T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures.”
Source: Home Education
“The peculiarity of all death-based religions is that their subject-matter is entirely outside of facts. Men could think and think, talk and argue, advance, deny, assert, and controversy, and write innumerable books, without being hampered at any time by any fact.”
“The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane, the illusion of space, but it is space itself as a perceived quantity that becomes the peculiar concern of the sculptor. We may say that for the painter space is a luxury; for the sculptor it is a necessity.”
“The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.”
Source: Les Mis??rables
“The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side.”
Source: J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings
“The pedal is the soul of the piano.”
Source: The Art of Piano Pedaling: Two Classic Guides
“The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians - and the most diligent disseminators of nonsense and worse.”
“The pedestal is immobilizing and subtly insulting whether or not some women yet realize it. We must move up from the pedestal.”
“The pedestrian is an extremely fragile species, the canary in the coal mine of urban livability. Under the right conditions, this creature thrives and multiplies. But creating those conditions requires attention to a broad range of criteria, some more easily satisfied than others.”
Source: Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
“The pediatrician must have thought me one of those neurotic mothers who craved distinction for her child but who in our civilization's latter-day degeneracy could only conceive of the exceptional in terms of deficiency or affliction.”
Source: We Need To Talk About Kevin
“The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy.”
“The pedigree's pretty high. For people who are really scary movie fans, this is nirvana. If you're in the mood to get scared, just watch this every week. It'll creep you out.”
“The pedophile's curse has something almost supernatural about it, like the bite of a vampire infecting an entire life.”
Source: The Spider: Inside the Criminal Web of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell
“The peerless cup afloat
Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph
Swims bearing high above her head.”
Source: Paracelsus
“THE PEERLESS PRODIGIES OF PHYSICAL PHENOMENA AND GREAT PRESENTATION OF MARVELOUS LIVING HUMAN CURIOSITIES”
Source: Born Different: Amazing Stories of Very Special People
“The peers just fill the air with their speeches.""And from what I've seen, vice versa.”
Source: Timescape
“The pejorative term "political correctness" was adapted to express disapproval of the enlargement of etiquette to cover all people, in spite of this being a principle to which all Americans claim to subscribe.”
Source: Star-Spangled Manners: In Which Miss Manners Defends American Etiquette (For a Change)
“The Pekes and the Pollicles, everyone knows, Are proud and implacable, passionate foes; It is always the same, wherever one goes. And the Pugs and the Poms, although most people say that they do not like fighting, will often display Every symptom of wanting to join in the fray. And they Bark bark bark bark bark bark Until you can hear them all over the park.”
Source: The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses
“The Pelagianizing Romanist says, Lust, or concupiscence, brings forth sin, therefore it cannot be sin, because the mother cannot be the child. We reply, Concupiscence brings forth sin, therefore it must be sin, because child and mother must have the same nature. The grand sophism of Pelagianism is the assumption that sin is confined to acts, that guilty acts can be the product of innocent condition, that the effect can be sinful, yet the cause free from sin--that the unclean can be brought forth from the clean.”
“The pelicans paddle
in coils of waves and light. Low tide
reveals fissures of saltwater and rock.
From the smallest crevices
color insists-colonies of jade
anemones, a purple starfish harvest, barnacles
hiding beaks of unbleached linen, black mussel
bouquets. Between the air and sea,
-this, one large prayer.
I kneel.”
Source: Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire
“The Pell Grant is more than a financial aid program for college students in need. It is the right thing to do for America's college students, and it is the right thing to do for America's economy.”
“The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!”
“The Peloponnesian War turns out to be no dry chronicle of abstract cause and effect. No, it is above all an intense, riveting, and timeless story of strong and weak men, of heroes and scoundrels and innocents too, all caught in the fateful circumstances of rebellion, plague, and war that always strip away the veneer of culture and show us for what we really are.”
Source: The Landmark Thucydides
“The pen, a double-edged mystery: cuts the writer, heals the reader.”
“The pen doesn’t just write — it whispers the pain we dare not speak.”
“The pen had been mightier than the sword but then the tongue took over.”
“The pen has always been mightier than the sword but sadly in today's journalism the ink is sponsored.”
“The pen has shaken nations.”
“The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.”
“The pen is an extension of my anatomy.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out.”
“the pen is as wise as the mind that speaks through it”
“The pen is in your hands, the rest is still unwritten.”
“The pen is mightier than any kalashnikov you wave in the face of editorial freedom. In taking these lives, all you have achieved is securing that freedom.”
“The pen is mightier than the sword!”
“The pen is mightier than the sword ... if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.”
“The pen is mightier than the sword, for by the sword are mortal battles waged, but by the pen entire cultures swayed, eternal societies arrayed, and souls of men saved.”
“The pen is mightier than the sword, if you know where to poke it.”
Source: Always Remember to Tip Your Ninja: And Other Maxims for the Clinically Absurd
“The pen is mightier than the sword unless it's a real sword in which case the guy with the pen should run away fast.”
“The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.”
“The pen is mightier than the sword, if you shoot that pen out of a gun”
“The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.”
“The pen is the lever that moves the world.”
Source: Crumbs Swept Up
“The pen is the tongue of the mind.”
Source: Don Quixote
“The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.”
Source: The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha
“The pen isn’t really the weapon - the work ethic is the weapon.”
“The pen of history never runs out of ink and it’s fresh out of erasers. So…write carefully.”
“the pen of the faithful is mightier than the sword of the destroyer.”
“The pen that was once a gift has come to represent all that I hope to achieve.”
Source: A Writer's Year: Fennel's Journal No. 3
“The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some things have been lost forever, other things will perhaps be remembered again, and still other things have been lost and found and lost again. There is no way to be sure of any this.”
Source: Collected Prose