T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“That's the funny thing about life. Extraordinary things can happen to ordinary people like you and me, but only if we open ourselves up enough to let them.”
Source: All the Lonely People
“That’s the funny thing about stories — like all living things, they need to adapt and evolve in order to survive in their environment. Consider for a second that you can drop the same exact species into ten different ecosystems and within a few dozen generations, they could be hardly recognizable from their original form or to each other. The same is true for stories. They mutate to fit the cognitive conditions of each person’s specific mental habitat. That’s why a group of people can experience the same exact event, and within a decade or two, the story of that event can be wildly different as told by each person who experienced it.”
Source: Heaven and Hurricanes
“That's the funny thing about the dark—eventually, there'll be stars.”
“That's the funny thing about trust. If you have to ask for it, it's already gone.”
Source: Batgirl, Vol. 6: Old Enemies
“That’s the game I play. You never win. You just don’t lose yet.”
Source: Caliban’s War
“That’s the glory of being a man. An ugly face isn’t the end of you.”
Source: Daisy Jones & The Six
“That's the good thing about it. Nothing counts except what's goin' on around you.”
Source: Honey in the Horn
“That's the great danger that condemns us - not daemon blades, but dumb ignorance. We've become a stupid race, glorying in the easy goals of anger and piety.”
Source: The Emperor's Legion
“that’s the great part of Girl Logic: it’s nudges is to push yourselves, question what we want, and refine our own ideas about what will make us happier, better people”
Source: Girl Logic: The Genius and the Absurdity
“That's the hardest part about life. When you try your very hardest, when you give everything and can't give any more...and it still doesn't go the way you want it to go. -Dad”
Source: Ten Thousand Tries
“That's the hate they're giving us, baby, a system designed against us. That's Thug Life.”
Source: The Hate U Give
“That’s the hope, isn’t it? To see your family in your time of dying.”
“That’s the hottest guy she’s seen in weeks, and now there was no chance of ever getting to know those smoky gray eyes,or his pouty lips.”
Source: My Beloved Tourniquet
“That’s the issue with being a teenager: you need guidance and help, but you don’t need to be torn apart, ordered around, and dehumanized. Why the fuck don’t parents get it? Why, why, why?”
Source: Stolen Crush
“That's the key, isn't it? To know the darkness will always remain, but how you choose to face it, handle it... that's the important part. To not let it consume. To focus upon the good, the things that fill you with wonder. The struggle with that darkness is worth it, just to see such things.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“That’s the key to one’s destiny: you must earn it.”
“That’s the key to walking through the Wall.... You have to first see it as not being a Wall, even though everyone you know still sees it as a Wall.”
“That's the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know it everything's dark and you can't see, and the people around you think of you as more dead than alive.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“That's the kind of stories I know. Sad ones. Anyway, taken to it's logical conclusion, every story is sad, because at the end everyone dies.”
Source: The Blind Assassin
“That's the kind of thing people always thinking. They always got to see some sort of scary thing in everything.”
Source: After the Snow
“That's the kind of trouble you get when diverse groups of people actually cross paths with one another. That's why many of the worst things in the world happen in and around Starbucks bathrooms.”
Source: Bossypants
“That’s the last time I put you in charge of the tequila when we’re making margaritas”
Source: When A Mullo Loves A Woman
“That's the least part of it—after it nothing will matter.”
Source: The Wings of the Dove
“That's the life, she said to me, as we watched a puppy chase its own tail. That's what I want to be next.
I had laughed. you would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else.
I need you, she replied.
Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper
“That's the look you give when you're ready to be mine, but your actions show you're not.”
“That's the lovely thing about men, there's no guesswork involved when it comes to arousal.”
Source: An Uncommon Whore
“That's the Marshall men - they don't know the word for slow down, be careful, stop and think ... you know, prudence.”
Source: Ford
“That's the moon, commissioner: hours of boredom followed by a few seconds of terror.”
Source: Gunpowder Moon
“That's the most intelligent use of three wishes I ever heard of," he told the bird. "You made sure you'd still have something worth wishing for- to get out of the cage.”
Source: Breakfast Of Champions
“That's the most pathetic part of being a human, the emotions you don't ask for or want, they just rush you anyway.”
Source: F*ck Love
“That's the most terrible thing about being a child; you're convinced that it's all your fault." Lulu”
Source: Delicious!
“That's the myth of it, the required lie that allows us to render our judgments. Parasites, criminals, dope fiends, dope peddlers, whores--when we can ride past them at Fayette and Monroe, car doors locked, our field of vision cautiously restricted to the road ahead, then the long journey into darkness is underway. Pale-skinned hillbillies and hard-faced yos, toothless white trash and gold-front gangsters--when we can glide on and feel only fear, we're well on the way. And if, after a time, we can glimpse the spectacle of the corner and manage nothing beyond loathing and contempt, then we've arrived at last at that naked place where a man finally sees the sense in stretching razor wire and building barracks and directing cattle cars into the compound.
It's a reckoning of another kind, perhaps, and one that becomes a possibility only through the arrogance and certainty that so easily accompanies a well-planned and well-tended life. We know ourselves, we believe in ourselves; from what we value most, we grant ourselves the illusion that it's not chance in circumstance, that opportunity itself isn't the defining issue. We want the high ground; we want our own worth to be acknowledged. Morality, intelligence, values--we want those things measured and counted. We want it to be about Us.
Yes, if we were down there, if we were the damned of the American cities, we would not fail. We would rise above the corner. And when we tell ourselves such things, we unthinkably assume that we would be consigned to places like Fayette Street fully equipped, with all the graces and disciplines, talents and training that we now posses. Our parents would still be our parents, our teachers still our teachers, our broker still our broker. Amid the stench of so much defeat and despair, we would kick fate in the teeth and claim our deserved victory. We would escape to live the life we were supposed to live, the life we are living now. We would be saved, and as it always is in matters of salvation, we know this as a matter of perfect, pristine faith.
Why? The truth is plain:
We were not born to be niggers.”
Source: The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
“That's the nature of our relationship". A spark lit his eyes. "We both do what's necessary, and after it's over, I watch you freak out about it."
"I don't."
"Oh, I don't want you to stop. I find it highly amusing”
Source: White Hot
“That's the nice thing about being human. We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it's going to be.”
Source: The Hidden Oracle
“That's the one thing about humanity you can always rely on: we'll forever judge the secrets and faults of others while desperately trying to make sure our own stay hidden.”
Source: The Daughter of Victory Lights
“That’s the only conquest I care about, for language is the highway to culture. Not real estate, gadgets or cash, give me languages, give me cultures.”
Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“That's the only hitch in learning: it's humbling. The more you learn, the more you realize how little you know. Anyway, all that's a long way around saying that it's crazy to do things just to prove you can do 'em. The more you learn, the more you'll find yourself doing things you never thought you could do in a million years.”
“That's the only one left. That nice old wizard who used to live there---"
"Egbert the Onion?"
"Even when he thought he was an onion, he was a very kind onion," said Sophie.”
Source: Jinx's Magic
“That’s the only thing you can do with a mess. Start cleaning it up, a little at a time.”
Source: The Sea Glass Sisters
“That's the other reason I came actually," Rhys continued. " I need to ask a favor."
My eyebrows went up in surprise. "Okay, I'm listening."
"Can you teach me how to bake a cake?" he asked. "My mom's birthday is next week , and I want to do something special."
Be still my heart. This guy was something else.”
Source: Cupcake
“That’s the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they’re suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child is flung out onto the world. That’s why the things that are worst to undergo are best to remember. But when that child gets buried away under their adaptive and protective shells—he becomes one of the walking dead, a monster. So when you realise you’ve gone a few weeks and haven’t felt that awful struggle of your childish self — struggling to lift itself out of its inadequacy and incompetence — you’ll know you’ve gone some weeks without meeting new challenge, and without growing, and that you’ve gone some weeks towards losing touch with yourself. The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.”
Source: Letters of Ted Hughes
“That's the pathetic thing about high school. Everyone tries so hard to be something they aren't. It's gotten so I don't know who I am, so how can I even try to be who I am, much less who I'm not?
My problem is that I don't even fit in with the misfits.
I don't fit anywhere.”
Source: Bad Girls Don't Die
“That’s the point, I think. We love because we can. We live because we’ve fought too hard to ever stop.”
Source: Brothersong
“That’s the point. This healthy-feeling time now just feels like a tease. Like I’m in this holding pattern, flying in smooth circles within sight of the airport, in super-comfortable first class. But I can’t enjoy the in-flight movie or free chocolate chip cookies because I know that before the airport is able to make room for us, the plane is going to run out of fuel, and we’re going to crash-land into a fiery, agonizing death.”
Source: My Life After Now
“That's the power of literature, you know, it can act like little love letters between two people who can only explain their feelings by pointing at other people's.”
Source: Anxious People
“That’s the power of meaning. We can tolerate any suffering, if we know why.
And not knowing why is, itself, a profound type of suffering.”
Source: Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
“That's the problem getting rich. You use up your whole life doing it. Just to sit up the front of the aeroplane.”
Source: Their Lips Talk of Mischief
“That’s the problem, Gorgeous. You fell in love. You’re supposed to rise in it. It’s supposed to set you free. Falling hurts. You’re supposed to take time to get to know somebody’s light and darkness. Make sure they benefit you and are aligned with your path. If they ain't, don’t fuck with them.” He spoke.”
Source: Over Him: Not a Love Story- A F*cking Story
“That s the problem I ve been choosing male names. You are a she! [To Saphira, while trying to choose her name.]”
“That’s the problem, isn’t it? Our youth enamored society hides death from us, makes us believe that we will live forever," Jack asserted, rather forcefully. "We don’t want to see death. We even hide old people so that we don’t have to be reminded of our own mortality. In other cultures, old age is celebrated, embraced even. Death is a part of life.”
Source: The Meditating Psychiatrist Who Tried to Kill Himself