T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England”
“That book of [Melancthon], to my mind, deserves not merely to live as long as books are read, but to take its place in the Church canon; whereas your book, by comparison, struck me as so worthless and poor that my heart went out to you for having defiled your lovely, brilliant flow of language with such vile stuff. I thought it outrageous to convey material of so low a quality in the trappings of such rare eloquence; it is like using gold or silver dishes to carry garden rubbish or dung.”
Source: The Bondage of the Will
“That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that reason alone, a book that didn't matter to anyone changed my life.”
Source: The Shadow Of The Wind
“That Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England. England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true God through Jesus Christ.”
“That books, a commodity little changed since Caxton's day, should have turned out to be the trailblazers of retailing on the internet is one of the stranger cultural ironies of our time. If you've bought one thing on the net, the newest and most prodigiously high-tech communications system imaginable, then it is almost certain to be a book, the oldest and simplest.”
“That boom town [Abu Dhabi] proved to be the reef against which my family crashed, the story of many who seek the promised land, and my poetry is a versification of that personal history. History is all I have.”
“That boorish man stole colour from a maiden's cheek to redden his ardour. She, with her prancing panther's gait and proud, undulating beauty, revelled in her existence and left him foolishly in her wake.”
“That Boston show was when I began to see your mother through the eyes of her fans and realized her stage presence was more than the sum of its jokes. She was speaking to people's truths and making them laugh at the ridiculousness of it all. This was what our ayahuasca ceremonies were about: sourcing the most potent parts of ourselves and letting go of the rest. Your mother, I saw, had done just that. She was embodying experiences lie pregnancy and childbirth that are sacred to us as individuals, and celebrating these acts in a fresh new light. Asian cultures often teach us to be silent about our sexuality and filled with shame. Your mother breaks that up and transmutes pain and shame into power, like a mystical priestess.”
Source: Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life
“That both Muslim fundamentalists and the Christian right are today focusing their attempts to regain control in a rapidly changing world on frantic efforts to maintain control over women, particularly over women's sexuality. Moreover, given their mythologies about "holy wars," it is also understandable that they should use "divinely approved" violence to do so.”
“That bothers me when I see that fashion editors are consultants for brands. It tells me that the designer has lost sight of what he or she really wants to do, and that he or she is listening to the strength of a very strong stylist and being a little watered down - and by watered down, I mean, the strength of the designer's vision. I'm not saying it's easy.”
“That bowl of soup—it was dearer than freedom, dearer than life itself, past, present, and future.”
Source: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
“That boy could throw a ball through a car wash and not get it wet. (on Warren Moon)”
“That boy don't know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades, and that boy don't know the meaning of a lot of words.”
“That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable.”
Source: We Need To Talk About Kevin
“That boy is no sun. He is a black hole. He will destroy everything in his path…”
Source: Gemini
“That boy is still here...He's just waiting for that girl to come back”
“That boy is talented. You don’t develop those gifts in houses or in schools.”
Source: The Blessed and the Damned
“That boy is your weakness.
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Source: The Queen of Nothing
“That boy knows he's not good enough for you. This is why he needs you to feel like you're maybe not good enough for him. Don't touch the boys who haggle your worth, stop falling in love with the boys who don't even deserve to feel your skin.”
“That boy made me realize, for a while at least, that my parents were wrong, and I didn't have to be like them.”
“That boy Mantle is a good one.”
“That boy needs a hobby." "Stalking is a hobby." "So is serial killing.”
Source: Death and the Girl Next Door
“That boy never seemed to smile and he wore long sleeves year-round, and I was not so different from him—we were both unable to get near the real life in life.”
Source: Nobody Is Ever Missing
“That boys do things together and it's a secret. That we are boys and not men dressed like children, surprised by the passage of even a year. And as he kisses me I try to decide, if he likes secrets better than kisses. After, I decide it's kisses.”
Source: Edinburgh
“That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.”
“That breath that you just took, that's a gift!”
“That bright blue ball rising over the moon's surface, containing everything we hold dear - the laughter of children, a quiet sunset, all the hopes and dreams of posterity - that's what's at stake. That's what we're fighting for. And if we remember that, I'm absolutely sure we'll succeed.”
“That brings her total of real predictions up to two. I should offer her a pay rise…”
Source: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
“That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.”
“That brings us to iPad. We think the iPad is the poster-child of the post-PC world.”
“That Britain today is a liberal society is largely because of the philosophy and outlook of the Anglican Church, which did so much to shape our core values in the past few centuries.”
“That brown cap comes off, and fire spills down.”
“That brute of a lad has warmed me nicely. Next time, Master Edgar, take the law into your own fists it will give you an appetite!”
Source: Wuthering Heights
“That buck that bought a bottle could have struck the lotto”
“That bumper sticker everyone has down in Philadelphia, the one that says, 'Only the Lord saves more than Bernie Parent,' really isn't true. God couldn't have made all the saves that Parent made against us.”
“That bunch there calls it physicalist magick. They ain’t religious, but they ain’t evil, neither. They’re for the people, the principles of physics, and the buzzing countryside — crickets, combat drones, June bugs, electric fences — gadgets that makes a moonshiner’s still look like child’s play,”
Source: The Secular Occultist's Handbook of Physicalist Magick
“That business aspect of the media, that Charlotte Street world, the advertising and programme executives, it leaves me absolutely cold. I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen.”
“That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.”
“That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect to another.”
“That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.”
“That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story. Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples – where I’m pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised. At a time when nobody thought we’d ever see a new steel mill built in America, we took a chance and built one in a corn field in Indiana.”
“That but this blow
Might be the be-all and the end-all here,
But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,
We'ld jump the life to come.”
“That buy is totally cracked out," Vic said one day, as we walked past Balthazar in the great hall. I don't think he's on alything." I didn't mean, for real. If he was cracked out for real, he'd probably be having more fun, right?" Vic shrugged. "Balty looks like he's not having any fun. He looks like he never had any. Like he wouldn't know fun if it started dancing around yelling 'I'm fun' in his face.”
“That by 1774 the final crisis of the constitution, brought on by political and social corruption, had been reached was, to most informed colonists, evident.”
Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
“That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil -- widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.”
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“That by him, and through him, and of him, the worlds are and were created and the inhabitants thereof are begotten sons and daughters unto God.”
Source: The Doctrine and Covenants: Of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Containing the Revelations Given to Joseph Smith, Jun., the Prophet, for the Building Up of the Kingdom of God in the Last Days
“That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one another - by collaborating with one another and creating your own network - you can achieve something that is much better than what is out there.”
“That cactus went right through my eye. It left my eye flat. They took me to a doctor, and he said, 'We'll have to take the eye out.' ...I fought like a tiger. I said, 'No! Leave the eye alone. I am sure it will grow back.' The doctor said, 'You're too young to know.' ...But in a year's time that fluid came back, and that eye is just as good as the other one today.”
“That cake tasted good. But the cake in the garbage tasted better. It was the best cake I ever ate.”
Source: In a Heartbeat
“That came from my mother. She was the biggest influence on my life. I remember once refusing to get on a bus with her because she was wearing a mink, and I thought we should be taking a taxi. She just said, 'Who cares what people think?' and I remember sitting on that bus, being utterly embarrassed, but knowing somehow that she was totally correct.”