T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.”
Source: My Ántonia (我的安東妮亞)
“That is her style of beauty.”
Source: 1984
“That is honor's scorn
Which challenges itself as honor's born
And is not like the sire. Honors thrive
When rather from our acts we them derive
Than our foregoers.”
Source: Tempest
“That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two
“That is how His Majesty [the Lord] rewards our good works---I mean, by predisposing us to perform better ones.”
“That is how I came to think that heavy and hard was the beginning of living, real living; and though I might not end up with a mark on my cheek, I had no doubt that I would end up with a mark somewhere.”
Source: Lucy: A Novel
“That is how I serve Christianity—in all my wretchedness happy in the thought of the indescribable good God has done for me, far beyond my expectations.”
Source: Journals and Papers
“That is how I think of peace and peace of mind-as timid birds that we have to search for, not bold ones that come looking for us.”
Source: Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba
“That is how I'm loved! Well, never mind. That is not my Heathcliff. I shall love mine yet; and take him with me: he's in my soul.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“That is how it feels. Like everything between us is twisted together, friendship and love and family, so I cant tell the difference between any of them.”
“That is how it is with lies. If you can have enough people believe your lies, before you know it, even the one you have lied against will be confused. The lie will make itself at home and the truth will be knocking outside its own door.”
“That is how life goes--we send our children into the wilderness. Some of them on the day they are born, it seems, for all the help we can give them. Some of them seem to be a kind of wilderness unto themselves. But there must be angels there, too, and springs of water. Even that wilderness, the very habitation of jackals, is the Lord's.”
Source: Gilead: A Novel
“That is how love relationship is meant to work, each partner transforming the other. The strength and power of each is untangled, shared. He gives her the heart drum. She gives him knowledge of the most complicated rhythms and emotions imaginable. Who knows what they will hunt together? We only know that they will be nour ished to the end of their days.”
Source: Women Who Run With the Wolves
“That is how our arch-adventurer likes to live, moving on from explosion to explosion of fortune and misfortune.”
Source: Casanova
“That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.”
Source: In the belly of the beast: letters from prison
“That is how sin works. Having nothing in itself by which to convince, on what other resources but good and truth can it draw to make itself attractive and plausible? We must use the natural law to recognize the abuse of the natural law; there is nothing else to use.”
Source: What We Can't Not Know: A Guide
“That is how the atom is split. But what does it mean ? To us who think in terms of practical use it means - Nothing !”
“That is how we always keep our beloved dead alive, isn’t it? By telling stories about them; true stories.”
Source: Flags of Our Fathers
“That is how we become wise, by living each day attending to the lessons God puts in our path.”
Source: The King's Mistress
“That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.”
Source: Little Bee: A Novel
“That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.”
Source: Here On Earth
“That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them.”
“That is just one more thing I love about cooking. Recipes are certain. Use good ingredients, follow the directions, be sure your oven temperature is true and monitor your stove properly, and you are assured success. There are not many variables once you understand how cooking works.
Life, on the other hand, is full of variables. Nothing is predictable. Not the weather, not other people, not traffic, not even our own bodies. We are like seaweed, whipped around in the current of an erratic ocean.”
Source: When in Doubt, Add Butter
“That is just the way with Memory; nothing that she brings to us is complete. She is a willful child; all her toys are broken. I remember tumbling into a huge dust-hole when a very small boy, but I have not the faintest recollection of ever getting out again; and if memory were all we had to trust to, I should be compelled to believe I was there still.”
Source: Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1
“That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.”
Source: Tom Sawyer Collection: All Four Books
“That is kind of you, my lord. But I will never dance with you.' Which, of course, made it the goal of Leo's life.”
Source: Married by Morning
“That is life, isn’t it? Fate. Luck. Chance. A long series of what-if’s that lead from one moment to the next, time never pausing for you to catch your breath, to make sense of the cards that have been handed to you. And all you can do is play your cards and hope for the best, because in the end, it all comes back to those three basics.
Fate. Luck. Chance.”
Source: If I Fall
“That is life. The past expires the moment it slips away.”
Source: NISEMONOGATARI, Part 1: Fake Tale
“That is life. Just one long succession of misunderstandings and rash acts and what not. Absolutely.”
Source: A Damsel in Distress
“That is life... to begin again when everything is lost!”
Source: the Keys of the Kingdom
“That is like in my parents' generation, Walter Cronkite. If you were gonna go into broadcasting, if you weren't gonna be Walter Cronkite, you may as well not go into it. Even after I'd try and tell my parents that he was the epitome of left-wing bias. Well, my dad knew it. My grandfather wouldn't believe it.”
“That is like throwing two virgins into a bed. Enthusiasm, passion, and ignorance are not a good combination. Someone is likely to get hurt.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“That is longing: To dwell in the flux of things,
To have no home in the present.
And these are wishes: gentle dialogues
Of the poor hours with eternity.”
Source: Poems
“That is love, son of thorns. We welcome its cruelest blows and when we bleed from them, we whisper our thanks.”
Source: Lord of Shadows
“That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3”
“That is many poets don't know how to tell a story and they don't have a sense of how to put things in order to tell a story and we thought the poets could learn from fiction writers something about developing a character over time who wasn't just you and also creating a narrative structure.”
“That is much of what I think the writer's job is - to slow people down. To give them the chance to notice the passage of time as experienced by others as a reminder of what it is like to be alive. Because we are most often distracted from that. Massively distracted.”
“That is my being, the madness of an unaccustomed mood.”
Source: The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
“That is my best friend because it is a gift of the creator to Africans. It is a spirit. Marijuana has five fingers of creation...it enhances all your five senses.”
“That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life all around me. I also write because when I am writing I reach the high moment of fusion sought by the mystics, the poets, the lovers, a sense of communion with the universe.”
“That is my home of love: if I have ranged,
Like him that travels I return again,
Just to the time, not with the time exchanged.”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
“That is my job as an intellectual, as an extension of my vocation: to engage in a serious reckoning with the present manifestation of both white supremacy, white refusal to acknowledge culpability, and the attempts of black people to re-describe the harm and trauma we've endured, as well as to say afresh what it is that must be done if we are to be conscientious.”
“That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.”
“That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.”
“That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing, I desire nothing, I am nothing except an abstract centre of impersonal sensations, a sentient mirror fallen from the wall but still turned to reflect the diversity of the world.”
“That is my most comfortable place: close-up beauty shots! I also love to stand and speak in front of people. I can get a bit nervous while I'm speaking, but I love to touch others with my message. TV hosting with a teleprompter is also a comfort zone. I love to nail the copy quickly with the right expression and facial expression. Delivery is key!”
“That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.”
Source: Deadeye Dick
“That is my problem with life, I rush through it, like I'm being chased. Even things whose whole point is slowness, like drinking relaxing tea. When I drink relaxing tea I suck it down as if I'm in a contest for who can drink relaxing tea the quickest.”
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
“That is my reality. It's that important to nurture and foster my own creativity. There are plenty of birthday parties I haven't been able to go to, weddings I haven't been able to go to because I've been working. Those are things that have not been easy to give up, but at the same time, it is my reality. It's my responsibility.”
“That is my rule of life. If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow. Do you remember Henley's magnificent lines?
'Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.' ?
That is my gospel. What do you think of it?”