T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The dog pranced delightedly around his feet as if he'd been gone to another planet instead of merely underneath a car.”
Source: The Raven Boys
“The dog ran into the kitchen, stuck his nose in Grandma's crotch, and snuffled. Dang," Grandma said. "Guess my new perfume really works. I'm gonna have to try it out at the seniors meeting.”
Source: Hot Six: A Stephanie Plum Novel
“The dog sniffed at the bonfire like a ship with a wet nose docking at a foreign port." -Mgru”
“The dog that buried the bone which even a canine appetite could not manage, the squirrel that gathered nuts for a later feast, the bees that filled the comb with honey, the ants that laid up stores for a rainy day - these were among the first creators of civilization. It was they....who taught our ancestors the art of providing for tomorrow out of the surplus of today, or of preparing for winter in summer's time of plenty.”
Source: Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization
“The dog that insists will get its bone.”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“The dog that licks ashes, trust not with meale.
[The dog that licks ashes trust not with meal.]”
“The dog that trots about finds a bone.”
“The dog that will follow everbody ain't worth a curse.”
“The dog upstairs won't shut up, but I can't hate him, he's up there alone all day, making noise must be the only way he knows he's not a ghost.”
“The dog wags its tail only at living things.
A tail wag, the equivalent of a human smile,
is bestowed upon people, dogs , cats, squirrels,
even mice and butterflies. - but no lifeless
things. A dog won't wag its tail to its dinner
or to a bed, card, stick, or even a bone.”
“The dog was cold and in pain. But being only a dog it did not occur to him to trot off home to the comfort of the library fire and leave his master to fend for himself.”
Source: Buff: a Collie: And Other Dog-stories
“The dog was standing guard at the rail of the Hatteras, looking at the harbormaster and a woman on the pier in front of her.”
Source: Strangers and Sojourners: A Big Percy Pletcher thriller
“The dog which remembers only to bark and not to bite, and is led through the streets as a lady's pet, is only a degenerate wolf.”
Source: My country and my people
“The dog who doesn't bark is about a silence that speaks; it is a good metaphor for the Pariah voice, the dog's voice, that we can sometimes hear only when it does not speak.”
Source: The Hindus: An Alternative History
“The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.”
Source: The Double Garden: Works of Maeterlinck
“The dog without his master was like a body without a soul.”
Source: Understudies: Short Stories
“The dog won't bite if you beat Him with a bone”
“The dog writhing in the gutter, its back broken by a passing car, knows what it is to be alive. So too with the aged elk of the far north woods, slowly dying in the bitter cold of winter. The asphalt upon which the dog lies knows no pain. The snow upon which the elk has collapsed knows not the cold. But living beings do.”
“The dog's life is a good life, for a dog.”
“The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process.”
Source: Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies
“The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery.”
“The dog, to gain some private ends,
Went mad, and bit the man.”
“The dog, who had sounded so ferocious in the winter distances, was a female German Shepherd. She was shivering. Her tail was between her legs. She had been borrowed that morning from a farmer. She had never been to war before. She had no idea what game was being played. Her name was Princess.”
Source: SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE
“The dogged determination and patience of one person to do what is Right and Necessary may not always win the day or even be noticed, but it will tip the balance just a little in the direction of good.”
“The dogma is that that dogma is a mistake.”
“The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble.”
Source: Table talk, 1941-1944
“The dogma of cultural relativism is challenged by the very people for whose moral benefit the anthropologists established it in the first place. The complaint the underdeveloped countries advance is not that they are being westernized, but that the westernization is proceeding too slowly.”
“The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine ... maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes and mental processes; that there are mechanical causes of corporeal movements and mental causes of corporeal movements.”
Source: The Concept of Mind
“The dogma of the Ghost in the machine.”
“The dogma of the Incarnation is the most dramatic thing about Christianity, and indeed, the most dramatic thing that ever entered the mind of man; but if you tell people so, they stare at you in bewilderment.”
Source: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers Vol II: 1937-1943: From Novelist to Playwright
“The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes.”
Source: Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays
“The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.”
Source: Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard
“The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance of insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor of dishonor, to the latest generation. We SAY we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union. The world knows we do know how to save it. We-even we here- hold the power, and bear the responsibility. In GIVING freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free- honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope on earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just- a way which, if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless.”
“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.”
“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, our last best hope of Earth.”
“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.”
“The dogmatic and, therefore, invulnerable core in Islam is understandably simple: acknowledgement of faith, prayer, charity and fasting. Almost everything else is open to interpretation and modification in space and time.”
“The dogmatism of science has become a new orthodoxy, disseminated by the Media and a State educational system with a thoroughness and subtlety far exceeding anything of the kind achieved by the Inquisition; to the point that to believe today in a miraculous happening like the Virgin Birth is to appear a kind of imbecile.”
Source: Vintage Muggeridge: religion and society
“The dogmatist will listen to everyone's opinion, and then affirm to himself his godliness.”
“The dogmatist within is always worse than the enemy without.”
Source: Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history
“The dogs absolutely do bark and play with each other, even though [Marino] says she trains them not to be noisy. But they're animals; that's what they do.”
“The dogs did bark, the children screamed,
Up flew the windows all;
And every soul bawled out, Well done!
As loud as he could bawl.”
“The dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.”
“The dogs in our lives, the dogs we come to love and who (we fervently believe) love us in return, offer more than fidelity, consolation, and companionship. They offer comedy, irony, wit, and a wealth of anecdotes, the "shaggy dog stories" and "stupid pet tricks" that are commonplace pleasures of life.”
“The dogs left with us and we walked. I sobbed the whole way home, still heartbroken. My mom had no time for my whining.
“Why are you crying?!”
“Because Fufi loves another boy.”
“So? Why would that hurt you? It didn’t cost you anything. Fufi’s here. She still loves you. She’s still your dog. So get over it.”
Fufi was my first heartbreak. No one has ever betrayed me more than Fufi. It was a valuable lesson to me. The hard thing was understanding that Fufi wasn’t cheating on me with another boy. She was merely living her life to the fullest. Until I knew that she was going out on her own during the day, her other relationship hadn’t affected me at all. Fufi had no malicious intent.
I believed that Fufi was my dog, but of course that wasn’t true. Fufi was a dog. I was a boy. We got along well. She happened to live in my house. That experience shaped what I’ve felt about relationships for the rest of my life: You do not own the thing that you love. I was lucky to learn that lesson at such a young age. I have so many friends who still, as adults, wrestle with feelings of betrayal. They’ll come to me angry and crying and talking about how they’ve been cheated on and lied to, and I feel for them. I understand what they’re going through. I sit with them and buy them a drink and I say, “Friend, let me tell you the story of Fufi.”
Source: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“The dogs may bark, but the caravan moves on”
“The dogs with the loudest bark are the ones that are most afraid.”
“The dogs, and home, privacy is my constant.”
“The dog’s agenda is simple, fathomable, overt: I want. “I want to go out, come in, eat something, lie here, play with that, kiss you. There are no ulterior motives with a dog, no mind games, no second-guessing, no complicated negotiations or bargains, and no guilt trips or grudges if a request is denied.”
Source: Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs
“The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge