T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The eyes of all people are upon us. And all they see is a mash-up of naked prisoners and an American girl in fatigues standing there giving a thumbs-up. As I write this, the United States of America is still a city on a hill; and it's still shining—because we never turn off the lights in our torture prisons. That's how we carry out the sleep deprivation.”
Source: The Wordy Shipmates
“The eyes of another can be a mirror more effective than water. If you will look at me, I can see my reflection in yours.”
Source: Lady Midnight
“The eyes of childhood are magnifying lenses.”
Source: Memoirs: A Twentieth Century Journey in Science and Politics
“The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.”
Source: Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor
“The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one.”
“The eyes of friends are so penetrating
That they can disrobe
The deepest secrets
Hidden so well
In the innermost chamber
Of your steel heart.”
Source: Garden of Fragility
“The eyes of India only see in color.”
“The eyes of love have 20/20 vision when focused on another, and become entirely blind when focused on ourselves.”
“The eyes of mankind will be upon you to see whether the Government, which is now more popular than it has been for many years past, will be productive of more virtue moral and political. We may look up to Armies for our Defense, but Virtue is our best Security. It is not possible that any State should long remain free, where Virtue is not supremely honored.”
Source: Warren-Adams Letters: Being Chiefly a Correspondence Among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren ... 1743-1814
“The eyes of memory will not sleep, Its ears are open wide; And vigils with the past they keep Against my feeble will.”
“The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues.”
Source: The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The eyes of men love to pluck the blossoms from the faded flowers they turn away.”
Source: Sophocles
“The eyes of mortal men, threaten you with doom
They regret to see you, set, but it is time, for the moon”
“The eyes of my eyes are opened.”
Source: Selected poems
“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
Source: Monday or Tuesday: And Other Short Stories
“The eyes of our citizens are not sufficiently open to the true cause of our distress. They ascribe them to everything but their true cause, the banking system”
“The eyes of our souls only then begin to see when our bodily eyes are closing.”
Source: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, adapted to the State and Condition of all Orders of Christians, Volume 4
“The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.”
“The eyes of such a nation (living godly) shall view a land that stretches afar. Talking about global influence, authority, dignity and respect.”
“The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings
“The eyes of the Armenians speak long before the lips move and long after they cease to.”
Source: Arshile Gorky: drawings to paintings
“The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.”
Source: Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry
“The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.”
Source: Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings
“The Eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.”
Source: Red: passion and patience in the desert
“The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. They are kneeling with hands clasped that we might act with restraint, that we might leave room for the life that is destined to come. To protect what is wild is to protect what is gentle. Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace. Wilderness lives by this same grace. Wild mercy is in our hands.”
Source: Red: passion and patience in the desert
“The eyes of the owner can see what no one else can see.”
“The eyes of the sad souls become friends with shadows, not with lights!”
“The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.”
“The eyes of the wolf, loving and longing and loyal, were now set squarely in the face of a man, but they were still staring at me with that same devotion, that same puppyish desire. I could feel my heart breaking quietly as I stared at him - a break that I knew was but the smallest echo of what I had made him feel when I broke his heart by the banks of the Crystal River.”
“The eyes of the world are upon you.”
“The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.”
“The eyes of the world being thus on our Country, it is put the more on its good behavior, and under the greater obligation also, to do justice to the Tree of Liberty by an exhibition of the fine fruits we gather from it.”
Source: 1816-1828
“The eyes of this dead lady speak to me For here was love, was not to be drowned out. And here desire, not to be kissed away. The eyes of this dead lady speak to me.”
Source: Early Poems
“The eyes of your creative power see in all directions.”
Source: Beyond The Law of Attraction: A Creativist Compendium
“The eyes reveal the sincerity of the soul, and words reveal its essence.”
“The eyes see everything through the heart.”
Source: Everyone Is Beautiful: A Novel
“The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters.”
“The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not”
Source: Heirs of the King: Living the Beatitudes
“The eyes should be washed out with clean water every morning of every day.”
Source: The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic
“The eyes sparked a lot of things for me, it could be somebody remembering something they had witnessed or heard about, or it could be the person in the photograph that was experiencing a tragedy or it could also be the spectator looking on from a safe distance.”
“The eyes start love; intimacy perfects it.”
“The eyes that see the soul are different from the eyes that see the self. We see soul when we are in the mystery. We see self when we are in the events. The coach must have eyes for both.”
“The eyes those silent tongues of love.”
Source: The History Of the Renowned Don Quixote De la Mancha
“The eyes, too, were reptilelike in glint and gaze. Yet at that instant, humbled and alert in their look, they were lit by one tiny human point, the window of a shriveled soul, poignant and selfembittered.”
Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“the eyes want what the eyes see poor heart gets the blame.”
“The eyes were hollow and the carven head was broken, but about the high, stern forehead there was a coronal of silver and gold. A trailing plant with flowers like white stars had bound itself across the brows as if in reverence for the fallen king, and in the crevices of his stony hair yellow stonecrop gleamed. "They cannot conquer for ever!" said Frodo.”
“The eyes, hands and body movements are important to make the dance sexier.”
“The eyes, it is said, are windows to the soul. They are not. They are organs for converting light into electro-magnetic impulses. But this has never stopped us dreaming of them that way.”
“The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body.
[Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.]”