T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The kinds of cases that fall at the end of pregnancy are often the most heartbreaking, painful decisions for families to make.”
“The kinds of claims I make about knowledge are thus meant to be illustrative of a general argumentative strategy which might well bear fruit in areas of philosophy which I have not thus far explored.”
“The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication.”
Source: Outliers: The Story of Success
“The kinds of good friends I have are people who are perfectly willing to have me say I'll see them in six months, and live right next door.”
“The kinds of men and women most likely to engender trust in others are those described in the same study as developed persons. They are not perfect, but they are relatively mature. They show signs of having engaged in life and with people. They are optimistic, but not naive, good-humored, but not glad-handers. They have suffered, but not been overcome by suffering. They have loved and been loved and know the struggle of trying to be a friend to another. They have friends for whom they care deeply. They have experienced failure and sinfulness - their own and others' - but seem at ease with themselves in a way that indicates an experience of being saved and freed by a power greater than the power of failure and sin. They are relatively unafraid of life with all its light and darkness, all its mystery.”
Source: The Practice of Spiritual Direction
“The kinds of mystical experiences that I have had definitely convinced me that I was able to get out of time. I have had experiences, or brief glimpses, of being able to see the future and then come back into time, and then go into extraordinary realms of the past.”
“The kinds of nets we know how to weave determine the kinds of nets we cast. These nets, in turn, determine the kinds of fish we catch.”
Source: Cognition and Curriculum Reconsidered
“The kinds of people we need in government are precisely the kinds of people who are most reluctant to go into government -- people who understand the inherent dangers of power and feel a distaste for using it, but who may do so for a few years as a civic duty. The worst kind of people to have in government are those who see it as a golden opportunity to impose their own superior wisdom and virtue on others.”
Source: Controversial Essays
“The kinds of scenes I like most are the ones where you just bury yourself in there. So I wouldn't say that's the only way to be funny, but that's my favorite way to play stuff, to try to put myself in a situation where that kind of acting is necessary.”
“The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They're superficial and I like articulate comedy. I don't know how to do the other, so I won't consider television until the audience's taste changes.”
“The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They’re superficial and I like articulate comedy.”
“The kinds of things I like with crystals are the really beautiful costume jewelry, vintage pieces, and they usually have that diamond shape.”
“The kinds of things I want don't cost money.”
Source: Tell the Wolves I'm Home
“The kinds of things that we can make mistakes about are essentially unlimited in number.”
“The King beneath the mountains, The King of carven stone, The lord of silver fountains Shall come into his own! His crown shall be upholden, His harp shall be restrung, His halls shall echo golden To songs of yore re-sung. The woods shall wave on mountains. And grass beneath the sun; His wealth shall flow in fountains And the rivers golden run. The streams shall run in gladness, The lakes shall shine and burn, And sorrow fail and sadness At the Mountain-king’s return!”
“The king brushed his hand over the throne, the fragile stone crumbling to dust beneath his fingers.
"Do you believe in forgiveness? Can an evil man be redeemed?”
Source: Hades and Persephone: The Golden Blade
“The King can do no wrong; he cannot constitutionally be supposed capable of injustice.”
“The king can drink the best of wine -So can I;And has enough when he would dine -So have I;And can not order rain or shine -Nor can I.Then where's the difference - let me see -Betwixt my lord the king and me?”
“The king can serve the citizens, but the citizens will be forced into servitude to the crown.”
“The king dead is a living god.”
Source: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
“The King did not summon the Estates because he needed them, but out of his own pleasure.”
“The King did what all wise husbands do. He did as he was told.”
Source: Fireborn
“The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.”
Source: Aspects Of the Novel
“The king drinks wine, and the general eats fat duck all day. And yet, they want me to take money from the woman who pours her being into a simple pot?”
Source: The Conjurer
“The king gathered himself. It felt as if the tomb was breathing in. The painted warriors lifted their swords and the archers let fly their arrows, aimed at the dust-wife. They were trapped in the wall and it should not have been possible for them to reach her, and yet for a moment, it seemed as if she would be drawn in to the wall, as if the arrows must reach her...
Moonlight flashed as she held up her staff and the painted arrows fell apart in to scattered pigment across the floor.
I will not bend! hissed the dead king, rising from his throne.
'Then you will break,' said the dust-wife, and slammed her staff across the painted wall.”
Source: Nettle & Bone
“The king governs without decapitation or (other) corporal punishments. Criminals are simply fined, lightly or heavily, according to the circumstances (of each case). Even in cases of repeated attempts at wicked rebellion, they only have their right hands cut off.”
“The King had been a good friend of the government and the people of South Africa and we all mourn his passing with our brothers and sisters in Saudi Arabia.”
“The king has been very good to me. He promoted me from a simple maid to be a marchioness. Then he raised me to be a queen. Now he will raise me to be a martyr.”
“The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.”
Source: Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries
“The king has great power, but he has no power to know me, except through what I say and what I do.”
Source: The Mirror & the Light
“The King has lived a full life out in the public as an outspoken environmental activist, an occasional meddler in politics, a successful businessman, a flawed father, and a philandering husband who destroyed the life of Princess Diana.”
Source: Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival
“The King has stepped down, the path to the throne is clear. If there weren't an all-powerful dictator and his monstrous horde to attend to, I'd be opening a bottle of champagne.”
Source: Ruin and Rising
“The king hath note of all that they intend, by interception which they dream not of.”
“The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.”
“The King in chess is indeed a symbol of unity and wholeness and the other pieces are not separate entities but rather parts of “the One Thing”, as Campbell put it.”
Source: Character Education with Chess
“The King in the Palace had the power to play with people’s lives and destroy them, but he did not even know what was happening in the ranks of his own soldiers, in the halls of his own home.”
Source: Children of the Dead City
“The King is a fighting piece. Use it!”
“The king is a saint and cannot rule, and his son is a devil and should not.”
Source: The Red Queen
“The king is a strong piece - use it !”
“The king is as much bound by his oath not to infringe the legal rights of the people, as the people are bound to yield subjection to him. From whence it follows that as soon as the prince sets himself above the law, he loses the king in the tyrant. He does, to all intents and purposes, un-king himself.”
“The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me; the element shows to him as it doth to me; all his senses have but human conditions; his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man; and though his affections are higher mounted than ours, yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like wing.”
Source: Henry V
“The king is dead,' I said, my voice cold and foreign. 'And you're going to be soon, too.'
I'd kill her for this, for betraying us for whatever reason-
'I know,' Amren said quietly. 'And I need you to help me do it.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“The King is dead, rock is done. You might be through, but I've just begun.”
“The king is gone but he's not forgotten”
“The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money.”
Source: Black House: A Novel
“The King is naked! If only he was a Prince!”
Source: The New Land
“The King is only fond of words, and cannot translate them into deeds.”
Source: Sun Tzu's Art of War - Illustrated & Translated for Modern Readers
“The king is the man who can.”
“The king jerked his chin at my left arm. 'Break that bond between you two.'
'Please,' I whispered.
'How else is Tamlin to have his bride? He can't very well have a wife who runs off to another male once a month.'
Rhys remained silent, though his grip tightened on Azriel. Observing- weighing, sorting through the lock on his power. The thought of that silence between our souls being permanent...
My voice cracked as I said to Tamlin, still at the opposite end of the crude half circle we'd formed before the dais. 'Don't. Don't let him. I told you- I told you that I was fine. That I left-'
'You weren't well,' Tamlin snarled. 'He used that bond to manipulate you. Why do you think I was gone so often? I was looking for a way to get you free. And you left.'
'I left because I was going to die in that house.'
The King of Hybern clicked his tongue. 'Not what you expected, is it?'
Tamlin growled at him, but again held out his hand toward me. 'Come home with me. Now.'
'No.'
'Feyre.' An unflinching command.
Rhys was barely breathing- barely moving.
And I realised... realised it was to keep his scent from becoming apparent. Our scent. Our mating bond.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“The king just sits there, moving one square at a time. The queen can move so freely. I suppose I’d rather lose the game than forfeit her freedom.”
Source: A Discovery of Witches: A Novel