T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The slip was writhing.
I reached in to rescue it, even as the brown paper charred and the letters written on it turned to shadows. I thought I might hold it like an oak leaf, faded and winter-crisp, but when I wrapped my fingers around the word, it shattered.”
Source: The Dictionary of Lost Words
“The slippers of the mortal Earth, now touched the chest of the Moon. Oh, it is shameful that the misery of hunger is still continuing as it was in the past.”
“The slippery green frog
that went to his death
in the heron’s pink throat
was my small brother,”
Source: Blue Horses
“The slippery slope was everywhere.”
Source: The Coming Storm
“The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
“The slogan for contemporary capitalism--fear and disorder are the catalysts for each new leap forward”
“The slogan of Hell: Eat or be eaten. The slogan of Heaven: Eat and be eaten.”
“The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.”
“The slogan of the American Civil Rights Movement was "We shall overcome!" Donald Trump's new campaign slogan is "We shall overcomb!"”
“The slogan of the moderate Republican Party is this: we are rich, and we are not going to take it any more.”
“The slogan of the revolution was dignity, social justice, and freedom. You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.”
“The slogan offers a counterweight to the general dispersion of thought by holding it fast to a single, utterly succinct and unforgettable expression, one which usually inspires men to immediate action. It abolishes reflection: the slogan does not argue, it asserts and commands.”
“The slogan used to be 'Populate or perish'. We can now see that it is more like 'Populate and perish'. A sustainable future has to be based on stabilisation of both population and consumption.”
“The slogans “hang on” and “press on” have solved and will continue to solve the problems of humanity.”
“The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.”
“The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated.”
“The sloth lives his life upside down. He is perfectly comfortable that way. If the blood rushes to his head, nothing happens because there is nothing to work on.”
Source: The Great Bustard and Other People: Containing: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes and How to Become Extinct
“The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.”
“The slothful is the servant of the counters.”
Source: The Works of George Herbert: In Prose and Verse
“The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.”
Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays
“The slow arrow of beauty. The most noble kind of beauty is that which does not carry us away suddenly, whose attacks are not violent or intoxicating (this kind easily awakens disgust), but rather the kind of beauty which infiltrates slowly, which we carry along with us almost unnoticed, and meet up with again in dreams; finally, after it has for a long time lain modestly in our heart, it takes complete possession of us, filling our eyes with tears, our hearts with longing. What do we long for when we see beauty? To be beautiful. We think much happiness must be connected with it. But that is an error.”
“THE SLOW ARROW OF BEAUTY. The noblest kind of beauty is that which does not transport us suddenly, which does not make stormy and intoxicating impressions such a kind easily arouses disgust but that which slowly filters into our minds.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“The slow boat-I know it's the slow boat because I've been watching them for thirty-three weeks-won the first piece by a full length. Then the fast boat won the second piece. And so it went for the next four pieces, back and forth. Conclusion: I hate seat racing.”
“The slow cancellation of the future has been accompanied by a deflation of expectations. There can be few who believe that in the coming year a record as great as, say, the Stooges’ Funhouse or Sly Stone’s There’s A Riot Goin’ On will be released. Still less do we expect the kind of ruptures brought about by The Beatles or disco. The feeling of belatedness, of living after the gold rush, is as omnipresent as it is disavowed. Compare the fallow terrain of the current moment with the fecundity of previous periods and you will quickly be accused of ‘nostalgia’. But the reliance of current artists on styles that were established long ago suggests that the current moment is in the grip of a formal nostalgia, of which more shortly.
It is not that nothing happened in the period when the slow cancellation of the future set in. On the contrary, those thirty years has been a time of massive, traumatic change. In the UK, the election of Margaret Thatcher had brought to an end the uneasy compromises of the so-called postwar social consensus. Thatcher’s neoliberal programme in politics was reinforced by a transnational restructuring of the capitalist economy. The shift into so-called Post-Fordism – with globalization, ubiquitous computerization and the casualisation of labour – resulted in a complete transformation in the way that work and leisure were organised. In the last ten to fifteen years, meanwhile, the internet and mobile telecommunications technology have altered the texture of everyday experience beyond all recognition. Yet, perhaps because of all this, there’s an increasing sense that culture has lost the ability to grasp and articulate the present. Or it could be that, in one very important sense, there is no present to grasp and articulate anymore.”
Source: Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
“The slow ceiling fan sliced the thick, frightened air into an unending spiral that spun slowly to the floor like the peeled skin of an endless potato.”
Source: The God of Small Things
“The slow compromise, or even surrender, of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life.”
Source: A Safe Place
“The slow cooker has a tremendous breadth of uses. I find it supplements regular kitchen equipment, and stands in for things that you might not have. Many of the recipes I've come up with, like risotto, is just not what one would think about with this gadget.”
“The slow dance of synchronicity begins the moment you are born.”
“The slow discovery of the seventh sense, by which both men and women contrive to ride the waves of a world in which there is war, adultery, compromise, fear, stultification and hypocrisy—this discovery is not a matter for triumph... And at this stage we begin to forget that there ever was a time when we lacked the seventh sense. We begin to forget, as we go stolidly balancing along, that there could have been a time when we were young bodies flaming with the impetus of life. It is hardly consoling to remember such a feeling, and so it deadens in our minds.
But there was a time when each of us stood naked before the world, confronting life as a serious problem with which we were intimately and passionately concerned. There was a time when it was of vital interest to us to find out whether there was a God or not... Further back, there were times when we wondered with all our souls what the world was, what love was, what we were ourselves.
All these problems and feelings fade away when we get the seventh sense. Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments, without difficulty. The seventh sense, indeed, slowly kills all the other ones, so that at last there is no trouble about the commandments. We cannot see any more, or feel, or hear about them. The bodies which we loved, the truths which we sought, the Gods whom we questioned: we are deaf and blind to them now, safely and automatically
balancing along toward the inevitable grave, under the protection of our last sense.”
Source: CliffsNotes on White's the Once and Future King
“The slow melting of grief I sense, as the river wakes in the rush of spring. Let me gather flowers in my still deep.”
“The slow melting of grief I sense, as the river wakes in the rush of spring. Let us gather flowers in our still deep.”
“The slow pursuit doesn’t dull dopamine it teaches it grace.”
Source: Dopamine: The Silent Architect of Desire, Discipline, and Meaning
“The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?”
“The slow, the never ending approach to truth consists in perpetually forming and testing hypotheses, accepting those at which at the time seem to fit the facts and rejecting the others.”
“The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.”
“The slow-rising central horror of "Watergate" is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something from it.”
Source: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time
“The slow-witted approach to the HIV epidemic was the result of a thousand years of Christian malpractice and the childlike approach of the church to sexuality. If any single man was responsible, it was Augustine of Hippo who murdered his way to sainthood spouting on about the sins located in his genitals.”
Source: At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament
“The slower but consistent tortoise causes less waste and is more desirable than the speedy hare that races ahead and then stops occasionally to doze. The Toyota Production System can be realized only when all the workers become tortoises.”
“The slowest kiss makes too much haste.”
“The slowest of us cannot but admit that the world moves.”
“The slowest way to fail is to do nothing.”
Source: The Myth of the Safe Path: How Playing Small Costs More Than Risk
“The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.”
“The sluggard is a living insensible.”
“The sluggish economy is creating a situation where the young people in Japan cannot cherish their desires or have prospects for their future. Also, the decline in Japan's economic capability is resulting in a declining presence for Japan's foreign policy as well.
Accordingly, the duties and mission that I must fulfill are pretty clear: namely, to regain a strong and robust economy, and also to restore Japan's strong foreign policy capability.”
“The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman who hiccoughs at his elegant dinner-table to the sot who makes a bed of the gutter.”
“The slum is the measure of civilization.”
“The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.”
“The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy.”
Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings
“the sly smile hides the broken heart”