T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The Duke and Swing represent affirmation in the face of adversity.”
“The duke brought her hand to his mouth and, his azure eyes glittering in the candlelight, pressed a kiss to the inside of her wrist.
And then the edge of his teeth.
She felt the warm softness of his lips, the prickle of against tender skin, and a sort of shock seemed to go straight through the center of her body.
He let her go and her wrist felt the cold of night. "Séraphine. The burning one. I should've known.”
Source: Duke of Sin
“The duke contents himself mainly with attempting to rule the world and other suchlike nonsense. When one is guiding the patterns of the social universe, a single spinster preternatural is unlikely to cause one undue distress.”
“The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.”
“The Duke of Brabant takes me for a statistical office”
“The Duke of Buckingham gave me once a short but severe character of the two brothers. It was the more severe, because it was true: the King (he said) could see things if he would, and the Duke would see things if he could.”
Source: Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time: From the Restoration of K. Charles II to the Conclusion of the Treaty of Peace at Utrecht, in the Reign of Queen Anne. To which is Prefixed, a Summary Recapitulation of Affairs in Church and State, from King James I. to the Restoration in the Year 1660. Together with the Author's Life and Some Explanatory Notes
“The Duke of Clarence . . . a prisoner in the Tower, was secretly put to death and drowned in a barrel of Malmesey wine.”
“The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence.”
“The Duke of Edinburgh has perfected the art of saying hello and goodbye in the same handshake.”
“The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.”
Source: Sybil, Or, The Two Nations
“The duke sounded like he was trying to convince himself. “Have you ever done this before?” “Set up someone by pretending to be someone else? Sure. Pretended to get killed? Not so much.”
Source: Shadow's Edge: Book 2 of the Night Angel
“The duke was sitting silently in the corner, long legs casually outstretched, arms loosely crossed over him, surveying the room with ironic eyes.
They lingered on her; he gave her the faintest of smiles.
It was almost impossible to believe that this was the man who had said to her 'I want you naked beneath me.'
Apart from the rush of blood to various places in her body when she thought it, she could almost imagine it hadn't happened at all.”
Source: What I Did for a Duke
“The Duke would not pay for the works. He says that the Castle can never be taken. That is called hubris, Giacomo, the belief that you are never wrong. Believing you are never wrong is an error that afflicts great men. I have learned that to be right you must first be wrong many times. Without making errors--and learning from them--a man cannot find the truth.”
Source: Leonardo's Shadow: Or, My Astonishing Life as Leonardo da Vinci's Servant
“The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope: With Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks
“The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.”
Source: Silas Marner ; And, Scenes of Clerical Life
“The dull pain of truth weights my soul, pulling it under. I am left hopelessly awake.”
Source: The Sweet Far Thing
“The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time.”
Source: My Miscellanies
“The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition.”
Source: The big stick, 1905-1907
“The dullard finds even wine tasteless, while the sorcerer is intoxicated by the mere sight of water.”
“the dullard sees no eros in fine champagne; the sorcerer can fall intoxicated on a glass of water”
Source: T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism
“The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.”
“The duller eye may often see a thing sooner than the keener.”
“The dullest man in the world is charming beyond belief when he's pouring gold coins from one hand to the other.”
Source: The Redemption of Althalus
“The dullest observer must be sensible of the order and serenity prevalent in those households where the occasional exercise of a beautiful form of worship in the morning gives, as it were, the keynote to every temper for the day, and attunes every spirit to harmony.”
Source: The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated): The Entire Opus of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall and many more
“The dullest Olympic sport is curling, whatever 'curling' means.”
“The dullest person, after all, has gleaned from mere observation that highly intelligent parents often produce offspring so stupid that they can barely breathe. (And, much more interesting from the eugenic point of view, that the opposite is also true.)”
“The dullness of certain people is sometimes a sufficient security against the attack of an artful man.”
“The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.”
Source: As You Like It: Third Series
“The dumber a pitcher is, the better. When he gets smart and begins to experiment with a lot of different pitches, he's in trouble. All I ever had was a fastball, a curve and a changeup and I did pretty good.”
“The dumber people are, the more they feel the need for a broad set of shoulders they can lay their head against.”
“The dumber you are on court, the better you're going to play.”
“The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to 'tidy up' the mess, as opposed to understanding it's a 'day one' issue and part of everything.”
“The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.”
“The dumbest question I was ever asked by a sportswriter was whether I hit harder with red or white gloves. As a matter of fact, I hit harder with red.”
“The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up.”
“The dumbest women I hooked up with were in Florida. I lived in Florida for a year... and it was just shocking. I literally felt like after living there for a couple months that I had become stupider. It was unbelievable. If you read the stories on my site that are based around crazy women, about 75 percent of those women were in Florida and I only lived there for a year.”
“The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance.”
“The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.”
Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.”
“The dumping of the mentally ill, full of these new psychiatric drugs, into the streets is a scandal. It's been carried furthest in New York, where whole sections of the decayed Upper West Side are being filled with pensioners and psychotic patients on stelazine, lithium carbonate, and everything else under the sun. They can't diagnose the patient, so they give him the whole psychiatric pharmacopoeia at once, and he walks around in a psychotic trance beautifully painted all over with petrochemicals.”
“The dumpling is indeed of more ancient institution, and of foreign origin; but alas, what were those dumplings? Nothing but a few lentils sodden together, moisten'd and cemented with a little seeth'd fat.”
“The dumpling-eaters are a race sprung partly from the old Epicurean and partly from the Peripatetic Sect; they were first brought into Britain by Julius Caesar; and finding it a Land of Plenty, they wisely resolved never to go home again.”
“The dunamis power of God equipes you to unleash your visions and that is your responsibility. You can't be responsible for what you are not equipped to do”
Source: Michelangelo | Beethoven | Shakespeare: 15 Things Common to Great Achievers
“The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes. That's the way it will be with our love for each other”
“The dungeon image helped. "You need to let Maximus go," I stated, my voice stronger now. "No. Wine?”
“The Dunning Kruger Effect: Dumb people like Trump don't know how dumb they are. They don't even know how much stuff they don't know. They don't know that other people know the stuff they don't know that they don't know. Dumb people like Trump believe they know everything there is to know.”
Source: American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America
“The Dunning-Kruger Effect: Dumb people like Trump think they're super smart, because they are so spectacularly stupid, they don't even know how much stuff they don't know. They are so dumb, they don't even know that other people know a lot more about a topic than they do.”
Source: Inside The Mind of an Introvert: Comics, Deep Thoughts and Quotable Quotes
“The Dunning-Kruger effect is most potent when you're the best of the worst and the worst of the best.”
“The Dunya is like the ocean and our heart is like the ship. If a ship allows the water to enter, it will sink. Just like when we allow the Dunya to enter our heart.”
“The duonus heart holds the capacity for deep compassion toward suffering, while also abiding in presence. There is no contradiction between feeling empathy for hardship and resting in being; both can coexist.”
Source: Awaken To Love: Reclaiming Wholeness through Embodied Nonduality with Jungian Wisdom, Psychosynthesis & Internal Family Systems