T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.”
Source: The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings
“The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss.”
Source: The Government Against the Economy: The Story of the U.S. Government's On-going Destruction of the American Economic System Through Price Controls
“The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow--the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be eventually overthrown by a proto-hegemon that will in turn lose its position. It is this dizzying cycle that keeps humanity chasing the tail it lost millennia ago”
Source: Ilustrado: A Novel
“The slaves were simply turned loose without any property. They were easily recognizable. They were black. They were suddenly free to go exploring.”
Source: Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!
“The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness.”
Source: Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo: A Novel
“The slaving Poor are incapable of any Principles: Gentlemen may be converted to true Principles, by Time and Experience. The middling Rank of Men have Curiosity and Knowledge enough to form Principles, but not enough to form true ones, or correct any Prejudices that they may have imbib'd: And 'tis among the middling Rank, that Tory Principles do at present prevail most in England.”
Source: The philosophical works of David Hume
“The Slavs aren't unintelligent of course, just emotionally unstable, liable to great heights and great depths. That is what science tells one. Look at Tchaikovsky. Look at Dostoyevsky.”
Source: The Glass Room
“The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow. A victory should be celebrated with the funeral rite.”
“The sleek, expensive girls I teach,
Younger and pinker every year,
Bloom gradually out of reach.”
“The sleep doctor was evaluating me for a BiPAP machine, as the CPAP machine was triggering altitude sickness, chronic fatigue, sleepiness and gastrointestinal problems.”
“The sleep he went back to was never the one he left.”
Source: Run
“The sleep of a laboring man is sweet.”
“The sleep of a sick man has keen eyes. It is a sleep unsleeping.”
Source: Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers
“The sleep of reason encourages the elections.”
“The Sleep Problem today is not as much about being able to sleep for 7 hours; it is more about being able to sleep when you are ready to.”
“the sleeper must awaken.”
“The sleeper turns his back on everyone.”
“The sleeping fox catches no poultry.”
Source: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Easyread Edition
“The Sleeping
I have imagined all this:
In 1940 my parents were in love
And living in the loft on West 10th
Above Mark Rothko who painted cabbage roses
On their bedroom walls the night they got married.
I can guess why he did it.
My mother’s hair was the color of yellow apples
And she wore a velvet hat with her pajamas.
I was not born yet. I was remote as starlight.
It is hard for me to imagine that
My parents made love in a roomful of roses
And I wasn’t there.
But now I am. My mother is blushing.
This is the wonderful thing about art.
It can bring back the dead. It can wake the sleeping
As it might have late that night
When my father and mother made love above Rothko
Who lay in the dark thinking Roses, Roses, Roses.”
Source: Hotel Fiesta
“The sleeping pills in her pillowcase, the dark blank in her blanket, her purse lips purple; she disappears, she disappears. Her fears cuddle warm beside, to tears that went dry in the beat of her heart's drum. The strum, strum, stern in her veins, she breaks free finally floating to her lost rhythm of peace.”
“The sleeping style of each organism is exquisitely
adapted to the ecology of the animal. It is conceivable that animals who are too stupid to be quiet on their own initiative are, during periods of high risk, immobilized by the implacable arm of sleep.”
Source: The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
“The sleeping tortoise takes all its limbs into its carapace. So does the yogi: going back into himself he does not see anything worldly any longer, he makes peace in himself.”
Source: Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar
“The sleepy like to make excuses.”
“The slender capacity of man's heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God's love toward us.”
“The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid,Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems
“The slender, swift Bruce Lee was the Fred Astaire of martial arts, and many of the fights that could be merely brutal come across as lightning-fast choreography.”
Source: 5001 Nights at the Movies
“The slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser things.”
“The Slice and Dice Fanatic uses his sexual skills to lure his victims into his realm of fun.”
Source: My Graphic Bipolar Fantasies: & Other Short Stories
“The slice of time has become enormous in importance, and its hidden meaning is now perfectly plain, though so complex that it can hardly be written down.”
“The slicing technique from Flatland still remains one of the most powerful tools for dealing with aggregates in higher dimensions.”
“The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then shut up.”
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
“The slide was a roaring in his ears and every handhold moved with him, slipping and tumbling as he went, down and down into choking dust.”
Source: The Goblin Mirror
“The slideshow "is a very primitive form that quickly becomes predictable and repetitive."”
“the slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon”
Source: The Hotel: A Novel
“The slight variations in extracting procedure cause many of the amygdalin (Vitamin B-17, Laetrile) molecules to change to a form unknown to nature(:) isomers...There are ...purveyors who label their 'iso-amygdalin' products 'amygdalin' contrary to all of the recognized specs...For commercial or political purposes, they certainly cannot justify such a fallacy...This scientific heresy and commercial fraud...(is) tremendously reducing the effectiveness of amygdalin therapy. ...To mislabel iso-amygdalin as amygdalin is scientifically, medically, and morally indefensible.”
“The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer and Milton, the Greek tragedian and Shakespeare, Chaucer and Cervantes and Swift, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy and James and Conrad. Time does not make their voices fainter, on the contrary, it reinforces our sense of their truth-telling capacity.”
Source: Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books
“The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.”
Source: The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce ...: Antepenultimata
“The slightest awareness of ‘my-ness’ is indeed egoism.”
“The slightest cooperation with God's grace can provoke a massive spiritual change.”
“The slightest emotion of disinterested kindness that passes through the mind improves and refreshes that mind, producing generous thought and noble feeling, as the sun and rain foster your favourite flowers. Cherish kind wishes, my children; for a time may come when you may be enabled to put them in practice.”
Source: Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery
“The slightest force, when it is applied to assist and guide the natural descent of its object, operates with irresistible weight; and Jovian had the good fortune to embrace the religious opinions which were supported by the spirit of the times and the zeal and numbers of the most powerful sect. Under his reign, Christianity obtained an easy and lasting victory; and, as soon as the smile of royal patronage was withdrawn, the genius of Paganism, which had been fondly raised and cherished by the arts of Julian, sunk irrecoverably in the dust.”
Source: THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages
“The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own traveling brotherhood.”
Source: Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel
“The slightest pressure can be highly damaging to originality.”
“The slightest sea breeze clung to the air as Peter and Harper walked the pathway along Charleston Harbor. A few dolphins played in the not-so-distant waves, and sunlight fell like glitter in shades of orange and pink against the water. And this---this---was Charleston.
All they needed was a front porch painted haint blue and a proverbial glass of sweet tea.”
Source: The Dress Shop on King Street
“The slightest sign of stability is used by local authoritarian leaders to bargain for the sympathies of Western countries that are, for the sake of a balanced relationship, bound to turn a blind eye to obvious, blatant violations of human rights and the deconstruction of democratic institutions in these countries.”
“The slightest stirring in the air can set a hurricane in motion a thousand miles off. (Acheron)”
Source: Unleash The Night
“The slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“The slime that accumulates on the underside of a soap bar when it sits in the dish too long.”
“The sling is to a rifle what the holster is to a pistol. If you have a sling, chances are you will keep the rifle with you. If there is no sling present, you will set the rifle down. When you are at the absolutely farthest point away from the rifle that you can possibly get, you'll need it.”
“The slinky and post-it notes are both products that came from mistakes. Don’t forget that mishaps can be turned into triumphs.”