T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The face of self-pity was universally understood.”
“The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance. Do not be deceived; behind that facade is heartache, unhappiness and pain. .. YOU be the one to make a stand for right, even if you stand alone. Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow.”
“The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That's not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don't represent peace. They represent evil and war.”
“The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me”
“The face of the moose is as sad as the face of Jesus.”
Source: New and Selected Poems, Volume One
“The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We'll speak to the night as it's whispering softly.”
Source: Disaffections: complete poems 1930-1950
“The face of the Son of God, who, instead of accepting the sacrifice of one of his creatures to satisfy his justice or support his dignity, gave himself utterly unto them, and therein to the Father by doing his lovely will; who suffered unto the death, not that men might not suffer, but that their suffering might be like his, and lead them up to his perfection.”
“The face of the sun is not without expression, but it tells us precious little of what is in its heart.”
“The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.”
Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…
“The face of tomorrow can be seen only in tomorrow.”
“The face of totalitarianism turned out to be a mask - obviously - but the face of Capitalism has no face at all.”
“The face of Truth is not less fair and beautiful for all the counterfeit visors which have been put upon her.”
“The face of tyranny Is always mild at first.”
“the face of victory often resembles the face of defeat.”
Source: My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles
“The face she made at me was probably meant for a smile. Whatever it was, it beat me. I was afraid she'd do it again, so I surrendered”
Source: Crime stories and other writings
“The face staring back at me isn't beautiful but she isn't something that would scare the horses, either.”
“The face that cannot smile is never fair.”
“The face that looked back at me from this mirror was also round and rosy, framed at the top by a precise line of straight-cut bangs. My eyes were wide and dark, unshadowed by disappointment or compassion. My teeth were new and awkward, the two front ones serrated at the bottom like a bread knife, but I was too young to try to smile with my lips closed or laugh behind my hand. I never thought my face would change. I thought my childhood would go one forever.
Instead, I grew out my bangs and grew up.”
Source: Be with Me Always: Essays
“The face that looked back at me was flushed and happy. And, beyond its happiness, there was something else too – a power, a new found air of confidence; a force of life. It was the face of someone who recognised their desires, I thought, and was not afraid to give in to them, and I was proud that that face was mine.”
Source: The Erotic Notebooks
“The face that stares back at you from the mirror later in life is so different than when you're young. There's a winnowing away and a shutting down. A sense of something having been taken from you and you don't know exactly what it is, just that it isn't there anymore.”
Source: Hummingbird Salamander
“The face that was engulfed in sadness just a few moments ago was now having a diabolical glow.”
Source: The Pink Cadillac
“The face that's in the mirror when I don't like what I see / I guess that's just the cowboy in me.”
“The face. The part of us meant to engage with the world. To perceive it. To reflect and reveal. Our greatest gift. Our greatest curse.”
Source: Four of a Kind
“The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.”
Source: The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places
“The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.”
“The face you wear in a battlefield should be a solemn one until the time when things are cleaned up and the real world drips its way in.”
Source: Raising Steam
“The face, not the woman is the attraction.”
“The face... always the face. The body can [have] muscles or [be] too skinny -- I don't care.”
“The Facebook algorithm designers chose to let us see what our friends are talking about. They chose to show us, in some sense, more of the same. And that is the design decision that they could have decided differently. They could have said, "We're going to show you stuff that you've probably never seen before." I think they probably optimized their algorithm to make the most amount of money, and that probably meant showing people stuff that they already sort of agreed with, or were more likely to agree with.”
“The faces and the tactics of the leaders may change every four years, or two, or one, but the people go on forever.”
“The Faces do not, as some have recently alleged, play badly. They are more than competent, especially at creating a mid-Sixties Rolling Stones-styled groove, as their excellent version of 'Memphis' proves.”
“The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull.”
“The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.”
Source: America comes of middle age: columns, 1950-1962
“The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.”
Source: The Crack-up
“The faces people make when they are photographed and the face they have when you draw them are very different.”
“The facile delusions which conceal from us our true situation all amount to this: that we are, or can be, wiser than the wisest men of the past. We are thus induced to play the part, not of attentive and docile listeners, but of impresarios and lion-tamers.”
Source: Liberalism Ancient and Modern
“The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.”
Source: Closing of the American Mind
“the facilitator's role shifts from a coach who helps a team uncover and analyze "What is"-a left-brain activity-to a coach who inspires a team to innovate and design "what could be"-a right-brain activity.”
Source: Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation
“The facilities are amazing here in McLaren. If you compare them to Sauber, who have good facilities in Formula 1, it's another level. But in terms of the people, the way they approach their jobs, is really amazing when you come into McLaren. The emphasis they have is very good and it gives you a big boost when you drive for this team.”
“The facilities for advanced education must be evened out and multiplied. No one who can take advantage of a higher education should be denied this chance. You cannot conduct a modern community except with an adequate supply of persons upon whose education, whether humane, technical, or scientific, much time and money have been spent.”
Source: War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943
“The facing of life is not through material objects; the facing of life is through the materials we carry with us in our minds and in our souls.”
“The fact -- not theory -- that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.”
“The fact about contemporaries is that they're doing the same thing on another railway line: one resents their distracting one, flashing past, the wrong way- something like that: from timidity, partly, one keeps one's eyes on one's own road.”
Source: The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Four, 1929-1931
“The fact differentiates the fake.”
“The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.”
Source: First Principles
“The fact-finding mission was now the traditional Washington substitute for policy.”
Source: The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
“The fact had become as invisible to him as someone on Earth thinking about being held to a spinning celestial object by nothing more than mass, shielded from the fusion reaction of the sun by only distance and air.”
Source: Cibola Burn
“The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation.”
“The fact he lives proves there is at least one thing she cares about more than her own jutice. You.”
Source: Daughter of the Pirate King
“The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.”