T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the courage to end or the strength to go on.”
Source: I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader
“The memory fades, and I’m left hanging on to the ghosts of his words.”
Source: Legend
“The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.”
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“The memory is like orbiting twin stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed.”
Source: O
“The memory is perpetually looking back when we have nothing present to entertain us. It is like those repositories in animals that are filled with food, on which they may ruminate when their present pastures fail.”
Source: The Spectator: A New Edition
“The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient-at others so bewildered and weak-and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control!”
Source: Jane Austen: The Works in Eight Volumes
“The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.”
“The memory of a good deed lives.”
Source: Aesop's Fables 01-30 (伊索寓言（第一篇至第三十篇）)
“The memory of a mother is the most luminous of thoughts.”
“The memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment.”
Source: Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's way. Within a budding grove
“The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its object has vanished: a light on the horizon of the despairing, darkened spirit; a star gleaming in our inward night.”
Source: Les Misérables
“The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“The memory of Cumshewa is of a great lonesomeness smothered in a blur of rain.”
Source: Klee Wyck
“The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.”
Source: Meditations
“The memory of flame flickered behind his eyes, the ghost of old pain along his own scarred hand. He’d felt that agony before. He knew it too well.”
Source: Blindman's Bluff
“The memory of having sat at someone’s feet will later make you want to trample him underfoot. I’m trying to fend off your admiration for me, you see, in order to save myself from your future contempt. I prefer to put up with my present state of loneliness rather than suffer more loneliness later. We who are born into this age of freedom and independence and the self must undergo this loneliness. It’s the price we pay for these times of ours.”
Source: Kokoro
“The memory of her vanishing felt both unpleasant to encounter and dangerous to hold, but I had no place to put it, no ordered shelf in my mind where it belonged. It remained unmentionable and therefore unclassifiable, which meant I had to carry it, every day, no matter how much it hurt.”
Source: When Women Were Dragons
“The memory of him telling her she was his best friend caused a little spurt of happiness every time she returned to it . . .”
Source: Troubled Blood
“The memory of his voice made her feel warm and happy, though she could not explain why”
Source: VoiceMates
“The memory of how he felt when he cared about her was going to be the most painful thing after he began to hate her.”
Source: Ruined
“The memory of how we work will endure beyond the products of our work.”
“The memory of human blood manifests now as a kind of visceral reaction to seeing people's veins and their necks. The skin on a neck appears to me as different from the skin anywhere else on a body. It seems as thin and consumable as rice paper wrapped around a sweet. It is too blank compared with skin everywhere else, as though it is asking to have marks made on it, like very expensive calligraphy paper, or cold-pressed Fabriano. Often, I wonder whether the urge I have to make art is the same as the urge to consume and destroy the blankness of a human neck. While at art college, I read that the best paper used by artists in the seventeenth century was made from the skins of lamb fetuses. This skin was soft and absorbent, and had an even texture right across its surface. For a long time, the process of creating art has been linked to the killing of living things. My dad, even, used fine silk stretched across wooden frames in his own work as a painter. Once, when we still had some of his pieces, I looked at the odd geometric shapes he created on a huge sheet and thought about all the silkworms who had had their cocoons torn open before they were able to become moths.”
Source: Woman, Eating
“The memory of man is as old as misfortune”
Source: The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea
“The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their neglect.”
“The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day of work. Just as a magician takes towers and rabbits out of his hat, he drew love from his small body.”
“The memory of my father speaks to me not of death, but of an undying, invincible spirit.”
Source: Reconditioning: Change your life in one minute
“The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.”
“The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.”
Source: Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897
“The memory of oppressed people is one thing that cannot be taken away, and for such people, with such memories, revolt is always an inch below the surface.”
Source: A People's History of the United States
“The memory of pain soon goes, the memory of pleasure lingers, that is one of life's happier truths.”
Source: Stephen Fry in America
“The memory of past favors is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful; but it soon fades away. The in memory of injuries is engraved on the heart, and remains forever.”
Source: Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances: Or, What He Said, Did, Or Invented
“The memory of past troubles is pleasant.
[Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]”
“The memory of some bottles can stay with your for life. While the wine doesn't have to be old and rare, a great old bottle can be like a time capsule, capturing in its flavors and aromas the time and place of its creation.”
Source: French Women For All Seasons: A Year of Secrets, Recipes & Pleasure
“The memory of Strike telling her she was his best friend made her heart feel immeasurably lightened, as though something she hadn't realized was weighing on it had been removed forever.
After a moment's pleasurable savoring of this feeling . . .”
Source: Troubled Blood
“The memory of that event has only just come back to me, now doubly painful: regret for a vanished past and, above all, remorse for lost opportunities. Mithra-Grandchamp is the women we were unable to love, the chances we failed to seize, the moments of happiness we allowed to drift away. Today it seems to me that my whole life was nothing but a string of those small near misses: a race whose result we know beforehand but in which we fail to bet on the winner.”
Source: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
“The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.”
“The memory of the aged becomes clearer and clearer with time. It has no pity.”
Source: The Terracotta Dog
“The memory of the American public is about six weeks.”
“The memory of the dead is indeed a good remorse. (Le souvenir des morts - Est bien un bon remords)”
Source: Le Sablier
“The memory of the financial community is proverbially and distressingly short.”
Source: Security Analysis: The Classic 1934 Edition
“The memory of the just survives in Heaven.”
Source: The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth
“The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy.”
Source: Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card
“The memory of the past did not redeem the future, as he insisted on believing.”
“The memory of the wrong suffered is also a source of my own non-redemption. As long as it is remembered, the past is not just the past; it remains an aspect of the present. A remembered wound is an experienced wound. Deep wounds from the past can so much pain our present that, as Toni Morrison puts it in Beloved, the future becomes“a matter of keeping the past at bay” (Morrison 1991, 52).22 “All things and all manner of things” cannot be well with me today, if they are not well in my memory of yesterday. Even remaking the whole world and removing all sources of suffering will not bring redemption if it does not stop incursions of the unredeemed past into the redeemed present through the door of memory. Since memories shape present identities, neither I nor the other can be redeemed without the redemption of our remembered past. “To redeem the past… that alone do I call redemption,”
Source: Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation
“The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.”
“The memory of war, however, like all memory, is mostly local.”
Source: Regarding the Pain of Others
“The memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so-called peace treaties.”
“The memory of what I thought we were had become a weapon, and it pierced through me effortlessly.”
Source: A Kingdom of Blood and Betrayal
“The memory of what is not may be better than the amnesia of what is.”
Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings
“The memory of you hurt so much at first. The more I thought about your smile, your smell, the more it hurt. But I liked punishing myself. I liked the pain because the pain was you.”
Source: One True Loves