T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The old boy network is still too strong in Canadian business. A visit to the Toronto clubs at lunch stands in about as great a contrast to the multicultural, multiracial subway underneath as can be humanly imagined. This is not healthy.”
“The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men.”
“The old brown hen and the old blue sky,
Between the two we live and die
The broken cartwheel on the hill.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
“The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.”
“The old Catholic church traditions are worth more than all you have said. Here is a principle of logic that most men have no more sense than to adopt. I will illustrate it by an old apple tree. Here jumps off a branch and says, I am the true tree, and you are corrupt. If the whole tree is corrupt, are not its branches corrupt? If the Catholic religion is a false religion, how can any true religion come out of it? If the Catholic church is bad, how can any good thing come out of it?”
“The old Catholic parties hounded me with a Christian hatred from station to station, city to city, one stage to another.”
“the old cedars watch us
make love by the pools
that drain to the inlet
where orcas slip ghostlike
through a salmonless sea”
Source: Sweet Water: Poems for the Watersheds
“The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific.”
“The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you have the same starting hand. What's the point?”
“The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.”
Source: Under the Duvet: Shoes, Reviews, Having the Blues, Builders, Babies, Families and Other Calamities
“The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again”
“The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement.”
Source: 1984
“The old cliché in theater is, if you’re nervous, pick up a prop, which will immediately take you outside of your mind.”
“The old cliché, “There are no words,” is regarded by many as an empty platitude, but I beg to differ. Well-meaning people use the expression over and over because it’s true. We don’t have the language to describe the grief that comes in waves, swallows us up, and keeps us on our knees. There is no road map through grief: it takes time, patience, and love for the soul to heal and reemerge. A deep faith in God and the belief that, as promised, we will indeed see our loved ones again in heaven has kept many people anchored until such time as they can right the ship and find the joy in living again.”
Source: A Saint and a Sinner: The Rise and Fall of a Beloved Catholic Priest
“The old computing was about what computers could do; the new computing is about what users can do. Successful technologies are those that are in harmony with users' needs. They must support relationships and activities that enrich the users' experiences.”
Source: Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies
“The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether.”
“The Old Cornwall Society decided during the 1920s to revive the custom of lighting fires along the Cornish peninsula, beginning in the east and moving westward as dusk approached. It is a custom which continues today and, when watched from a distance, still has the power to evoke in anyone who observes this ritual a deep connection with the earth and the ancestors.”
Source: Mrs Darley's Pagan Whispers: A Celebration of Pagan Festivals, Sacred Days, Spirituality and Traditions of the Year
“The old crone smiles crookedly and sighs. “There is more to magic than darkness, my dear.”
Source: Sleight of Hand
“The old cross slew men; the new cross entertains them. The old
cross condemned; the new cross amuses. The old cross destroyed
confidence in the flesh; the new cross encourages it.”
“The old culture had come out of poverty, out of English customs.”
“The old darkness has taken a seat alongside him. He is used to it by now, making room for it the way you make room for a commuter on a bus.”
Source: The Five People You Meet In Heaven
“The old days of screenwriting, and myths about screenwriting, are maybe over. It's a literary form, if you can wake up to it.”
“The Old Days, the Lost Days -- in the half-closed eyes of memory (and in fact) they never marched across a calendar; they huddled round a burning log, leaned on a certain table, or listened to those certain songs.”
Source: West with the Night
“The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famille.”
“The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.”
“The old dead trees are the most fascinating - the countless trees lying in the gullies and up the hills that fell perhaps a century ago, pulling up their roots from the earth as they toppled. The great upheavals left rocks in their huge tentacles and, as they slowly rot, the trunks are home to populations of creatures, from goannas to wild pigs. As grey as tombstones in a cemetery they lie there, having outlasted generations of farmers, as they'll outlast me. In their own way they are as beautiful, more beautiful, than living trees.”
“The old deep sadness of life lay in the bottom of her heart and she knew it was there, but she would not allow herself to sink into it. Out of the dark and sullen bottom of a lake the lotus flowers bloomed upon its surface, and she would pluck the flowers.”
“The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.”
“The old doctrine that God wanted man to do something for him, and that he kept a watchful eye upon all the children of men; that he rewarded the virtuous and punished the wicked, is gradually fading from the mind. We know that some of the worst men have what the world calls success. We know that some of the best men lie upon the straw of failure. We know that honesty goes hungry, while larceny sits at the banquet. We know that the vicious have every physical comfort, while the virtuous are often clad in rags.”
Source: The Works of Robert G.Ingersoll. [Dresden Ed.]
“The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.”
Source: The poetry of Robert Frost
“The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.”
“The old echoes are long in dying.”
“The old economy was about people acquiring a single skill for life; the new economy is about life-long learning.”
“The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community.”
“The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust”
Source: Murphy
“The Old English word is wyrd, which most glossaries and dictionaries translate as ‘fate’. Tolkien knew that the etymologies of the two words were quite different, ‘fate’ coming from the Latin fari, ‘to speak’, so ‘that which has been spoken’, sc. by the gods. The Old English word derives from weorÞan, ‘to become’: it means ‘what has become, what’s over’, so among other things, ‘history’ – a historian is a wyrdwritere, a writer-down of wyrd.”
Source: J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
“The old errors are fantastical and fantastic, and revealing of human hopes and anxieties; our terrors, our desires for greater digestive health and sexual prowess, our quest for magical solutions to relentlessly human problems. And every scientist you meet will tell you: there is no reason to believe that we haven't got just as much wrong today as we have done in every generation up till now. It would be worth our holding that knowledge, tight and urgent, as we go; our learning, though vast, is an infinitesimally small fraction of what exists.”
Source: Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
“The old fairy tales are very, very violent, and these days I think we could do with a little less of it.”
“The old faiths light their candles all about, but burly Truth comes by and puts them out.”
“The old farm roads a four lane that leads to the mall, and our dreams are all guillotines waiting to fall.”
“The old fashioned family physician and general practitioner ... was a splendid figure and useful person in his day; but he was badly trained, he was often ignorant, he made many mistakes, for one cannot by force of character and geniality of person make a diagnosis of appendicitis, or recognize streptococcus infection.”
“The old-fashioned sins of reading is the only sense that matters.”
Source: The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
“the old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat.”
Source: The Tiger in the Smoke
“The old fellow who was cadging drinks from me the other night at the Cafe Royal told me he had known Julian Bern's people in the old days at Rome.”
“The old field of space, time, matter, and the senses is to be weeded, dug, and sown for a new crop. We may be tired of that old field: God is not.”
Source: Miracles: A Preliminary Study
“The old folk, time's doting chronicles.”
Source: King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series
“The old folks say there is only black and white. That may do for their tidy lives, but it doesn’t apply to all of us. We, Supergirls for real and the wretched creature at my feet, live in the gray and the mist. We may never see the stars, but we believe in the dream of them.”
Source: Behind the Black Door
“The old footage of my dad, I always knew we were cut from the same cloth, because my dad was such a renegade and always marched to the beat of his own drum. To see where we were both dancing and being silly together, it's too beautiful for words. I was really happy to have that.”
“The old form of voluntary servitude was that of free men using that freedom paradoxically to turn themselves into serfs. The new voluntary servitude is that of men obeying the demand that they be free.”
Source: Cool memories
“The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.”