though I think and speak of greater becoming, I, too, am an infinite work in progress.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“Though I've long thought I could hold back time through dance and creativity, I know that one day life will catch up with me. I won't last forever, I know. One day, I too will haunt this place, dancing like a dust devil in the wind.”
Source: To Dance on Sands: The Life And Art of Death Valley's Marta Becket
“Though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the evilest motherfucker in the valley”
Source: The Beach
“Though I walk through The Valley of the Shadow of Death, I will fear no evil”
Source: V for Vendetta
“Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.”
Source: The Dresden Files Collection 7-12
“Though I was a Catholic, I recognized that Protestant churches had something.”
“Though, I was born a Hindu, I solemnly assure you that I will not die as a Hindu”
Source: Writings And Speeches: A Ready Reference Manual
“Though I was careful never to mention it, I began to see a new dimension in everything that happened.”
Source: The Rum Diary: A Novel
“Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.”
“Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight.”
“Though I was satisfied that I was on the verge of perhaps a magnificent find, probably one of the missing tombs that I had been seeking for many years, I was much puzzled by the smallness of the opening in comparison with those of other royal tombs in the valley.”
“Though I was standing in front of a mirror, I wasn't really seeing my reflection. I was seeing, very clearly, that—at the moment—I was all in the world that Eric could think of as his own. I had better not fail him.”
Source: Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set
“Though I was starved for contact, I didn’t stop to talk to any of these strangers. I had forgotten how to convincingly speak the polite things strangers say to each other.”
Source: Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
“Though I was sure she’d never noticed it, I had spent my whole life doing what I could to protect her. I didn’t know if she could survive without me. I didn’t know who I would be if she no longer needed me to stand guard.”
Source: Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War
“Though I weigh only 120 pounds, when I'm mad, I weigh a ton.”
“Though I will always be a visitor to Charleston, I will always remain one with a passionate belief that it is the most beautiful city in America and that to walk the old section of the city at night is to step into the bloodstream of a history extravagantly lived by a people born to a fierce and unshakable advocacy of their past. To walk in the spire-proud shade of Church Street is to experience the chronicle of a mythology that is particular to this city and this city alone, a trinitarian mythology with equal parts of the sublime, the mysterious, and the grotesque.”
Source: The Lords of Discipline
“Though I would have liked my chances in a rematch in 1998 if I were better prepared, it was clear then that computer superiority over humans in chess had always been just a matter of time.”
“Though I would not delight to see the straps sink into your skin, neither would I mourn.'
'Enough blustering,' he says. 'You've already won. Look.'
He takes me by the shoulders and turns me so that I can see where the great body of the serpent lies. A jolt of horror goes through me, and I try to wrench out of his grip. And then I notice the fighting has ebbed, the Folk are staring. From within the body of the creature emanates a glow.
And then, through that, Cardan steps out. Cardan, naked and covered in blood.
Alive.
Only out of his spilled blood can a great ruler rise.
...
Cardan takes a step forward and little cracks appear from his footfalls. Fissures in the very earth. He speaks with a boom that echoes through everyone gathered there. 'The curse is broken. The king is returned.'
He's every bit as terrifying as any serpent.
I don't care. I run into his arms.”
Source: The Queen of Nothing
“Though I'd have to say it was generally the guys in Detroit, as a group, that won the two Championships. They were terrific and I always look back very fondly.”
“Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.”
“Though I'm a congresswoman by title, a politician I've never been.”
“Though I'm a rogue in talking upon Painting & Love I can be serious and honest upon any subject thoroughly pleasing to me.”
“Though I'm anything but clever, I could talk like that forever.”
Source: The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan
“Though I'm not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover.”
“Though I'm not religious, I am interested in religion. I read a lot of history and I think it came out of that. I just think I couldn't understand certain eras of history without knowing what these people believed in.”