T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The sand stones had fragments of charcoal on some surfaces but found no recognisable fossils.”
“The sand stretched out gray and ghostlike and illuminated, a column of light leading forward. It was like something a dead person would see, a tunnel leading toward heaven.”
“The sand swallows burst out of their scupper holes in the bluffs and out over the transparent drown of the water, back again to the white, to the brown, to the black, from moving to stock-still sand waves and water-worked woods and roots that hugged and twisted in the sun.”
Source: The Adventures of Augie March
“The sand was smooth. The damp morning fog had hardened its top layer and the heat of the day had set it so that with every footstep the surface cracked, the crunch almost audible. The heels and balls of their shoes made a path of shallow divots, but it was far easier to walk on than the usual loose and gritty beach.
In minutes, the wind worked to sweep their footprints clean and offer a flat, clear expanse all the way to the ocean where the sand became wet and sparkled invitingly with seawater.”
Source: Luisa Across the Bay
“The sand-castle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction, the moral melee.”
“The Sanders campaign showed that a candidate with mildly progressive programs could win the nomination, maybe the election, even without the backing of the major funders or any media support. There's good reason to suppose that Sanders would have won the nomination had it not been for shenanigans of the Obama-Clinton party managers. He is now the most popular political figure in the country by a large margin.”
“The Sanders campaign, however, broke dramatically with over a century of U.S. political history. Extensive political science research, notably the work of Thomas Ferguson, has shown convincingly that elections are pretty much bought. For example, campaign spending alone is a remarkably good predictor of electoral success, and support of corporate power and private wealth is a virtual prerequisite even for participation in the political arena.”
“The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.”
“The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection.”
“The sandpaper of Greg's laugh fascinated Lexi as much as it frightened her. It was why she always thought of him as the Sandman, an interpretation not as sinister as E. T. A. Hoffman's but one that seemed to match, suddenly, in its role as a harbinger of death. Greg's voice rebounded around the building, dry and abrasive. Mirthless laughter is one of mankind's trademark noises. It's been used to mask pain for centuries.”
Source: The Wake Up
“The sands are number'd that make up my life;
Here must I stay, and here my life must end.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakspeare
“The sands bury everyone, with or without our help.”
“The sands of desert may be very white and shiny, but I would much rather sow my seeds in black soil.”
Source: The Hungry Stones and Other Stories
“The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.”
Source: The MaddAddam Trilogy Bundle: The Year of the Flood; Oryx & Crake; MaddAddam
“The sands of time cannot be stopped. Years pass whether we will them or not... but we can remember. What has been lost may yet live in memories.”
Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance
“The sandstorm, which I think is an absolute triumph, could have been awkward. It's sex in a car, so who knows. And I think the rooftops look fantastic [in Allied].”
“The sandwich generation, they call us. I’d say it’s more like a kebab—lots of chunks skewered together. And we’re the thin wiry bit, holding it all together.”
Source: Good Husbands
“The sandwich he made was bologna and cheese, his favorite. All the sandwiches he made were his favorites; that was one of the advantages of being single.”
Source: 'Salem's Lot
“The sandy beach reminded Harold of picnics. And the thought of picnics made him hungry. So he laid out a nice simple picnic lunch.
There was nothing but pie. But there were all nine kinds of pie that Harold liked best.
When Harold finished his picnic there was quite a lot left. He hated to see so much delicious pie go to waste.
So Harold left a very hungry moose and a deserving porcupine to finish it up.”
Source: Harold and the Purple Crayon
“The sandy cat by the Farmer's chair
Mews at his knee for dainty fare;
Old Rover in his moss-greened house
Mumbles a bone, and barks at a mouse.
In the dewy fields the cattle lie
Chewing the cud 'neath a fading sky;
Dobbin at manger pulls his hay:
Gone is another summer's day.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1901-1918
“The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner.”
Source: Feet Of Clay
“The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.”
Source: The Postman
“The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“The sane thing to do when finding out your spouse is blind would be to support him through the use of your perfectly functioning eyes
If you are really pissed, give him the cold shoulder, tell him you have a headache every time he is feeling amorous, sigh deeply and tell him “I’m fine’ when you are clearly not - maybe even re-arrange the furniture.”
Source: Shadows Rising
“The sane understand that human beings are incapable of sustaining conspiracies on a grand scale, because some of our most defining qualities as a species are inattention to detail, a tendency to panic, and an inability to keep our mouths shut.”
Source: Fear Nothing: A Novel
“The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen.”
“The saner you are, the crazier you are.”
“The sanest thing in this world is love.”
Source: Anne Sexton: A Self Portrait in Letters
“The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.”
“The sangha is a community where there should be harmony and peace and understanding. That is something created by our daily life together. If love is there in the community, if we've been nourished by the harmony in the community, then we will never move away from love.”
“The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.”
Source: American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier
“The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.”
Source: Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself
“The sannyasin knows what it means to be an emperor, because he simply gives; he enjoys giving, he loves sharing. And the miracle of life is: the more you give the more you have.”
“The sanserif only seems to be the simpler script. It is a form that was violently reduced for little children. For adults it is more difficult to read than serifed roman type, whose serifs were never meant to be ornamental.”
Source: The form of the book: essays on the morality of good design
“The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either.”
“The Sanskrit term “Karma” simply refers to “duty”, that is, your everyday duty as a human being. And this duty has no mystical intervention in it – it has no divine law that can determine a certain reward in return. It’s plain ordinary everyday human action.”
“The Sanskrit texts make it clear that a cataclysm on this scale, though a relatively rare event, is expected to wash away all traces of the former world and that the slate will be wiped clean again for the new age of the earth to begin. In order to ensure that the Vedas can be repromulgated for future mankind after each pralaya the gods have therefore designed an institution to preserve them -- the institution of the Seven Sages, a brotherhood of adepts possessed of unerring memories and supernatural powers, practitioners of yoga, performers of the ancient rituals and sacrifices, ascetics, spiritual visionaries, vigilant in the battle against evil, great teachers, knowledgeable beyond all imagining, who reincarnate from age to age as the guides of civilization and the guardians of cosmic justice.”
Source: Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
“The Sanskrit word namaste means 'The spirit in me honors the spirit in you.' Whenever you first make eye contact with another person, say 'Namaste' silently to yourself. This is a way of acknowledging that the being there is the same as the being here.”
“The Santa Anas blew in hot from the desert, shriveling the last of the spring grass into whiskers of pale straw. Only the oleanders thrived, their delicate poisonous blooms, their dagger green leaves. We could not sleep in the hot dry nights, my mother and I.”
Source: White Oleander
“The Santa Claus principle liquidates itself.”
“The Santa Claus who commits a sort of saintly burglary at this time of the year is, of course, the St. Nicholas who was the patron saint of children. And it is particularly appropriate to remember that the Saint gained his title by a miracle or resurrection.”
“The Santa myth is one of the most effective means ever devised for intimidating children, eroding their self- esteem, twisting their behavior, warping their values, and slowing their development of critical thinking skills.”
“The sanyasa of the Gita is all work and yet no work.”
Source: A Gandhi Reader
“The sanyasa of the Gita will not tolerate complete cessation of activity.”
Source: A Gandhi Reader
“The sap of Spring in the young wood a-stir Will celebrate with green the Mother, And every song-bird shout awhile for her; But we are gifted, even in November Rawest of seasons, with so huge a sense Of Her nakedly worn magnificence We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall.”
Source: Collected poems, 1955
“The Sapiens Experiment (A Sonnet)
If knowledge is power,
Love is superpower.
If curiosity is a gift,
Compassion is a trove of treasure.
More than abundance, focus on wholeness,
More than serenity, focus on simplicity.
More than leading, focus on service,
More than individuality, focus on collectivity.
To reason is great, but to accept is greater,
To be loved is great, but to be love is greater.
To have help is great, but to be the help is greater,
To seek light is great, but to be the light is greater.
Sapiens are the most spectacular experiment of nature.
To waste it all on presumptions is but sheer disaster.”
Source: Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament
“The Sappers really need no tribute from me; their reward lies in the glory of their achievement. The more science intervenes in warfare, the more will be the need for engineers in field armies; in the late war there were never enough Sappers at any time. Their special tasks involved the upkeep and repair of communications; roads, bridges, railways, canals, mine sweeping. The Sappers rose to great heights in World War II and their contribution to victory was beyond all calculations.”
“the sapphire depth
of my own love...startles
and warms
and wounds my soul.”
“The Sarah Palin choice both its timing and the fact that it was her, it was really an audacious strategic move by the McCain campaign to try to change the trajectory of the 2008 presidential race and the initial launch was very successful. She didn`t withstand the scrutiny very well though and the close questioning.”
“The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and... truckloads of guts, you know.”