T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The floor scooped me up where I stood, and I blinked as it hit me”
Source: Drain You
“The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther.”
Source: the bell jar
“The floor seems to be just as stubborn as I am, refusing to budge. I would've admired it's resilience if it weren't a damn piece of wood.”
“The floorboards creaked ominously as the footsteps neared, each groan amplifying his dread.
— Melissa”
Source: Melissa
“The floorboards creaked. She felt him come close behind her, a warmth, a presence that made her stiffen with awareness.
"You have remarkable character, Princess. Your eyebrows are lovely. Your chin is adorable and your eyes are gorgeous. Your figure is... utterly splendid. Just about too splendid, if I may be forgiven for saying so. It's been damned hard to remember I'm a gentleman.”
Source: Seize the Fire
“The Floribunda Rose
Abundant blooms of sweet perfume, silky smooth to the touch, and intoxicating to the senses, floribunda can and will fool you. In reality she is tough, disease-resistant, prickly, and very hardy in colder zones. The proverbial iron fist in the velvet glove of plants.”
Source: Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire
“The Florida government chose to report the officially recorded deaths by the coroner to the media instead of the much higher number of dead that law enforcement was finding during the hurricane Ian disaster.”
“The Florida government controls the mainstream news media.”
“The Florida government is a modern version of Pinocchio.”
“The Florida government not reporting the numbers of known dead bodies and missing people prompted me to research it.”
“The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.”
“The Florida peninsula is, in fact, an emerging plateau, honeycombed with voids and vents, caves and underground waterways. Travelers on Interstate Highway I-75 have no idea that, beneath them, are cave labyrinths still being mapped by speleologists - 'cavers,' they prefer to be called.”
“The Florida side of my family is huge. People married young. Were Fruitful. Multiplied. As a kid a family fish fry might see 50 gather in someone's First District yard. A great-uncle frying mullet. Adults in the shade as kids played. Games of tag with complex rules. Jumping Live Oak roots. Flinging Chinaberries. You'd limp to the shade bruised and breathless. Hear a story about a cousin caught stealing hogs. Quickly get sent away – "Go play! This is Grown People Business!" We'd head back out. Climb trees. Make palm frond swords. Years passed. I grew up and found that most of those relatives were gone. I had missed the Grown People Business.”
Source: Some Books Are Not For Sale
“The Florida State League was considered the top A-league back then. You played in the spring training parks of major league teams, traveled throughout some great cities in Florida, and the pay was the best in A-ball.”
“The Florida sun seems not much a single thing overhead but a set of klieg lights that pursue you everywhere with an even white illumination.”
Source: Rabbit at Rest
“The Florida Supreme Court wanted all the legal votes to be counted. The United States Supreme Court, on the other hand, did not want all the votes to be counted.”
“The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.”
“The flouting of the greybeard is also a revolutionary sign. The absence of the men of experience from among revolutionary officials leads to many false moves that wiser heads would have avoided; but youth will have its fling, and in all ages and in all civilizations there is always a permanent undercurrent of revolution on the part of the young men who know everything, against the older men who are considered out-of-date and incapable of understanding their brilliant schemes of reform.”
Source: The Adventures of Dunsterforce
“The flow from knowledge to action draws upon the complete person with his or her catalyst and synergistic potential.”
Source: The Ralph Nader Reader
“The flow in unawareness becomes your destiny,
If change is constant so be it.
Be the choreographer of your change
Change maximised, with awareness
Get #Mickeymized!”
“The flow of action continually produces consequences which are unintended by actors, and these unintended consequences also may form unacknowledged conditions of actions in a feedback fashion. Human history is created by intentional activities but is not an intended project; it persistently eludes efforts to bring it under conscious direction.”
“The flow of blessings in our life is directly related to our passing blessings along to someone else.”
Source: A Christmas Celebration
“The flow of energy moves from the unseen - the non-physical - to the seen, to that which appears; from the realm of that which is not yet manifest to the realm of appearance; from what the American Indian call the 'Nagual' to the 'Tonal', to the everyday world of 'ordinary' existence.”
Source: Earth Medicine: Revealing Hidden Teachings of the Native American Medicine Wheel
“The flow of financial capital dictates the rhythm of social progress.”
“The flow of life,
Depends not upon the straw,
But the wind that carries it.”
“The flow of life is great. It directs you at all times. It flows through you and with you.”
Source: Spirit In Disguise: A Guide to Miraculous Living, Book 2
“The flow of people in a setting, their changing relationships to each other and their environment, and their constantly changing expressions and movements - all combine to create dynamic situations that provide the photographer with limitless choices of when to push the button. By choosing a precise intersection between subject and time, he may transform the ordinary into the extraordinary and the real into the surreal.”
“The flow of people into the United States into slavery, it follows the other types of immigration into the United States, so people who are trying to build new lives, trying to build a better life.”
“The flow of the anointing oil provokes intense worship”
Source: Pour the Oil
“The flow of time cleanses the past and heals the wounds in people's hearts. But there are wounds we cant speak of.”
“The flow of time stops for no one. Once a moment passes, you cannot go back and change it. Not with science, not with divine interventions.”
Source: Random Cosmos
“The flow of writing is always a surprise and a challenge. Click the computer on and I am 17 again, wanting to write and not knowing if I can.”
“The flow will carry those who strive.”
Source: The Divine Government: Guidance for the Leader
“The flow. Yeah. Knowing you could step on the court and make it happen. You practiced, sure. But then, when you walked out there, you could just go. You could flow, that was it: you created and you didn't totally know how. You just knew you could, so you did. It wasn't thinking and it wasn't imitating somebody else's moves, though you always looked carefully when you watched good players play. But when you played... it was something you couldn't explain. Neal used to know. It didn't come from thinking about it.”
Source: Falling
“The flower and fruit of love are mine The ant, the fieldmouse and the mole”
Source: Collected Poems
“The flower, as he saw it, ruled over evil; it absorbed in itself all innocently shed blood (that is why it is so red) all tears and all the gall of humanity. It was an awful and mysterious being, the antitheses of God, an Ahriman presenting a most unassuming and innocent appearance. It was necessary to break it off and kill it. But this was not all; it was also necessary not to permit it at its death to discharge its evil upon the world.”
“The flower bends when the wind wants it to, and you must become like that-that is, filled with deep # trust .”
“The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“The flower blooming in a tree is not only the child of the roots or the branches or the leaves of that tree, but also the common child of the soil, the rain, the sun and the bees! The father and the mother of every living being is never one father or never one mother but actually the whole universe!”
“The flower does not choose the soil in which it blooms, but it blossoms nonetheless. It is not the path we are given, but how we walk it that gives us strength and beauty. Embrace hardship and suffering, for they are the forging fires of the soul. Accept your destiny, for it is the canvas upon which you will paint the masterpiece of your life.”
“The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.”
Source: The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)
“The flower doth not worry, and the tree doth not waver.”
“The flower draws its life energy from the soil and from the sun. We are very similar. We continuously receive energy from the earth through our feet and from the air. Energy is everywhere, like love. We just have to open ourselves up to receive it.”
“The flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever.”
Source: Poems
“The flower had unexpectedly fallen to the ground at their feet. Rather than picking it up and loving it, they would rather trample it into the mud. Countless numbers had become slaves to that kind of perverse pleasure.”
Source: Ai no Kusabi Vol. 1: Stranger
“The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud.”
“The flower in the asphalt is not weak —
it is the symbol of faith that refuses to give up.
The silent cry of hope that persists.
The living proof that even in the desert…
God plants beauty.”
Source: Reliquary of the Soul
“The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.”
“The flower inside the fruit that is both its parent and its child. Decadent as ancestors. The portal and that which passes. Nuclear devices activated, and the machine keeps pushing time through the cogs, like paste into strings into paste again, and only the machine keeps using time to make time to make time. And when the machine stops, time was an illusion that we created free will.”
“The flower is here, so let's dance here.”