T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“That was the strange thing, that one did not know where one was going, or what one wanted, and followed blindly, suffering so much in secret, always unprepared and amazed and knowing nothing; but one thing led to another and by degrees something had formed itself out of nothing, and so one reached at last this calm, this certainty, and it was this process that people called living.”
Source: The voyage out
“That was the summer of 1963, when everybody called me ‘Baby,’ and it didn't occur to me to mind.”
“That was the summer when everything we would become was hovering just over our heads.”
Source: This Is How You Lose Her
“That was the thing about bad dreams in the Wild North. You still had them when you woke up.”
Source: Coilhunter
“That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened - good, bad, or anywhere in between - it was always, if nothing else, all your own.”
Source: Lock and Key
“That was the thing about being bereaved. People were overcome with sympathy. They did things for you without even considering whether or not it was the right thing to do.”
Source: Smoulder
“That was the thing about being on the inside: the world was just going on, even when it seemed like time for you had stopped for good.”
Source: The Truth About Forever
“That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours.”
Source: Firefly Lane
“That was the thing about guys, though: Sometimes, they had the emotional depth of a flea.”
Source: Pretty Little Liars: The Second Half 8-Book Collection: Twisted, Ruthless, Stunning, Burned, Crushed, Deadly, Toxic, Vicious
“That was the thing about her. When you told her about an incident where you so badly screwed up, half expecting her to laugh at you in amusement, half anticipating a smirk of disgust, she would hardly express her pity or maybe she did express what she felt, for she would just nod her head, gesturing you to go on... As if it's normal... As if you're normal.”
“That was the thing about life--people always assumed there'd be more time. More time to say hello, more time to say I love you. More time to say I'm sorry. Until there wasn't.”
Source: The Breathless
“That was the thing about love in my time: that it had no rationale.”
“that was the thing about luck, its laws were those of scarcity.”
Source: A Bitch Called Hope
“That was the thing about pictures--they were worth a thousand words, but sometimes they weren't the right ones.”
Source: Skinny-Dipping
“That was the thing about power, wasn't it? A double-edged sword that could cure the world or destroy it.”
Source: Lies of Omission
“That was the thing about Prabhupada, you see. He didn't just talk about loving Krishna and getting out of this place, but he was the perfect example. He talked about always chanting, and he was always chanting. I think that that in itself was perhaps the most encouraging thing for me. It was enough to make me try harder, to be just a little bit better. He was a perfect example of everything he preached.”
“That was the thing about restorative justice. It allowed you to hold two things in your head at the same time -- that butt-slapping was funny, and also that it wasn't. That asking permissions to touch somebody was funny, but that you really didn't want to be touched by somebody who didn't ask. That the girls wanted Jeff to dial back the ass-smacking thing, but they still like joking around with him. That the whole thing wasn't a big deal, and that it kinds of was. That was what community was. All those layers of understanding.”
Source: The 57 Bus
“That was the thing about secrets-you had to carry them with you forever, no matter what the cost.”
“That was the thing about storms. When you were in the middle of them, they felt so powerful. They felt as if they were driving your life, and you were left with no control over the way the winds blew you. That was why it was so important to have a core group of love surrounding you at all times. When you faced the storms together, when you held the hands of the ones you loved, and stood steady, the storms had a harder time pushing you over. The storms didn’t blow you away because you were linked to the world with love, the most powerful weapon that could be used during the mightiest of storms. And when the storm passed? You were left standing with the ones you loved, staring out at the rainbows.”
Source: Southern Storms
“That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.”
Source: The Magicians Trilogy
“That was the thing about words, they were clear and specific-chair, eye, stone- but when you talked about feelings, words were too stiff, they were this and not that, they couldn't include all the meanings. In defining, they always left something out.”
Source: White Oleander
“That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.”
Source: The Glass Castle: A Memoir
“That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about.”
Source: The Truth About Forever
“That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.”
Source: The Truth About Forever
“That was the thing: Once, the difference between light and dark had been basic. One was good, one bad. Suddenly, though, things weren’t so clear. The dark was still a mystery, something hidden, something to be scared of, but I’d come to fear the light, too. It was where everything was revealed, or seemed to be. Eyes closed, I saw only the blackness, reminding me of this one thing, the most deep of my secrets; eyes open, there was only the world that didn’t know it, bright, inescapable, and somehow, still there.”
“That was the thought in his head as he went to rouse her from sleep. Not only was she connected to him, she was connected to Cody and Reese too. The intricacies of the web that was Chance’s life enfolded her, and she would always, always be trapped.”
Source: Rise at Twilight
“That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.”
Source: The Magus
“That was the trick - to keep punching, no matter what.”
Source: Leviathan
“That was the tricky part. You poured inordinate amounts of time and attention and affection into your kids, but the result was indirect. You didn't point out a cat to your one-year-old and then watch him, minutes later, say 'Cat.' Instead, you pointed out a hundred cats to your one-year-old and then, one day, watched him point to a cat and say 'Mama.”
Source: Everyone is Beautiful
“That was the trouble with being a writer, that was the main trouble—leisure time, excessive leisure time. You had to wait around for the buildup until you could write and while you were waiting you went crazy, and while you were going crazy you drank and the more you drank the crazier you got.”
“That was the trouble with experience; it taught you that most people were capable of anything, so that loyalty was never quite on firm ground -- or, rather, became a matter of pardoning offenses instead of denying their existence.”
Source: Cliffs of Fall: And Other Stories
“That was the trouble with explaining with words. If you explained with gunpowder, people listened.”
Source: Dustrunner
“That was the trouble with lies: it was very important to remember them accurately when, generally, they were the things you most wanted to forget.”
“That was the trouble with moving houses; no matter how carefully you packed the books, they never ended up on the new shelves in quite the right place.”
“That was the trouble with so many reality programmes on television - everyone wanted fame these days without necessarily working at anything to achieve it.”
“That was the trouble with talking: you said things that weren’t quite the things you meant, and then you either had to wallow in your own uncomfortable silence or trip over your own tongue in a vain attempt to clarify your original meaning.”
Source: In Broad Strokes
“That was the trouble with the supernatural, Vimbai thought--you didn't know what laws ruled it, and what was a coincidence and what was a sign and what was weird and what wasn't. It was like a whodunit, only the clues refused to be arranged into any sort of hierarchy or a straight narrative, and most of the time it wasn't even clear if they indeed were clues; a jigsaw puzzle where all the pieces were blank.”
“That was the trouble with working the doors, too many crybabies; you were always in a ‘no win’ situation.”
Source: Born to Fight: The True Story of Richy Crazy Horse Horsley
“That was the true terror of love, that you could love with your whole heart, your whole soul, and lose both”
“That was the truly horrifying thing about it: the sense of time as an enemy, to be fought tooth and nail--but there was so much of it; you killed an hour, but what good did that do when there were thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions more hours just waiting to take its place?”
“That was the turning point. It was as though the signal was there, 'This is the disease you're going to have to work against.' I never really stopped to think about anything else. It was that sudden.”
“That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can invent things that anyone could have thought of are very rare men.”
Source: The Last Hero
“That was the very heart of friendship...your willingness to help each other in a jam, to take a friend's problems as your very own.”
“That was the way illness appeared in a house, in the corners, in between floorboards, on the hooks in the closet, along with the sweaters and coats.”
Source: The Third Angel
“That was the way it was that beautiful evening of cold November rain and muddy country roads and crazy windshield wipers. That was the moment of my greatest security and confidence; it was the time when I realized that love makes one a better person, a kinder gentler one.”
Source: Up a Road Slowly
“That was the way love was, invisible, there whether or not you wanted to see it or admit to it.”
“That was the way love was, she guessed-it left you always unsteady on your feet.”
“That was the way of this cold world, where men fished the sea and dug in the ground and died, whilst women brought forth short-lived children from beds of blood and pain.”
Source: A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four
“That was the way one had to do. To do the best one could, and accept things as they were. Usually, they did not seem so bad after a while; if they were not actually good, then they became so by virtue of the many things that were worse. Almost everything was relatively good. Eating was better than starving, living better than dying,”
Source: The Grifters
“That was the way things worked. When you were looking for the big fight, the moment that you thought would knock everything over, nothing much happened at all.”
Source: The Patron Saint of Liars