T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The shape the words end up taking are themselves the meaning of the words, they are retrospectively what we meant to say. There's no way of knowing this until you register it in visible form. But the other side of this is that you do have some idea of where you are going.”
“The shape was that of a hound with a coat of white-gold luster... the eyes shone with an angelic light, or one of a higher order still. Unhurried, he approached the girl and looked down upon her sorry state. He saw the Path she had walked and would later walk again. He saw how the twisting and winding of this Path would baffle her. The shining one bent his head and placed a kiss on the girl's forehead. Then he turned and loped into the forest, vanishing as though he had never been.”
Source: Starflower
“The shapes and markings of Felix and Mickey, perhaps more than Oswald, have similarities, but when you are using such simple basic construction (i.e. circles) there is bound to be such duplication.”
“The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.”
Source: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread
“The shapes of houses, sometimes transmitted through a hundred generations, seem eternally valid.”
Source: Architecture without Architects
“The shapes of letters do not derive their beauty from any sensual or sentimental reminiscences. No one can say that the O’s roundness appeals to us only because it is like that of an apple or of a girl’s breast or of the full moon. Letters are things, not pictures of things.”
Source: Autobiography
“The shapes of mortals they had toyed with, picked out in pretty lights.”
“The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and their content lies in themselves.”
Source: Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews
“The shaping of character mimics the smallest detail of habit; humans are creatures that learn from observation. Each little thing you do, and each thing you allow yourself to become desensitized to matters. They create you—whether you know it consciously or not.”
Source: Awakening in the 21st Century
“The shaping of how we are feeling by how we are looking at life is always in tough competition with the shaping of how we are looking at life by how we are feeling.”
“The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art.”
“The share-and-share-alike anti-establishment ethos of the Topanga Canyon Hollywood hippie entertainment class of the late sixties was what Dennis Wilson offered these ragmuffins. However, pretty quickly, these garbage-eating, acid-tripping, clap-ridden, singsong-sounding runaways proved themselves to be a bunch of freeloading ingrates. They wrecked Wilson's pad and cost him thousands of dollars in venereal-disease medicine and lost, stolen, and damaged property. Until, finally, Wilson just moved out of the house and left it to his business manager to evict the squalid squatters.”
Source: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
“The share of Americans who say race relations are bad in this country is the highest it's been in decades, much of it amplified by shootings of African-Americans by police, as we've seen recently in Charlotte and Tulsa.”
“The share of Americans who say race relations are bad in this country is the highest it's been in decades, much of it amplified by shootings of African-Americans by police, as we've seen recently in Charlotte and Tulsa. Race has been a big issue in 2016 campaign.”
“The share of income that small business people are paying in taxes is the lowest it has been in 65 years - since Obama has cut taxes 18 or 22 times for small business.”
“The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt to be overlooked in these blatant days, so it is just as well that some of us should keep it in mind.”
Source: Letters of Ellen Glasgow
“The share of wealth held by the minority is much greater than the share held by the majority. We have to draw our own conclusions from that and it has to change.”
“The share price must be less than book value. Preferably it will be less than net working capital less long term debt.”
“The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets; our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.”
“The share which belongs to George Sand in the history of the French novel is having impregnated the novel with the poetry in her soul.”
Source: George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings
“The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.”
“The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.”
Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
“The shared meal is no small thing. It is a foundation of family life,
the place where our children learn the art of conversation and acquire
the habits of civilization: sharing, listening, taking turns, navigating
differences, arguing without offending. What have been called the
“cultural contradictions of capitalism”—its tendency to undermine
the stabilizing social forms it depends on—are on vivid display today
at the modern American dinner table, along with all the brightly colored packages that the food industry has managed to plant there.”
Source: Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
“The shared secret and the shared denial are the most horrible aspects of incest.”
Source: Bradshaw on the Family: A New Way of Creating Solid Self-Esteem
“The shared secret of our second lives hangs between us, not like a weight, but like a lifeline.”
Source: The Unbound
“the shared simplicity/ of almost inaudible breath”
Source: Underword
“The shared torment of two separate individuals at the hands of their marital partners has a strange capacity to act as the glue for the bruised souls of both.”
Source: Minister’s Mistress - Not only the sins come calling
“The Shari'a itself - this is possibly a kind of verbal debate - is understood to be something different from the Fiqh, and the Fiqh is the man-made element and the Shari'a is theoretically the divine element but it depends on one's personal beliefs.”
“The sharia is like a candle," said Shams of Tabriz. "It provides us with much valuable light. But let us not forget that a candle helps us to go from one place to another in the dark. If we forget where we are headed and instead concentrate on the candle, what good is it?”
Source: The Forty Rules of Love
“The Shariah has many other functions but also protects the tarqiah; it protects the spiritual path.”
“The sharing in love is exclusive for couples and inclusive of house work. The more the sharing, the sweeter the pairing.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“The sharing of food is like breaking bread, it's very symbolic.”
“The sharing of food is the basis of social life, and to many people it is the only kind of social life worth participating in.”
“The sharing of food is the basis of social life.”
Source: Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen
“The sharing of goods and resources, from which authentic development proceeds, is not guaranteed by merely technical progress and relationships of utility, but by the potential of love that overcomes evil with good.”
Source: Charity in Truth
“The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“The shark had never begged Jonah in order to get him swallowed; Jonah's own actions took him into the shark's belly! Failure may not chase after you, but when you miss your way, you will rather go chasing failure!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are prey to the sharks have had their behavior, their speed, their camouflage, their defense mechanisms molded by the shark.”
“The sharp experiences of belief in the supposititious life of matter, as well as our disappointments and ceaseless woes, turn us like tired children to the arms of divine Love.”
Source: Science And Health
“The sharp knife of a short life, well
I've had, just enough time.”
“The sharp knife of dawn glitters in my hand but how bare is everything-tall tall tree infinite air, the unrelaxing tension of the world and only hope, hope only, the kind eagle soars and wheels in flight.”
Source: Poems of Resistance
“The sharp light of the stars and moon sliced away her misconceptions and pared down their layers until the feelings that had always existed between them lay bare.”
Source: Solid Ground
“The sharp smell of her was still in our room, on our bed, and I tried to follow that scent down the alleys of my mind, but while all the twists and turns that marked my short life were clear before me, my mother appeared only as fog and smoke. I tried to recall her face, and when it did not come, I thought of her arms, her hands, but there was only smoke, and when I searched to remember her corrections, her affections, I found only smoke. She'd gone from that warm, quilt of memory to the cold library of fact.”
“The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.”
“The sharp thrill of seeing them [killdeer birds] reminded me of childhood happiness, gifts under the Christmas tree, perhaps, a kind of euphoria we adults manage to shut out most of the time. This is why I bird-watch, to recapture what it's like to live in this moment, right now.”
Source: Birding with Yeats: A Mother's Memoir
“The sharper the competition, the better it serves its social function to improve economic production.”
“The sharper the mind, the lonelier the road.”
Source: A Death Day
“The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.”
Source: To seek a newer world
“The sharpest image I hold from that day are the shiny nailheads in the wood, where someone overdone the hammering to shut the wood-slat crate they sent my brother home in. A note came attached, stiff with condolences from Mr. Mercer, the Estelle Mining owner. Other scrawled words said the company believed they’d recovered most of my brother from the explosion but warned us not to open the lid and check.”
Source: It Happened in Silence
“The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.”
Source: A Lucky American Childhood