T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power.”
Source: The Old Curiosity Shop: And Reprinted Pieces
“The flowers that you compile with all your efforts are accepted. So that there is no shame, they throw them away in a place no one else can see.”
Source: Red-White Love: The Love of Liverpool FC
“The flowers, too. I want to stop and collect some, but Evora says they’re just weeds. Still, I can’t bring myself to understand. What does it matter if they’re weeds? They’re pretty all the same. In fact, I’d call them special compared to flowers. Weeds are stronger. They dominate. They grow everywhere, and some are just as pretty as any flower, but people still toss them aside because of what they are. It’s the title that does it, I think.”
“The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them.”
Source: Uglies
“The flowers you see
blooming in the sunshine
were once hidden seeds
waiting patiently for the rain.”
“The flowers, the gorgeous, mystic multi-coloured flowers are not the flowers of life, but people, yes people are the true flowers of life, and it has been a most precious pleasure to have temporarily strolled in your garden.”
“The FlowersAll the names I know from nurse:Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,And the Lady Hollyhock.Fairy places, fairy things,Fairy woods where the wild bee wings,Tiny trees for tiny dames-These must all be fairy names!Tiny woods below whose boughsShady fairies weave a house;Tiny tree-tops, rose or thyme,Where the braver fairies climb!Fair are grown-up people's trees,But the fairest woods are these;Where, if I were not so tall,I should live for good and all”
Source: Collected Poems
“The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.”
Source: A Philosophical Dictionary
“The flowing movements and relaxing music softens the sense and release the soul. This way my students not only enjoy moving their bodies with ease, but they also have the satisfaction of knowing that they can benefit from this Art for as long as they shall live (that I presume will be much longer than the expected if they continue on their routine of practicing my "BalletTao") At my primary school, a colleague was reading a text out loud when he kicked this word: Ballet, which is pronounced with a soundless T. He hesitated and then read: Ballet accentuating the T in the end. It sounded like: Ballet-Chi. Who would guess that one day I would accept this as the correct way to use this word?"
The Dao Workbook Illustrated”
Source: The Tao of Physical and Spiritual
“The flowing river
never stops
and yet the water
never stays the same.
Foam floats
upon the pools,
scattering, re-forming,
never lingering long.
So it is with man
and all his dwelling places
here on earth”
Source: Hojoki: Visions of a Torn World
“The flu can definitely set you up for bacterial pneumonias.”
“The 'Flu Season' is a myth. What we're told is that the Flu increases in the Winter because we're inside more with other people.
The real reason is, Flu is more prevalent in the Fall and Winter because there is less sunlight and humans sweat less during these seasons.
Why does that make a difference? Because our immune system needs Vitamin D and plenty of sweating, which removes toxins in our bodies and helps keep our immune system work properly, to help keep us from getting the Flu.
Your doctor will never tell you this because the American Medical Association (AMA), who dictates the curriculums that are taught in colleges, make sure medical students never learn this information.”
“The flu-casters would draw out the maps and keep people engaged at regular intervals ... beaming it from the WHO bunker.”
“The fluent reader sounds good, is easy to listen to, and reads with enough expression to help the listener understand and enjoy the material.”
“The fluidity of thought is based on the flexibility of beliefs and the emotional boundaries surrounding them.”
“The fluoride ion exerts its toxic effect by inhibiting the action of many enzyme systems.”
“The flute is a weird instrument, especially when played solo.”
“The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.”
“The flute is traditionally the property of the male side of matrilineal hunter-gatherer societies and was used as a means of communication and personal expression.”
“The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.”
Source: Songs of Kabir
“The flute of the Pied Piper of Hamelin has never left us and it is essential that we train our ear to detect its false notes because in our case the flute is being played by the rats.”
“The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar players.”
“The fluteplayer puts breath into a flute, and who makes the music? Not the flute. The Fluteplayer!”
Source: Selected poems
“The Flutie Bowl is a great event that brings together people who really care about the autism community. We always have a great time bowling and playing music.”
“The flux of life is pouring its aesthetic aspect into your eyes, your ears - and you ignore it because you are looking for your canons of beauty in some sort of frame or glass case or tradition.”
Source: Mina Loy: woman and poet
“The fly angler who says they have never, ever fallen while wading , is either a pathogenic liar, or has never been fly-fishing.”
“The fly in her argument is that when she says, 'they' will feel like lemons, we don't know who 'they' are. And 'they' might BE lemons.”
“The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose.”
Source: Essays from the Parerga and Paralipomena
“The fly runs toward the fire or lamp, thinking that it is a flower, and gets burnt up. Even so, the passionate man runs towards a false beautiful form, thinking that he can obtain real happiness, and gets burnt up in the fire of lust.”
“The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, 'What a dust do I raise!'”
“The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.”
“The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.”
Source: The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings
“The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.”
Source: Alexander the Great, Or, the Rival Queens. A Tragedy
“The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.”
“The flying car is a dangerous idea. If the sky is crammed with hundreds and thousands of cars, it will look so unpleasant and the 'air jam' or 'sky jam' will look terrible! Moreover, if there is an accident in the sky like a car stops flying for a certain reason, then it will crash on the homes, heads of the passersby, and so on!”
“The flying? I'm not worried about it. I'm safe up there. I feel very comfortable with my abilities flying an airplane.”
“The flyscreen door slammed behind me. My feet dragged. I reached each arm into the jacket. Warm sleeves. Crumpled collar. Hands in pockets. Okay. I walked.”
Source: Getting The Girl
“The FMSF achieved prominence partly as a response to increased possibilities for women to institute criminal or civil proceedings that relate to historical abuse, and women do not often take their abusers to court. The foundation's framing of abuse serves an ulterior strategic purpose of constructing a narrative position that isolates the incest survivor in an adversarial setting of interpreter distrust and challenged.”
Source: Relational Remembering: Rethinking the Memory Wars
“The foaminess of the Falls, together with the tinge of tawny yellow in the troubled waters, only reminded me of so much unattainable soda and sherry, and made me feel thirstier than ever.”
“The focal point of my life and the hallmark of my success would be inexorably linked to my ability to live for something greater than myself.”
Source: Dare to Matter: Your Path to Making a Difference Now
“The focus in the Creator Orientation is on a Vision or an Outcome. You orient your thoughts and actions toward creating what you most deeply want to see or experience in life.”
“The focus is on singer/songwriters now rather than huge shows. I mean, of course there's always a place for that too.”
“The focus is what is right before you - to give it your best. It sows the seeds of tomorrow.”
“The focus of all life is its economy, the mode through which every living creature produces its material existence. I know no other criterion for the evaluation of social life except that of social economy. In society, just like anywhere else, the mode of production is the focus around which revolve all the modes of life: in the historical life of conscious beings, it is also the focus of all modes of consciousness.”
“The focus of education should not be on suppressive information but on kindling the thirst for knowing.”
“The focus of environmental ethics should indeed be on the virtues and how these inform our relationship to natural environments.”
“The focus of gap analysis should be getting to the other side. If you bend-over to analyze a gap too long, you'll probably fall into it.”
Source: Write like no one is reading
“The focus of history and philosophy of science scholar Arthur Miller’s (2010) "137: Jung and Pauli and the Pursuit of Scientific Obsession" is Jung and Pauli’s
mutual effort to discover the cosmic number or fine structure constant, which is a fundamental physical constant dealing with electromagnetism, or, from a different perspective, could be considered the philosopher’s stone of the mathematical universe.
This was indeed one of Pauli and Jung’s collaborative passions, but it was not the only concentration of their relationship. Quantum physics could be seen as the natural progression from ancient alchemy, through chemistry, culminating in the abstract world of subatomic particles, wave functions, and mathematics. [Ancient Egypt and Modern Psychotherapy]”
“The focus of innovations and investments need to shift from slogging innovations like phone and, drone type innovations to solve real problems that are killing the inhabitants of the planet.”
“The focus of IT needs to get back to big “I”s such as information, intelligence, innovation, integration, and improvement.”
Source: The Change Agent CIO