T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through. Most people had not lived – nor could it, for that matter, be said that they had died – through any of their terrible events. They had simply been stunned by the hammer. They passed their lives thereafter in a kind of limbo of denied and unexamined pain.”
Source: Another Country
“The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through.”
“The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through. Most people had not lived -- nor could it, for that matter, be said that they had died-- through any of their terrible events. They had simply been stunned by the hammer. They passed their lives thereafter in a kind of limbo of denied and unexamined pain. The great question that faced him this morning was whether or not had had ever, really, been present at his life.”
“The occurrence of an evil thought is an affliction; not to continue it is the remedy.”
Source: A Guide to Zen: Lessons from a Modern Master
“The occurrence of any event where the chances are beyond one in ten followed by 50 zeros is an event which we can state with certainty will never happen, no matter how much time is allotted and no matter how many conceivable opportunities could exist for the event to take place.”
“The occurrence of successive forms of life upon our globe is an historical fact, which cannot be disputed; and the relation of these successive forms, as stages of evolution of the same type, is established in various cases.”
Source: Collected essays
“The ocean . . . cold and wild the surf, rushing in to overwhelm
the beach, the wind, stinging my cheeks, enveloping me
in total freedom.”
“The ocean ... like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind.”
“The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape.”
Source: Crossing unmarked snow: further views on the writer's vocation
“The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.”
“The ocean can be yours; why should you stop
Beguiled by dreams of evanescent dew?
The secrets of the sun are yours, but you
Content yourself with motes trapped in beams.”
“The ocean didn't answer, but it took your name just the same.”
“The ocean does not require that the waves are still to be more ocean-like.”
“The ocean does something to me that is unexplainable. Just being out there and realizing im alive.”
“The ocean doesn't care about you. It makes your boat feel tiny. The oceans are great promoters of religion, or at least of humility-but not in everyone.”
Source: The soul of a new machine
“The ocean doesn't want me today,
But I'll come back tomorrow to play.
The riptide is waging
And the life guard's away
But the ocean doesn't want me today”
“The ocean exerts an inexorable pull over sea people wherever they are-in a bright-lit, inland city or the dead center of a desert-and when they feel the tug there is no choice but somehow to reach it and stand at its immense, earth-dissolving edge, straightaway calmed.”
Source: The Folded Earth
“The ocean fascinates me too. How it connects everything and everyone, but at the same time it divides us. It’s a mystery, full of life and possibilities. It’s just…phenomenal.”
Source: Give It Back
“The ocean flows of online information are all streaming together, and the access tools are becoming absolutely critical. If you don’t index it, it doesn’t exist. It’s out there but you can’t find it, so it might as well not be there.”
“The ocean governs the climate and the weather, it is taking care of the temperature and it is shaping the chemistry of our planet.”
“The ocean has a voice, one that haunts me with its music every moment I’m awake. Even in my dreams it tugs on me, building the ache inside my bones until I can’t ignore who I am. My mother says the water is dangerous, that beyond the innocent whitecaps they’re waiting, but I never hear her over the call of the sea.”
Source: Mersong
“The ocean has always been a salve to my soul.”
“The ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together.”
“The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation”
Source: The Napoleonic Novels: The Rover & Suspense: From the Renowned Author of The Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)
“The ocean heals scars seen and unseen.”
Source: A Book of Chrissyisms
“The Ocean Health Index is like the thermometer of the ocean. It will allow us to take the temperature to know what is going on at the global level, trying to integrate different impacts, including overfishing, invasive species, coastal development, and climate change.”
“The ocean humbles you. You can go and win a world title, but you're never going to beat the ocean.”
“the ocean in me has quieted
but i still
reek of salt”
Source: The Evolution of a Girl
“The ocean inspires me because there's the energy of the water moving.”
“The ocean is 20 minutes away. Nature surrounds me 24/7. I wake up to the sounds of birds chirping. I also love that I can go out to dinner in jeans and flip-flops.”
“The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.”
“The ocean is a dangerous place, but it’s also a place you can still go and have to yourself, a place that’s clean and, yes, wild. If you go into the ocean you’re making a choice. You need to know you can drown, you can get lost, or you can be eaten by great beasts.”
Source: Saved by the Sea: Hope, Heartbreak, and Wonder in the Blue World
“The ocean is a mighty harmonist.”
“The ocean is a place of paradoxes. It is the home of the great white shark, two-thousand-pound killer of the seas, and of the hundred-foot blue whale, the largest animal that ever lived. It is also the home of living things so small that your two hands might scoop up as many of them as there are stars in the Milky Way.”
Source: Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson
“The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.”
“The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared.”
“The ocean is an object of no small terror.”
Source: The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: Volume I: The Early Writings
“The ocean is dying, and we have no place to escape to if this experiment doesn't go in our favor.”
“The ocean is full of things that would like to kill you. And other things that would ignore or not understand you, and then eventually kill you. Because they do not have the same understanding or valuation of life and death as humans. There are still other things that you would probably kill, simply because you think they are beautiful, and you want to possess beautiful things because you believe that beauty and sentience are mutually exclusive.”
Source: The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe
“The ocean is interacting with the surface. There is a possible biosphere that extends from way below the surface to just above the crust.”
“The ocean is like a checking account where everybody withdraws but nobody makes a deposit. This is what's happening because of overfishing.”
“The ocean is made of drops.”
“The ocean is never afraid of wind rising against it; it creates beautiful waves instead.”
“The ocean is not a big lake; the lake is not a small ocean! Ocean is ocean, lake is lake!”
“The ocean is not just blank blue space but rather the habitat for amazing wildlife, and we have to take care how we use it. If we want to keep having the goods and services it provides, we have to treat it more carefully in terms of fishing and dumping.”
“The ocean is our life support system. No blue, no green. It's really a miracle that we have got a place that works in our favor.”
“The ocean is six miles deep.”
Source: Submarine
“The ocean is the grand vehicle of trade, and the uniter of distant nations. To us it is peculiarly kind, not only as it wafts into our ports the harvests of every climate, and renders our island the centre of traffic, but also as it secures us from foreign invasion by a sort of impregnable intrenchment.”
Source: Meditations and contemplations: to which is prefixed the life of the author
“The ocean is the lifeblood of our world.”
“The ocean is the only alien and potentially hostile environment on the planet into which we tend to venture without thinking about the animals that live there, how they behave, how they support themselves, and how they perceive us. I know of no one who would set off into the jungles of Malaysia armed only with a bathing suit, a tube of suntan cream, and a book, and yet that's precisely how we approach the oceans.”