T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“That evening, Dudley paraded around the living room for the family in his brand new uniform...As he looked at Dudley in his new knickerbockers, Uncle Vernon said gruffly that if was the proudest moment of his life. Aunt Petunia burst into tears and said she couldn't believe it was her Ickle Dudleykins, he looked so handsome and grown-up. Harry didn't trust himself to speak. He thought two of his ribs might already have cracked from trying not to laugh.”
“That evening, rowing on the quiet river as sunset turned to dusk, I saw an occasional smoky smudge on the towpath, always slightly ahead of me, like a dark star guiding me home.”
Source: All Souls Trilogy
“That every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a wonderful discovery.”
“That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death.”
Source: Last Judgment: Are We Living in the End of Days?
“That every will must consider every other will its equal would be a principle hostile to life, an agent of the dissolution and destruction of man, an attempt to assassinate the future of man, a sign of weariness, a secret path to nothingness.”
Source: On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
“That everybody can do something, without regard to how old or young they are, rich or poor or middle class they are, how busy or not busy they are and what level skills they have. Everyone can do something. And everybody should do something. ... And if you do it, you'll be happier.”
“That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.”
“That everyone won't see it, that everyone won't join you, that everyone won't have the vision... it's necessary to know that... See I wanted everyone to like me, I wanted to be perfect the first time around. IT'S NOT GONNA HAPPEN. You're gonna make some mistakes, you are gonna create some enemies whenever you decide to take on the world and go after you passion.”
“That everything exceptional is doomed to be destroyed derives from the symbolic rule that no player must be bigger than the game itself.”
Source: Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004
“That everything is on fire, slow fire, and we're all less than a million breaths away from an oblivion more total than we can even bring ourselves to even try to imagine.”
“That everything you want to happen, will happen, if you decide you want it enough. That every time you think a sad thought, you can think a happy one instead.
That you control that completely.
That the people who make you laugh are more beautiful than beautiful people. That you laugh more than you cry. That crying is good for you. That the people you hate wish you would stop and you do too.
That your friends are reflections of the best parts of you. That you are more than the sum total of the things you know and how you react to them. That dancing is sometimes more important than listening to the music.
That the most embarrassing, awkward moments of your life are only remembered by you and no one else”
Source: I Wrote This For You
“That evidence of the spirit of life is what makes me get out of bed in the morning.”
“That evil can never be great which is the last.”
“That evil was the inability to recognize the humanity in experiences that were not your own, in experiences that seemed alien.”
Source: More Than Just a Pretty Face
“That exact moment when you think you will fail is the most precise moment to cast away this negative thought!”
“That exact moment when you're about to realize that this might be a dream is my favorite thing.”
“That excites me, working with really excellent people, be it wonderful directors or actors or cinematographers and especially writers. My work life is going to a set and having these great experiences and coming home shifted by them.”
“That execution will take place here." She runs her fingertips over the table beneath her. "On this table. I thought it would be interesting to show you." "I knew what would happen when I came here," I say. "It's just a table. And I'd like to go back to my room now.”
“That experience [in Hail, Caesar! ] ruined me for all future experiences, because the Coen brothers are the best. They're arguably the greatest of all time, if there is such a thing.”
“That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind.”
Source: The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers
“That experience of being in the wild in a place where life initially began for all creatures gave me a overwhelming sense of connection.”
“That experience of losing home, longing for home, that yearning for meaning and rootedness and identity in a floating world, it's what often makes an immigrant story into an American story .”
“That experience of touching down in a totally foreign place is like having a blank canvas: You begin with nothing, but stroke by stroke you build a life. This process requires everything great art requires-risk-tasking, hope, a great deal of imagination, all the qualities that are the building blocks of art. You must be able to dream something nearly impossible and toil to bring it into existence.”
“That experience showed me that I-from moment to moment-am the only person in control of my connection to God. It's not that God is deciding to connect with me, depending on whether I had a good day, or did good or bad deeds. It's all up to me. God, the awareness of God, the love of God, the blessings of God-that lively ecstasy-is always there. It's me who separates from God by judging, by indulging in negativity, by criticizing myself, as well as others.”
“That experience which does not make us better makes us worse.”
“That explains a lot,' he said. 'I suppose it's also why we've never glimpsed that giant compass in the corner of the Atlantic. I have to say, I'm a little disappointed.”
Source: The Pirates!: An Adventure with Scientists & An Adventure with Ahab
“That expression "positive neutrality" is a contradiction in terms. There can be no more positive neutrality than there can be a vegetarian tiger.”
“that expression you get in your eyes when you are very tired and everything is like a dream and you are starting to know what things are like underneath what people say they are.”
“That external struggle mirrors the struggle of this life force of energy that [princess Margaret] was.”
“That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“That eye which sees anything good in the creature is a blind eye; that eye which fancies it can discern anything in man, or anything in anything he can do to win the Divine favor, is as yet stone blind to the Truth of God, and needs to be lanced and cut, and the cataract of pride removed from it!”
“That face. That body. And you know he’s packing. Look at the angle on that dangle.”
“That faceless, nameless and ruthless demon you pretend to fight, is nothing but the bastard in your head.”
“That fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if it's for what we believe in .”
“That fact that Athens could condemn its noblest citizen to death did more than make a profound impression on him. It was to shape the course of his entire philosophic endeavor.”
Source: Sophie's World
“That fact that Jesus Christ died is more important than that fact that I will die.”
“That fact that motherhood overwhelms us is not a sign of weakness but an indicator of importance. It distinguishes mothering as
one of the few endeavors in our lifetime worthy of such an enormous and all-encompassing investment. We are similarly overwhelmed by
such things as love, beauty, justice, and the pursuit of a meaningful existence. When we honor the immensity of motherhood as we
do other powerful gifts—instead of resisting or trying to tame it—it changes us. Like native trees on a tropical coastline, we have the
potential to grow stronger with every storm, thrive when we grow in groups, dance with the wind and waves, and draw our strength from
a well deep within.”
Source: Motherwhelmed
“That fact that someone can convincingly lie to themselves to uphold an untruth makes it no less dishonest. Or harmful.”
“That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which the earth would know no lover and no adventurer.”
“That faeries have forgotten the Tapestry; that is the greatest tragedy of all. It's the fabric of all creation and it's woven of dreams, the dreams of the Djinn. Dreams are real, Magpie. They're seed and water and sun. They're everything.”
Source: Blackbringer
“That failure serves a purpose!”
Source: The Fortune in Failing: Decoding the Message of Failure
“That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.”
“That faith be analyzable does not necessarily imply a method for getting by without it. . . .”
“That faith which is required of us is then perfect when it produces in us a fiduciary assent to whatever the Gospel has revealed.”
“That fall, after the summer when they both died, she and my father, there was a point when I wanted to say to them, All right, you have died, I know that, and you've been dead for a while, we have all absorbed this and we've explored the feelings we had at first, in reaction to it, surprising feelings, some of them, and the feelings we're having now that a few months have gone by--- but now it's time for you to come back. You have been away long enough.”
Source: Can't and Won't
“That falls into the category of advice that sounds helpful but actually makes no freaking sense.”
Source: Let the Sky Fall
“That fame monster's a fool, man. It really is.”
“That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
Source: The Great Gatsby: The Authentic Edition from Fitzgerald’s Original Publisher: The authentic edition from Fitzgerald’s original publisher
“That familiar lane. Shall we walk there again? ...For memories curl in this autumn rain..”
“That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden: layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional.”