T Quotes
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“Trish "Patsy" Walker is just one of my favorite characters and she was a big comic character in the '40s.”
“Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.”
“Tristan and Yvaine were happy together. Not forever-after, for Time, the thief, eventually takes all things into his dusty storehouse, but they were happy, as these things go, for a long while”
“Tristan déposa un baiser dans le creux de son poignet. C’était si facile de se laisser tenter par l’intonation de sa voix, par le pouvoir hypnotique de son regard, par la chaleur de ses lèvres contre sa peau. Son sang entra en ébullition alors qu’il pressait sa bouche contre sa paume. Si facile et peut-être… trop facile, songea Elianor avec mélancolie et regret.”
Source: Séduire & Conquérir
“Tristan frowned, not sure if he wanted to live forever.
He hadn't even wanted to wake up that morning.
Forever seemed a bit ambitious.”
Source: Avow
“Tristan held up his arms to the Princess as she came out over the side, and carried her up through the shallows so that when he set her down on the white wave pattered sand, not even the soles of her feet were wet. Now this was the first time that ever they had touched each other, save for the times when the Princess had tended Tristan's wounds, and that was a different kind of touching; and as he set her down, their hands came together, as though they did not want it to be so quickly over. And standing hand in hand, they looked at each other, and for the first time Tristan saw that the Princess's eyes were deeply blue, the colour of wild wood-columbines; and she saw that his were as grey as the restless water out beyond the headland. And they were so close that each saw their own reflection standing in the other one's eyes; and in that moment it was as though something of Iseult entered into Tristan and something of Tristan into Iseult, that could never be called back again for as long as they lived.”
Source: Tristan and Iseult
“Tristan started the car, pulling carefully out onto the street now that the snow had begun to fall.
"You seemed so happy this last quarter," P.K. prompted.
"I was. I fell in love."
"And?"
"It didn't work out--isn't working out." Tristan shook his head. "I'm not ready."
"Ah," said P.K. They drove the rest of the way in silence. Tristan thought then that he was lucky; Jonathon and Daniel didn't know how to value a silence, but P.K. made it comfortable. He was glad he was here with P.K. and not alone in the unbearable silence of snow.”
Source: Crossing Borders
“Tristan was looking at him again.
"What are you looking at?" Gabriel snapped.
Tristan was trying not to smile. "You tell me."
Gabriel rolled his eyes. "Quit being a girl.”
Source: Avow
“Tristan was silent for a few moments, looking at the leaves before them. "Life isn't about the past and the future. It's about today." He paused. "It's about five minutes from now and two seconds ago. It's moments, you know? Not years. Years aren't what define us.”
Source: Anew
“Tristan was the soundtrack of my summer. The beat I walked to. The melody I breathed in and out. The lyrics I lived by.”
Source: A Week of Mondays
“Triste é como me sinto quando penso em Ellis, e até isso não é verdade, porque quando digo "tristeza", o que quero mesmo dizer é "um buraco negro dentro de mim cheio de pregos e pedras e vidro quebrado e de palavras que não tenho mais".”
Source: Garota em pedaços
“Tristesse plus tristesse, je sais pas si ça fait double ou demi-tristesse. Par certains côtés, ça double. On se dit: et puis quoi encore? qu'est-ce qui va encore me tomber sur la tête? est-ce qu'il y a une limite au chagrin?”
Source: Nothing Serious
“Tristezas não são comigo. Entretanto, em rapaz — quando fiz versos, nunca os fiz senão tristíssimos. As lágrimas que verti então — pretas, porque a tinta era preta — podiam encher este mundo, vale delas.”
Source: Memorial de Aires
“Tristeţi
Îmi port ca pe-un copil bolnav tristeţea,
prin parcu-n care frunzele, asemeni clopotelor plâng;
şi-aud cum creşte neliniştea începutului de toamnă departe,
şi cum aleargă păsările ploii, pe acoperişuri negre şi se frâng.
E-aceeaşi amintire şi-aceeaşi deznădejde veche.
Aş vrea cu braţele tale de astă-vară sa mă cuprinzi;
păşesc pe urmele trecutului nostru, cum aş merge după un om cunoscut,
şi totuşi, nu-ţi mai găsesc gestul, în lacul cu mohorâte oglinzi.
E pretutindeni, un aer apăsător, ca de spital,
şi pomii în despletiri, îşi spun mâhniri ştiute.
Amintirea ta îmi închide drumul ca un mal,
şi-mi simt gândurile, în pietrişul umed, căzute.
Aşa : vino să-mi ridici sufletul, ca pe-o coajă de copac,
şi să-mi citeşti durerile închise – cuiburi de păsări triste,
acolo. Mâinile tale sa-mi fie deznădejdii, mătăsoase batiste,
şi ochii tăi, pentru copilul tristeţelor mele, odihnitor hamac,
Vântul răscoleşte cerul ca pe-o carte deschisă.
Aud fâsâitul foilor pe care-s scrise atâtea poveşti dureroase.
... De departe vine prevestirea unui sfârşit apăsător,
şi eu îmi port tristeţea ca pe-un copil, prin săli de spital reci si întunecoase.”
Source: Poeme
“Tristețea mea aude nenăscuții câini
Pe nenăscuții oameni cum îi latră”
“Tristețea persista, dar durerea aproape că dispăruse, ca și cum s-ar fi evaporat. Atinsese acel prag unde durerea care sfâșie nu mai e decât o melancolie plutitoare ce mai curând umbrește decât rănește.”
Source: La Traversée du pont des Arts roman
“Tristo è quel discepolo che non avanza il suo maestro.”
“Trite though it (used to) sound, real sexuality is about our struggles to connect with one another, to erect bridges across the chasms that separate selves. Sexuality is, finally, about imagination. Thanks to brave people's recognition of AIDS as a fact of life, we are beginning to realize that highly charged sex can take place in all sorts of ways we'd forgotten or neglected—in a conversational nuance; in a body's posture, a certain pressure in a held hand. Sex can be everywhere we are, all the time.”
Source: Both Flesh and Not: Essays
“Trithemius' concern for conservation was rare, indeed, and is a lesson to modern library managers who discard printed volumes, believing that e-books are the only way of the future.”
Source: The History of the Book in 100 Books: The Complete Story, From Egypt to E-Book
“Tritons Trident!”
“Triumph by putting a little soul into it!”
“Triumph cannot help being cruel.”
“Triumph depends on a roll of Fate's dice; the ultimate prize is a place in Heaven.”
“Triumph in the face of adversity”
“Triumph is not having achieved. Triumph is being determined to achieve.”
“Triumph is the most beautiful thing in the world... but its foundation is human blood, and shreds of human flesh.”
“Triumph isn’t the endpoint, and defeat isn’t the end: It’s the perseverance to press on that truly matters… Only you have the power to script the chapters of your life’s story.”
Source: The Hultman Blueprint
“Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.”
“Triumph over adversity that's what the marathon is all about. Nothing in life can't triumph after that”
“Triumph should be my middle name because I never gave up.”
Source: Pinwheels and Dandelions
“Triumph through truth.”
“Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art.”
Source: New Monthly Magazine
“Triumphant capitalism has unleashed a powerful drive toward inequality, not improvement, in the social sphere.”
“Triumphant hours are the Lark's
Who circles skywards from his home each day:
World's early riser, with bubbling golden song,
Towards the firmament, guardian of April's gate.”
Source: Dafydd Ap Gwilym: A Selection of Poems
“Triumphant prayer is almost impossible where there is neglect of the study of the Word of God.”
“Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization.”
“Triumphant Tories, and desponding Whigs,
Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift: Accurately Revised in Twelve Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates. With Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes, Historical and Explanatory
“Triumphant utilitarianism is just another way of saying “let them die.”
Source: What World Is This?: A Pandemic Phenomenology
“Triumphantly, he announced their deaths to the cheering crowd in a famous one-word euphemism: vixere, 'they have lived' – that is, 'they're dead'.”
Source: SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
“Triumphs against the natural order of living exact unforeseen payments. At the same time that man attempts to straighten a crooked nature, he is striving to annihilate space, which seems but another phase of the war against substance. We ignore the fact that space and matter are shock absorbers; the more we diminish them the more we reduce our privacy and security.”
Source: Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition
“Triumphs are usually the outcomes of countless learned-from 'failures”
“Trivers, pursuing his theory of the emotions to its logical conclusion, notes that in a world of walking lie detectors the best strategy is to believe your own lies. You can’t leak your hidden intentions if you don’t think they are your intentions. According to his theory of self-deception, the conscious mind sometimes hides the truth from itself the better to hide it from others. But the truth is useful, so it should be registered somewhere in the mind, walled off from the parts that interact with other people.”
“Trivia are not knowledge. Lists of facts don't comprise knowledge. Analyzing, hypothesizing, concluding from data, sharing insights, those comprise knowledge. You can't google for knowledge.”
“Trivia rarely affect efficiency. Are all the machinations worth it, when their primary effect is to make the code less readable?”
Source: The Elements of Programming Style
“Trivial details have been summoned, in part, to make a satirical point about upper-middle-class marriage-that the whole thing can slip away between the white wine and the arugula salad.”
“Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.”
“Trivial losses often prove great gains.”
“Trivial Pursuit means that you've got nothing going on in your life. Trivial Pursuit is more than a board game. It is the way most people live. Their lives are trivial pursuits.”
“Trivial things weren't so trivial when they piled up, not a corn on the sole of a foot or dust heaped on a forgotten shelf.”
Source: Apartment Women
“Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.”
Source: Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader