T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“That was exciting to be able to comment on civil rights. I mean, the civil rights movement that young people don't know about today, but Martin Luther King was considered by the establishment press in the early years of the sit-in movement as a dangerous man, and he was the equivalent at that time as Malcolm X. And he was told to stop his demonstrations; they were against the law and all of that. Now that he's sainted and sanctified we've forgotten.”
“That was extraordinary. Unfortunately, extraordinarily bad.”
“That was for instance the case in Mocambique a couple of years ago, during the flooding catastrophe. Instead of co-ordinating assistance properly, to much time and resources was spent on fighting about the same helicopters and local guides.”
“That was fucking incredible, Lucy. I would’ve died a happy man if you’d sat on me a little longer with those thick thighs of yours squeezing my face. With your pussy soaking my nose and my mouth.”
Source: Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick
“That was hell, she knew hell when she saw it.”
“That was her for the past nine years—circling alone, hunting for purpose, never letting anyone close enough to fly beside her. But now she wondered if maybe it was time to stop being the lone hawk, time to let others share her sky.”
Source: Rekindled Flame
“That was her last rational thought. She gave herself up to Cam completely, feasting on her. She couldn't get enough of her.”
Source: Romance by the Book
“That was her magic—
she could still see
the sunset
even on those
darkest days.”
Source: Love Her Wild
“That was Hera. Her Majesty, the Loose Cannon.”
“That was his cover story. Architecture… a job that would take him out of town often and would require long hours and meetings that wouldn’t allow him to answer his phone. Of course, he had to have a good cover. Cell coverage in Hell was spotty.”
Source: Savior
“That was his father's way---beloved, tough old Preacher Jackson: hellfire and fear. That had always been his way, and Llewellyn had no use for it. He had no use for his father or the kind of people who listened to him, holding fast to his every damning word; finding assurance in being better.
I'm better than...At least I'm not...I'm better than...
Llewellyn had no use for it.”
Source: Children of Promise
“That was his favorite thing about books—they took you off to other people’s lives an’ places, but you could still set in your own chair by th’oil heater, warm as a mouse in a churn.”
Source: Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good
“That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.”
Source: About a Boy
“That was his senior year,” Jonah said. “He was such a handsome young man. Destined for greatness. It’s hard to live with all the sadness and anger that erupts when a tragic thing happens, like what took my Jacob.”
Source: The Ascension of Mary
“That was his tactic. Make them want know something they never wanted to know. Lure them into the trap of knowledge.”
“That was how a Salomon bond trader thought: He forgot whatever it was that he wanted to do for a minute and put his finger on the pulse of the market. If the market felt fidgety, if people were scared or desperate, he herded them like sheep into a corner, then made them pay for their uncertainty. He sat on the market until it puked gold coins. Then he worried about what he wanted to do.”
“That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.”
Source: The Bonesetter's Daughter
“That was how divorced from the human scale modern warfare had become. You could smash and destroy from unthinkable distances, obliterate planets from beyond their own system and provoke stars into novae from light-years off... and still have no good idea why you were really fighting.”
“That was how evil magnified itself: it took root in the young and grew along with them.”
Source: Lost Stars
“That was how evil magnified itself: it took root in the young and grew along with them. Each generation provided the next level of abuse. We’re teaching children to approve of slavery. We’re teaching them cruelty is a virtue.”
Source: Lost Stars
“That was how he managed to convince them to allow his wife to be a part of the ritual and to allow him to watch while his wife got fucked by a “bull with a large black cock,” which was how he described it while seated in Cynthia’s living room.”
Source: The African Mating Ritual
“That was how he would go on tormenting her, after his physical departure from her life. A baroque plan, byzantine even, a plan that both pleased and shamed him.
He awaited only the night, this one grotesque, terrible night.”
Source: Private Arrangements
“That was how I came to realise: for all their knowledge of literature and the arts, my parents weren't in the habit of thinking deeply about anything. They were, in fact, profoundly superficial people who were happy if they could spend their days enjoying themselves, surrounded by things they liked and which were pleasing on the eye.”
Source: Butter
“That was how I got into music and art was being a battle kid from Jersey, so I didn't have these wonderful ways of learning commitment, dedication, practicing skill.”
“That was how I lived. No seat belt. No backup plan. Just heart, hustle, and a little bit of hellfire.”
Source: Eyes on You a Mafia Romance
“That was how I responded to beauty, in both women and men: drawn to it at first, and then recoiling. Ruled by my own shallow impulses, then angry at the trick.”
Source: You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories
“That was how I was going to get things back to normal-by working. I never thought I would use the words “working” and “normal” in the same sentence, but I'll try anything to avoid facing reality.”
“That was how it always was with Colleen: No matter how sad she felt, there was always this little bit of hope - like a speck of glitter caught in your eyelash - that never went away, no matter what.”
Source: Emma Jean Lazarus Fell in Love
“That was how it started. As simple as that.”
Source: Let's Meet on Platform 8 / A Whiff of Scandal
“That was how it was, sometimes. You put yourself in front of the thing and waited for whatever was going to happen and that was all. It scared you and it didn't matter. You stood and faced it. There was no outwitting anything. When Almondine had been playful, she had been playful in the face of that knowledge, as defiant as before the rabid thing. Sometimes you looked the thing in the eye and it turned away. Sometimes it didn't.”
“That was how she had felt most of her life.
Caught in the middle. Struggling, flailing, just trying to survive while not knowing which way to go. Which path to commit to without regret.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“That was how she saw the storyteller for the last time - in an absolutely silent world, in a staircase. He'd hit his target.
When she fell into darkness, she knew that she would never see him again.
She'd love him to the very end.”
Source: The Storyteller
“That was how the heroine of a book would play it and Diana was still writing her own story the best heroines she'd always believed took their fate into their own hands.”
“That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time to be forgotten. But everything that had once existed left its traces, and people lived on memories just as they now live on the ability to forget quickly and emphatically.”
Source: The Radetzky March
“That was how we touched each other’s worlds, each sacrificing something of our own.
A part of ourselves.”
Source: Before the Eyes of Passion
“that was humanity's problem right there. they are brain damaged from the early sun”
“That was . . .” I trailed off trying to find the proper adjective.
“Long overdue?”
“Long overdue? You’re the one who got skittish when I mentioned how I felt and backed away when we almost kissed.”
“You call me on all my crap, don’t you?” He laughed throwing his head back. “That’s one of the things I love about you,” he said. His fingers
skimmed up my shoulders until they cradled my neck and my whole body tingling.”
Source: Intrinsical
“That was impressive," Ash said quietly as we walked through the maze of tents. Summer fey parted for us, scurrying out of sight as we headed deeper into camp. "Oberon was throwing all the mind-altering glamour he could at you, trying to get you to agree to his terms quickly and not question him. Not only did you resist, you turned the contract to your advantage. Not many could have done that."
"Really?" I thought back to the thick, sluggish feeling in the Erlking's tent. "So that was Oberon trying to manipulate me again, huh? Maybe I could resist since I'm family. Half Oberon's blood and all that."
"Or you're just incredibly stubborn," Ash added, and I smacked his arm. He chuckled, taking my hand and we continued on to the Winter's territory.”
Source: The Iron Queen
“That was in 1957. And there I found out that Germany is a kind of province. I didn't know anything about expressionism, about the Bauhaus and Dada and surrealism. I was uneducated, so to speak - and everybody else was more or less uneducated, too.”
“That was in 1994, July, 1994, and I can remember that like it was yesterday too because it was the culmination of a childhood dream to finally be laying on the launch pad inside a space shuttle and getting ready to be launched into space. The impression of going into a space shuttle is that it looks like a brand new simulator. We spend so many hours inside a simulator that everything is very familiar. Every switch, the seats, the way things work, but the vehicle, the actual spacecraft looks brand new because it hasn't been used nearly as much as the simulators.”
“That was in Crescent City, California, up near the Oregon border. I left soon after. But today I was thinking of that place, of Crescent City, and of how I was trying out a new life there with my wife, and how, in the barber's chair that morning, I had made up my mind to go. I was thinking today about the calm I felt when I closed my eyes and let the barber's fingers move through my hair, the sweetness of those fingers, the hair already starting to grow.”
Source: Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories
“That was in the past - we're in the future now.”
“That was inappropriate," said Attolia.
"Inappropriate?" shouted the king. "You in your state on your way to war is inappropriate!"
"I did not become inappropriate all by myself!" she shouted back.
"Do you imagine I don't know that?”
Source: Return of the Thief
“That was indeed to live -- at one bold swoop to wrest from darkling death the best that death to life can give.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems
“That was interesting, riding in the trunk," Milo said, "but I wouldn't want to do it again.”
Source: Relentless: A Novel
“That was interesting, to find that it wasn't hunger that caused children to become bullies on the street. The bulliness was already in the child, and whatever the stakes were, they would find a way to act as they needed to act. … Intelligence and education, which all these children had, apparently didn't make any important difference in human nature.”
Source: Ender's Shadow
“That was interesting." "He deliberately countermanded one of my orders." "He was furtive." "Sneaky, even." "We'll make a Rebellion-style pilot of him yet." Tycho & Wedge (about Jag)”
“That was it. Just…fate. No grand scheme, no conscious decision one way or the other, her father wasn't a coward or apathetic, he hadn't chosen to leave them to die in Moria…nothing.
It simply was.
Her father should have come.
Her father would have come.
Her father could have come.
Would have, should have, could have…..
Didn't.
The end.
Done.”
Source: Of Dwobbits, Dragons and Dwarves
“That was it, people moved away, he moved away. Their life in Carricklea, which they had imbued with such drama and significance, just ended like that with no conclusion, and it would never be picked back up again, never in the same way.”
Source: Normal People
“That was it. Shogo stopped breathing. The dim yellow light falling from the ceiling of the pilothouse shone on his pale face. He seemed at ease.
"Shogo!" Shuya yelled. He still had more to say. "You'll see Keiko! You'll be happy with her! You're--"
It was too late. Shogo couldn't hear anything anymore. But his face just looked so damned peaceful.
"Damn it." Shuya's lips trembled along with his words. "Damn it."
Holding Shogo's hands, Noriko was crying.
Shuya also put his hand on Shogo's thick hand. A thought occured to him. He searched through Shogo's pockets and found the red bird call. He pressed it into Shogo's right hand and closed his hands over it so he could hold it. Shuya then finally burst into tears.”
Source: Battle Royale