T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Take no pride in the body,
It will soon be mingling with the dust.
This life is like the sporting of sparrows,
It will end with the onset of the night.”
Source: Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems
“Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.' Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces; Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
“Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the mewing of a distant gull.”
“Take no stock in saying, "never", because it carries no guarantee.”
“Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.”
“Take noise-cancelling headphones, a good book, and wear comfy clothes.”
“Take not a minute for granted, because that minute can never be replaced.”
“Take not away the life you cannot give:
For all things have an equal right to live.”
Source: The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author
“Take not counsel of your fears”
“Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.”
“Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Take not into your ear that scum of hell that people call tittle-tattle. Whosoever willingly listens to a slander is equally guilty with the one who tells it, and an old writer says they ought both to be hanged; the one by the tongue and the other by the ear. Do not smile upon such a spaniel, lest like a pleased dog, he puts his dirty paw upon you.”
“Take not thy thunder from us, but take away our pride.”
“Take note of how people treat you after you say no to their demands.”
“Take note of signs from the universe, and never forget to trust your intuition.”
“Take note of the fact that I am a follower (of the religion) and not an innovator.”
“Take note of those who helped open the right doors for you. Their generosity is of great value, they brought you to the most important table.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“Take note of what's around you and maximise sensory pleasure.”
“Take note of Who’s Who and What’s What in your life. The people, the habits, the diet, the routines… Are they driving you forward or crazy?”
“Take note that, before going any farther, I will give you the exact proportion of a man. Those of a woman I will disregard, for she does not have any set proportion.”
Source: The Craftsman's Handbook
“Take note, theologians, that in your desire to make matters of faith out of propositions relating to the fixity of sun and earth you run the risk of eventually having to condemn as heretics those who would declare the earth to stand still and the sun to change position-eventually, I say, at such a time as it might be physically or logically proved that the earth moves and the sun stands still.”
Source: Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Second Revised Edition
“Take notes. Everything is copy.”
“Take nothing as gospel, except growth.”
Source: Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism
“Take nothing as gospel (not even my words), except growth.”
Source: Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism
“Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints!”
“Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints, kill nothing but time.”
Source: The Yard
“Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.”
Source: Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932
“Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly.”
Source: Two Lectures on Architecture
“Take nothing for granted. Make an emotional discovery as often as you can find one in every scene. Ask yourself: What is new?”
“Take nothing for granted. Not one blessed, cool mountain day or one hellish, desert day or one sweaty, stinky, hiking companion. It is all a gift.”
Source: Journey On the Crest: Walking 2600 Miles from Mexico to Canada
“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.”
“Take nothing personally.
Nothing is ever personal. No matter what anyone ever does to you, EVER, it’s not cause of you. It’s cause them, always. All you gotta know is THAT, just freaking take that with you everywhere, and you can just be happy all the time.”
“Take nothing with you, leave nothing behind.”
Source: Heir of Fire
“Take notice not only of the mercies of God, but of God in the mercies. Mercies are never so savoury as when they savour a Saviour.”
“Take notice of what thoughts you choose to fill your mind with each day. Our thoughts draw to us whatever is dominating our mind, so always keep what you are thinking about in check.”
Source: Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
“Take now this Ring,' he said; 'for thy labours and thy cares will be heavy, but in all it will support thee and defend thee from weariness. For this is the Ring of Fire, and herewith, maybe, thou shalt rekindle hearts to the valour of old in a world that grows chill.”
Source: The Silmarillion
“Take of London fog 30 parts; malaria 10 parts, gas leaks 20 parts, dewdrops gathered in a brickyard at sunrise 25 parts; odor of honeysuckle 15 parts. Mix. The mixture will give you an approximate conception of a Nashville drizzle.”
Source: The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories
“Take off all the masks, manners, fancy clothes, all the devices you use, and be the most honest person you can be with yourself. Then, whatever love you get then is real. All the false approaches, like trying to be a player, only bring false results.”
“Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone the police and report, There's a naked person outside!”
“Take off from where you are, fly as far as you can and land wherever you end up. Then do it all again. - The Malwatch”
“Take off my clothes and there becomes a man. Take off my skin and there becomes my bones. Break all my bones and there becomes my heart. Smash my heart and there becomes my soul. And that you cannot take.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Take off my clothes and there becomes a man. Take off my skin and there becomes my bones. Break all my bones and there becomes my heart. Smash my heart and there becomes my soul. And that you cannot take. And what is my soul?...It is everything that make a man. It is everything that makes this man.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“Take off the veil of hypnotism which you have cast upon the world, send not out thoughts and words of weakness unto humanity.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Take off the wings, and put him in breeches, and crows make fair average men. Give men wings, and reduce their smartness a little, and many of them would be almost good enough to be crows.”
“Take off they pants, I say, and men look like frogs to me. No matter how you kiss 'em, as far as I'm concern frogs is what they stay.”
Source: The Color Purple
“Take off your armor; dare to be vulnerable, dare to unwrap yourself, and dare yourself to be yourself.”
“Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We’ve got work to do.”
“Take off your clothes and post a selfie,
A million animals will shower you attention.
But cover up all and open your heart,
Only precious few humans will care to listen.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“Take off your coat." "Excuse me?" "Take it off." "No." "I want it off." "Then I suggest you hold your breath. Won't affect me in the slightest, but at least the suffocation will help pass the time for you. [Vishous to Jane]”
Source: Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood